Geodesy and Friends Flashcards
Causes the line of sight to curve downward and make the distant point appear higher than its true elevation
Vertical Refraction
A fathom is a unit of measurement for water depth and equivalent to ______.
6 feet
Total count of Islands of the Philippines
7641 Islands
Elevation, relief and slope on a a topographic map are shown using symbols called _______.
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Contour lines
Accuracy of location and distance for preparation of a map should have a confidence level of _________.
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95%
____________ refers to that part of the shore which is alternately covered and uncovered by the ebb flow of the equinoctial tide.
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Foreshore Land
A string of land margining a body of water, the part of the sea shore between the low-water line usually at the seaward margin of a low-water terrace and the upper limit of wave wash at high tide usually marked by a beach scarp.
Foreshore Land
Salvage zone limit
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Easement of Coast Police
20 meters
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6 meters
________means any area where mineral resources, as herein defined, are found.
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Mineral land
Under the Mining Code, ____ means the land or body of water delineated under a Mineral Agreement or Finance or Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) subject to the relinguishment obligations of the Contractor and properly defined by longitude and latitude.
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Contract Area
Land or body of water delineated for purposes of explration, development, or utilization of the minierals found within.
Contract Area
Clarity, order, balance, contrast, unity, harmony are elements of _______.
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Map Design
An alectromagnetic wave falls on to a boundary between two losses less homogenous media with different refractice indies, a pary of the wave is reflected back to the incident medium and the rest is transmitted on to the second media. This phenomenon is known as ____________.
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Fresnel Reflection
The asteroid belt is between the orbits of the planets ________.
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Mars and Jupiter
____ is a type of image matchng based on photometric intensitien.
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Least square matching
