Eleventh International Workshop on Laser Ranging Instrumentation

Deggendorf, Germany
September 21-25, 1998

Space Geodetic Technologies (invited papers only)

Jan Kouba, Gerhard Beutler, Ruth Neilan: COORDINATION OF INTERNATIONAL GPS SERVICE (IGS) ANALYSIS
R. Biancale, G. Tavernier: THE DORIS SYSTEM
Frank Flechtner, Klaus Enninghorst, Jean-Claude Raimondo: THE PERFORMANCE OF PRARE ON ERS-2 AND THE USE OF SLR DATA FOR PRARE RANGE CALIBRATION AND COORDINATE
James Campbell, Axel Nothnagel: ON THE SYNERGISM OF VLBI AND SLR/LLR
Peter Dunn, Mark Torrence, David Smith, Ron Kolenkiewicz: THE RELATIONSHIP OF LASER RANGING TO OTHER SPACE TECHNIQUES

Scientific Achievments, Applications and future Requirements in Space Geodesy

R. Devoti, V. Luceri, P. Rutigliano, C. Sciarretta, G. Bianco: SECULAR DRIFTS OF LOW DEGREE_ZONALS OBTAINED FROM SLR GEODETIC SATELLITES
R. Eanes: TIME DEPENDENT GRAVITY EFFECTS
S.Klosko: SLR CONTRIBUTIONS TO DETERMINING THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD AND ITS VARIATIONS
P. Schwintzer, R. Koenig, Ch. Reigber, L. Grunwaldt, R. Neubert: CHAMP MISSION CHARACTERISTICS AND BENEFITS FROM SLR
Mark Torrence: REALIZATION OF THE EGM96 REFERENCE FRAME
E.Pavlis: REALIZATION OF THE EGM96 REFERENCE FRAME ITALIAN US LASER MISSION
A.Novotny: HUMAN FACTOR AS IMPORTANT PHENOMENON OF GLOBAL SLR NETWORK

Data Analysis and Models

W. R. Dick, M. Mareyen, M. Meinig, K. Oppitz, B. Richter: THE CONSISTENCY OF THE GLOBAL SLR NETWORK
V.Glotov, V.Metrikas, S.Revnivykh, N.Parkhomenko: ANALYSIS OF THE WESTPAC SATELLITE ORBITAL PARAMETERS AND MEASUREMENT ACCURACY
Richard S. Hujsak, G. Charmaine Gilbreath: GPS SEQUENTIAL ORBIT DETERMINATION USING SPARSE SLR DATA
R. Koenig, Z. Chen, P. Schwintzer, Ch. Reigber, R. Biancale: THE CONTRIBUTION OF GFZ-1, DIADEME-1C, AND DIADEME-1D SLR DATA TO GRAVITY FIELD RECOVERY
Toshimichi OTSUBO, Yasuhiro KOYAMA: GLOBAL COORDINATES OF KEYSTONE STATIONS DERIVED FROM SLR AND VLBI OBSERVATION
Judit G. Ries, Peter J. Shelus: ANOTHER APPROACH TO LUNAR DATA ANALYSIS: THE APPLICATION OF BAYESIAN STATISTICS
M. Rutkowska, R. Noomen: RANGE BIASES AND STATION POSITIONS ANALYSIS FOR NETWORK SOLUTIONS DERIVED FROM SLR DATA IN THE PERIOD 1993-1995
John Seago, et. al.: ENHANCEMENTS TOWARD ROBUST NORMAL POINT GENERATION

