COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SEMANTIC GIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GIS 6011 SEMANTIC GIS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR VAHAP TECIM

Offered to

Geographical Information Systems (Non-Thesis) (English)
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ENGLISH)
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ENGLISH)
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM) (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

Positioning is the determination of where we are on earth. Navigation, on the other hand, is the determination of where we should go. These two where questions have long occupied
the mind of mankind from ancient times. In early times basic astronomic devices and methods were used to determine the position. Stars and the sun were the greatest helpers to navigate in
the open sea. Artificial satellites have been considered as important tools for positioning and navigation in the following years after the Sputnik s launch in 1957. The world s first spacebased
positioning system is the Global Positioning System (GPS) and its first satellite was launched into its orbit in 1978. In the second half of the 80s military and science community
began to use GPS for positioning, surveying, determination of earth surface deformations, etc. The GPS was declared operational in 1995 and since then continuous positioning has been
possible 24 hours a day. Another positioning and navigation systems are the Russia s GLONASS, EU s Galileo, China s Beidou and Japan s QZSS. All positioning and navigation
systems have one common name: Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The operating concepts and methods are similar for all systems despite their different names. This course
aims to teach students tools and methods for achieving positioning and navigation with the help of GNSS.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To identify components of a Global Navigation Satellite Systems
2   To recognize different receiver types and differentiate between different observation types.
3   To collect observations in the field in different environments
4   Students will be able to categorize among observation errors which can be eliminated, reduced, modeled.
5   Students will identify absolute and relative positioning concepts.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Introduction Motivation History of satellite positioning Overview of the literature
2 2. Coordinate and time systems 2.1 Terrestrial Reference Systems/Frames (TRS/TRF) 2.2 Celestial Reference Systems/Frames (CRS/CRF) 2.3 Times: Sidereal, Universal, Atomic, Ephemeris, Dynamical, Terrestrial Time
3 3. Satellite motion and fundamentals of GNSS 3.1 Satellite orbit description: Keplerian and perturbed motion 3.2 Orbit determination 3.3 Orbit dissemination: GNSS navigation message and International GNSS Service (IGS) precise orbit
4 4. GNSS space and user segments 4.1 GPS, GLONASS and GALILEO satellites 4.2 GNSS receivers 4.3 Examples of receivers
5 5. GNSS observations 5.1 Code observations 5.2 Carrier phase observations
6 6. GNSS error sources 6.1 Orbit and clock errors 6.2 Atmospheric effects 6.3 Multipath 6.4 Receiver system errors
7 Field work: Data acquisition
8 8. GNSS data analysis I 8.1 Data preprocessing 8.2 Absolute positioning 8.3 Relative positioning
9 Mid-term exam
10 10 GNSS data analysis II 10.1 Linear combination of observations 10.2 Ambiguity resolution 10.3 Adjustment of observations
11 11. Statistics for GNSS 11.1 Accuracy of GNSS observations 11.2 Accuracy measures for GNSS solution
12 12. Coordinate and datum transformations 12.1 Coordinate transformation 12.2 Datum transformation
13 13. Project Week 1 Land applications 13.1 Observation planning 13.2 Control and cadastral survey
14 13. Project Week 2 Land applications 13.3 Real Time Kinematic (RTK) survey 13.4 Network-RTK 13.5 Wireless positioning applications

Recomended or Required Reading

TEXTBOOK
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite Systems:
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and more
B. Hofmann-Wellenhof, H. Lichtenegger, E. Wasle
Springer, New York, 2008.
REFERENCE BOOKS
Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice
B. Hofmann-Wellenhof, H. Lichtenegger, H., and J. Collins
Springer, New York, 2001.
Intelligent Positioning: GIS-GPS Unification
G. Taylor G. Blewitt
Wiley, 2006.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentations and assignments.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 5 3 15
Design Project 1 15 15
Reading 5 5 25
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 172

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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