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91Channel Tunnel — Map of the Channel Tunnel Overview Location English Channel (Strait of Dover) Coordinates Folkestone …
92Geodesy — (pronEng|dʒiːˈɒdɪsi [OED] ), also called geodetics, a branch of earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three dimensional time varying… …
93HMS Beagle — was a Cherokee class 10 gun brig sloop of the Royal Navy, named after the beagle, a breed of dog. She was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames, at a cost of £7,803. In July of that year she took part in a fleet… …
94Dominion Land Survey — The Dominion Land Survey (DLS) is the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one square mile sections for agricultural and other purposes. It is based on the layout of the Public Land Survey System used in the United States, but has… …
95Geomatics engineering — is a rapidly developing discipline that focuses on spatial information (i.e. information that has a location). The location is the primary factor used to integrate a very wide range of data for viewing and analysis. Geomatics engineers apply… …
96Eifel Aqueduct — The Eifel Aqueduct was one of the longest aqueducts of the Roman Empire. It shows the great skill of the Roman engineers, whose level of technical achievement was lost in the Middle Ages and regained only in recent times.The aqueduct, constructed …
97Gunter's chain — is a measuring device used for land survey. It was designed and introduced in 1620 by English clergyman and mathematician Edmund Gunter (1581–1626) long before the development of the theodolite and other more sophisticated equipment, enabling… …
98Feodosy Krasovsky — Feodosy Nikolaevich Krasovsky (Russian:Феодосий Николаевич Красовский) (OldStyleDate|26 September |1878|14 September October 1 1948) was a Russian and later Soviet astronomer and geodesist. [p.25, Farbman] He was born in Galich. In 1900 he… …
99Charles Tyers — Captain Charles J. Tyers, 1806–1870. Captain Charles James Tyers RN FRSV (13 September 1806–20 September 1870) was a 19th century surveyor and explorer, and the Commissioner for Crown Lands for Portland (1841) and Gippsland (1844). He was born in …
100LIDAR Contour Mapping — Introduction:LIDAR contour mapping is a rapid, cost effective source of high accuracy, high density elevation data for many traditional topographic mapping applications. The technology allows large area topographic surveys to be completed… …
