- 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 act of taking possession of a thing having no owner, thus acquiring a title by occupation.
Industry:Earth science
(1) The process of fixing the scale, location, and orientation, with respect to a coordinate system in object space, of a stereoscopic model which has been formed using a pair of photographs in correct relative orientation. (2) The orientation of a photograph (or the camera taking the photograph) with respect to the object being photographed.
Industry:Earth science
An ocean whose temperature is 0<sup>o</sup>C and whose salinity is 35 o/oo.
Industry:Earth science
Small amounts of parallax that may remain in a stereoscopic model after finishing relative orientation.
Industry:Earth science
Any orbital perturbation caused by the non centrality of the Earth's gravitational field.
Industry:Earth science
Photogrammetry applied to geodesy. The term usually denotes aerotriangulation, aerial mapping, and terrestrial photogrammetry. However, it can also cover the photogrammetric practices used for deriving geodetic information from photographs of artificial satellites.
Industry:Earth science
Aerial photography in which photographs are taken in sequences forming strips having overlap between exposures and having a direction at right angles to that of other, existing strips of photographs.
Industry:Earth science
A map projection not based on imaginary lines of sight from a single center of perspective. Azimuthal equal-area and azimuthal equidistant map projections are of this type.
Industry:Earth science
An ordinance that combines into one law the zoning regulations, subdivision regulations, and possibly other land-use controls.
Industry:Earth science
A plat prepared entirely from office records and designed to show a revised subdivision of one or more sections without change in the boundaries of the sections and without other modification of the subsisting record. Supplemental plats are required where the subsisting plat fails to provide units suitable for administration or disposal, or where a modification of its showing is necessary. It is also required to show the segregation of alienated land from public land, where the former is included in an irregular survey or a patented mineral or other private claim made subsequent to the plat of the subsisting survey, or where segregation of the claims was overlooked at the time of its approval.
Industry:Earth science
