Course Details
Theoretical Geodesy I
Academic Year 2024/25
GE28 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 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 andellipsoid.
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.
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 in LGO
10. Recapitulation and credit