GIS Dictionary

[computing] To move data from one computer system to another, and often, in the process, from one file format to […]

[aerial photography] In aerial photography, each point in the flight path at which the camera exposes the film.

A sequence of operands and operators constructed according to the syntactic rules of a symbolic language that evaluates to a

[programming] In AutoCAD, extra optional data attached to an AutoCAD drawing element.

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS, an optional software module that adds specialized tools and functionality to ArcGIS Desktop. ArcGIS Network Analyst,

The minimum bounding rectangle (xmin, ymin and xmax, ymax) defined by coordinate pairs of a data source. All coordinates for

[ESRI software] A rectangle that is displayed in one data frame, showing the size and position of another data frame.

[ESRI software] A private ArcIMS virtual server that clips data and saves it to a Zip file.

[ESRI software] An ArcToolbox wizard that selects features from a coverage based on attribute values to create a new coverage.

[data management] A specification that defines parameters for feature extraction and attribution. Specifications typically include the size of features to

[statistics] Using known or observed data to infer or calculate values for unobserved times, locations or other variables outside a