- Docente: Giorgio Spada
- Credits: 6
- SSD: GEO/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics of the Earth System (cod. 8626)
Course contents
Introduction, Foundations, Historical development, Harmonic functions, The gravity field, Movements of the Earth, reference systems, Case studies.
Readings/Bibliography
Torge W, e Müller J. Geodesy. Walter de Gruyter, 2012.
Lambeck K. Geophysical geodesy, Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.
Hofmann-Wellenhof B, e Moritz H. Physical geodesy. Springer, 2006.
Wahr J. Geodesy and Gravity (class notes), Smizdat Press, 1996.
Assessment methods
Oral exam. The student is asked to discuss three course topics. Each student can prepare and discuss one of the topics in the form of a short dissertation.
Teaching tools
Beamer, blackboard.
Office hours
See the website of Giorgio Spada