GSES Graduate Courses

CIVE 6376: Physical Geodesy (3 cr)
CIVE 5380/6380: Introduction to Geomatics and Geosensing (3 cr)
CIVE 6382: Lidar Systems and Applications (3 cr)
CIVE 6384: Satellite Altimetry and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (3 cr)
CIVE 6386: Survey Measurements and Analysis (3 cr)
CIVE 6393: Geostatistics (3 cr)
CIVE 7342: Engineering Geographic Information Systems (3 cr)
CIVE 7380: GNSS/INS and Augmented Systems for Positioning and Navigation (3 cr)
CIVE 7397: Optical Imaging Metrology (3 cr)

Short Course Descriptions

CIVE 6376: Physical Geodesy
Classic potential theory; Earth's gravitational field and reference fields; gravity anomalies and disturbing potential; gravity reduction; geoid determination

CIVE 5380/6380: Introduction to Geomatics and Geosensing
Introduction to horizontal and vertical curves computations; fundamentals of geodesy, geodetic reference systems, and map projections; introduction to GPS; principles of lidar technology; digital imaging and mapping

CIVE 6382: Lidar Systems and Applications
Principles of lidar; spaceborne, airborne topographic, bathymetric, mobile terrestrial, and static lidar systems; full-waveform lidar; boresight calibration; filtering and classification; multi-sensor fusion

CIVE 6384: Satellite Altimetry and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
Radar measurement principles; range estimation and corrections; precise orbit determination; applications in geodynamics, ocean and ice surface monitoring, and hydrology; formation of SAR images; procedures of InSAR

CIVE 6386: Survey Measurements and Analysis
Introduction to matrices; non-linear equations and Taylor's theorem; random vs. systematic errors; propagation of errors; weights; principle of least squares; adjustment of 1D, 2D, and 3D networks; error ellipses; optimization

CIVE 6393: Geostatistics
Characterization of spatial and spatiotemporal datasets; random variables; probability and statistics; parameter estimation; inferential statistics; time series analysis and kriging

CIVE 7342: Engineering Geographic Information Systems
Use of GIS in engineering applications, including hydrology, hydrogeology, water quality, and environmental resources

CIVE 7380: GNSS/INS and Augmented Systems for Positioning and Navigation
Modeling INS errors by linear state equations; multi-sensor integration of GNSS, INS, and alternative aiding sensors; practical aspects of inertial positioning and inertial error models; navigation system fault detection and integrity monitoring

ECE 6337: Introduction to Stochastic Processes
Probability spaces; random variables; distributions; functions of random variables; conditioning; limit concepts; sampling; correlations and power spectral analysis; linear estimation; orthogonal projections

ECE 6342: Digital Signal Processing
Sampling theory; use of DFT/FFT; design of FIR and IIR digital filters; quantization and finite word length effects; digital signal processing hardware

ECE 6364: Digital Image Processing
Nature of images; visual effects; acquisition of images; sampling, quantization, and two-dimensional linear processing; image enhancement and restoration; image coding; texture analysis; tomography

GEOL 4332/6323: Geoscience Applications of GPS and Lidar
Fundamental issues, hardware, software, and geoscience applications of GPS and lidar; understanding errors in GPS and lidar measurements

GEOL 6324: Satellite Positioning and Geodesy
Theory of satellite-based positioning technologies and GNSS; geodetic datum definition and coordinate systems; error modeling and data processing strategies

GEOL 3383/6325: Remote Sensing
Principles of remote sensing, data collection, and digital image processing; applications in geologic, environmental, and land-use studies, with emphasis on photographic, airborne/satellite, thermal, and active systems

GEOL 6388: Geospatial Analysis & Applications
Geospatial science, methods, analysis, and applications in geosciences.