Course Details
Space Geodesy 2
Academic Year 2025/26
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