GIS terms starting with F

20 terms

  1. Facility and Structure Manmade construction. For example, resources describing buildings, fences, and related items.
  2. feature attribute table A table used to store attribute information for a specific coverage feature class. ARC/INFO maintains the first several items of these tables.
  3. feature class A collection of geographic features with the same geometry type (such as point, line or polygon), the same attributes, and the same spatial reference.
  4. feature selection by attribute See logical selection.
  5. Feature-ID Synonymous term for Cover-ID and User-ID.
  6. Federal Geodetic Control Committee (FGCC) a standards committee concerned with accuracy levels in geodetic control. Within the United States, coordinate control is based on the National Geodetic…
  7. Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) FIPS deals with a wide range of computer system components including the components of most GISs: hardware, storage media, data files, codes, interfaces…
  8. Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) A media access (transmission) control-level protocol with token-ring architecture, a communication bandwidth of 100 Mbps and supported on a fiber network…
  9. field Field A region of space at each point of which a given physical or mathematical quantity has some definite value.
  10. field data collector An electronic device that collects and stores observation information from survey instruments.
  11. Field Research The gathering and research of information at the physical location; as opposed to research or information gathering in the office.
  12. file To place a paper in the official custody of the clerk of court/court administrator to enter into the files or records of a case.
  13. file transfer Moving named files from one computer or network to another
  14. font A logical set of related patterns representing text characters or point symbols. Courier, Helvetica and Times are three types of font.
  15. foreign key One or more table attributes that can uniquely identify a record in another table. A foreign key is the primary key of another table.
  16. Format The internal structure of a file, which defines the way it is stored and used. Specific applications may define unique formats for their data (i.e.
  17. forms interface A graphic user interface characterized by user-controlled movement of a cursor from one data field to another. Contrast to command line interface.
  18. from-node Of an arc's two endpoints, the one first digitized.
  19. functional surface A surface representation which stores a single z value (as opposed to multiple z values) for any given x,y location.
  20. fuzzy tolerance The fuzzy tolerance is an extremely small distance used to resolve inexact intersection locations due to limited arithmetic precision of computers.