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    hypsometry studies terrain relative to sea level. The Latin word terra (the root of terrain) means "earth." In physical geography, terrain is the lay of the...
    14 KB (1,592 words) - 03:56, 24 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of areas of chaos terrain on Mars
    list of areas of chaos terrain officially named by the International Astronomical Union on the planet Mars. Chaos terrain (or chaotic terrain) is an astrogeological...
    6 KB (141 words) - 20:23, 13 February 2024
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    the key features of all-terrain tires(ATTs). Largest Tread Depth Aggressive Multi-Pitch Pattern Cushioning Layer Large Void Area Tread Design Snow & Ice...
    6 KB (710 words) - 21:10, 12 January 2024
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    terrain park or snow park is an outdoor recreation area containing terrain that allows skiers, snowboarders and snowbikers to perform tricks. Terrain...
    9 KB (1,442 words) - 02:27, 24 June 2024
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    operations in urban terrain). The British armed forces terms are OBUA (operations in built-up areas), FIBUA (fighting in built-up areas), or sometimes (colloquially)...
    42 KB (4,939 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2024
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    Examples include farmland, grassland and specially cleared areas such as an airport. Such terrain is significant in military manoeuvre and tactics as the...
    2 KB (147 words) - 08:15, 2 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Terrain cartography
    Terrain cartography or relief mapping is the depiction of the shape of the surface of the Earth on a map, using one or more of several techniques that...
    25 KB (2,876 words) - 16:51, 19 June 2024
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    An all-terrain vehicle (ATV), also known as a light utility vehicle (LUV), a quad bike or quad (if it has four wheels), as defined by the American National...
    53 KB (6,543 words) - 16:31, 26 June 2024
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    is a 3D computer graphics representation of elevation data to represent terrain or overlaying objects, commonly of a planet, moon, or asteroid. A "global...
    30 KB (3,236 words) - 14:45, 26 February 2024
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    Other, mostly older terms include "contour flying", "ground-hugging", "terrain masking", "flying under the radar" and "hedgehopping". During NOE flight...
    7 KB (742 words) - 03:44, 10 January 2024
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    Look up Urban terrain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Urban terrain is a military term for the representation of the urban environment within the...
    1 KB (90 words) - 06:22, 7 February 2023
  • Terrain contour matching, or TERCOM, is a navigation system used primarily by cruise missiles. It uses a contour map of the terrain that is compared with...
    3 KB (288 words) - 23:53, 2 April 2024
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    Coast the coastal areas of Norrland do not belong to the Norrland terrain. The southern and eastern boundary of the Norrland terrain is made up of geological...
    5 KB (501 words) - 22:03, 5 June 2023
  • All Terrain Walkers are armored fighting vehicles from the Star Wars universe that traverse the landscape on mechanical legs. They are used by the Old...
    59 KB (6,572 words) - 18:42, 4 May 2024
  • An advantage of terrain occurs when military personnel gain an advantage over an enemy by using or simply in spite of, the terrain around them. The term...
    4 KB (417 words) - 12:20, 27 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Height above average terrain
    Height above average terrain (HAAT), or (less popularly) effective height above average terrain (EHAAT), is the vertical position of an antenna site above...
    6 KB (717 words) - 03:44, 23 August 2023
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    In astrogeology, chaos terrain, or chaotic terrain, is a planetary surface area where features such as ridges, cracks, and plains appear jumbled and enmeshed...
    19 KB (2,354 words) - 18:14, 11 April 2024
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    The Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) is an unpressurized rover being developed for NASA that astronauts can drive on the Moon while wearing their spacesuits...
    10 KB (1,062 words) - 13:36, 22 June 2024
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    basin is a large area of hilly, grooved terrain, with few small impact craters that are known as chaotic terrain (also "weird terrain"). It is thought...
    10 KB (1,092 words) - 18:57, 24 May 2024
  • Fretted terrain is a type of surface feature common to certain areas of Mars and was discovered in Mariner 9 images. It lies between two different types...
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