- Industry: 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 chart on the azimuthal equidistant map-projection.
Industry:Earth science
A continuous color, shading, or pattern applied to a part of a map and indicating quantitatively some characteristic of the region depicted.
Industry:Earth science
The complement of the latitude; 90<sup>o</sup> minus the latitude. Co-latitude forms one side, zenith to pole, of the fundamental astronomical triangle. It is opposite the celestial body which is at one of the vertices of the triangle, when such a triangle exists.
Industry:Earth science
A measuring engine having only a single eyepiece and objective lens system for viewing the object (e.g., a photograph). The monocular comparator should not be confused with the monoscopic comparator (monocomparator), which may be monocular or binocular.
Industry:Earth science
A camera having two or more objective lenses and shutters arranged at fixed angles to cover, together, a wide field of view when the shutters are opened and closed together.
Industry:Earth science
The line where the land and water meet along the open coast, irrespective of coastal indentations. This term is used to distinguish this kind of coastline from a political coastline.
Industry:Earth science
That half of a meridian or celestial meridian which passes from one pole to another and through the zenith of the observer.
Industry:Earth science
A cadaster specifying the boundaries of a region numerically. In particular, a cadaster specifying the boundaries by giving their lengths, directions, and locations with respect to certain identified monuments of marks. In this sense, it is a cadaster made in terms of metes and bounds, and may therefore be called a metes and bounds cadaster.
Industry:Earth science
A line separating two regions. In specific cases, the word boundary is sometimes omitted, as in State line; and sometimes the word line is omitted, as in International boundary, county boundary, etc. The term boundary line is usually applied to boundaries between politically defined territories, as State boundary line, between two states. A boundary line between privately owned parcels of land is preferably called a property line, or, if a line of the U. S. public land surveys, is given the particular designation of that survey system, as section line, township line, etc. In geodesy, the term is used as equivalent to boundary.
Industry:Earth science
