- to know the types and methods of navigation, the general provisions of the satellite navigation, equipment and satellite navigation systems, their structures and components, system of time and coordinates of navigation systems, the order of formulating and solving the navigation problems;
- be able to apply tools and satellite navigation systems, produce a determination of the limitations and the selection of navigation equipment, to use the navigation receivers, to use the modern software packages for processing navigation information;
- understand the basic directions of development of satellite navigation and prospects of practical application of navigation equipment.

Satellite geodesy,
Higher Geodesy.

Milestones of navigation. Navigation in human life. The types and methods of navigation. The general provisions of the satellite navigation. Principles for determining the transmission time the signal and the receiver positions. The current state of satellite navigation. General principles of operation of satellite navigation systems. Stages of creation of satellite navigation systems. Elements of satellite navigation systems. The general principle of navigation systems. The navigation task. The global satellite navigation system. The system of GPS NAVSTAR. The system GLONASS.

1. Jean-Marie Zogg. [PDF]Osnovy sputnikovoy navigatsii (GPS), glushilka.narod.ru/Jam/gps.
2. Yatsenkov V.S. [PDF]Osnovy sputnikovoy navigatsii, gps.rv.ua/down/o-18.html.
3. YU.I. Liberman. [PDF]Primeneniye sputnikovykh navigatsionnykh sistem, www.twirpx.com/file/684038/.

written reports by laboratory work, oral examination, test (30%);
final control (70 %, control measure, exam), written-oral form (70%).