NATIONAL AND LOCAL GEODETIC NETWORKS 2

Course Code: IG3106 • Study year: III • Academic Year: 2022-2023
Domain: Geodetic engineering • Field of study: Earth and cadastral measurements
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