2018 QUARTER 01

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W
DM-08 - Grid compression methods
  • Illustrate the existing methods for compressing gridded data (e.g., run length encoding, Lempel-Ziv, wavelets)
  • Explain the advantage of wavelet compression
  • Evaluate the relative merits of grid compression methods for storage
  • Differentiate between lossy and lossless compression methods
DM-06 - Grid representations
  • Explain how grid representations embody the field-based view
  • Differentiate among a lattice, a tessellation, and a grid
  • Explain how terrain elevation can be represented by a regular tessellation and by an irregular tessellation
  • Identify the national framework datasets based on a grid model
DC-19 - Ground verification and accuracy assessment
  • Evaluate the thematic accuracy of a given soils map
  • Explain how U.S. Geological Survey scientists and contractors assess the accuracy of the National Land Cover Dataset

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