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  • Grid North
    Navigational directionality of North as defined along grid lines of map projection, it may not equal to True North or Magnetic North.
  • Gridding
    The process to create a network of horizontal and perpendicular lines, uniformly spaced, for locating points on a map, chart, building plan, or aerial photograph by means of a system of coordinates.
  • Gross Error
    See definition on Human Error.
  • Ground Control
    Physical points on the ground,whose positions are exactly known with respect to coordinated and vertical datum.
  • Ground Control Aerotriangulation
    See description on Aerotriangulation.
  • Ground Control Point
    High order known points on Earth's surface generally used for georeferencing, a reference point precisely located on the ground as well as the image/map.
  • Ground Coverage (of aerial photographs)
    A function of camera format size.
  • Ground Distance
    Horizontal distance between two points correlated on the same horizontal plane, usually from sea level.
  • Ground Penetrating Radar
    Geophysical method use of radar to image sub-surface conditions (e.g. materials detection).
  • Ground Sampled Distance
    Ground pixel size,determined by the sampling interval time used druing the signal conversion process.
  • Ground Settlement
    Ground settlement over time, downward movement of ground (soil) when load is applied on top; the effect of vertical stress on ground (soil).
  • Ground Survey
    Surveys made with ground-based equipment (i.e. Total Stations, Automatic Level) on ground features.
  • Groundwater
    Sub-surface water in soil pore spaces or between rock formations.
  • Groundwater Percolation
    Part of the water cycle, process of water moving from the surface and into the groundwater.
  • Group Delay
    Effects on the GPS signal when it travels through the ionosphere, where the magnitude is determined by the density and stratification of the ionosphere at the moment the signal passes through.
  • GSD
    Ground Sampled Distance
  • GSM
    Global System for Mobile communication
  • GUI
    Graphical User Interface
  • Gunter's Chain
    Measuring device used for land survey, it is a measuring chaing of 100 links. 1 Chain = 20.12m = 2012cm = 20120mm (1 Chain = 66ft = 792inch) 1 Link = 0.2012m = 20.12cm = 201.2mm (1 Link = 0.66ft = 7.92inch)
  • Gyroscope
    Device used to provide stability or maintain a reference direction in navigation systems.
  • Gyrotheodolite
    Combination of Theodolite and Gyroscope, it is a measuring instrumention to determine precise true azimuth.
  • h

  • Hachure
    Category of line symbols used to show surface (i.e. slope steepness), could be drawn as short parallels in varied thickness or in even thickness but varied spacing.
  • Half Mark
    Used for floating mark,are placed at similar area on the both left-hand and right-hand photo.
  • Halocline
    Where there is strong salinity gradient in the water, affect its density.
  • Handover Word
    Contained withing the Navigation Code (Navigation Message), it provides the receiver the information of the location of satellites during the broadcast of the Code.
  • Hard Systems Analysis
    Systems approach using rigid procedures and techniques to define a data/processing problem, generally used in computer implemenations, has four (4) phases: 1) Lexical Phase: Identifying problem, boundaries/constraints 2) Parsing Phase: Identifying relationship between entities/elements of(...)
  • HARN
    Contained withing the Navigation Code (Navigation Message), it provides the receiver the information of the location of satellites during the broadcast of the Code.
  • HDOP
    Horizontal Dilution of Precision
  • Heave
    Vertical movement (up-down) on Z-axis.
  • Height
    Vertical distance. Types: 1) Elipsoidal Height 2) Geodetic Heigh 3) Geoidal Height 4) Orthometric Height 5) Spot Height
  • Height Collimation Method
    Booking method for levelling using height of instrument.
  • Helix Antennas
    Antenna, mounted over ground plane, consisting of a coil of wire in the form of a helix with a feed line connected between the helix and the ground plane.
  • Helmert Transformation
    Used in geodesy, it is a mathematical process to apply rotation, scaling and translation onto coordinates.
  • Hertz
    Standard unit for the measure of frequency.
  • Heuristic
    Process/method/technique for a particular task/function.
  • Hexachrome Colour
    Six colour printing process.
  • Hexcone Model
    An approach of transforming RGB components into HIS components.
  • Hierarchical Database
    Database organized by levels, in a tree-like structure and can contain one-to-many relationships.
  • High Gain Antenna
    Antenna with a focused, narrow radiowave beam width.
  • High Pass Filter
    Spatial Filter applied to image that emphasizes high frequency features (features with high reflectance differences).
  • High Precision SHORAN
    Intercontinental system to connect datums across nations, terrestrial positiong systems using EM signals.
  • High-level cognitive understanding
    Deep understanding of the knowledge and be able to identify and recognize issues with the sense of discretion.
  • Hillshading
    Use of contrast (darkness-lightness) to represent slope, ridges and land surfaces.
  • HIRAN
    High Precision SHORAN
  • Histogram
    A type of graphical representation of data distribution to estimate the probability of a continuous variable.
  • Histogram-Equalized Stretch
    An approach that image value are assigned to the display levels on the basis of their frequency of occurrence.
  • Holes
    Vectorization setting in GIS, determines size of holes that can be ignored during raster line tracing.
  • Holistic view
    Recognizing the interconnectedness and relationship between parts and the whole within the various elements of study subjects and/or disciplines.
  • Hologrammetry
    An accurate dimensional measurement by holography
  • Homolosine Equal-Area Projection
    It is a composite projection of Sinusoidal and Mollweide projection, could be classified as a Pseudocylindrical projection with Equal-Area properties.