GIS Dictionary

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semivariogram

[spatial statistics use for geostatistics] The variogram divided by two.

sense of place

One’s perception of the essential character of a place in which one resides or has resided, stemming from a personal

sensitivity analysis

[statistics] Analysis designed to test the robustness of model and analytical results to ensure that small changes in model parameters

sensor

[remote sensing] An electronic device for detecting energy, whether emitted or radiated, and converting it into a signal that can

sequential analysis

[statistics] Analysis based on a sample of an unfixed size in which testing continues only until a trend is observed

serializable read

[ESRI software] The isolation level in a database management system (DBMS) that offers the highest degree of isolation from concurrent

serialization

[data conversion] A method of data conversion in which data is encoded as a sequence, stored in a file, memory

server

1 [hardware] A computer that manages shared resources, such as disks, printers, and databases, on a network. 2 [software] Software

server account

[software] The operating system account that the server object manager service runs as. The server account is specified by the

server context

[programming] In ArcGIS, the environment on the GIS server within which a service or server object and its associated objects

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