- Industry: Earth science
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Founded in 1941, the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) is an international association representing the interests of professionals in surveying, mapping and communicating spatial data relating to the Earth's surface. Today, ACSM's members include more than 7,000 surveyors, ...
The fictitious, vertical force experienced by a body on the rotating Earth. It is the vertical component of the Coriolis force.
Industry:Earth science
The ability of a body to return to its original size and shape after deformation. It deals, properly, only with reversible relations between stress and strain.
Industry:Earth science
The actual celestial equator at a specified instant. This term distinguishes the actual equator from an equator which is an average or otherwise mathematically defined.
Industry:Earth science
A photographic emulsion whose sensitivity extends into the red and near infrared portions of the spectrum.
Industry:Earth science
The effect of the gravitational attractions of the Moon and the Sun.
Industry:Earth science
The period of time specified for uninterrupted measurement of tides at a tide gage. The U. S. National Ocean Service specifies a period of at least 19 years.
Industry:Earth science
An ellipsoid on which a potential is defined and constant.
Industry:Earth science
An intrusion or invasion of an adjoining landowner's real estate by his neighbor through some means or structure, permanent in nature.
Industry:Earth science
The set of all conditions external to an organism or community which act upon that organism or community to influence its development or its existence. Included in the environment are all forms of life, air, soil and other such material water, and foreign particles and organisms within them, and light, temperature and wind.
Industry:Earth science
The process of checking a map or chart in its preparatory stages to ensure accuracy, completeness and, in its printed form, legibility and precision. The various stages of editing are also referred to, in jargon, as edits.
Industry:Earth science
