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Unit I

INTRODUCTION
Definition and application of geodetic astronomy- Spherical Trigonometry- Spherical excessCelestial sphere- definition of terms in astronomy- solution of astronomical triangle celestial coordinate systems

Unit II

CELESTIAL COORDINATE SYSTEM
Celestial coordinate system: Horizon system- Hour angle system- Right Ascension system- Ecliptic system and their inter-transformations- derivation and problems. Variation in celestial coordinates: precession- nutation and polar motion. Reduction of star position

Unit III

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Unit IV

DETERMINATION OF POSITION AND ASTRONOMIC AZIMUTH
Determination of astronomic azimuth- latitude and longitude- Azimuth by star hour angle and star altitudes- latitude by meridian zenith distance and Polaris at any hour angle- longitude by meridian transit distance

Unit V

STAR CATALOGUES AND APPLICATION OF GEODETIC ASTRONOMY
Historical and Types of Star catalogues- ephemerides – time span- observer location- target bodyalmanacs. Star almanacs for Land Surveyors – Astrometry: precise positions- angular proper motions and parallaxes of celestial sources. Application of Geodetic Astronomy: Case study.

Course Outcomes:

•On completion of the course, the student is expected to

1. Understand the principles and mathematics involved in Geodetic Astronomy
2. Summarize and relate Coordinate Systems used for Astronomical observations
3. Understand and relate various time system used in astronomy J
4. Apply astronomical observations for determination of azimuth, latitude and longitude
5. Identify the contents of Star Catalogues, Almanacs and their applications

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Unit I

HORIZONTAL CONTROL SURVEYING
Definition – Uses and Establishment of Horizontal control – Methods: Triangulation, Traversing and Trilateration – Classification and accuracy – Instruments: Theodolite, Total Station and GNSS – Field procedure for Triangulation, Traversing and Trilateration: Horizontal angle measurements methods – Base line measurement – Elimination of blunder and systematic errors – Computation of weight of observation for length and angle.

Unit II

ADJUSTMENT OF HORIZONTAL CONTROL
Introduction – simple adjustment methods – Error propagation and linearization – Least squares adjustment method for Triangulation, Traversing and Trilateration – least squares adjustment of indirect Observations – least squared adjustment of observations only.

Unit III

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Unit IV

ADJUSTMENT OF VERTICAL CONTROL
Introduction – simple adjustment methods – Error propagation and linearization – Least squares adjustment method for Level Net and Trigonometrical levelling – least squares adjustment of indirect Observations – least squared adjustment of observations only.

Unit V

COORDINATE COMPUTATION
Plane and Spherical coordinate system – Computation of plane coordinate for horizontal control point of Triangulation, Traversing and Trilateration stations – Computation of Spherical coordinate for horizontal control point of Triangulation, Traversing and Trilateration stations – Computation of bearing and length from plane coordinates – Computation of forward azimuth, backward azimuth and length from spherical- coordinates

Course Outcomes:

•On completion of the course, the student is expected to
CO 1 Apprise various methods used for horizontal control surveying and the process involved
CO 2 Develop the error identification and adjustment methods for horizontal control
CO 3 Apprise various methods used for vertical control surveying and measurement process
CO 4 Develop methods for identification of error and its adjustment
CO 5 Derive the 3-dimensional coordinates for adjusted observations

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Reference Books:

1. R. Subramanian, Surveying and Levelling, Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 2012.
2. James M. Anderson and Edward M. Mikhail, Surveying, Theory and Practice, Seventh Edition,

McGraw Hill 2001

3. Bannister and S. Raymond, Surveying, Seventh Edition, Longman 2004
4. S.K. Roy, Fundamentals of Surveying, Second Edition, Prentice’Hall of India 2004
5. K.R. Arora, Surveying Vol I & II, Standard Book house, Twelfth Edition 2013
6. C.Venkatramaiah, Textbook of Surveying, Universities Press, Second Edition, 2011

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Unit I

THE EARTH SYSTEM
Systems approach to studying Earth, climate and weather systems, mass distribution, transport and exchange in the Earth system, Impact of physical processes on the geometry and gravity of the Earth, loading theory and the sea level equation.

Unit II

OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES IN GEODESY
Geometric techniques – Total Stations, Strain meters, Tide Gauges, Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Satellite Laser Ranging, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, Satellite Altimetry (radar and laser), Interferometric SAR; Gravimetric techniques – absolute gravimetry, relative gravimetry, Satellite gravimetry – CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE.

Unit III

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Unit IV

OCEANOGRAPHIC AND CRYOSPHERIC OBSERVABLES
Sea surface topography and the mean sea level, ocean currents, ocean mass redistribution, ocean bathymetry, Sea ice thickness observations, ice mass balance, glacier thickness and drift.

Unit V

ATMOSPHERIC AND SOLID EARTH OBSERVABLES
Total precipitable water, ionospheric total electron content, atmospheric circulation and mass redistribution, Elastic, viscoelastic and episodic deformation and gravity responses to geodynamic processes like plate tectonics, Earthquakes and volcanic activity. Tsunami early warning, atmospheric / ionospheric seismology.

