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JDZ 305 | Geodesy - I | 3+0+0 | ECTS:4 | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | Level of Course | First Cycle | Status | Compulsory | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOMATICS ENGINEERING | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Faruk YILDIRIM | Co-Lecturer | None | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | Definition Earth's shape and size, solutions spherical and basic geodetic problems. |
Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | LO - 1 : | cognize the reason to use rotational ellipsoid instead of Geoid as a Earth?s shape for calculations and properties of ellipsoid geometry. | 1,2,5 | | LO - 2 : | understand the main parameters of ellipsoid related to latitude, distance(curve) calculation and area computation on ellipsoid | 1,2,5 | | LO - 3 : | know geodetic curve, its importance and the necessity to reduction of normal section observation to geodetic curve | 1,2,5 | | LO - 4 : | understand the necessity of calculation on sphere instead of ellipsoid and selection of these spheres | 1,2,5 | | LO - 5 : | make spherical triangles solutions with different methods and compare them | 1,2,5,11 | | LO - 6 : | have knowledge and skill about spherical coordinate systems and different geodetic calculations by rectangular and geographic coordinates | 1,2,5,11 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | |
Earth's shape, rotational ellipsoid and its properties. Distance and area computations on ellipsoid, Geodesic line, using sphere instead of Ellipsoid, Special solution techniques of spherical triangles; Legendre and Additament methods, Spherical coordinate systems, spherical rectangular coordinate system and geodetic computations, series and closed form solutions of basic problems, Transformation between the geographic coordinates and rectangular coordinates, geographic coordinate system and basic geodetic problems. |
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