The Geodesy Group of Aalborg University is located at two AAU campuses in two beautiful Danish cities of Aalborg and Copenhagen. The purpose of the group is to research about theoretical and applied geodesy, and how they can be used for improving our life quality.
Teaching and Lectures with AAU Geodesy
In our taught lectures, we focus on introducing various up-to-date topics related to the theory and practice of land surveying, satellite geodesy, advanced computations, and mapping. Our programs are not only based on interactive teaching on the lectures, but we also aim to implement many field works involving surveying sensors, e.g., GNSS, total station, laser scanner, leveling, inertial, and echo-sounder instruments. We have built up our learning and teaching system based on the group’s active researches, where the students have a chance to improve their collaborative skills and maximize their potential with the support of AAU’s unique problem-based learning methods.
Research
Our research is centered around the application of surveying and satellite geodesy techniques to better understand the physical processes within the Earth System. The research topics covered in our research group includes (but not limited to): satellite geodesy-related topics of GNSS positioning, Earth System modeling, large/medium-scale hydrology, ionosphere and thermosphere modeling, data-model fusion, Calibration and Data Assimilation (C/DA), signal/signal and signal/noise separation, and data driven techniques for analysing changes in the Earth System, and land surveying.
We also work on various space based techniques and different applications such as developing software for the Single Point Positioning (SPP) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP), atmospheric delays for positioning applications, Precise Orbit Determination (POD), gravity field recovery, gravity field pre- and post-processing, network and building deformation analysis, sequential and Bayesian C/DA, statistical decomposition techniques, and water cycle modelling.
