GIS key vocab from ESRI dictionary
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| show | [map design] The extent used to define a focus area for either a map or database production.
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| show | Computer-Aided Design. A computer-based system for the design, drafting, and display of graphical information. Also known as computer-aided drafting, such systems are most commonly used to support engineering, planning, and illustrating activities
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| Datum | show 🗑
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| Geodatabase | show 🗑
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| Elevation | show 🗑
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| show | 3d, closed geometric shape, all planar sections are ellipses or circles.
Scalene: all three axes are different lengths
spheroid: two of three axes are the same length
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| show | Collection of geographic features with the same geometry type, same attributes, and same spatial reference. Can be stored in geodatabase, shapefiles, coverage, etc.
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| Feature Dataset | show 🗑
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| Feature Layer | show 🗑
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| Gazetteer | show 🗑
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| GeoEnrichment | show 🗑
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| Geographic Coordinate System | show 🗑
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| show | Dominant wavelength of a color
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| Image Coordinate System | show 🗑
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| Image Space | show 🗑
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| show | JavaScript Object Notation. Data interchange format. An alternative to XML
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| show | Local Area Network. Communications hardware and software that connect computers in a small area like a room or building.
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| show | Binary file format for storing lidar data
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| show | Angular distance north or south of equtor
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| Longitude | show 🗑
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| show | A map scale that shows a small area on the ground at a high level of detail
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| show | Data compression that has high compression ratios, but does not retain all information in the data. Used to compress raster datasets that will be used as background images.
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| Mosaic Dataset | show 🗑
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| show | Average height of the surface of the sea for all stages of the tide over a 19 year period
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| Mental Map | show 🗑
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| show | Data about data. Describes content, quality, condition, origin, etc of data.
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| Qualitative Data | show 🗑
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| Quantitative Data | show 🗑
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| show | A spatial data model the defines space as an array of equally sized cells arranged in rows and columns, and composed of single or multiple bands. Each cell contains an attribute value and location coordinates.
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| show | "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." Defines spatial autocorrelation
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| show | A reference system that defines the location of z-values relative to a surface
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| show | The value for a given surface that locations that represents an attribute other than position. In elevation or terrain model the z-value represents elevation. In other surface models it represents the density of quantity or a particular attribute
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