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