ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: IGS20061o10Semester: 2010/2011 summer
Name: Satellite measurement techniques
Major: Geodesy and Cartography
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Jarosław Bosy
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: During the course student gets a theoretical knowledge permitting to understanding relations between global (ITRS), regional (ETRS89) and national terrestrial reference frames and to do in practice the transformations between above frames. Student is also able to use GNSS technology for establishing of geodetic network and geodetic surveying.
Competences: Passing the course permits working in geodetic practice and entitlement in geodesy and cartography
Prerequisites: Satellite geodesy, geodesy and mathematical cartography.
Course content: Global, regional and local geodetic reference frame realization using satellite measurement techniques. Global Positioning System(GPS) and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in geodesy. GPS satellite networks realizations and data processing methods. Active geodetic networks based on the satellite measurement techniques.
Recommended literature: Czarnecki K., Geodezja współczesna w zarysie. Wiedza i Życie, Warszawa 1996;
Kleusberg A, Teunissen P.J.G, GPS for Geodesy 2nd edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York. 1998;
Hofmann-Wallenhof B., Lichtenegger H., Collins J., GPS Theory and Practice Fifth revised edition. Springer-Verlad Wien New York 2001;
Specht C., System GPS, Biblioteka Nawigacji nr 1, Wydawnictwo Bernardinium, Pelpin 2007;
Lamparski, J. Navstar GPS od teorii do praktyki. Wydawnictwo UWM, Olsztyn 2001;
Seeber, Satelitte Geodesy 2nd Edition. Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York 2003
Assessment methods: lectures – 15h, laboratory – 30h
Comment: obligatory passing grades of laboratory course and oral exam