coverage

1. A digital version of a map forming the basic unit of vector data storage in ARC/INFO. A coverage stores geographic features as primary features (such as arcs, nodes, polygons, and label points) and secondary features (such as tics, map extent, links, and annotation). Associated feature attribute tables describe and store attributes of the geographic features.
2. A set of thematically associated data considered as a unit. A coverage usually represents a single theme such as soils, streams, roads, or land use.

A digital version of a map forming the basic unit of vector data storage in ARC/INFO. A coverage stores map features as primary features (such as arcs, nodes, polygons, and label points) and secondary features (such as tics, map extent, links, and annotation). Associated feature attribute tables describe and store attributes of the map features. A coverage usually represents a single theme, or layer, such as soils, roads, or land use.

The scope of protection provided by an insurance contract which includes any of the listed benefits in an insurance policy.

(1) The ground area represented on imagery, photomaps, mosaics, maps, and other geographical presentation systems. (2) Cover or protection, as the coverage of troops by supporting fire. (3) The extent to which intelligence information is available in respect to any specified area of interest. (4) The summation of the geographical areas and volumes of aerospace under surveillance.

In radio communications, the geographical area within which service from a radio communications facility can be received.