Course Outcomes:

•On completion of the course, the student is expected to

1. Summarize the concept of earth system and processes influencing the system
2. Explore various geodetic techniques for observation of earth system
3. Identify the observations used for measurement of tides and hydrological parameters
4. Identify the observations used for measurement of Ocean and Cryospheric parameters
5. Identify the observations used for measurement of Atmospheric and Solid earth parameters

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Unit I

INTRODUCTION
History- overview – basics of interferometry – interferometric base line – differential interferometry -phase unwrapping – correlation.

Unit II

GEODETIC INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUES
ScanSAR interferometry – solutions for baseline and source position vectors – Phase Referencing -position – frequency – Precession and Nutation – Measurement of Polar Motion and UTI

Unit III

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Unit IV

VLBI IN GEODETIC INTERFEROMETRY
Introduction- VLBI elements- techniques-space segment- propagation media- ground segmentinterferometer and interferometric principle- carrier of interferometer baseline- determination of observables- precision and analysis of group delays

Unit V

DATA ANALYSIS
Automated geodetic VLBI- antenna and receiving systems- data acquisition systems- monitoring and control systems- observations- data reduction and analysis

Course Outcomes:

•On completion of the course, the student is expected to

1. Apprehend the fundamentals of interferometry
2. Identify various interferometric techniques
3. Understand different geodetic measurements for Geodetic observations
4. Comprehend the components and working principle of VLBI
5. Summarize the methods for VLBI data analysis and reduction.

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Unit I

INTRODUCTION
Need to study gravity- historical review- research areas- applications. Potential theory: some vector calculus- attraction and potential- potential of a solid body- Laplace equation – exterior potential field-Poisson equation – interior potential field- spherical harmonics- boundary-value problems.

Unit II

GRAVITY FIELD OF THE EARTH
Gravitation- gravity- attraction of a point mass- attraction of a point mass- rigid body- gravity and shape of the Earth- level surfaces and plumb lines- natural coordinates- Normal gravity: Superposition principle- ellipsoid as an approximation of the Earth- the level ellipsoid- series expansion of the normal gravity field.

Unit III

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Unit IV

GRAVITY FIELD AND HEIGHT SYSTEMS
Statistics of the gravity field: The power spectrum- Kaula’s rule of thumb- covariance functions-Height systems: Height measurements- physical and geometric heights and their relationship- height systems around the world- Geoid as a vertical reference frame.

Unit V

TEMPORAL VARIATIONS OF THE GRAVITY FIELD
Geophysical effects on gravity- loading theory- tides- hydrological loading- atmospheric loadingocean loading- ice-mass loading- glacial isostatic adjustment.

Course Outcomes:

•On completion of the course, the student is expected to

1. Understand the physics of gravity and governing equations
2. Define gravity and surfaces generated through gravity observations
3. Identify methods and techniques for Erath’s gravity field determination
4. Acquire knowledge of earth’s gravity field parameters computations_1
5. Understand the factors affecting gravity field and their influence.

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Unit I

INTRODUCTION
Introduction to satellite geodesy- Overview of GNSS: Introduction to GPS- GLONASS- GALILEO-BIDOU- IRNSS satellite systems etc. Keplerian laws of satellite motion- geometry of ellipse and Keplerian ellipse in space- transformation of coordinates from Keplerian elements to Earth centered Earth fixed (ECEF) coordinate system- perturbed satellite motion- Lagrangian and Gaussian forms of perturbation equations- gravitational and non-gravitational perturbing forces- geodetic applications of satellite missions.

Unit II

DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES
Observables and Basic Concepts- Determination of Directions- Ranges and Range Differences (Doppler method)- Satellite Altimetry- Determination of Ranges and Range-Rates (Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking)- Interferometric Measurements- Satellites Used in Geodesy- Navigation Payload-PRARE- Planned Satellites and Missions- Electronic Ranging SECOR- Electronic observation techniques – Doppler Effect – Positioning concept – Development of TRANSIT satellites.

Unit III

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Unit IV

GPS DATA OBSERVATION
GPS observables – code and carrier phase observation. Single differencing- double differencing and triple differencing in GPS measurements. ambiguity resolution- multi path and other observational errors- doppler effect on GPS signals- cycle slip detection. GNSS observation- data downloadingprocessing and discussion of processed data. Relative positioning: Static – Rapid static and pseudo kinematic; kinematic positioning – pure kinematic- semi kinematic and real time kinematic (RTK) methods of observations. Real time network (VRS) services.

Unit V

GPS DATA PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE GEODESY
Networking- data post processing; with commercial software and scientific software. CORS – setting up of regional geodetic networks and development of regional geoid models. Geodetic control surveys- Cadastral surveying- Photogrammetry- Remote Sensing- Engineering and Monitoring GIS – Satellite Laser Ranging and Applications.

