Physical geodesy

Lecturer:

Antonín Zeman

Tutor:

Antonín Zeman, Jan Holešovský, Jana Kuklíková

Supervisor:

Department Advanced Geodesy

Synopsis:

Development if scalar description og gravitational and gravity field of the Earth continuing to the form containing Stokes parameters, normal gravity firld of the Earth (reference level ellipsoid), anomal gravity field, methods of determination of geoid or quasigeoid as projection of Stokes or Molodenski theory of the figure of the Earth, theory of heights.

Requirements:

no prerequisities

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Information on gravity field of the Earth, its description by Stokes parameters, Stokes and Molodensky theory of the figure of the Earth and heights, methods of determination of the shape of geoid and quasigeoid.

Study materials:

Zeman: Fyzikální geodézie (skripta), Vydavatelství ČVUT, 2005

Cimbálník, Zeman, Kostelecký: Základy vyšší a fyzikální geodézie, Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2008

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu	roomTH:B-978 Holešovský J. 13:00–14:50 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.158) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) B978roomTH:B-976 Holešovský J. 15:00–16:50 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.159) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) B976
Fri	roomTH:C-208 Zeman A. 15:00–16:50 (lecture parallel1) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) C208

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: