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16 Cards in this Set

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estimated Earth’s circumference to be about 25000 miles
Eratosthenes
introduced “minutes” and “seconds” for subdividing a degree introduced ideas on how to make cartography more scientific
Ptolemy
For every record in the “parent” there
is one and only only match in the “child”
One-to-One Correspondence
Several records in the parent match to one and only one record in the child
Many-to-One Correspondence
One record in parent relates to many in the child table.
One-to-Many
a single location that
is part of a line segment – it gives an arc shape
VERTEX
Keeps track of which arcs are
connected to each other (by
common nodes)
Arc-node topology
Keeps track of which arcs make
up a specific polygon
Polygon-Arc Topology
Keeps track of which polygons
are adjacent to each other
Left-Right Topology
What first comes to mind when you hear the term “vector data” ?
Points, lines, polygons
grid of elevation points
Widely used in GIS as source of elevation data
DEM - Digital Elevation Model
Digital representation of “line” features
DLG – Digital Line Graph
- Scanned image of USGS topographic map
- Referenced to UTM coordinate system
DRG – Digital Raster Graphics
- computer generated image of an aerial photograph
- image displacement removed (terrain and camera tilt)
- referenced to the UTM projection
DOQ – Digital Orthophoto Quads
- historical land use and land
- from manual interpretation of 1970’s and 1980’s aerial photos
- census and political boundaries, hydrography, federal ownership
LULC – Land Use / Land Cover
Raster Data Properties…
A cell has a resolution
Every cell knows its ground location
Every cell knows its neighbors