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target offset

[ESRI software] In ArcScene and ArcGlobe, the height of a target point above a surface used when calculating lines of […]

target theme

[ESRI software] In ArcView 3.x, the theme from which features are selected during a theme-on-theme selection operation. Multiple target themes

task

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS Explorer and ArcGIS Server, a user interface combined with a particular piece of GIS functionality in

TCP/IP

Acronym for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The most common protocol for Internet traffic. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a

temporal data

[data structures] Data that specifically refers to times or dates. Temporal data may refer to discrete events, such as lightning

temporal event

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS Tracking Analyst, a type of event used to describe observations through time of particular objects or

temporal extent

[ESRI software] All the temporal information, including the earliest and last observations, of a data layer in ArcGIS Tracking Analyst.

temporal GIS

[data models] An emerging capability in GIS for integrating temporal data with location and attribute data.

temporal object

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS Tracking Analyst, an object being observed through time.

temporal object table

[ESRI software] The component of a complex temporal event in ArcGIS Tracking Analyst that contains feature shape and attribute information.

temporal observation

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS Tracking Analyst, data gathered for a given object through time.