GIS Dictionary

[programming] In ArcGIS, an export file containing the features or records from an individual geodatabase feature class or table. Data […]

[programming] In ArcGIS, an export file containing one or more geodatabase feature datasets, feature classes, and tables. It can include

[programming] A language used to find specific parts of an XML document and compute values from the document’s content.

[programming] Acronym for Extensible Style Language. A set of standards for defining XML document presentation and transformation. An XSL style

[programming] Acronym for Extensible Style Language Transformations. A language for transforming the tagged content in an XML document into an

1 [coordinate systems] In a planar coordinate system, the vertical line that runs above and below (north and south of)

[coordinate systems] In a spherical coordinate system, the vertical line that runs parallel to the earth’s rotation, passing through 90

The value for a given surface location that represents an attribute other than position. In an elevation or terrain model,

[coordinate systems] A conversion factor used to adjust vertical and horizontal measurements into the same unit of measure. Specifically, the

[statistics] A statistical measure of the spread of values from their mean, expressed in standard deviation units, where the z-score

[coordinate systems] In raster-to-TIN conversion, the maximum allowed difference between the z-value of the input raster cell and the z-value