Modern Geodesy and Applications - GMAT9211

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Course Outline: course profile

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Modern concerns of geodesy; Roles of modern geodesy in surveying and geospatial engineering, environmental monitoring and climate change studies; Variations of geodetic positions with time; Satellite orbit determination; Introduction to space geodetic methods: Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), VLBI; DORIS, satellite altimetry; Gravimetric geodesy, air- and space-born gravimetric measurements; the concepts and computations in gravimetry and geoid determination. Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS); Engineering geodesy and applications.