Course Details

Theoretical Geodesy 1

Academic Year 2024/25

BEA025 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-GK Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

7 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Figure of the Earth and mathematic surfaces. History of geodesy. 2. Systems of coordinates on sphere and rotational ellipsoid, spherical excess. 3. Reference ellipsoid, radius of curvature, normal sections, geodesic. 4. Direct problem and inverse problem on sphere and ellipsoid. 5. Gravity field of Earth, equipotential surfaces, plumb line, geoid 6. Gravimetric methods, gravimeters, gravity networks. 7. Precise levelling, measurements and calculations. 8. Deflection of vertical,reduction observations to ellipsoid. 9. Satellite and its orbits, time systems. 10. Application GPS in geodetic fields, transformation to cartographic projections, GNSS and heights, space technology, geodynamics.

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction, Basic of spferical trigonometry. 2. Spherical triangles, spherical excess. 3. Sphere, Geodetic direct and inverse solution. 4. Reference ellipsoid, Coordinate transformation. 5. Computing on the ellipsoid surface, radius of curvature. 6. Precise leveling – tests of leveling instruments. 7. Precise leveling – practical measurements. 8. GNSS – practical measurements. 9. GNSS – calkulations. 10. Recapitulation and credit.