GIS Dictionary

[ESRI software] A collection of states representing the changes that have occurred over time in a versioned geodatabase.

A measurement of the horizontal or vertical dimension of a feature. Linear dimensions may not represent the true distance between

[spatial statistics use for geostatistics] The estimation of an unknown value using the linear distance between known values.

[linear referencing] A method for storing geographic data by using a relative position along an already existing line feature; the

[cartography] The unit of measurement on a plane or a projected coordinate system, often meters or feet.

1 [photogrammetry] In georeferencing, connections added between known points in a dataset being georeferenced and corresponding points in the dataset

[ESRI software] In Survey Analyst for field measurements, a command that finds nearby survey points for each feature vertex and

[ESRI software] In Survey Analyst for field measurements, lines displayed on a map after a survey point and a feature

[ESRI software] In Survey Analyst for field measurements, a tool that allows the user to make a link between a

[ESRI software] In Survey Analyst for field measurements, one of two types of pages in the Survey Explorer. The List

[hardware] A computer hardware architecture in which, within a multibyte numeric representation, the least significant byte has the lowest address