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Mapping science
The systemic study of the processes and designs involved with map making.
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1965 Australian Geodetic Datum
Earth science; Mapping science
A geodetic datum replacing, in 1965, the earlier Australian Geodetic datum and based on a rotational ellipsoid with
Admiralty law
Earth science; Mapping science
The civil and criminal law relating to occurrences at sea and on navigable lakes and rivers, including maritime contracts.
Reciprocal vertical angle
Earth science; Mapping science
One of a pair of vertical angles of the same line measured close together in time and from opposite ends of the line, in trigonometric leveling, to reduce the effects of refraction. Reciprocal ...
Backshore
Earth science; Mapping science
(1) That zone of the land lying between mean (ordinary) high water and the place, landward, where there is a marked change in material or physiographic form, or to the line where permanent vegetation ...
Apoastron
Earth science; Mapping science
That point, in the orbit of a body about a sun, in which the body is farthest from the sun.
Baranov elevation
Earth science; Mapping science
The value H B N found for the orthometric elevation H N of a point P N by dividing the value of the potential function W N per unit mass at P N (considering the value of the potential ...
Base line reduction to the geoid
Earth science; Mapping science
Conversion of the measured length of a base line to the length of a line that is the vertical projection of the base line onto the geoid. Sometimes referred to, erroneously, as base line reduction ...
