- 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 number which is an even divisor of a given number is said to be an aliquote part of that number.
Industry:Earth science
A telescopic alidade, together with a frame for holding a photographic plate and a straight-edge, all mounted on a tripod. The photoalidade is similar in principle to the plane-table alidade. It allows lines indicating horizontal directions to be plotted and vertical or depression angles to selected features appearing on aerial and terrestrial photo-graphs to be measured. It is suited to the mapping of regions of high relief to be mapped with contour intervals of 15 or 20 meters, where trees or other obstacles hinder observation from the ground. It is used for making maps from oblique aerial photographs.
Industry:Earth science
(1) Generally known and talked of, widely or commonly known. (2) Forming a part of common know-ledge; universally recognized. (3) Noted. The term is usually unfavorable in sense.
Industry:Earth science
A region of high land or rock rising more than 500 feet above the relatively flat, surrounding terrain.
Industry:Earth science
That error in longitude, time, declination or latitude which is caused by deviation of the trunnions of a telescope from a perfectly cylindrical shape.
Industry:Earth science
A very accurately determined location, usually established by passing over or very close to an aid to navigation or a landmark of small extent.
Industry:Earth science
A perspective satisfying the conditions that (1) corresponding points are collinear with the center of perspective, and (b) corresponding lines intersect on the axis of homology. Figures projectively related in space also satisfy these conditions.
Industry:Earth science
(1) A pleading. (2) The pleadings by either or both parties in an action.
Industry:Earth science
A rotational ellipsoid characterized by the following constants:<br>
Industry:Earth science
Navigation in which locations are determined by measuring distances and directions to a station of known location.
Industry:Earth science
