Course Details

Theoretical geodesy II

Academic Year 2024/25

HE10 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

6 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. Precise levelling - insruments and errors 2. Precise levelling - methods and accuracy 3. Adjustment geodetic and leveling networks on the plane, 4. Adjustment geodetic networks on the sphere and on the ellipsoid 5. Adjustment free networks. 6. Fundamental of Gravity field theory 7. Equipotencional surfaces, geoid and spheroid 8. Plumb line, normal, deflection of the vertical, Laplace equation and Laplace azimuth 9. Astronomic levelling, geoid as height reference surface 10. Theory of heights 11. Geodetic and gravimetric networks 12. Gravimetric deflections of the vertical, Moloděnsky kvazigeoid theory 13. Coordinate systems and frames ITRS, ETRS, EULN, geodynamic networks 14. History of geodetic networks in Czech republic

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction and repetition of basic methods of adjustment 2. Adjustment of trigonometric networks. 3. Adjustment of trilateration networks 4. Adjustment of 3D networks 5. Computing of deflections of vertical 6. Map of geoid 7. Komparation of leveling rods 8. Map of Free-air and Bouguer anomalies 9. Gravity corrections in leveling