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Many of these were of the same target at different angles and times, giving rise to what became modern imagery analysis and mapmaking.
This feat surpassed anything done by the other European powers at that time ; his work was the last in which Spain was supreme in mapmaking.
Here he introduced many improvements in mapmaking, and gained a scientific reputation which led ( in 1751 ) to his election to the chair of economy and mathematics at the University of Göttingen.

mapmaking and was
Because of a tradeoff between area covered and ground resolution, not all reconnaissance satellites have been designed for high resolution ; the KH-5-ARGON program had a ground resolution of 140 meters and was intended for mapmaking.
Triangulation methods were by now well established for local mapmaking, but it was only towards the end of the 18th century that other countries began to establish detailed triangulation network surveys to map whole countries.
The purpose of the system, which produced relatively low-resolution images compared to other spy satellites, was to provide imagery for mapmaking purposes.

mapmaking and voyages
Hudd suggested Amerike's sponsorship made his name known in Bristol in association with the North American destinations prior to other mapmaking or voyages.

mapmaking and .
Despite Roosevelt's continued decline and loss of over 50 pounds ( 20 kg ) of his original 220, Commander Rondon had been repeatedly slowing down the pace of the expedition in dedication to his commission's mapmaking and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position by sun-based survey.
The second disc of this contains thousands of pieces of user-created content, including maps, total conversions, shape and sound files, cheats, mapmaking tools, physics files, and other applications.
This is Gauss's celebrated Theorema Egregium, which he found while concerned with geographic surveys and mapmaking.
He also applied this technique to terrestrial mapmaking as a way to make a flat map of the round Earth.
The theory that " Angeln " refers to a landform resembling a hook would have required advanced mapmaking abilities by its people, and is thus misleading.
Over centuries, cartographers have developed the art of mapmaking and label placement.
The Quinarian System later fell out of favour giving way to the popularity of the mapmaking theory of Hugh Edwin Strickland.
He made significant advances in mapmaking, producing maps that were far more accurate than previously available.
* British Cartographic Society, promoting the art and science of mapmaking.
Cartography or mapmaking is the study and practice of making maps or globes.
He had two sons, Johannes and Cornelis Blaeu, who continued their father's mapmaking and publishing business after his death in 1638.
He joined the RGS himself in 1901 in order to study surveying and mapmaking.
The English, Dutch and French improved their mapmaking skills and became superior in organizing and presenting geographic information.
Needing Langdon's mapmaking skills, Rogers recruits the two men for his latest expedition, one to destroy the hostile Abenakis tribe and their town of St. Francis far to the north.
During World War II mapmaking and medical drawing were added to the usual curriculum in drawing, painting and sculpture.
As he explored the beautiful area around his new home he began his hobby ( and minor business ) of mapmaking that would dominate the rest of his life.

enterprise and at
Needless to say, I was furious at this unparalleled intrusion upon free enterprise.
Mr. Reama told the Rotary Club of Providence at its luncheon at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel that about half of the people in the country want the `` welfare '' type of government and the other half want a free enterprise system.
Borland CEO Del Yocam explained at the time that the new name, Inprise, was meant to evoke " integrating the enterprise ".
Mussolini claimed that at the stage of supercapitalism, " a capitalist enterprise, when difficulties arise, throws itself like a dead weight into the state's arms.
Women writers were not uncommon at the time, but Evans's role at the head of a literary enterprise was.
" While my people had the luxury of doing one job at a time, I had to keep track of the whole enterprise.
Kemp co-sponsored a legislative attempt at enterprise zones in 1980.
He also delivered remarks on free enterprise zones at the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas.
However, the scandals of Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce and the neglect of the president were obstacles from the start, and Kemp was unsuccessful at either of his major initiatives: enacting enterprise zones and promoting public housing tenant ownership.
Neusner's enterprise has been aimed at a humanistic and academic reading of classics of Judaism.
In 1892, James E. Henry bought approximately of virgin timber and established a logging enterprise at what is today the center of Lincoln.
Although at this stage the farm is not expected to be a profit-making enterprise, it obtains some income from the sale of moose milk and from visiting tourist groups.
More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone.
Distribution routers aggregate traffic from multiple access routers, either at the same site, or to collect the data streams from multiple sites to a major enterprise location.
To carry out such a massive enterprise involving the registration, assembly and transportation of millions of people at a time when the necessary material and human resources were already severely stretched, would be a formidable logistical challenge.
Sexuality is reduced to casual seduction, enterprise to the pursuit of wealth at any cost.
* 1725: Richard Cantillon: An entrepreneur is a person who pays a certain price for a product to resell it at an uncertain price, thereby making decisions about obtaining and using the resources while consequently admitting the risk of enterprise.
The first electric tram in Melbourne was built in 1889 by the Box Hill and Doncaster Tramway Company Limited — an enterprise formed by a group of land developers — and ran from Box Hill railway station along what is now Station Street and Tram Road to Doncaster, using equipment left over from the Centennial International Exhibition of 1888 at the Royal Exhibition Building.
For individual skill, even skill at a highly imitative enterprise, like sports or mastery of a musical instrument, this is very often quite measurable.
" Treachery and desertion in his army, and the loyalty to Charles of the Aquitanian bishops, brought about the failure of the enterprise, which Louis renounced by a treaty signed at Coblenz on 7 June 860.
" " Politicians and lobbyists at the core of this clever enterprise figured out how to pull it off in an organized, camouflaged way -- covering their tracks while they put one over on an unsuspecting public.
In 1347, at the time of Rienzi's unfortunate enterprise in reviving the Roman republic, Perugia sent ten ambassadors to pay him honour ; and, when papal legates sought to coerce it by foreign soldiers, or to exact contributions, they met with vigorous resistance, which broke into open warfare with Pope Urban V in 1369 ; in 1370 the noble party reached an agreement signing the treaty of Bologna and Perugia was forced to accept a papal legate ; however the vicar-general of the Papal States, Gérard du Puy, Abbot of Marmoutier and nephew of Gregory IX, was expelled by a popular uprising in 1375, and his fortification of Porta Sole was razed to the ground.
The former Soviet Union's state enterprise managers were indeed highly skilled at coping with the demands on them under the Soviet system of planned production targets.

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