Course Details

Physical Geodesy

Academic Year 2024/25

NEA047 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. Geopotential models. 2. Tidal deformations. 3. Satellite altimetry. 4. Determination of Earth´s crust motions 1. 5. Determination of Earth´s crust motions 2. 6. Gyroscopes. 7. Acceleration sensors. 8. Inertial systems. 9. Satellite systems. 10. Integration of inertial and satellite systems. 11. Advanced international research projects. 12. geophysical methods - practical applications.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Geoid, quasigeoid profils and theirs difference. 2. Innovative conversion of various type of heights, practical aspectds. 3. Geopotential, gravity potential. 4. Geopotential models testing. 5. Creation of height systém. 6. Improvement of geopotential model.