Type of course: |
Compulsory |
Language of instruction: |
Romanian |
Erasmus Language of instruction: |
English |
Name of lecturer: |
Andreea Ramona Begov Ungur |
Seminar tutor: |
Andreea Ramona Begov Ungur |
Form of education |
Full-time |
Form of instruction: |
Lecture |
Number of teaching hours per semester: |
42 |
Number of teaching hours per week: |
3 |
Semester: |
Autumn |
Form of receiving a credit for a course: |
Grade |
Number of ECTS credits allocated |
4 |
Course aims:
- knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas, concepts specific to geodetic leveling network
- knowing how to design a geodetic leveling network
- knowing how to solve a geodetic leveling network
Course Entry Requirements:
Ellipsoidal Geodesy, National and Local Geodetic Networks 2
Course contents:
1. Geodetic leveling. Generalities
2. Level surfaces. Fundamental zero point
3. Systems altitudes. Dynamic system altitudes. Orthometric altitudes system
4. Geometric geodetic leveling. Generalities
5. The design of a geometric geodetic leveling network
6. Specific tools used in geometric geodetic leveling
7. The compensation of geometric geodetic leveling network. Generalities
8. The compensation of geometric geodetic leveling network. Conditioned measurement method
9. The compensation of geometric geodetic leveling network. Indirect measurement method
10. Geodetic trigonometric leveling. Generalities
11. The design of a trigonometric geodetic leveling network
12. The compensation of trigonometric geodetic leveling network. The intersections method
13. The compensation of trigonometric geodetic leveling network. The route method
14. The compensation of trigonometric geodetic leveling network. The polygons method
Teaching methods:
Lecture, conversation, exemplification, practical application.
Learning outcomes:
- to accustom students with terminology, methods, equipment and instruments specific of this discipline;
- to give students the basics concepts needed to design and compensate a geodetic leveling network;
- understanding of issues they will encounter in their future profession.
Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:
Written exam – 60%; Portfolio of practical work – 40%.
Recommended reading:
Federal Geodetic Control Committee,
Standards and Specifications for Geodetic Control Networks,
, Rockville, Maryland
, 1984
David A. Conner,
The Use and Improvement of the National Spatial Reference System in Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, USA, https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/NSRSinOhio.pdf
, Ohio
Ungur Andreea,
Considerations on the Development of Geodetic Network by Classical and GPS Methods, , Revista AGRICULTURA, AGRICULTURE Science and Practice Iournal, Vol. 77, No. 1-2/2011, AcademicPres
, Cluj Napoca
, 2011
, 230-234
https://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part4_GeodeticControl.pdf