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10438 (v.2) Geodesy and Gravity 682



 

Area:Department of Spatial Sciences
Contact Hours:5.0
Credits:25.0
Lecture:1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Other Requisite(s):Admission: to a Postgraduate Spatial Science program.
Directed study and research. Physical geodesy - potential theory, earth, reference and anomalous gravity field, measurement of gravity. Figure of the earth, boundary value problems, geometrical and gravimetric geoid determination. Dynamic satellite geodesy, satellite altimetry. Reference frames and coordinate transformations, height systems. Earth rotation, solid earth tides.

 
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