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Mapping science
The systemic study of the processes and designs involved with map making.
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ballast
Earth science; Mapping science
Selected material, such as crushed stone, placed on the roadbed to hold the railroad tracks in place.
inner constraint adjustment
Earth science; Mapping science
An adjustment in which conditions are imposed on certain arbitrary functions of the unknowns rather than on the unknowns themselves. For example, it may be required that the trace of the normal ...
bathymetry
Earth science; Mapping science
The art or science of determining depths of oceanic or other deep waters.
spheroidal angle
Earth science; Mapping science
(1) An angle (figure) formed by the intersection of segments of two curves on a spheroid. The two segments are called the sides of the spheroidal angle and the point of intersection is called the ...
interlocking angle
Earth science; Mapping science
The angle between the optical axes of any two rigidly connected cameras. Also, in particular, the angle between the optical axes of the vertical and oblique cameras of a multi camera system, or the ...
barotropy
Earth science; Mapping science
The state of stratification of a fluid in which surfaces of constant pressure coincide with surfaces of constant density. It is the state of zero baroclinicity.
