Mapping science

Mapping science

The systemic study of the processes and designs involved with map making.

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ambient

Earth science; Mapping science

Referring to a characteristic of a surrounding medium e.g., ambient pressure, ambient temperature.

Adams' rhombic conformal map projection

Earth science; Mapping science

A conformal map projection mapping a sphere or hemisphere into a rhombus having one opposite pair of angles equal to 60° and the other pair equal to 120°. The complex function z(x + iy) is related ...

prismatic astrolabe

Earth science; Mapping science

An astrolabe consisting of a telescope with a prism and artificial horizon attached at its objective end so that only objects near one specific angular elevation can be observed. The usual form of ...

normal base line

Earth science; Mapping science

The line following the sinuosities of the low-water mark, except where indentations are encountered that fall within the category of true bays, when the base line becomes a straight line between ...

magnetic azimuth

Earth science; Mapping science

The angle, at the point of observation, between the vertical plane through the observed object and the vertical plane in which a freely suspended, sym-metrically magnetized needle, influenced by no ...

angle of yaw

Earth science; Mapping science

(1) The angle between the direction in which a craft is moving and the longitudinal axis of the craft. (2) The angle between the projection, onto a horizontal plane, of the direction in which a ...