• JDF 701 Advanced Surveying (2 2 3) 6 ECTS

Selection of appropriate methods and equipment in measurements applications, to take advantage of modern observation and measuring equipment in surveying, GPS and application areas, GPS measurement and evaluation processes, Sensitive to measure the position and elevation measurements, calibration process for modern measurement instruments. 

• JDF 702 Computer Aided Mapping (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Basic definitions and concepts. Data design for mapping. Digital mapping procedure. Automatic digitizing, and semi-automatic digitizing. Data collecting methods for Digital mapping.

• JDF 703 Modern Surveying and Observation Equipments (2 0 2) 6 ECTS

Modern measuring instruments and equipment into the concept and this group and equipments, basic specifications, hardware selection criteria, to determine the underground location and amount of equipments,  advantage of tools and equipment areas like Ekstensometer, tiltmeter and inklinometer etc.

•  JDF 704 Subsidence Engineering (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Subsidence and subject of subsidence engineering, mining subsidence, relationship between subsidence engineering and surveying engineering, Introducing subsidence parameters, The main topics and contents of subsidence engineering, subsidence-time relationship, subsidence estimates and methods, evaluation of Our country's mining for subsidence engineering and its problems.

• JDF 705 Exceptional Mine Surveying (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Conception of measurement and measurement errors, determine to equipments and methods for measurements, movements due to mining activities on ground and underground, introduction of equipments and methods about deformation and damage on structure, measurements of Ekstensometer, tiltmeter, inclinometer piozemeter and utilization of these equipments for mining area, measurement and calculations about Underground transport system.

• JDF 706 Adjustment (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Introduction and description of adjusment. Type of matrix and calculation. Error theory and adjusment principle. Error propagation rule, weighting and root mean square. Minumum likelyhood method. Adjustment of indirect measurement. Adjustment of direct measurement. Adjustment of conditional measurement.

• JDF 707 Transformations (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Concepts of transformation, coordinate systems, hormon coordinates. Shifting, rotating and reflection. Linear and non linear similarity transformations. Affin transformations. 3D transformations, perspective transformations.

• JDF 708 Fundamental of Cadastre (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Introduction and Cadastral concept. Historical perspectives of cadastre. Property cadastre. Multipurpose cadastre. Updating of cadastre. Cadastre and Land Title relationship, cadastral information systems. Forest cadastre. Characteristic statement of forest cadastre.

• JDF 709 Geodetic Compuatation on Elipsoid (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Triangle computations on ellipsoid, Basic coordinate computations. Rectangular coordinate systems on ellipsoid. Power series for geographical and rectangular coordinates. Projecting ellipsoid on plane. Gauss-Krüger coordinate system, distance and direction corrections. Basic coordinate calculations on Gauss-Krüger coordinate system. Computation of Gauss-Krüger coordinates from geographical coordinates and vice-versa. Adjacent zone computations.

• JDF 710 Advanced Engineering Surveying (2 2 3) 6 ECTS

Work Steps in land content projects, bid files related to technical regulations and technical assessments, applications of important engineering projects however control and reliability measurements of post engineering applications, modern measuring and methods of identifying the amount about underground engineering structures, related to industrial plants to measure.

• JDF 711 Thematic Cartography (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Introduction and importance of the topic. Definition of thematic maps. Definition of thematic cartography. Creating methods for thematic maps. Classification of thematic maps depends on the topics.

• JDF 712 Special Topics in Bundle Adjustment (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Introduction and importance of the topic. Adjustment with Gauss- Markoff Model. Adjustment with Gauss- Helmert Model. Free network adjustment. 3D transformations. Afin and Helmert transformation. Collocation. GPS base model of adjustment. Numeric applications.

• JDF 713 Digital Elevation Models (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Concept of Digital elevation models and application areas. Dispersion and density type of data compilation points. roughness parameters of topography. Interpolation methods, linear interpolation, weighted arithmetic average, slippery surface interpolation.

• JDF 714 Height Determination Methods using GPS (2 2 3) 6 ECTS

Introduction and importance of the topic. Decriptions of height systems (elipsoidal, geopotential, dynamic, orthometric and practical heights). GPS observation techniques. Crucial criteria for GPS measurements for height determination. Mathematical relations between ellipsoidal and orthometric heights. Concept, definition, practical importance of geoid and geoid determination techniques. Principals of geoid determination with combinations of GPS and other leveling techniques. Numerical geoid surface modeling techniques. Numerical examples. Field work.

