Glossary for Geospatial Science

index areas:� The regions in a HyperIndex parent object linked to a daughter object, which may be rectangular, circular, or quadrilateral in shape.� HyperIndex will display the daughter object when the mouse selects a point within the index area.� Active index areas can be revealed on the display of the parent object when the option �Show Index Areas� under the View window menu HyperIndex is on. (See also: daughter object, link, parent object.)