MRED 405 ENGINEERING GEODESY

Definition and classification of geodesy, historic development, earth and its motions, precession, nutation and polar motion, gravity field of the earth, gravity potential, spherical harmonics, actual shape of the earth, geoid, biaxial ellipsoid, time, methods for determining and disseminating time, applications to geophysics, maps, mercatoric, Lambert, Greek Geodetic reference systems, instruments, methods of positioning, applications to geophysics, mining, environmental monitoring, geodynamics etc.

Three field trips and two laboratory exercises: Determination of tunnel axis; study of tunnel construction; geometric level; determination of coordinates of an inaccessible point; calculation of excavation in technical works; charts and General Mapping Tools (GMT) software.