Geospatial Technologies and Earth Measurements: A Comprehensive Glossary, Quizzes of Geography

Download Geospatial Technologies and Earth Measurements: A Comprehensive Glossary and more Quizzes Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 What is a GIS (3) DEFINITION 1 has a database and connections to many morenumerous geo-processing capabilitiesone unique capability is to analyze spatial relationships TERM 2 Toolbox (set of toolboxes) DEFINITION 2 a computer system for the capture, storage, querying,analysis, and display of spatial data TERM 3 Cartography DEFINITION 3 the science and art of creating and communicating with maps in all of their forms TERM 4 Remote sensing DEFINITION 4 the science of extracting information from the Earth's surface using a sensing device not in contact with the phenomena TERM 5 GPS (2) DEFINITION 5 global positioning devicea satellite-based radio-navigation system for determining precise and accurate location in 3- dimensions TERM 6 Online mapping (2) DEFINITION 6 google maps introduced in 2005, API introduced in 2006uses shortest path model TERM 7 Who was the first person to measure the circumference of the Earth (2) DEFINITION 7 Eratosthenes42,000km, actual is 40,075km TERM 8 What are the 3 main fundamental measurements DEFINITION 8 distanceareadirection TERM 9 How do we model the Earth (3) DEFINITION 9 ellipsoidspheregeoid the equipotential surface of the earth's gravity field which best fits in a least squares sense, global means sea level want to have ellipsoid represent geoid, not Earth's surface TERM 10 Precision DEFINITION 10 sensitivity of the measurement