- 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 difference in time or height of a high or low water, as these occur at a reference station and a subordinate station (reference tide gage and subordinate tide gage). The difference is applied to the time or height determined at the reference station to obtain the corresponding quantity at the subordinate station. These differences are available in tables of the tides.
Industry:Earth science
A call which directs to a neighborhood where the location specified precisely by another call is to be found.
Industry:Earth science
A copy made by placing the original in contact with paper sensitized with a diazo dye and illuminating the original. The exposed paper is treated with fumes of ammonia to develop the image, or it may be passed through an aqueous solution of ammonia.
Industry:Earth science
The angle subtended at the observer by a diameter of a distant spherical body, the diameter being perpendicular to the line from the observer to the center of the body.
Industry:Earth science
The change in scale, in an image, with radial distance from the center of the image (optical axis).
Industry:Earth science
A marine structure for the mooring of ships, loading and unloading cargo, or getting passengers on and off.
Industry:Earth science
Radial distortion calculated so as to minimize the errors in locations of individual image points with respect to each other.
Industry:Earth science
One of three angles specifying the direction of a line with respect to the three axes of a Cartesian coordinate system in 3 space by specifying the angle between that line and each of the three axes. The three angles are not completely independent, but unless the quadrant in which the line lies is known, three angles must be given to avoid ambiguity.
Industry:Earth science
