Area: | Department of Spatial Sciences |
Contact Hours: | 4.0 |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Tutorial: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Prerequisite(s): | 8039 (v.6) Mathematics 274 or any previous version
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10424 (v.2) Coordinate and Mapping Systems 282 or any previous version
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Co Requisite(s): | 10458 (v.2) Measurement and Adjustment Analysis 381 or any previous version
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| Principles of space and satellite geodesy: Kepler's laws - the celestial sphere, spherical trigonometry, definitions of celestial coordinate systems and their relationships with terrestrial coordinate systems. Time keeping - relationships between universal, sidereal and atomic time. Solar and stellar determinations of astronomic azimuth. Astronomic positioning using stars. Satellite-based positioning, especially the Global Positioning System (GPS). Description of signal structure and observables. GPSerror sources and their avoidance. Mathematical models for absolute and differential static and kinematic positioning. Characteristics of GPS instrumentation and data processing software. Theoretical and practical aspects of planning, execution and dataanalysis for static and real-time kinematic GPS surveys. GPS quality control. Introduction to integrated positioning systems and other space-based techniques. |
Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2003 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | |
- Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
- Central External refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area. |
