georeferencing

  • 1Georeference — To georeference something means to define its existence in physical space. That is, establishing a relation between raster or vector images to map projections or coordinate systems. This procedure is thus imperative to data modeling in the field… …

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  • 2World file — A world file is a plain text computer data file used by geographic information systems to coordinate raster map images. The file specification was introduced by ESRI. [cite web |title=FAQ: What is the format of the world file used for… …

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  • 3Academy of Natural Sciences — Infobox Museum |name = The Academy of Natural Sciences | |imagesize = 280 |latitude = 39.9570 |longitude = 75.1714 |established = 1812 |location = Philadelphia |type = Natural History Museum |director = William Yancey Brown |collection = 17+… …

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  • 4Historical geographic information system — A historical geographic information system (also written as historical GIS or HGIS) is a geographic information system that may display, store and analyze data of past geographies and track changes in time. It can be regarded as a subfield of… …

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  • 5Geoparsing — is the process of assigning geographic identifiers (e.g., codes or geographic coordinates expressed as latitude longitude) to textual words and phrases that occur in unstructured content, such as twenty miles north east of Jalalabad . You can… …

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  • 6Mobile mapping — Google Street View Car Mobile mapping is the process of collecting geospatial data from a mobile vehicle,[1] typically fitted with a range of photographic, radar, laser, LiDAR or any number of …

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  • 7Daylon Leveller — Original author(s) Ray Gardener Developer(s) Daylon Graphics Ltd. Stable release 4.0 / December 3, 2010; 10 months ago (2010 12 03) …

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  • 8Remote sensing — There are two kinds of remote sensing. Passive sensors detect natural energy (radiation) that is emitted or reflected by the object or surrounding area being observed. Reflected sunlight is the most common source of radiation measured by passive… …

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  • 9Photogrammetry — is the first remote sensing technology ever developed, in which geometric properties about objects are determined from photographic images. Historically, photogrammetry is as old as modern photography itself, and can be dated to mid nineteenth… …

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  • 10NetCDF — Network Common Data Form Filename extension .nc .cdf Internet media type application/netcdf application/x netcdf Magic number CDF01 Developed by UCAR Type of format scientif …

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