GIS Chpt 1

Data that describe the characteristics of spatial features.

Spatial features that exist between observations.

An ESRI data format for topological vector data.

Data-centered query and analysis.

Spatial features that do not exist between observations, form separate entities, and are individually distinguishable.

A data model that allows the use of linearly measured data on a coordinate system.

An ESRI data model that is object-based.

A computer system for capturing, storing, querying, analyzing, and displaying geographically referenced data.

A vector data model that uses a split system to store spatial data and attribute data.

Data that describe both the locations and characteristics of spatial features on the Earth's surface.

The process of using GIS in building models with spatial data.

A data model that uses objects to organize spatial data and stores spatial data and attribute data in a single system.

The process of transforming from a geographic grid to a plane coordinate system.

A spatial data model that uses a grid and cells to represent the spatial variation of a feature.

Higher-level vector data that can have spatially disjoint components and can overlap one another.

A collection of tables, which can be connected to each other by attributes whose values can uniquely identify a record in a table.

An ESRI data format for nontopological vector data.

Data that describe the geometry of spatial features.

A process of using points with known values to estimate values at other points.

A subfield of mathematics that is applied in GIS to ensure that the spatial relationships between features are expressed explicitly.

A data model that approximates the terrain with a set of nonoverlapping triangles.

A spatial data model that uses points and their x-, y-coordinates to construct spatial features of points, lines, and areas.