GIS Dictionary

[ESRI software] Acronym for Map Production System. The cartographic component of the Production Line Tool Set (PLTS). MPS is designed […]

[non-ESRI software] Acronym for Microsoft Developer Network. A set of services designed to help developers write applications using Microsoft products

[programming] Acronym for multiple threaded apartment. An apartment that can have multiple threads running. A process can only have one

[remote sensing] A receiver that tracks several satellites at a time, using one channel for each satellite.

[data models] Data that is comprised of multiple dimensions, such as space and time. For example, a temperature dataset could

[network analysis] A network in which two or more types of transportation modes (such as walking, riding a train, or

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS, a digital representation of a place or thing that has more than one part but is

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS, a type of geometry consisting of planar three-dimensional rings and triangles, used in combination to model

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS, a real-world geographic feature modeled using multipatch geometry.

[satellite imaging] Errors caused when a satellite signal reaches the receiver from two or more paths, one directly from the

[statistics] Regression in which the dependent variable is measured against two or more independent variables.