New or Upgraded Stations

G. Bianco M. Selden, M. Bieneman C. Clarke, D. McClure, K. Mogan, D. Moon, B. Nallappa, T. Oldham, R. Sala, R. Stringfellow: MLRO SYSTEM PROGRESS REPORT
M. Cech, K. Hamal, H. Jelinkova, A. Novotny, I. Prochazka,Y.E.Helali, M.Y.Tawadros: UPGRADING OF THE HELWAN LASER STATION 1997-98
Olivier Charade, Alain Bonneville, Stéphane Labrosse, François Barlier, John Bosworth, Miriam Baltuck, Jean Louis Counil: THE NEW TAHITI GEODETIC OBSERVATORY
K.Elango, P.Soma, K.Rameshchandra, S. Rangarajan: SITE SELECTION CRITERIA FOR LOCATING LASER STATION AT ISTRAC CAMPUS, BANGALORE, INDIA
G. Charmaine Gilbreath: SATELLITE LASER RANGING CAMPAIGNS FROM NRL@STARFIRE: AN OVERVIEW
K.Hamal, I.Prochazka: PICO EVENT TIMER BASED SLR STATION UPGRADE
J. Nicolas,P. Exertier,P. Bonnefond, F. Pierron and the Grasse SLR group: FIRST RESULTS WITH THE FRENCH TRANSPORTABLE LASER RANGING STATION
Matti Paunonen: THE NEW SATELLITE LASER RANGING SYSTEM OF METSAHOVI
F.Pierron, J.Nicolas and the Grasse SLR group: STATUS AND NEW CAPABILITIES OF THE FTLRS
(FRENCH TRANSPORTABLE LASER SYSTEM)
Randall L. Ricklefs, Dan Nugent, Jan L. F. McGarry: LINUX-BASED ON-SITE DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEMS
V.Shargorodsky, V.Vasiliev: TOWARDS A REALLY A PORTABLE SLR STATION
V.Shargorodsky, V.Burmistrov, Yu. Roy, M.Baryshnikov, V.Vasiliev: A NEW RUSSIAN SLR STATION NEAR MOWCOW: PURPOSE AND DESIGN FEATURES
Guo Tangyong: NEW SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR SLR SYSTEM
Guo Tangyong, Xia Zizhong, Ye Wenwei, Li Cuixia, Cai Qinfu, Tan Yecun , He Sihau, Liu Hangang: CMONOC TRANSPORTABLE SLR SYSTEM
M. Y. Tawadros: HELWAN SATELLITE LASER STATION FOR OBSERVING ARTIFICAL EARTH SATELLITES
YANG FuMin, TAN DeTong, HUANG Cheng, ZHAO You, FAN ChunBo, GUO TangYong, XIA hiZhong, WU Bin, JIANG ChongGuo, FENG HeSheng: STATUS AND PLANS OF CHINESE SLR NETWORK
Xia Zhizhong: THE COLLOCATION OBSERVATION RESULTS USING SLR AND GPS TECHNIQUES AT A TLRS STATION IN CHINA
Zhao You, Fan Cun-bo, Gong Yan, Liu Cheng-zhi, Liu Zhi, Shi Jian-yong Han Xing-wei, Zhang Xing-hua, Cheng Hai-yan, Jing Hong-ling, Cui Dou-xing: THE UPGRADE OF CHANGCHUN SLR
J.Bartoszak, E.Butkiewicz, S.Schillak: STATUS REPORT OF THE BOROWIEC SLR 1997-1998
A.AL-Ghamdi: SALRO SYSTEM UPGRADES AND FUTURE PLAN

Lunar Laser Ranging

K. Nordtvedt: OPTIMIZING THE OBSERVATION SCHEDULE IN LLR AND SIMILAR EXPERIMENTS.
St. Riepl, U. Schreiber, W. Schlüter: IMPROVEMENTS TO LLR AND SLR BY ADAPTIVE OPTICS
J. Müller; K. Nordtvedt, M. Schneider, D.Vokrouhlick: IMPROVED DETERMINATION OF RELATIVISTIC QUANTITIES FROM LLR
Mangin Jean-Francois;Ferandy Dominique;Furia Maurice;Glentzlin Monique;Journet Alain;Torre Jean-Marie;Vigouroux Ge'rard: When Dream and Reality meet ...

