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Shifting Baselines — The Shifting Baselines Ocean Media Project was founded by scientist turned filmmaker, Dr. Randy Olson in 2002, with the modus operandi of communicating the gradual declining state of our oceans to a broad audience through the use of comedy/humor… … Wikipedia
Baseline (configuration management) — Configuration management is the process of managing change in hardware, software, firmware, documentation, measurements, etc. As change requires an initial state and next state, the marking of significant states within a series of several changes … Wikipedia
Aperture synthesis — or synthesis imaging is a type of interferometry that mixes signals from a collection of telescopes to produce images having the same angular resolution as an instrument the size of the entire collection. At each separation and orientation, the… … Wikipedia
AZUSA — refers to a ground based radar tracking system installed at Cape Canaveral, Florida and the NASA Kennedy Space Center. AZUSA dated back to the early 1950s and was named after the southern California town (Azusa, California) where the system was… … Wikipedia
Archipelgewässer — (dunkelblau), Küstenmeer (mittelblau) und ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone der Philippinen Als Archipelgewässer werden Hoheitsgewässer bezeichnet, die zwischen den Inseln eines Archipels eines Inselstaats liegen. Die völkerrechtlich anerkannte… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Softball — This article is about the sport. For other uses, see Soft ball (disambiguation). Softball Highest governing body International Softball Federation First played United States, 1887 Characteristics … Wikipedia
InterPlanetary Network — The InterPlanetary Network (IPN) is a group of spacecraft equipped with gamma ray burst (GRB) detectors. By timing the arrival of a burst at several spacecraft, its precise location can be found. The farther apart the detectors, or the greater… … Wikipedia
international law — the body of rules that nations generally recognize as binding in their conduct toward one another. Also called law of nations. Cf. private international law, public international law. [1830 40] * * * Body of legal rules, norms, and standards that … Universalium
Dominion Land Survey — The Dominion Land Survey (DLS) is the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one square mile sections for agricultural and other purposes. It is based on the layout of the Public Land Survey System used in the United States, but has… … Wikipedia
Territorial waters — Schematic map of maritime zones. Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,[1] is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from… … Wikipedia
