Question

1- The highest possible resolution DEMS currently available for the CONUS, lower 48 States is

Question 1 options:

	90
	10
	30
	3

2- The national agricultural statistical service (NASS) produces the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD)

Question 2 options:

	True
	False

3- Spatial resolution is the ground size that can be resolved by 1 pixel of satellite imagery

Question 3 options:

	True
	False

4- The U.S. Global positioning system is called NAVSTAR while the Russian equivalent that can be used a substitute by some GPS receiver units is

Question 4 options:

	GLONASS
	BeiDou
	Galileo
	IRNSS

5- the number of GPS satellites to get an accurate fix and obtain coordinates of a location is

Question 5 options:

	4
	2
	3
	5

6-Specify the optimal map projection from the following choices if you were monitoring dynamics of the arctic polar icecap

	Lambert conformal conic
	Azimuthal
	Mercator
	Sinusoidal

7-Specify the optimal map projection for a large, mid-latitude country (e.g., US, China) from the following choices if you were monitoring and inventorying areal extent of land cover/land use change across decades

	Lambert conformal conic
	Goode's homolosine
	Albers equal area
	Geographic

8-The equator is used a Northing origin for all Universal Transverse Mercator South zones.

	True
	False

9-Distortion in a Lambert Conformal conic is smallest near the Standard Parallels where the developable surface intersects the Earth.

	True
	False

10-Which of these is NOT a developable surface when considering projection from a 3D sphere to a 2 D surface

	cylinder
	cube
	cone
	plane

Answer 1

1. 30

2. True

3. false

4. GLONASS

5. 3

6. sinusodial

7. Geographic

8. True

9.True

10.plane