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Record 1 2019-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Natural Construction Materials
CONT

The Calacatta marble is one of the most precious and valued Italian marble. Quarried in Carrara, this marble has been used since the Renaissance … Starting from a crystal white base, Calacatta marble has different colours of veining which range from the golden-yellow veining of Calacatta Gold or the mint-green ones of Calacatta Caldia to the ivory-beige veins of Calacatta Crema.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de construction naturels

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Spacecraft
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

A very high resolution mode where a radar beam is oriented on a target for a longer period of time, thus increasing the synthetic aperture length.

OBS

The three common SAR acquisition modes... : Stripmap SAR, Spotlight SAR, and ScanSAR.... A Spotlight SAR steers the antenna beam to continuously illuminate a certain region on ground much longer than in the Stripmap case [Carrara et al., 1995]. As a result, the azimuth bandwidth becomes larger, which hence may be exploited to increase the azimuth resolution.... It offers the possibility to measure different components of the surface current using only a single pass(in case of a spotlight single-pass interferometry configuration). To this purpose the total azimuth bandwidth is divided into different(e. g. two) non-overlapping parts which are processed separately with their individual optimum Doppler centroid values so that the resulting images represent observations from two different aspect angles. A spotlight system operated in that way provides data similar to a Dual-Beam ATI [Allied Telesyn International] configuration.

OBS

spotlight-mode: term officially approved by the RADARSAT-2 Terminology Approval Group (RTAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Télédétection
DEF

Mode d'opération dont la très haute résolution est obtenue en orientant le faisceau radar sur la cible pour une période de temps accrue, ce qui a pour effet d'augmenter la longueur de l'ouverture synthétique.

CONT

En mode «spotlight», l'image radar couvre une surface de 5 x 10 km, avec une résolution maximale jusqu'à 1 m.

OBS

mode «spotlight» : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR).

PHR

Illuminer une cible en mode «spotlight».

PHR

Radar SAR en mode «spotlight».

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glazing Materials (Constr.)
  • Ornamental Glassware
DEF

trademark - used for a thick homogeneous opaque structural glass used especially for ornamental finish on surfaces exposed to the weather.

CONT

Introduction to Vitrolite Structural Glass. The use of Vitrolite and other pigmented structural glass reached its heyday in the 1920’s and 1930’s. This handsome and versatile building material, so much a part of the Art Deco and Art Moderne architectural styles, was used primarily for interior and exterior wall surfacing.

OBS

structural glass : Glass panels used as a wall finish; types include Carrara glass, Vitrolite; common 1900-40; typically applied with asphalt mastic, sometimes with natural finish aluminum trim.

OBS

The Preservation of Historic Pigmented Structural Glass(Vitrolite and Carrara Glass).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux verriers (Construction)
  • Verrerie d'art
OBS

Les industries CANTEX Inc., entrepreneur général, sont surtout spécialisées dans la construction de verre architectural, murs-rideaux, façades de magasin et toutes autres spécifications concernant la vitrerie.

Key term(s)
  • Vitrolite

Spanish

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Record 4 1983-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

much used for statues, as the marble from Carrara, Italy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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