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Mapping science
The systemic study of the processes and designs involved with map making.
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Chord
Earth science; Mapping science
(1) In general, a straight line joining two points on a curve or surface. (2) (land surveying) On a great circle, the arc connecting any two corners on a baseline, standard parallel or township's ...
Chronograph
Earth science; Mapping science
An instrument for producing a graphical record of the time, shown by a clock or other device, at which an event occurs. In use, a chronograph produces a double record. The first is made by the ...
Coastline
Earth science; Mapping science
(1) The line that forms the boundary between the coast and the shore and marks the seaward limit of the permanently exposed coast. (2) The U. S. National Ocean Survey uses the terms coastline and ...
Bouguer cylinder
Earth science; Mapping science
A fictitious, vertical cylinder whose upper surface passes through a point P on the Earth's surface, whose axis passes through P and is perpendicular to the terrestrial ellipsoid, and whose height is ...
Proleptic calendar
Earth science; Mapping science
A calendar applied to dating events that occurred outside the period for which the calendar was originally defined. In particular, a calendar extended to date events that occurred before the ...
Stereometric camera
Earth science; Mapping science
An assemblage of two similar cameras mounted on opposite ends of a short, rigid bar and having their optical axes parallel. It is used in terrestrial photogrammetry for taking stereoscopic pairs of ...
Colour enhancement
Earth science; Mapping science
The use of a wide range of hues or shades to exaggerate otherwise small variations of photographic density on black and white images, or of hue and shade on coloured images.
