- Industry: Earth science
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Founded in 1941, the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) is an international association representing the interests of professionals in surveying, mapping and communicating spatial data relating to the Earth's surface. Today, ACSM's members include more than 7,000 surveyors, ...
A clamp designed to grip the flat ribbon of a surveyor's tape without kinking the tape and to fit easily in the hand when measuring less than full lengths of tape.
Industry:Earth science
A statute protecting a homestead from forced sale by creditors.
Industry:Earth science
A plane through the center of the Earth and parallel to the apparent horizon. Note that the kind of center is not specified by the definition, so there is more than one geocentric horizon.
Industry:Earth science
An apparatus for measuring gravity or gravity acceleration.
Industry:Earth science
That science dealing with the properties, laws, and phenomena of water; of its physical, chemical and physiological relations; of its distribution throughout the habitable Earth; and of the effect of this distribution on human lives and interests. The trend at present is to have hydrology deal only with the occurrence of water on and under the land, and to put the parallel science of water in seas and oceans under oceanography.
Industry:Earth science
The Bouguer gravity reduction plus a correction for the difference between the Bouguer plate and the actual topography.
Industry:Earth science
The value of the distance between meridians, at the scale of the chart.
Industry:Earth science
A calendar employing the rules of the Julian calendar but extended and applied to times preceding the introduction (44 B.C.) of the Julian calendar.
Industry:Earth science
A unit of density of radiation, equal to 10-26 W/(m<sup>2</sup>Hz). The unit was adopted in 1973 by the International Astronomical Union. It is not part of the SI but is still used in radio astronomy and related field.
Industry:Earth science
A decision by a portfolio manager regarding how he or she will manage the portfolio to meet the goals and objectives of the client. This will include either active or passive management and, if active, what style in terms of top-down or bottom-up or fundamental versus technical.
Industry:Earth science
