Course Details
Theoretical geodesy 2
Academic Year 2024/25
NEA037 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. 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.