Terminology
Data about data
What is metadata?
You must extract this file type in order to see its contents
What is a .zip file?
A geometric function that transforms the earth's curved, ellipsoidal surface onto a flat, 2-dimensional plane
What is a map projection?
Spherical coordinates of Earth locations that vary in North-South directions
What are latitudes?
SME
What is the acronym for Subject Matter Expert?
Data manager that contains many tools
What is ArcCatalog?
Using a GIS system and creating vector data based on spatial location
What is digitizing?
CenterPoint generates rewenable power from these three energy sources
What are Solar, Landifill Gas and Wind?
The spatial relationships between adjacent or neighboring features
What is topology?
DR
What is the acronym for Disaster Recovery?
A framework for gathering, analyzing and managing data
What is a GIS?
The default file type of a map document in ArcMap
What is .mxd?
Matching locations with a pre-existing address locator
What is geocoding?
The number of people in a certain area is a measure
What is population density?
CP
What is the acronym for Cathodic Protection?
A collection of geographic datasets of various types held in a common file system folder
What is a file geodatabase?
Points, lines, and polygons are features of this type of data
What is vector data?
A digital model or 3-D representation of a terrain's surface incorporating elevation data
What is a digital elevation model (DEM)?
bare earth representation of the Earth’s surface that is augmented natural features such as ridges and breaklines
What is a Digital Terrain Model (DTM)?
REC
What is the acronym for Renewable Energy Credit?
A representation of a continuous surface consisting entirely of triangular facets
What is a TIN (Triangulated Irregular Network)?
Consists of a matrix of cells organized into rows and columns where each cell contains a value
What is raster data?
27 satellites
What is the number of satellites in NAVSTAR?
The estimation of unsampled locations based on known location sampled values
What is Interpolation?
IGSD
What is the acronym for Intelligent Grid Switching Device?