cotas de altitude

English translation: elevation

18:30 Jan 12, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Other
Portuguese term or phrase: cotas de altitude
Sua forma é a de um polígono irregular de 12 lados e sua topografia é típica de encosta de morro, com cotas de altitude variando entre 54 e 320 metros sobre o nível do mar.
Adriana Maciel
Brazil
Local time: 04:46
English translation:elevation
Explanation:
O mais completo seria "elevation above sea level".
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Claudio Almeida
Local time: 08:46
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Thanks.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1spot height
Jennifer Levey
4elevation
Claudio Almeida
4elevation levels/levels of elevation
Mark Thompson
4height
kashew
4 -1contours
Nick Taylor


  

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elevation


Explanation:
O mais completo seria "elevation above sea level".

Claudio Almeida
Local time: 08:46
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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Thanks.
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contours


Explanation:
contours

Nick Taylor
Local time: 08:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Jennifer Levey: Contours are determined at a series of regularly-spaced intervals above the datum (usually mean sea level), so you wouldn't get values like 54 and 320 (except in the very unlikely case where the contours are plotted at intervals of one metre.
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elevation levels/levels of elevation


Explanation:
No contexto, acho que seria isso.

Mark Thompson
Brazil
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height


Explanation:
height above sea level

kashew
France
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cota de altitude
spot height


Explanation:
Glossary of the mapping sciences - Resultado de la Búsqueda de libros de Google
American Society of Civil Engineers, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping - 1994 - Science - 581 páginas
In geodesy, the term is often used for geodetic height, the reference surface ... SEE ALSO Baranov elevation; spot height. height (of instrument) - (1) In ...
books.google.cl/books?isbn=0784400504...[PDF] Hi-Res PDF (672 KB) - GPS height application and gross error ... - [ Traducir esta página ]Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Vista rápida
geometric benchmark spot height and geodetic height in the GPS network to fit other benchmark height, or pick some spot separately to processing repetitive ...
www.crcnetbase.com/doi/pdf/10.1201/9780203879986.ch24kota > elevation / spot height - [ Traducir esta página ]15 Jun 2010 ... (KudoZ) Slovenian to English translation of kota: elevation / spot height [ Geodesy - Architecture (Tech/Engineering)].
www.proz.com/kudoz/slovenian_to.../3893878-kota.html - En cachéThe Fenner School of Environment and Society - [ Traducir esta página ]de ANU CRES
These data were augmented by national trigonometric data supplied by AUSLIG from the National Geodetic Data Base (NGDB). Additional spot height, sink point, ...
fennerschool.anu.edu.au/publications/.../index.php - En caché - SimilaresU.P. Department of Geodetic Engineering - [ Traducir esta página ]25 Jun 2009 ... For minimal land cover or bare soil, the spot height and random point height differences ... 2009, 1:00 PM, Geodetic Engineering Theatre. ...
dge.upd.edu.ph/index_ResearchAbstracts-RJA01-Thesis-UG.html - En caché[PDF] VALIDATION OF PS HEIGHT ESTIMATES BY MEANS OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY - [ Traducir esta página ]Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Vista rápida
de D Perissin - Artículos relacionados
Indeed, the PS's comprise a sort of “natural geodetic network” for accurately monitoring surface .... referred to the closest spot height. The width of the ...
ihome.cuhk.edu.hk/~b122066/Publish/07EnvisatDem.pdf

Cota cat: 1 cota f, 2 mesura f; eng: 1 spot height, 2 dimension. 1 f En un Plano, número que indica la altura de un punto sobre el nivel del mar o respecto a ...
www.construmatica.com › Construpedia - En caché[PDF] Vulnerabilidad sísmica y capacidad de carga de un puente ... Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Vista rápida
de E Muñoz
altura de 96.77 metros y el de Dosquebradas de 107.97 metros. ...... TA/SPOT HEIGHT. COTA PROMEDIO ENTREGA. AVERAGE SPOT HEIGHT, DELIVERY ...
www.scielo.cl/pdf/ric/v25n2/art06.pdf

Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 03:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 13

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Martin Riordan: Cota: 8 Geol Algarismo com que se indica o nível de um ponto relativamente a um plano de comparação.
2 hrs
  -> Thanks for re-focusing on Portuguese (my google is biased towards Spanish...).
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