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.