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Mapping science
The systemic study of the processes and designs involved with map making.
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Individual model aerotriangulation adjustment
Earth science; Mapping science
Aerotriangulation adjustment in which corrections to coordinates of ground points are determined separately for each stereoscopic model. Inconsistencies between coordinates from different models ...
True bearing
Earth science; Mapping science
The horizontal angle between the meridian line and a line on the Earth. The term true bearing is used in many of the early descriptions of land boundaries in the U. S. A. It is associated with ...
Break angle
Earth science; Mapping science
The smaller dihedral angle between the two vertical planes passing through the common exposure station and the principal points of the right and left oblique photographs taken by a trimetrogon ...
Bz-curve method of aerotriangulation adjustment
Earth science; Mapping science
A method of orienting the stereoscopic models in a strip of photographs by using the Bz curve to find the difference between the true photographic nadir point and that indicated by a Multiplex type ...
Charter
Earth science; Mapping science
A (legal) instrument emanating from the sovereign power, in the nature of a grant, either to the whole nation or to a class or portion of the people, or to a dependency, and assuring to them certain ...
Brillouin's geoid
Earth science; Mapping science
The level surface passing through the summit of Mount Everest (Chomulgunga). This is not the geoid; nor is it an approximation to the geoid.
Marine boundary
Earth science; Mapping science
A line of demarcation between adjoining regions at sea. The boundary may be at the surface of the sea or at the bottom.
