Course Details

Theoretical geodesy 2

Academic Year 2025/26

NEA037 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-GK Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Josef Weigel, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295946

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Fundamental of Gravity field theory. Gravity measurements, gravity networks.
  • 2. Gravity anomalies.
  • 3. Precise levelling – insruments and errors, methods and testing of accuracy.
  • 4. Equipotencional surfaces, geoid and spheroid.
  • 5. Plumb line, normal, deflection of the vertical, Laplace equation and Laplace azimuth.
  • 6. Astronomic levelling, geoid as height reference surface. Vertical datums.
  • 7. Theory of heights.
  • 8. Gravimetric deflections of the vertical, Moloděnsky kvazigeoid theory.
  • 9. Coordinate systems and frames ITRS, ETRS, EULN, geodynamic networks.
  • 10. History of geodetic networks in Czech republic.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction and repetition of basic methods of teoretical geodesy.
  • 2. Gravitational acceleration of a spherically symmetric mass distibution.
  • 3. Gravity measurements.
  • 4. Analysis of gravity measurements. Gravity anomalies.
  • 5. Computing of deflections of vertical.
  • 6. Precise levelling.
  • 7. Komparation of levelling rods.
  • 8. Map of Free-air and Bouguer anomalies.
  • 9. Gravity corrections in leveling.