Course Details
Geodetical Astronomy and Space Geodesy II
Academic Year 2024/25
HE06 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 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, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Problem of two bodies, Kepler’s laws.
2. Disturbed and undisturbed satellite movement.
3. Optical and electronic observation methods of tracking satellites.
4. Use of satellites for solving basic problems.
5. Basic methods of determination of position.
6. GPS – system description.
7. GPS – application in surveying.
8. GPS – receivers, related settlements.
9. Satellite altimetry, satellite Earth gravity missions, Earth Gravity Models.
10. Other techniques of satellite geodesy (SLR, DORIS).
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
Introduction. Computation of astronomical azimuth from Sun or Polaris observation, task 1.
Preparation of observation program, computer planetarium and its use, task 2.
Determination of astronomical azimuth using the Polaris - observation.
Determination of astronomical azimuth using the Polaris - repeated observation, task 3.
Ephemeris of GPS satellite computation - non disturbed motion, task 4a.
Ephemeris of GPS satellite computation - disturbed motion, task 4b.
Free time for task 4 finishing.
Networks of GNSS permanent stations.
Final test.