Course Outcomes:

•On completion of the course, the student is expected to

1. Recognize the factors affecting satellite motion and laws governing the motion
2. Summarize various techniques available for geodetic measurements from space
3. Understand the concepts and components of GNSS
4. Choose appropriate methods for GNSS surveying
5. Summarize various applications of Satellite Geodesy

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Reference Books:

1. Alfred Leick, GPS satellite surveying, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 4th Edition, 2015.
2. Guocheng Xu, GPS Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Springer – Verlag, Berlin, 2004

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Unit I

GEODETIC CONTROL
Horizontal control – characteristics – method and standards for triangulation, traversing, trilateration, inertial and space techniques (Doppler GPS, SLR and VLBI) – computation – problems on spherical coordinates. Vertical control – characteristics – method and standards for spirit levelling, trigonometrical levelling and space techniques – computations- national networks.

Unit II

GEODETIC COMPUTATIONS
Rectangular and Polar Co – ordinates – First and Second geodetic problem – Similarity, Affine Projective and Polynomial transformation – methods of point determinations – problems on intersection, resection, arc section and also with over determinations, polar method and its extension.

Unit III

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Unit IV

HEIGHT SYSTEMS
Geo potential number – Orthometric height, Normal height, Dynamic height and their corrections -computation of orthometric height, Ellipsoidal height and its determination with a single and reciprocal observation of vertical angle – geoidal height – methods and computation.

Unit V

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS
Crystal movements and plate motion – methods of determination of horizontal and vertical movements – dam deformation- earth tides – tidal forces, tidal response of the solid earth, tidal loading, analyzing and predicting earth tides, earth tide instrumentation – satellite altimetry -observations, computation and interpretation and application – Gravity Field Missions: satellite-to-satellite tracking – CHAMP and GRACE Satellite gravity gradiometry: GOCE.

Course Outcomes:

•On completion of the course, the student is expected to

1. Identify and relate various methods available for Horizontal and Vertical Control
2. Understand methods available for computation of coordinates of control points
3. Understand procedure for computation of azimuth, latitude, longitude by astronomical observations
4. Identify various methods to represents height and compute the same
5. Summarize various applications of geodetic observations and gravity measurements

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Reference Books:

1. Petr Vanicek and Edward J. Krakiwsky, Geodesy: The concepts, North-Holland, Publications Co., Amsterdam, 1991.
2. James R.Smith, Introduction to Geodesy, John wiley & Sons Inc. 1997
3. Tom Herring, —Geodesy = Elsevier,2009, ISBN: 0444534601
4. Schwarze, V.S. Geodesy: The challenge of the 3rd millennium, Springer verlag, 2002

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Unit I

FUNDAMENTAL OCEANOGRAPY AND COASTAL PROCESSES
Origin and formation of large water bodies – Ocean basins-Oceanic Zones -Ocean Circulations: Global thermohaline, wind driven circulations and currents – Regional Upwelling and eddy development – Waves: structure, characteristics and wave generated currents -Current meters -Tides – Coastal erosional and accretional landforms.

Unit II

SEA WATER CHARACTERISTICS AND MEASUREMENT
Heat, Light and sound transmission characteristics -Sea water chemistry – Ocean Biology – Marine food web -sea water sampling and measurement -NISKIN water sampler and DSRT -CTD profiler – CTD rosette – Bathythermograph – XBT -Sediment samplers: Dredge,GRAB and deep sea coring devices

Unit III

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Unit IV

REMOTE SENSING RETRIEVAL AND MAPPING
Ocean color remote sensing – bio-optical algorithm and SeaDAS processing – sea surface temperature estimation -sea surface topography mapping: RADAR altimetry and data processing -Sea level Anomaly – Scatterometry:Sea surface wind retrieval and mapping – Bathymetry -Bathymetric LiDAR.

Unit V

APPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
Coastal zone management :critical issues, LU/LC and wetland mapping -Coastal Regulation Zones -Potential Fishing Zone Mapping – Shoreline Change Analysis -Sea Level Rise Monitoring — Cyclone tracking and damage assessment – Tsunami early warning system and damage assessment – Use of SAR images- Ship detection – Oil spill studies.

Course Outcomes:

•On completion of the course, the student is expected to

1. Understand the basic concepts of Ocean and Coastal processes.
2. Gain knowledge on physical, chemical and biological characteristics of sea water.
3. Familiarize about coastal hydro dynamism and operational sensing systems
4. Acquire knowledge on retrieval through remote sensing methods.
5. Analyze the applicability of retrievals for solving critical issues and develop strategic management plan.

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Reference Books:

1. Robert Stewart,”Introduction to Physical Oceanography, Orange Grove Books publisher ,2009.
2. Motoyoshi Okeda and Frederic W.Dobson, ’’Oceanographic applications of Remote Sensing”, CRC Press,2005.
3. Vasilis D. Valavanis, GIS in oceanography & Fisheries, Taylor & Francis London &NewYork, 2002.
4. David Halpem,”Satellites, Oceanography and Society”,Elsevier,2000.
5. Alasdair J.Edward, Remote Sensing Handbook for Tropical Coastal Management, UNESCO publishing, 2000.
6. Karsten Mangor, Shoreline Management Guidelines, Publisher: Horsholm, DHI Water & Environment, Denmark, 2004.
7. L.S.Robinson,”Satellite Oceanography: An introduction for Oceanographers and RemoteSensing Scientists”, John Wiley and Praxis Publishing, 1995.

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