Special Reports

• ILRS input to the 2009 IAG Travaux
• Satellite Laser Ranging and Rules of the Road for the International Laser Ranging Service (PDF), M. Pearlman, presentation to the PNT Advisory Board, May 2009
• Satellite Laser Ranging Station Review Committee Report, Joint NASA-CNES Review Committee, October 2008
• Report of the TLS (Terrestrial Laser Scanner) Workshop, NASA GSFC, September 08-10, 2008
• Posters at the 16th International Worskshop on Laser Ranging, Poznan, Poland, October 2008:
  • C. Noll, "SLR, GNSS, VLBI and DORIS Networks: ILRS+IGS+IVS+IDS" (PDF poster | 5 Mbytes)
  • C. Noll, "Satellite Laser Ranging Tracking through the Years" (PDF poster | 3.7 Mbytes)
  • C. Noll, M. Torrence, "ILRS Web Site Update" (PDF poster | 4 Mbytes)
• Belmont Report, GSFC Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics workshop report, February 1994, on the contribution of SLR to meeting current scientific requirements and evaluate opportunities for improved cost effectiveness
• Historical Summary of SLR Technology, Programs, and Accomplishments
• SLR Review Commitee Report, formed by Miriam Baltuck, Chief of Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Branch at NASA HQ
• EUROLAS Workshop: Detecting and eliminating errors in the EUROLAS network
• Japanese GUTS system and MOBLAS-7 2003 collocation review (MS Word document courtesy of HTSI/Tom Oldham)
• A Brief History of Satellite Laser Ranging: 1964 – present (A GSFC Perspective) (PDF Presentation), J. McGarry, 694 branch meeting, April 2005.
• Co-Location and Local Tie Information at the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) (PDF paper), Carey Noll at IERS Workshop on Co-Location Survey, Matera, Italy October 23-24, 2003
• Summary (PDF) and presentations (PDF | 6.5 Mbytes) from the Retroreflector Array Meeting held on April 06, 2006 during the EGU in Vienna Austria
• GGOS Ground Networks and Communications Working Group Meeting summary (PDF) and presentations (PDF | 6.5 Mbytes) held on April 06, 2006 during EGU in Vienna Austria
• Articles by John Degnan
  • Satellite Laser Ranging: Current Status and Future Prospects (PDF format, approximately 4.33Mb)
  • Thirty Years of Satellite Laser Ranging (PDF format, approximately 2.38Mb)
  • Millimeter Accuracy Satellite Laser Ranging: A Review (PDF format, approximately 5.12Mb)
  • Asyncronous Laser Transponders for Precise Interplanetary Ranging and Time Transfer (PDF format, approximately 700Kb)
  • The History and Future of Satellite Laser Ranging (PDF format, approximately 2.3Mb), presented at the Korean SLR Workshop, March 8-9, 2006 Seoul, South Korea
• Reports by David Arnold:
  • Arnold, David A., "Optical and Infrared Transfer Function of the LAGEOS Retroreflector Array", Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, May 1978.
  • Arnold, D.A., "Calculation of retroreflector array transfer functions". Final Tech. Rep., NASA Grant NGR 09-015-196; NASA Cr-130696, December, 1972.
  • Arnold, D.A., Thorp, J.M., "Timing (epoch)". In SAO ISAGEX Experience. I. Data Acquisition, ed. by E.M. Gaposchkin, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, pp. 29-30, May, 1972.
  • Arnold, D.A., "Optical transfer function of NTS-1 reflector array". Tech. Rep. RTOP 161-05-02, NASA Grant NGR 09-015-002, Suppl. No. 57, October, 1974.
  • Arnold, D.A., "Optical transfer function of Starlette retroreflector array". Tech. Rep., RTOP 161-05-02, NASA Grant NGR 09-015-002, Suppl. No. 57, February, 1975.
  • Arnold, D.A., "Optical and infrared transfer function of the Geos 3 retro-reflector array". Tech. Rep., RTOP 161-05-02, NASA Grant NGR 09-015-002, Suppl. No. 57, October, 1975.
  • Arnold, D.A, "Optical and infrared transfer function of the Lageos retroreflector array". Tech. Rep., RTOP 161-05-02, NASA Grant NGR 09-015-002, Suppl. No. 57, May 1978.
  • Arnold, D.A., "Method of calculating retroreflector-array transfer functions". Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Special Report No. 382, 165 pp., 1979.
  • Arnold, D.A., Dobrowolny, M., "Transmission-line model of the interaction of a long metal wire with the ionosphere". Radio Science vol. 15, No. 6, November-December, 1980.
  • Arnold, D.A., "The Behavior of Long Tethers in Space". The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 35, No. 1, January-March, 1987.
  • Arnold, D., "Retroreflector Array Transfer Functions", Presentation to 13th International Workshop on Laser Ranging, Washington, DC, USA, October 7-11, 2002.
  • Arnold, D., "Velocity Aberration (Poster Summary)", Presentation to 13th International Workshop on Laser Ranging, Washington, DC, USA, October 7-11, 2002.
  • Arnold, D., "Wavelength Dependence of Range Correction", Presentation to 13th International Workshop on Laser Ranging, Washington, DC, USA, October 7-11, 2002.
  • Arnold, D., G. Appleby, "Lageos' Asymmetric Reflectivity", 14th International Laser Ranging Workshop, San Fernando, Spain, June 7-11, 2004.
  • Arnold, D., G. Kirchner, F. Koidl, "Identifying Single Retro Tracks with a 2 Khz SLR System-Simulations and Actual Results", 14th International Laser Ranging Workshop, San Fernando, Spain, June 7-11, 2004.
  • Arnold, D., "Retroreflector studies", 15th International Laser Ranging Workshop, Canberra, Australia, Oct. 15-20, 2006.

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