- 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 transformation of measured values into some other form such as another order, or into averaged or adjusted values.
Industry:Earth science
A curve showing the relative contrast in the photographic image of a square wave or progressive square wave pattern as a function of the nominal spatial frequency of the pattern. i.e., a curve showing the ratio of the contrast in the image to the contrast in the pattern used as object.
Industry:Earth science
A code consisting of letters, numbers, and symbols used to indicate corrections on maps or on overlays attached.
Industry:Earth science
Remove, with certain diluted acids, impurities from a lithographic plate, thus making it receptive to an image.
Industry:Earth science
A method of describing a long and comparatively narrow strip of land by establishing a central line along the strip and defining the boundaries by distances from the central line.
Industry:Earth science
A line, on a map, representing points at which destruction was greatest in the region around an earthquake's epicenter.
Industry:Earth science
A coordinate system assigning two coordinates, such as distance and azimuth or rectangular Cartesian coordinates to points on the ground.
Industry:Earth science
A sheet of paper having, on its surface, a layer of emulsion containing light sensitive halides, and used for printing images photographically.
Industry:Earth science
A tidal constant which is the amplitude or epoch of a tidal constituent.
Industry:Earth science
A datum which does not meet all the requirements for a geodetic datum. A quasi-datum is usually either under defined or, more rarely, over-defined, that is, it contains either too few constants or too many constants.
Industry:Earth science
