- 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, ...
Magnification in a direction transverse to the optical axis.
Industry:Earth science
A monument marking a point on a boundary and made of stone. Equivalently, but less precisely, a mere made of stone.
Industry:Earth science
A map based on precise horizontal and vertical ground-control.
Industry:Earth science
(1) That position of the Moon, at rising (setting), in which the apparent upper limb of the Moon is on the astronomical horizon. (2) That position of the Moon, at rising (setting) in which the true zenith distance, referred to the center of the Earth, of the central point of the disk is
Industry:Earth science
A map portraying information available at a single date or time. Most maps are static maps. Static maps presenting comparable information valid at different dates may be combined into a single map called a dynamic map.
Industry:Earth science
A map projection derived from two or more map projections, or from two or more different aspects of the same map projection, by expressing the coordinates in the plane as some average of the corre-sponding coordinates given by the original map projections. Breusing's map projection and the eumorphic map projection are examples.
Industry:Earth science
A base line 576 m long at Loernermark, Holland, established using the VÄisÄlÄ base-line apparatus.
Industry:Earth science
The process of converting from some system of units other than the c.g.s. or SI system of units to the c.g.s. or SI system of units.
Industry:Earth science
