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blind digitizing

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[data capture] A method of manual digitizing in which the operator has no graphic display on hand with which to […]

BLOB

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1 [database structures] Acronym for binary large object. A large block of data, such as an image, a sound file,

block

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[ESRI software] In ArcGIS, a group of records in a compressed file geodatabase feature class or table that are stored

block attribute

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[non-ESRI software] In CAD, a collection of objects that can be associated to form a single object.

block group

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[federal government] A unit of U.S. census geography that is a combination of census blocks. A block group is the

block kriging

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A kriging method in which the average expected value in an area around an unsampled point is generated rather than

blocking

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[ESRI software] In ArcGIS, a geocoding indexing process that reduces the number of potential matches that need to be checked.

blunder

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[surveying] In surveying, a defective measurement that can be detected by a statistical test.

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