PROCESSING AND OPTIMIZATION OF GEODESIC NETWORKS

Course Code: IG4202 • Study year: IV • Academic Year: 2025-2026
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: Cosmina Mariana Cîmpean
Form of education Full-time
Form of instruction: Lecture
Number of teaching hours per semester: 56
Number of teaching hours per week: 4
Semester: Summer
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 concerning concepts specific to the processing and optimization of a geodetic networks;
- knowing how to design a geodetic network;
- knowing the categories and criteria of optimization and applying them in the design of a geodetic networks.

Course Entry Requirements:

Ellipsoidal Geodesy, National and Local Geodetic Networks 1+2, Satellite geodesy

Course contents:

  1. Generalities

  2. Design of Geodetic Networks. Principles for developing geodetic networks.

  3. Components of a Geodetic Network Project.

  4. Methods for Designing Geodetic Networks.

  5. Materialization of Geodetic Networks in the field.

  6. Processing of Geodetic Networks – General Aspects.

  7. Processing of Geodetic Networks – Methods.

  8. General Concepts of Optimization.

  9. Objective Functions and Constraints in Geodetic Network Optimization.

  10. Categories and Criteria of Optimization.

  11. Optimization of Initial Data.

  12. Optimization of Geodetic Network Configuration.

  13. Optimization of Measurements within Geodetic Networks.

  14. Examples of Optimal Elements in Geodetic Networks.

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 optimization of a geodetic networks; • 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