GIS Dictionary

[ESRI software] In MOLE, typically two or more force elements grouped together and placed on a line based on user-specified […]

[network analysis] The path between two locations that costs the least to traverse, where cost is a function of time,

[surveying] A statistical method for providing a best fit for survey point locations and detecting measurement error by minimizing the

[surveying] The final measurement residuals of a least squares adjustment.

[ESRI software] The topological data structure in an ArcInfo coverage that stores, for each arc, the identity of the polygons

[ESRI software] The geometric shape of either a line or a polygon that is used to represent a specific kind

[ESRI software] An abstraction of a layer in ArcGlobe portraying the layer at some degree of resolution between simplified and

In surveying, the measurement of the heights of objects and points according to a specified elevation, usually mean sea level.