Course Details

Space Geodesy 2

Academic Year 2024/25

NEA035 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-GK Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 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) Universe, distances in space, stellar magnitude, celestial sphere
2) Spherical coordinate systems and transformations between them, prominent positions
3) Chronometry - rotational times, calendar
4) Precession motion, pole motion, IERS
5) Proper motion, parallax, aberration, refraction, ephemerides of stars and solar system bodies
6) Astronomical determination of azimuth
7) Astronomical determination of position
8) VLBI, Doppler methods
9) Satellite altimetry, Laser ranging
10) Satellite Gravity Projects, InSAR

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory