Course Details

Theoretical Geodesy 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BEA025 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-GK Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Josef Weigel, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

7 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/289970

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Figure of the Earth and mathematic surfaces. History of geodesy.
  • 2. Systems of coordinates on sphere and rotational ellipsoid, spherical excess.
  • 3. Reference ellipsoid, radius of curvature, normal sections, geodesic.
  • 4. Direct problem and inverse problem on sphere and ellipsoid.
  • 5. Gravity field of Earth, equipotential surfaces, plumb line, geoid
  • 6. Gravimetric methods, gravimeters, gravity networks.
  • 7. Precise levelling, measurements and calculations.
  • 8. Deflection of vertical,reduction observations to ellipsoid.
  • 9. Satellite and its orbits, time systems.
  • 10. Application GPS in geodetic fields, transformation to cartographic projections, GNSS and heights, space technology, geodynamics.

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, Basic of spferical trigonometry.
  • 2. Spherical triangles, spherical excess.
  • 3. Sphere, Geodetic direct and inverse solution.
  • 4. Reference ellipsoid, Coordinate transformation.
  • 5. Computing on the ellipsoid surface, radius of curvature.
  • 6. Precise leveling – tests of leveling instruments.
  • 7. Precise leveling – practical measurements.
  • 8. GNSS – practical measurements.
  • 9. GNSS – calkulations.
  • 10. Recapitulation and credit.