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CARTE NUMERIQUE [2 records]

Record 1 2013-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cartography
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

A map used for compiling data directly into digital form.

CONT

SAR [synthetic aperture radar] images are used to help create land use maps, identifying built-up areas, dense and light woodland, fields, lakes and rivers and so on. When combined with optical and infra-red photography from other satellites, an extremely accurate and detailed digital map can be created.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cartographie
  • Télédétection
DEF

Carte utilisée pour la compilation de données directement en format numérique.

CONT

[Grâce à la] carte numérique, [des] informations cartographiques [sont] stockées sous forme numérique : série de coordonnées (nord, est, etc.) et valeurs ou propriétés (par exemple altitude, séries pédologiques, utilisation des terres).

OBS

carte numérique : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cartografía
  • Teledetección
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Record 2 2005-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Geography and Geopolitics
  • Population Movements
CONT

Elections Canada's National Geographic Database developed and maintained jointly with Statistics Canada to serve each agency's purposes is a digital map of Canadian streets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie politique et géopolitique
  • Mouvements de population
CONT

Élections Canada a créé et tient à jour, en collaboration avec Statistique Canada, la Base nationale de données géographiques une carte numérique des rues du Canada qui sert aux deux organismes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geografía política y geopolítica
  • Movimientos de población
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