In this course students will explores techniques for analyzing geographic data to identify patterns, relationships, and trends across space. It covers tools like Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial statistics to solve real-world problems in fields such as urban planning, environmental management, and public health. The course combines theoretical concepts with practical applications, enabling students to visualize and interpret spatial data effectively.
- Teacher: Musa Mokhtar
- Teacher: Awadelgeed Mohamed
- Teacher: Mohamed Gorani
- Teacher: Hassan Altaj
Physical Geodesy (3, 2, 2)
Theory of earth gravity field, Newtonian gravitation, gravity observations. Gravity reductions. Earth rotation. Elements from potential theory, vector calculus, Gauss divergence, Green’s theorems, boundary value problems. Laplace and Poisson equations, solutions in spherical harmonic and Fourier series. Legendre functions. Methods of gravimetric geoid determination, isostasy. Geoid determination, Stokes’s formula, Mathematical models of gravity estimation. Gravity networks and gravity maps. Geometrical geodesy and the rotation of the Earth. Satellite altimetry and gradiometry. Tidal variations in gravity and the physical deformations of the Earth due to the tides. Height systems.
Geoid Determination: Astrogeodetic Levelling, gravimetric geoid, leveling from space, local and global geoids. Prediction techniques for geoid determination. Fast Fourier transforms. Use of heterogeneous data sets and noise propagation. Applications to gravity prediction, geoid determination, deflection estimation, satellite altimetry and airborne gravimetry and gradiometry. Vertical positioning and height systems.
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Theory of earth gravity field, Newtonian gravitation, gravity observations. Gravity reductions. Earth rotation. Elements from potential theory, vector calculus, Gauss divergence, Green’s theorems, boundary value problems. Laplace and Poisson equations, solutions in spherical harmonic and Fourier series. Legendre functions. Methods of gravimetric geoid determination, isostasy. Geoid determination, Stokes’s formula, Mathematical models of gravity estimation. Gravity networks and gravity maps. Geometrical geodesy and the rotation of the Earth. Satellite altimetry and gradiometry. Tidal variations in gravity and the physical deformations of the Earth due to the tides. Height systems.
Geoid Determination: Astrogeodetic Levelling, gravimetric geoid, leveling from space, local and global geoids. Prediction techniques for geoid determination. Fast Fourier transforms. Use of heterogeneous data sets and noise propagation. Applications to gravity prediction, geoid determination, deflection estimation, satellite altimetry and airborne gravimetry and gradiometry. Vertical positioning and height systems.
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- Teacher: Kamal Abdellatif