Download Final Exam | GEOG 170 - INTRO MTHDS GIA and more Quizzes Geodesy and Cartography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Minard Russian Map DEFINITION 1 1812-18136 variables 2 dimensions: size location of troops - long/lat & time (dates) direction of movement (x&y vector) climate trend: death bc freeze and starve- NOT battles TERM 2 shape of the earth DEFINITION 2 oblatespheroid TERM 3 long/ lat DEFINITION 3 longitude/ meridians all great circles ( planes that pass thru center of earth) runs N>S ; measure E>W range: +/- 180 latitude/ parallel run E>W ; measure N>S only one great circle = 0 degrees = Equator range : +/- 90 TERM 4 prime meridian DEFINITION 4 greenwich england 0 degrees opposite is the international date line TERM 5 units of long / lat DEFINITION 5 measure: 360 degrees 60 minutes 60 seconds TERM 6 mercator projection DEFINITION 6 conformal projectionangle maintained - area notused for navigation TERM 7 define scale DEFINITION 7 ratio btwn map distance and earth distance actual size of object and representative size of map element TERM 8 scale question DEFINITION 8 large- lots of detail in small area; large scale > large detailsmall - small detail in large area; small scale >small detailglobal map = 1:1,000,000most detail: 1: 24,000 TERM 9 em and characterize DEFINITION 9 peak > peak, trough >trough - wavelength TERM 10 planimetric shift DEFINITION 10 distortions of elevation: anything above base line shift toward from camera anything below base line shift away from camera correct? orthophoto - everything corrected TERM 21 4 maps DEFINITION 21 ortho = can see individual trees, black and whiteline = vector data model, can modifyelevation = black and white shaded mountainraster = just scanned phototahoe.usgs.gov TERM 22 boolean expression DEFINITION 22 and - both trueor - only false when both falsenot- 1 condition negates it TERM 23 intersection of 2 sets DEFINITION 23 clipintersectunion TERM 24 SQL record return DEFINITION 24 structured query languageformat:select <attribute> from <relation> where <condition> TERM 25 quantitative/ qualitative DEFINITION 25 quantitative numbers qualitative label TERM 26 style/FONT DEFINITION 26 serif times new roman san serif helvetica TERM 27 ISO-line DEFINITION 27 line of equal something TERM 28 standardizing data DEFINITION 28 divide an area based raw total by some other area- based on raw total TERM 29 pos/neg weak/strong DEFINITION 29 standard deviation TERM 30 specialized map DEFINITION 30 ex: wind map
