Reconnaissance vs Prospection - What's the difference?
reconnaissance | prospection |
The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
* 1973 , Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
The action of looking forward into the future. Formed by analogy with retrospection. Not in common use, but there is some modern use and the OED gives citation back to the 19th and 17th centuries.
The act of prospecting for minerals. Also not in common use.
A search for archaeological remains, usually using modern technology, for example ground penetrating radar.
As nouns the difference between reconnaissance and prospection
is that reconnaissance is the act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information while prospection is the action of looking forward into the future formed by analogy with retrospection not in common use, but there is some modern use and the oed gives citation back to the 19th and 17th centuries.reconnaissance
English
(wikipedia reconnaissance)Alternative forms
* recce (abbreviation) * recon (abbreviation)Noun
- The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.