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C/A	Coarse Acquisitionabbe
CALIPER	This is the method of examining the diameter of a drill hole to determine the hardness or softness of the individual rocks.
CARBON CYCLE	The natural cycle of carbon dioxide to carbohydrates by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere by animal metabolism and decomposition.
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CARTOGRAPHIC	Pertaining to cartography, the art or practice of making charts or maps.
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CCITT	Comite Consultatif International Teeraphique et Teehonique
CCT	Computer Compatible Tape CCTs are 1/2-inch-wide magnetic tapes. The term is used in reference to both single tapes and tape sets consisting of a single logical volume of data.
CEN	Comit Europ en de Normalisation, European Committee for Standardisationambiguity
CEN/TC 287	CEN Technical Committee 287
CHANNELS	A range of wavelength intervals selected from the electromagnetic spectrum.
CHIP	A chip is an image subset window and is used in the correlation process.
CITF	Common Internal Transfer Format
CLIMATOLOGY	The science of climates and their phenomena.
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CLUSTER	A homogeneous group of units which vary "like" one another. "Likeness" is usually determined by the association, similarity, or distance among the measurement patterns associated with the units.
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CONCATENATE	In the LAS environment, concatenate is the overlaying of an input image with one image or a series of images using the lines and samples to calculate the projection coordinates in the creation of a mosaicked image.
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CONTOUR	Imaginary line on the ground, all points of which are at the same elevation above or below a specified datum.
COVARIANCE MATRIX	A matrix containing the expected values derived from the products of the deviations of pairs of random variables from their means. Covariance measures the extent to which two random numbers vary together (i.e., varying at the same rate in the same direction).
CPES	Control Point Extraction System CPES is software used to produce and process a single-band (Band 4) Landsat chip.
CPT	Control Point CPTs are features of known ground location that can be accurately located on imagery.
CRYOSPHERE	The part of the Earth's surface that is perennially frozen; the zone of the Earth where ice and frozen ground are formed.
CSP	Common Software Platform
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CUBIC CONVOLUTION	A high order resampling technique in which the brightness value of a pixel in a corrected image is interpolated from the brightness values of the 16 nearest pixels around the location of the corrected pixel.