GEO 383 Exam 2

Table Join

append the attributes from one table onto the other based on a field common to both. Usually used for one-to-one and many-to-one relationships.

Primary data

data created in-house, collected or developed by the intended user. Higher level of quality control but more costly to produce in most cases. Includes survey data, GPS data, aerial photograph, satellite image

Digitizer tablet

records movement of the digitizer on an electronically active grid

Vector

a graphic dat structure thats represents the points, lines and areas of a geographical space by exact X and Y coordinates

Data Conversion (in GIS)

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Raster

a form of GIS graphic data structure that quantizes space into a series of uniformly spaced cells

Coordinate Pair

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Unique Identifier

a field that uniquely identifies each row or feature; must be not null, contain unique values

Scanner Coordinates

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Adjacent polygon (in GIS)

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Secondary data

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Heads-up digitizing

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Table relate

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Field (attribute table)

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Primary key (attribute tables)

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Connectivity (of spatial features)

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Spaghetti data model

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Metadata

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Spatial data model

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Adjacent polygon

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Containment (of spatial features)

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Attribute table (vector)

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Look-up table (raster)

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File header (raster)

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Raster chain codes

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Run-length codes (raster)

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Quadtrees (raster)

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Select by spatial aspect

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Classification

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Reclassification

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