- Branche: Earth science
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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 plan of a highway improvement showing its relationship to adjacent property, the parcels or portions thereof needed for the highway and other pertinent information.
Industry:Earth science
A physical indication of a former, persistent, low-level of water. While most low water marks are destroyed by the water's action, some indicators of low water do persist. Most of these are left by animals which live in the inter-tidal region.
Industry:Earth science
The proper name or expression by which a particular geographic feature such as a river, lake, town or other natural or artificial object is known.
Industry:Earth science
Motion, in an orbit, in the usual direction of celestial bodies within a given system. Direct motion is a specific type of progressive motion.
Industry:Earth science
(1) A device measuring something and indicating the value of the measurement. Meter and instrument have much the same meaning in geodesy. However, instrument may have other meanings than that given.
Industry:Earth science
A map representing natural and artificial features according to current standards and specifications.
Industry:Earth science
A bar formed by the junction of the ends of two spits on the mainland side of an offshore island being eroded by waves.
Industry:Earth science
(1) One of the two numbers designated by h and k, where h is the ratio of height of the Earth tide to height of the corresponding, static oceanic tide and k is the ratio of the additional, gravitational potential produced by an Earth tide to the gravitational potential producing the Earth tide. The numbers are defined for points on the Earth's surface. The numbers were introduced by Love in 1909. h is approximately 0.6; k is approximately 0.3. (2) One of the four numbers designated by h, k, l and f, where h and k have the same meaning as in the previous definition, l is the Shide number, and f is the ratio between the cubical expansion and the height of the corresponding static tide.
Industry:Earth science
A surface defined by assigning a particular value to the spheropotential function and requiring that the surface pass through a point at mean sea level at a specified tide-gage.
Industry:Earth science
A readily identifiable, relatively permanent, recoverable marker designating precisely the location of a survey point.
Industry:Earth science
