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These lectures and practical exercises give the function and the range of use of satellite navigation in General and NAVSTAR-GPS in particular. The highly accurate coordinates and height determination for applications in building surveying is treated in detail.

Lecture contents:

• Methods of positioning and navigation

• Navigation satellite systems NAVSTAR, GLONASS, GALILEO and other

• Satellite and satellite orbits

• Evaluation of radio signals

• Differential GPS precise point determination, special applications

• Real time kinematics

• Ground-based and satellite-based supplementary schemes

• GPS receivers

• Applications in building surveying: Tunnelling, Pipeline construction, building construction, deformation measurements

Exercise content

Measuring exercises using handheld GPS receivers and geodetic special devices

1 Operation of handheld devices

o waypoints, routes and tracks to store and transfer to PC

o waypoints and routes from your PC onto your GPS device

o GPS evaluation software by manufacturers and Freeware

2. GIS recipients: measurement and Postprocessingcalculation

3. Forecast calculation for high-precision GPS measurements

4. GPS base line measurement and evaluation

5. RTK measurements

6. Special applications

Lecture with practical exercises in the field.

Evaluation of the measured data on the computer.

Testing mode: oral examination and elaboration of the exercises

Will be discussed in the first lesson.