Glossary for Geospatial Science

mosaic:� A large image assembled from segments.� Each segment may come from a different source and have a different cell size and angle of orientation, but all the segments must be geometrically rectified and calibrated to a common coordinate framework.� The mosaic process rotates and re-scales each piece and creates a single combined object.� If all segments are georeferenced to the same map projection, they can be automatically mosaicked based upon their geographic calibration without additional adjustments.� Recognized verbal forms of mosaic are mosaic, mosaicked and mosaicking.