Target Design, Signature and Biases

Mark A. Davis, G. Charmaine Gilbreath, Peter Rolsma, James Georges, Gregg Snyder. Richard Eichinger: NRL@SOR SLR OBSERVATION VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES USING LAGEOS
James A. Georges, G. Charmaine Gilbreath, Peter Rolsma: DEVELOPMENT OF A LASER RANGING TARGET OPTIMIZ ED FOR LEO SPACECRAFT
R. Neubert, L. Grunwaldt, J. Neubert: THE RETRO REFLECTOR FOR THE CHAMP SATELLITE:FINAL DESIGN AND REALIZATION
V.Shargorodsky, V.Vasiliev, B.Greene, H.Kunimori: THE WESTPAC SATELLITE Project
V.Shargorodsky, V.Burmistrov, N.Parkhomenko, V.Vasiliev: THE WESTPAC SATELLITE DESIGN FEATURES AND FIRST RESULTS OF IST RETURN SIGNAL ANALYSIS
V.Shargorodsky, V.Burmistrov, N.Parkhomenko, V.Vasiliev: RETROREFLECTOR ARRAY ON BOARD OF THE ZEYA SATELLITE:
V.Vasiliev, I.Gashkin, M.Belov, V.Shargorodsky: A NEW APPROACH TO A SUBMILLIMETER ACCURACY SLR TARGET DESIGN

Atmospheric correction and Multiwavelength Ranging

POSTER: Jiang Hu: Comparison of Atmospheric Density Models in Precision Orbit Determination of Satellite Starlette
POSTER: Souilhac D., Billerey D.: H2-RAMAN-SHIFTING OF THE 512 NM DOUBLED FREQUENCY ND:YAG LASER FOR MULTIPLE LASER RANGING APPLICATIONS
POSTER: Souilhac D., Billerey D.: RADAR AND APPLICATIONS OF LIDARS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REMOTE SENSING
OVERVIEW OF PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF LASER G.M.Appleby and A.T. Sinclair: VALIDATION OF ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION MODEL FOR HERSTMONCEUX USING IN SITU RADIOS ONDE DATA.
B. Greene, Y. Gao, W. Bane: ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION AND MULTIWAVELENGTH RANGING
G. Bianco, M. Selden, M. Bieneman C. Clarke, D. McClure, K. Mogan, D. Moon, B. Nallappa, T. Oldham, R. Sala, R. Stringfellow: TWO-COLOR RANGING UPGRADE FOR THE MLRO SYSTEM
Armin Böer: TIGO - SLR 2 COLOR RANGING; OVERVIEW - FIRST RESULTS
Ivan Prochazka et al.: MULTICOLOR MEASUREMENTS / WITH SPAD / WITH PPET

Advanced Systems

John J. Degnan: SLR2000 PROJECT: ENGINEERING OVERVIEW AND STATUS
Titterton P., Sweeney, H., Leonard D.: SYSTEM/USAGE IMPACT OF OPERATING THE SLR2000 AT 2 KHZ
Ben Greene: SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR) DESIGN FOR ANTARCTICA
W. Gurtner, E., Pop, E., Utzinger J.: AUTOMATION AND REMOTE CONTROL OF THE ZIMMERWALD SLR STATION
G.Bianco M.Selden,M.Bieneman C. Clarke, D. McClure, K. Mogan, D. Moon, B. Nallappa,T.Oldham R. Sala, R. Stringfellow: MLRO SYSTEM PROGRESS REPORT
I.Prochazka, K.Hamal, S.M.Pershin: SPAD DETECTOR FOR LASER RANGING ON MARS SURFACE

Detectors and Filters

B Greene, L Dahl, W Bane: RANGE MEASUREMENT PERFORMANCE OF EOS SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR) SYSTEMS EMPLOYING SIMULTANEOUS APD AND MCP-PMT DETECTION SYSTEMS
Schreiber U., Haufe K.H.: TIMEWALK IN AVALANCHE PHOTO DIODES
I.Prochazka, K.Hamal, J.Blazej: MILLIMETER RANGING AND ECHO SIGNAL STRENGTH MONITORING WITH SPAD DETECTORS
G. Kirchner, F. Koidl, I. Prochazka, K. Hamal: SPAD TIME WALK COMPENSATION AND RETURN ENERGY DEPENDENT RANGING
Souilhac D., Billerey D.: DESIGN STUDY OF AN INFRARED ACOUSTOOPTIC IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER WITH INFRAREC FIBER PROBE COUPLING
POSTER: Souilhac D., Billerey D.: DESIGN STUDY OF A FIBER INTERFEROMETRIC SENSOR AND A SAGNAC FIBER OPTIC SENSOR

