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Mapping science
The systemic study of the processes and designs involved with map making.
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Tipped panoramic distortion
Earth science; Mapping science
Displacement of images of ground points from their expected locations on a panoramic photograph because the scanning axis is tipped in the vertical plane through the direction of flight. This ...
Image motion compensation distortion
Earth science; Mapping science
In photography with a panoramic camera, the displacement of the images of points on the ground from their expected locations on the cylindrical surface of the film because the lens system or surface ...
Diopter
Earth science; Mapping science
A unit of measurement for the magnifying power of a lens, equal to the reciprocal of the focal length in meters. dioptric (adj. ) Containing only refractive elements (lenses and/or prisms).
Accumulated divergence
Earth science; Mapping science
The algebraic sum of the divergence (partials) for the sections of a level line, from the beginning of the line to the end of any section at which the total divergence is to be computed.
Cubical dilatation
Earth science; Mapping science
The ration between the change in volume of a small part of body, in passing from an unstrained state to a strained state, and the value of that part in the unstrained state.
True direction
Earth science; Mapping science
A horizontal direction expressed as an angle from astronomic north.
Earth spheroid
Earth science; Mapping science
(1) An equipotential surface of a body which has the same mass as the Earth, whose centre of mass coincides with that of the Earth, and which rotates with the Earth. It is axially symmetric and is ...
