Glossary for Geospatial Science

defaults:� The start-up settings for a system or an individual process.� In TNTmips the defaults are usually automatically set to be the most probable value desired if the process is to be repeated either immediately or at some indefinite future date.� Many TNTmips defaults are set to the last value, raster object, position, or other parameter used.� Some defaults are always reset to a selected condition, regardless of the last choice, in order to prevent inadvertent destruction of valuable results and data sets.� For example, the location of a new output raster object will not usually default to an existing object to avoid accidentally overwriting it.� Well thought out defaults are one of the simplest and most easily incorporated forms of artificial intelligence that can exist in a system.