Course aims:

- knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas and concepts specific to geodetic network
- knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas and concepts specific to geodetic network
- knowing how to solve a geodetic network

Course Entry Requirements:

Measurements Compensation, Ellipsoidal Geodesy

Course contents:

1. Geodetic network. Generalities. 2. The classification of geodetic networks 3. Measurements in geodetic network. Angles measuring 4. Measurements in geodetic network. Distance measuring 5. Triangulation networks. Generalities 6. Solving of the triangulation networks. The conditioned measurement method 7. Solving triangulation networks. The indirect measurement method 8. The development of geodetic networks. Generalities 9. The development of geodetic networks. Methods 10. Trilateration networks. Generalities 11. Solving of the trilateration networks 12. Poligonometric networks. Generalities 13. Solving of the poligonometric networks. Methods 14. Solving of the poligonometric networks. Particular cases

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 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