Laser Technology Development

John J. Degnan, John J. Zayhowski: SLR2000 MICROLASER PERFORMANCE: THEORY VS EXPERIMENTS
Howard Donovan: EMERGING SAFETY STANDARDS OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE AND THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE OUTDOOR USE OF LASERS
B .Greene, Y. Gao, Y. Wang, M. Lederer: DIODE PUMPED PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASER OSCILLATOR FOR SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR):
Maßmann F., Haase A., Voss, H.: THE SPEKTRUM AMG D LASER AN INNOVATIVE SYSTEM FOR LASER RANGING
Souilhac, D., Billerey D.: THE HIGH POWER CO2 LASER AMPLIFIER FOR LONG RANGE RADAR AND CO2 LASER DIAL EXPERIMENTS
Souilhac D., Billerey D.: TWO WAVELENGTHS SOLID STATE LASER FOR THE LASER RANGING STATION

Timing Devices and Calibration

POSTER: P Gibbs, G Appleby: THE STANFORD SR620 TIMER AS A POSSIBLE SOURCE OF RANGE BIAS
B. Greene: TIMING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE IN KEYSTONE (KSP) CLASS SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR) SYSTEMS
Futaba Katsuo, Toshimichi Otsubo, Jun Amagai and Hideyuki Nojiri: A NEW CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE FOR THE TELESCOPE REFERENCE POINT AND THE SYSTEM DELAY.
J. Kölbl: CLOCK DISTRIBUTION IN SLR STATIONS
J. Kölbl: FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS FOR TIMING CALIBRATION
P. Lemonde, Ph. Laurent, E. Simon, G. Santarelli, A. Clairon, N. Dimarcq, C. Audoin, P. Petit, L. Bernier, G. Busca, E. Samain, C. Salomon: ATOMIC CLOCK ENSEMBLE IN SPACE ON BOARD THE SPACE STATION
POSTER: Qing Zhong: LINEARITY OF HP5370X TIME INTERVAL COUNTERS

Automation and Control Systems

Roger Wood: IMPROVING ORBIT PREDICTIONS
Brion Conklin: FULLY AUTOMATED ACQUISITION SYSTEM
Baustert G., Koenig, R.: LOW FLYER ACQUISITION DATA: SOME STRATEGIES AND PROBLEMS
Wang Tanqiang, Guo Tangyong, Liu Nailing: THE REAL TIME PROCESSING OF TRACKING DEVIATIONS FOR SLR TRACKING CONTROL SYSTEM
Gong XiangDong, HUANG Li and YANG FuMin: MULTI SATELLITE ALTERNATE TRACKING AND CONTROL SYSTEM
R.L.Ricklefs,D.Nugent,J.McGarry:
LINUX-BASED ON-SITE DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEMS
POSTER: Cui Dou-xing: A NUMERICAL METHOD FOR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
POSTER: Jack Cheek, Anthony Mallama, Nick Ton, Jan McGarry: SLR2000 PSEUDO-OPERATOR
POSTER: Brion Conklin, Anthony Mann, Mahtab Sadeghighassami, Jan McGarry:
SLR2000 DATA ANALYSIS COMPUTER
POSTER: Randall L. Ricklefs, Jan McGarry: SLR2000 REMOTE ACCESS TERMINAL
Jan McGarry, Jack Cheek, Anthony Mallama, Nick Ton, Brion Conklin, Anthony Mann, Mahtab Sadeghighassami, Mike Perry, Randall L. Ricklefs: SLR2000 AUTOMATED SYSTEM CONTROL SOFTWARE
B Greene, J Cotter, C Moore, A Loeff, I Fras, P Burns, H Kunimori, T Gotoh: KEYSTONE (KSP) CLASS AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR) SYSTEMS

