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)
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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.
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