• JDF 715 Advanced Cadastre (2 2 3) 6 ECTS

Multipurpose cadastre. Digital cadastre and updating cadastral concepts. Cadastral Information Systems. Improving techniques of cadastre.

• JDF 717 Introduction to Global Positioning System (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Coordinate and time systems used in Satellite geodesy, computing motions and positions of satellites, Satellite signal structure, GPS observaitons, mathematical models, GPS error sources, GPS measurement techniques, Planning GPS sessions and GPS assessment techniques.

• JDF 720 Coordinate Systems in Geodesy (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Classifications of coordinate systems in Geodesy. Terrestrial coordinate systems. Celestial coordinate systems. Orbital coordinate systems. Seminar applications.

• JDF 721 Statistical Analysis Techniques (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Introduction and importance of the topic. Comparison of statistical analysis. Time series, trend, regression, correlation and multi regression. Continues dispersion and example dispersion. Methods of statistical supervision. Parametric tests. Discordant measurement tests.  

• JDF 722 Assessing Real-Estate (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Real estate, ownership and valuation concepts and importance of land valuation. Valuation legislations and methods. Determining of factors that effects value of land in valuation and unit value calculation. Valuation in privatization. Determining and updating of land valuation indexes. Instutional regulations. Producing and evaluating of land value maps. Using GIS in land valuation 

• JDF 724 Designing Geodetic Networks (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Definition and types of Geodetic Networks, measurement networks according to the type of measurement, balancing the network model, different engineering problems appropriate network design, optimization of geodetic Networks

• JDF 725 Techniques For Determining and Modeling Atmospheric Errors and Integer Ambiguity in GPS (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Error Sources of GPS, atmospheric errors, ionospheric and tropospheric errors, elimination and modeling theses errors, initial ambiguity error in GPS, techniques for resolving initial ambiguities.

• JDF 727 Deformation Analysis Using Geodetic Methods (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Introduciton and general definitions, geometric changes, caused of deformation, deformation models, deformation measuring equipments, evaluation of geodetic measurements, three-dimensional coordinate systems, establishment of balancing models, establishment of stochastic models, balancing of geodetic Networks, determination of sensitivity and reliability criteria, Static deformation analysis of geodetic Networks, general deformation model, classical deformation moded, robust deformation analysis, static deformation kinematics analysis in geodetic Networks, applications for determining of deformation due to mining, and in major dams and structures, besides applications for determining of deformation on earth surface

• JDF 729 Advanced GPS (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Introduction and importance of the topic. Coordinate systems used in GPS, error sources in GPS, Integer ambiguity resolution techniques, Tropospheric and ionospheric modeling, conversion computations between different datums, Accuracy and precision analysis.

• JDF 730 Robust Statistic Techniquies (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Introduction, general terms, robust estimation aspect, principles of robust estimation, functions used for robust estimation, breaking point aspect, outliers, sources of outliers and their effect on the least square estimations, the weighted-least square estimator, organized least square estimator, M estimator, median estimator, L1-norm method and its use for determining outliers, L1-norm solution and statistical tests, use of robust statistics in different applications, robust regrasion method, two and three dimensional transformation techniques by robust estimation, deformation analysis by robust estimation, robust estimation in geodetic networks, robust estimation in surface modelling.

• JDF 731 Project Planning and Management (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Project description, type and design stages and budget estimate issues, legal and administrative regulations, about project design and applications, project planning and management issues, Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering of applications related to project planning and management related applications.

• JDF 732 Advanced Numerical Analysis (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Concept of error Interpolation. Integration. Systems of Linear Equations. Numerical solutions of differential equations. Special functions. Fourier transform and FFT. MATLAB applications.

• JDF 736 Advanced Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

History of GIS. Information Systems. Non-Spatial information systems. Spatial information systems. Data model of GIS. Data acquisition methods for GIS. Data quality. Spatial analysis. Network analysis. Grid analysis. Statistical analysis. GIS software's information.

