Glossary for Geospatial Science

virtual display:� A display management scheme that displays as much of an image as will fit on the monitor, while buffering the rest of the image in a temporary file from a RAM disk or the hard drive.� The user never needs to give new file information in order to access another portion of the image.� A virtual display works like a window that can slide anywhere on a raster object.� How quickly it moves depends on the hardware available.