Station Performance Evaluation / Quality Control

M. Pearlman: INTRODUCTION
Van Husson: SLR GLOBAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Van Husson: SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MONITORING 2000
I.Prochazka: DIFFERENTIAL SATELLITE LASER RANGING SLR SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS TOOL
S.Schillak: ANALYSIS OF QUALITY OF THE BOROWIEC SATELLITE LASER RANGING SYSTEM
G.M. Appleby, W. Hausleitner, A.T. Sinclair: RAPID QUALITY CHECKS ON LAGEOS DATA FROM THE EUROLAS STATIONS
Toshimichi OTSUBO: QUICK BIAS REPORT FOR LAGEOS AND AJISAI DATA
Peter Dunn, Mark Torrence: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF GEODETIC SLR STATIONS
G.J. Ourensma, R. Noomen: QUICK-LOOK ANALYSIS AT DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
Vladimir Glotov, Vladimir Mitrikas, Natalie Abylchatova: THE OPERATIONAL PROCEDURE OF THE SLR DATA QUALITY ANALYSIS IN MCC
R. Eanes, R. Pastor: ASSESSING THE OF ACCURACY OF SATELLITE LASER RANGING DATA

New Applicaitons and Techniques

Schreiber U., Stedman G.E., Schneider M., Schlüter W.: CHARACTERISTICS OF A RING LASER FOR GEODESY
POSTER: Olivier Bock: FIRST AIRCRAFT EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OBTAINED WITH THE WAALRS
B. Greene, L. Dahl. Y.Gao. C. Cochran: EYE SAFE LASER DETECTION OF AIRCRAFT: APPLICATIONS IN SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR)
Paul W. Schumacher, G. Charmaine Gilbreath, Edward D. Lydick, Mark A. Davis: PRECISION OF SATLLITE LASER RANGING BASED CALIBRATION OF THE NAVAL SPACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
Toshimichi OTSUBO, Jun AMAGAI, Hiroo KUNIMORI: MEASURING AJISAI'S SPIN MOTION
POSTER: M.Leonardi: A POSSIBLE USE OF AJISAI MIRRORS FOR TWO-WAY LASER SYNCHRONISATION.
Samaine Etienne:
THE TIME TRANSFER BY LASER LINK (T2L2) EXPERIMENT
John J. Degnan, Jan McGarry, Phil Dabney, Thomas Zagwodzki: BREADBOARD INTERPLANETARY LASER TRANSPONDER DESIGN AND TEST OF A

Special Topics (invited papers)

Kenneth Nordtvedt: SCIENTIFIC PROSPECTS FOR INTERPLANETARY (TRANSPONDED) LASER RANGING.
ROBERT F. C. VESSOT: HIGH ACCURACY TIME KEEPING FROM SPACE
S. Nerem: GRAVITY MODELS DEVELOPED FROM GEOPHYSICS
W. Gurtner: SYNERGY OF SLR WITH MICROWAVE TECHNIQUE FOR ORBIT DETERMINATION
R.Buzelis,J.Kosenko,E.Murauskas-EKSPLA K.Lapushka-AI UI : Q-SWITCHED SBS-COMPRESSED ND.YAG LASER FOR SATELLITE RANGING
Yu.Artyukh,V.Bespal'ko,K.Lapushka,ARybakov,V.Vedin University of Latvia : Selective Time Interval Counter for SLR Applications
S.Tatevian,O.Bayuk Institut of Astronomy,RAS: Optimum Planning of LAGEOS Laser Ranging for Geodynamic Programs
The NRL LEO Retro-Array for Satllite Laser Ranging

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Eleventh International Workshop on Laser Ranging Instrumentation

Deggendorf, Germany September 21-25, 1998

Deggendorf, Germany
September 21-25, 1998