Geodesic curve - The shortest path between two points on a (smooth) surface is called a geodesic curve on the surface. On a flat surface the geodesics are straight lines, on a sphere they are great circles.
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Geographical - Of or pertaining to the earth's surface.
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Geographic Coordinates - The latitude and longitude coordinate system.
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Geographic Information Science - The scientific use and study of methods and tools for the capture, storage, distribution, analysis, display, and exploitation of geocoded information.
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Geographic Information System - Geographic Information System: A special case of information systems where the database consists of observations on spatially distributed features, activities or events, which are definable in space as point, lines, or areas. A geographic information system manipulates data about these points, lines, and areas to retrieve data for ad hoc queries and analyses. (Dueker's Definition)
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Geographic Property - A characteristic of a feature on earth, usually describable from a map on the feature, such as location, area, shape, distribution orientation, adjacency, and so on.
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GEOIDE - Geomatics for Informed Decisions; Canadian (NCE) National Centre of Excellence for research in Geomatics: GEOIDE is a research network established in order to consolidate Canadian expertise in geomatics. As a federally funded Network of Centres of Excellence, GEOIDE brings together many of the country's leading experts from academic, government and industrial institutions.
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Geomatics - Geomatics is a field of activities which, using a systematic approach, integrates all the means used to acquire and manage spatial data required as part of scientific, administrative, legal and technical operations involved in the process of the production and management of spatial information. (Canadian Institute of Geomatics)”
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Geometric Test - A test to establish the spatial relationship between features. For example, a point feature can be given a point-in-polygon test to find if it is "contained" by an area.
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GEOREF - The World Geographic Reference System (GEOREF) is used for aircraft navigation and is based on latitude and longitude. The globe is divided into twelve bands of latitude and twenty-four zones of longitude, each 15° in extent. These 15° areas are further divided into one degree units identified by 15 characters.
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