Course Details
Satellite Geodesy
Academic Year 2025/26
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Fundamentals of satellite geodesy. Coordinate systems. Time systems. Motion of a satellite in Earth´s gravity field.
- 2. Inertial and terrestrial systems, definition and realization.
- 3. Satellite methods in geodesy and geophysics (VLBI, SLR, LLR, DORIS, satellite altimetry, satellite navigation systems).
- 4. Global navigation satellite system. Principles of ambiguity resolution. Ionospheric and tropospheric corrections. Accuracy.
- 5. Optimization of observation a processing procedures.
- 6. GNSS processing software systems SKI-Pro and Bernese.