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Founded in 1941, the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) is an international association representing the interests of professionals in surveying, mapping and communicating spatial data relating to the Earth's surface. Today, ACSM's members include more than 7,000 surveyors, ...
A row of shrubs or trees, planted for enclosure or separation of fields.
Industry:Earth science
(1) The zone containing the flanks of the beach and the region inland from the coastline to a distance of 5 miles (8 km). (2) The region lying behind the coastal zone.
Industry:Earth science
The spreading of a photographic image beyond its proper boundaries because of, in particular, reflection from that side of the film or plate opposite to that on which the emulsion is coated. Halation is particularly noticeable in photographs of bright objects against a darker background.
Industry:Earth science
(1) A flat topped seamount having a crest lying at least 100 fathoms (183 meters) below the surface of the sea. (2) A seamount rising more than 500 fathoms (approximately 100 meters) from the oceanic floor and having a comparatively smooth, flat top with minor irregularities. The guyot is also called a tablemount.
Industry:Earth science
An obsolete, English unit of area, commonly used in Domesday Book and old English charters. Its size varied with the nature of the land and with the period of use. The normal hide of the Domesday Book is 120 acres.
Industry:Earth science
The angle, expressed in degrees and measured westwards, from the plane of the hour circle passing through the vernal equinox to the plane of the hour circle passing through a point on the celestial sphere. It may also be defined as the angular distance on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees and measured westward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to the hour circle passing through the celestial body being observed. It is equal to 360<sup>o</sup> minus the right ascension in degrees.
Industry:Earth science
A lease that attributes the use of public lands outside of grazing districts (Taylor Grazing Act) for the grazing of livestock for a specific period of time.
Industry:Earth science
The angle, measured westwards from the celestial meridian at Greenwich, from the plane of that celestial meridian to the plane of the hour circle passing through the celestial body observed. Greenwich hour angle is usually abbreviated to G.H.A. Or GHA. It may also be defined as the arc of the celestial equator, or the angle at the celestial pole, between the upper branch of the celestial meridian at Greenwich and the hour circle or a point on the celestial sphere, measured westward from the celestial meridian at Greenwich through 24 hours or 360<sup>o</sup>. It is the local hour angle at the Greenwich meridian.
Industry:Earth science
(1) A land mass having a considerable elevation. (2) The apex of a salient of the coast, the point of greatest extension of a portion of the land into the water, or a point on the shore at which there is an appreciable change in the direction of the general trend of the coast.
Industry:Earth science
A graph of the discharge, speed, available power, or other property of a stream or conduit with respect to time. The most common type of hydrograph, the observed hydrograph, represents the readings on stream gages, plotted at the time of observation. Other types of hydrograph which are derived from the observations include the distribution graph and the unit hydrograph.
Industry:Earth science
