COURSE INFORMATION FORM
Course Code and Title
T + L + P Hours
HRT 5042 Deformation Monitoring by Using GPS and Analysis
3+0/3
ECTS Credit
8
Year / Semester
First Year / Spring Semester
Course Level
Second Cycle
Course Type
Elective
Department
Geomatics Engineering
Prerequisites
Teaching Method
Face to face teaching
Period (week-hour)
14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week
Course Language
Turkish
Course Objective
Determining of movements with different deformation models by using GPS geodetic data.
Course Content
Definition of GPS deformation monitoring and history of the GPS deformation measurements,
GPS network design, Collection of GPS data, Optimization of GPS networks and accuracy
conditions, Free adjustment of GPS networks, Real time deformation monitoring of Engineering
structures, Dam deformation monitoring using GPS data, Crustal deformation monitoring using
GPS data, Landslide monitoring using GPS data, Static deformation analysis using GPS data,
Kinematic (Kalman-Filter) deformation analysis using GPS data, Geometrical and physical
interpretation of deformations.
Studies within a Semester
Number
Contribution %
Assessment System
Midterm Exam
1
30
1
10
Quiz
Homework
Attendance
Application
Total
ECTS Workload Table
2
Contribution of the Studies to the Overall Success
40
Contribution of the Final Exam to the Overall
Success
Total
60
Activity
100
Number
Duration (hour)
Total Workload (hour)
Course Duration
14
3
42
Outside Classroom Study
Duration
Homework
14
4
56
1
10
10
1
2
2
1
2
2
Presentation/Seminar
Preparation
Midterm Exam
Project
Final Exam
Total Workload (hour)
Course ECTS Credit
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
1. comprehend GPS deformation concept and will know historical evolution of GPS
deformation measurements
2. design GPS deformation networks
3. make optimization of GPS deformation networks and compute precisions provided by
deformation networks
4. adjust GPS network as free or constrained and detect outliers
5. perform static deformation analysis using GPS data and interpret results
6.
7.
Course Stream
112
8
perform kinematic deformation analysis using GPS data and interpret results
be model relationship between deformation and causative forces for dynamic deformation
analysis and interpret results
8. apply deformation models for a dam deformation monitoring, landslides monitoring, crustal
movements measurements
Weeks
Education Modules
Preliminary Studies Documents
1.
Design of GPS Networks
Lecture notes
Course resources
2.
Optimization of GPS Network
Lecture notes
Course resources
3.
Adjustment of GPS Network (Constrained) Lecture notes
Course resources
4.
Adjustment of GPS Network (Free)
Lecture notes
Course resources
5.
Lecture notes
Course resources
6.
Adjustment of RTK and TUSAGA-Aktif
measurements
Height problem in GPS network
Lecture notes
Course resources
7.
GPS Leveling
Lecture notes
Course resources
8.
Midterm Exam
9.
Significance tests for deformation values
Lecture notes
Course resources
10.
Static deformation monitoring using GPS
data
Interpretation of static deformation results
Lecture notes
Course resources
Lecture notes
Course resources
Lecture notes
Course resources
Lecture notes
Course resources
14.
Kinematic deformation monitoring using
GPS data
Interpretation of kinematic deformation
results
Various applications
Lecture notes
Course resources
15.
Various applications
Lecture notes
Course resources
11.
12.
13.
Shanlong Kuang (1996). Geodetic Network Analysis & Optimal Design: Concepts &
Applications, Ann Arbor Press, Inc. Chelsea, Michigan.
2. Gilbert Strang and Kai Borre (1997). Linear Algebra, Geodesy, and GPS. WellesleyCambridge Press.
3. Application of GPS and other space geodetic techniques to Earth Sciences, (2000), Terra
Scientific Publishing Company, Tokyo, Reprinted from Earth, Planets & Space, Vol. 52,
Nos.10 and 11.
4. Wolf, P. R., Ghilani, C. D., 1997, Ghilani: Adjustment Computation : Statistics and Least
Squares in Surveying and GIS, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-16833-5.
5. Charle D. Ghilani, Paul R. Wolf, Adjustments Computations: Spatial Data Analysis, John
Wiley and Sons Inc., ISBN 13 978 -0-471-69728, 2006.
6. Hüseyin Demirel, Dengeleme Hesabı, Y.T.Ü. İnşaat Fakültesi, Üniversite Yayın No:
YTÜ.İN.DK-05.0735, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Basım-Yayım Merkezi, İstanbul, 2005.
7. Caspary, W. F., Concepts of Network and Deformation Analysis, 1988.
Course Learning Outcomes
Department
Contribution of the
Learning Outcomes
Course
to Department Learning 1. comprehend GPS deformation concept and will know historical 1,2,5,12
Outcomes
evolution of GPS deformation measurements
2. design GPS deformation networks
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Course Sources
1.
3.
Course Coordinator(s)
4.
make optimization of GPS deformation networks and compute 1,2,5,12
precisions provided by deformation networks
adjust GPS network as free or constrained and detect outliers
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5.
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perform static deformation analysis using GPS data and interpreted
results
6. perform kinematic deformation analysis using GPS data and
interpreted results
7. be model relationship between deformation and causative forces for
dynamic deformation analysis and interpreted results
8. apply deformation models for a dam deformation monitoring,
landslides monitoring, crustal movements measurements
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Temel BAYRAK
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