Mapping science

Mapping science

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

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Cofferdam

Earth science; Mapping science

A barrier built in the water so as to form an enclosure from which water can be pumped to permit free access to the space bounded by the dam.

Cislunar

Earth science; Mapping science

(1) In the region between the Moon and the Earth. (2) In the region between the Moon's orbit and the Earth's orbit.

Behrmann's mMap projection

Earth science; Mapping science

A cylindrical equal area map projection, described by Behrmann in 1910, mapping the sphere onto a cylinder secant at 30 o latitude north and south. This map projections has less average maximal ...

Coefficient of thermal expansion

Earth science; Mapping science

The relative change (expansion or contraction), expressed as a ratio, in a linear dimension of a body, corresponding to a change of 1 o in the body's temperature. The coefficient of expansion, as ...

Tracking camera

Earth science; Mapping science

A camera placed on a mountings which allow the optical axis to be kept pointed in the direction of a moving object such as an automobile, a missile or an artificial satellite. Small tracking ...

An assemblage of three cameras equipped with wide angle, Metrogon lens systems and placed with their optical axes in the same vertical plane; the axis of the central camera is vertical and the axes ...

Carnot cycle

Earth science; Mapping science

A cycle consisting of four reversible operations on a gas: (a) isothermal expansion from volume V a to V b ; adiabatic expansion from volume V b to V c ; isothermal compression from volume V c to ...