Satellite-Based Positioning - VU 2
844.740
Instructor : Weinold, Thomas, Dr. techn.
Elective course (GVW 2-3) for students of the Master's Programme Environmental Engineering
Interdisciplinary course for Master's Programmes and course for Incoming Students
Lecture and practical exercises, each approximately 1 credit hour
Assessment: oral examination and elaboration of the exercises
These lectures and practical exercises give the function and the range of use of satellite navigation in general and NAVSTAR-GPS in particular. The highly accurate coordinates and height determination for applications in building surveying is treated in detail.
Lecture contents:
- Methods of positioning and navigation
- Navigation satellite systems NAVSTAR, GLONASS, GALILEO and other
- Satellite and satellite orbits
- Evaluation of radio signals
- Differential GPS precise point determination, special applications
- Real time kinematics
- Ground-based and satellite-based supplementary schemes
- GPS receivers
- Applications in building surveying:
Tunneling, Pipeline construction building construction, deformation measurements
Exercise content:
Measuring exercises using handheld GPS receivers and geodetic special devices
- Operation of handheld devices
- waypoints, routes and tracks to store and transfer to PC
- waypoints and routes from PC onto your GPS device
- GPS evaluation software by manufacturers and Freeware
- waypoints, routes and tracks to store and transfer to PC
- GIS recipients: measurement and Postprocessingcalculation
- Forecast calculation for high-precision GPS measurements
- GPS base line measurements and evaluation
- RTK measurements
- Special application