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The trip to Mount Everest, Himalayas From editor Every time Dima goes on a photo trip to shoot mountains, our entire team impatiently awaits for the news from the front lines. That's right, from the front lines, because Dima traditionally finds all sorts of adventures in the mountains. It may be a suddenly malfunctioning camera, or unexpected weather changes. engineering Surveying, cadastral surveying, laser surveying, hydrographic surveying, mining surveying, land surveying There are many specialisations within Surveying you can choose from, depending on your interests and whether you want to work in the city, country or coastal areas. Land Surveying Land (Cadastral) Surveyors determine and advise on property boundaries when land is subdivided, bought or sold. Cadastral Surveyors need to hold a special license as their findings determine the status of land ownership. Engineering New freeway systems, bridges and high-rise buildings all need precise planning.

Floodplain Modeling To start, you may want to watch the What is Engineering video. What is Engineering Too much rainfall or melting snow can sometimes cause a flood. ChronoZoom ChronoZoom is an educational tool for teachers and students who want to put historical events in perspective. A great many resources have been created already in ChronoZoom for your enjoyment and enlightenment. Start Exploring Use ChronoZoom to get a perspective of the extensive scale of time and historical events relative to what happened around the world. Become an author yourself! Simply log on with your social networking credentials to record your unique perspective or tell a story that needs to be told.

sis_cube_about About the implementation of CUBE in SIS The CUBE (Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator) algorithm is developed at The Centre for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (C-COM)/Joint Hydrographic Centre (JHC) at University of New Hampshire. The algorithm is available as a library and is used inside one separate module in SIS. The CUBE algorithm can be used as an alternative data gridding and data cleaning method in SIS. The gridding and data cleaning is a default process done by the GridEngine. Interactive Animations This is our collection of interactive rollover flash animations. Click links or scroll down to view the available interactive animations.Check out our Earth Science Animations and Videos pages. Interactive Animations List of common misconceptions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive. This list corrects erroneous beliefs that are currently widely held about notable topics. Each misconception and the corresponding facts have been discussed in published literature.

Improving on CUBE for Bathymetric Modeling In a previous post I briefly described a parallel processing approach to bathymetric estimation from soundings. In the post I mentioned that I believe I had improved on the CUBE (Combined Uncertainty Bathymetric Estimation) algorithm. Well it's not very fair to make a statement like that without at least trying to substantiate it - so here goes. CUBE is really designed to model uncertainty and create bathymetric terrain models from multi-beam echo sounder (MBES) data. It is implemented in software products such as Fledermaus. The Southeastern Suture of the Appalachian Margin Experiment (SESAME) The super-continent Gondwana attached to proto-North America at the culmination of the continental collision that built the Appalachian Mountains about 300 million years ago. Based on variations in fossils, rock types and ages, and a zone of southward dipping reflectors imaged by seismic reflection data, the juncture between these two continents is thought to lie in the crust beneath southern Georgia. Subsequently, this region was rifted during the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, depositing large volumes of magma into the crust. The goal of the SESAME project is to better understand how the continental lithosphere was accreted and deformed during collision and how rifting and formation of the current Atlantic passive margin later modified it.

Social Studies Theme Units Document Based Activities World Problems and Issues Social Studies Mixed Review Practice First grade social studies questions Second grade social studies questions Third grade social studies questions Fourth grade social studies questions Fifth grade social studies questions Sixth grade social studies questions Social Studies Theme Units Life Skills Canadian Hydrographic Service Preface The advent of satellite positioning, multi-transducer and multibeam echo sounding systems and sophisticated data processing tools have drastically modified the way hydrographic surveys are conducted. Management tools such as ISO 9001:2000 have also had an impact on the methods used to ensure quality assurance. The Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) Survey Standing Orders, as they were written in the 1980’s and 1990’s, no longer reflect the standards and the methods of work required to properly conduct a hydrographic survey.

Turning the Pages (accessible version) - Leonardo Notebook: Introduction Audio 'This is to be a collection without order, drawn from many papers, which I have copied here, hoping to arrange them later each in its place, according to the subjects of which they treat.' Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Leonardo is describing how, in the house of Piero di Braccio Martelli in Florence, in the year 1508, he began the collection of short treatises, notes and drawings, which now makes up the Leonardo Notebook in the British Library. Section 5: Theory, distribution and examples of survey error Introduction This section may be described as ‘higher surveying? but knowledge of it is essential and fundamental to the conduct of cadastral surveys. An Online Gallery of 30,000 Items from The British Library, Including Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks And Mozart's Diary (Click image to enlarge) This past December, we wrote about the British Library’s releasing “over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose.” For those who enjoyed this treasure trove of historical content, we bring more good tidings: the British Library also has a freely accessible online gallery, numbering some 30,000 items. The vast digital collection includes books, ancient maps, and priceless prints. Amid the countless virtual tomes, some of the more impressive holdings include Mozart’s musical diary from the last seven years of his life, and Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook (find both above) where the artist and inventor theorized about mechanics. Da Vinci also recorded riddles in his notes, including: “The dead will come from underground and by their fierce movements will send numberless human beings out of the world” (Answer: “Iron, which comes from under the ground, is dead, but the weapons are made of it which kill so many men”).