BIO311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Absolute Scale, Extrapolation
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Cartographic scale: actual distance, direction, shape and geometry, degree of spatial reduction indicating the length used to represent a larger unit of measure: ratio of distance on the map to distance on. Earths surface represented by the map, usually expressed in terms such as 1:10 000. In cartography, large scale means fine resolution and small scale means coarse resolution: point at which there is an abrupt change in a quality, property or. Extrapolate: size of the study area or the duration of time under consideration, to infer from known values; to estimate a value from conditions of the argument not used in the process of estimation to transform information. From one scale to another (either grain sized or extent) From one system (or data set) to another system at the same scale. Grain finesse level of spatial resolution possible within a given data set.