• JDF 737 Advanced Database Management Systems (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Description of database and applications areas. Database Management Systems (DBMS). Conceptual data models. Entity-relationship data model. Network data model. Hierarchical data model. Relational data model. Temporal databases. Database management and organization. SQL (Standart Query Language).

• JDF 738 Image Sensing Techniques (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Active and passive sensing. Optical, microwave, thermal and laser sensing techniques. Geometric, spectral and radiometric characteristics of images. Effect of imaging geometry to position information. Types of carrier platforms. Choosing receiver, proper to image usage. Applications on sample images.

• JDF 739 Advanced Techniques of Signal and Image Processing (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Introduction. Terms of analog and digital signal/image. Application areas. Relationship betweeb signal and image. Terms and formats of panchromatic and multispectral images. Transformations and filtering systems. Noise-term. Radiometric-spectral distortions and corrections. Pre-processing of signal and image. Repairing and reconsruction of image. Image enhancement techniques. Image compressing techniques.

• JDF 740 Image Interpretation Techniques (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Intoduction. Application fields. Concepts of mono-stereo images. Techniques of pixel-based and object-based image analysis. Concepts of classification. Supervised and un-supervised classification. Semi-automatic and automatic classification. Visual interpretation. Concepts and types of information contents of images. Innovation on optic, microwave and laser image interpretation. Information and data generation based on spatial analysis. Topographic mapping. DTM/DEM generation. Applications of change detection. Overwiev of non-spatial applications. Sample applications.

• JDF 741 Advanced Digital Photogrammetry (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Terms of digital photogrammetry. Analog/digital sensors and images. Analog/digital converters. Raster and vector scanning techniques. Resolution standards of digital image. Digital image matching techniques. Digital photogrammetric hardware and software. Orientation with GPS/INS. Generation of digital ortho-image. Semi- and fully automatic feature extraction and vectorisation techniques. Generation of digital surface/elevation model. 3D model generation. Sample applications.

• JDF 742 Special Applications of Photogrammetry (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Introduction, concepts and basis of photogrammetry. Special application field of photogrammetry. Close-range photogrammetry. Industrial photogrammetry. Architectural photogrammetry. Medical photogrammetry. Oblique photogrammetry. Special photogrammetric applications at small areas. Photogrammetric applications with UAV

• JDF 743 3D Modeling in Terrestrial Photogrammetry (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Terms of 2D, 2,5D and 3D. Data sources in 3D modeling. Optical, laser and geodetic data formats. 3D hardware and software. 3D modeling of different sourced data. Principles of digital mobile mapping. Sample applications.

• JDF 744 Geometric Analysis of Remote Sensing Images (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Term of geometric analysis. Image and imaging geometry. Transformation between image and ground coordinate systems. Sensor dependent and independent models. Importance of ground control points. Figure condition analysis. Bundle adjustment.

• JDF 745 Mapping from Remote Sensing Images (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Historical development of topographic mapping from remote sensing images. Importance at today and application fields. Presented potentials and limitations. Processes of mapping from images. Concepts and selection of GCPs. Othophoto generation using DEMs. Vectorization from ortho-images. 3D solid modelling using ortho-images and DEMs. Sample applications.

• JDF 746 Image Based DEM Generation (3 0 3) 6 ECTS

Digital surface/elevation/terrain model concept. Optical, microwave and laser sensing techniques. Image matching techniques in optical images and DEM production. DEM production of microwave sensing by Side Looking Radar. DEM production by Laser point cloud processing. Accuracy analyses of DEMs and comparison. Sample applications.

• JDF797 M.Sc. Seminar (0 2 0) 3 ECTS

Based on a specific topic to more than one source to make a review, the spelling rules, and an audience into a written text and presented as a community, acquired habit of discussion and mutual information transmission in the presentation

• JDF798 M.Sc. Field of Specialization (2 0 0) 15 ECTS

This is a theorical course offerred in semester, semester break and summer  terms followed by appointment of the advisor for M.Sc. students. It provides M.Sc. students to obtain scientific ethic and discipline.

•  JDF799 M.Sc. Thesis Research (0 1 0) 15 ECTS

This is a practical course offerred in year, semester, semester break and summer terms followed by appointment of the advisor for M.Sc. students.

 

Content of Courses for Geomatics Engineering PhD Program