ILRS Analysis Centers
ILRS Analysis Centers fall into three categories: Analysis Centers, Lunar Analysis Centers, and Associate Analysis Centers.
Analysis Centers receive and process tracking data from one or more data centers for the purpose of producing ILRS products without interruption, at an interval and with a time lag specified by the Governing Board to meet ILRS requirements. The Analysis Centers are committed to produce Earth orientation parameters on a weekly or subweekly basis, as well as other products, such as station coordinates, on a monthly or quarterly basis. The Analysis Centers also provide a second level of quality assurance on the global data set by monitoring individual station range and time biases. At a minimum, the Analysis Centers must process the global LAGEOS-1 and LAGEOS-2 datasets and are encouraged to include other geodetic satellites in their solutions.
Lunar Analysis Centers process normal point data from the Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) stations and generate a variety of scientific products including precise lunar ephemerides, librations, and orientation parameters which provide insights into the composition and internal makeup of the Moon, its interaction with the Earth, tests of General Relativity, and Solar System ties to the International Celestial Reference Frame.
Associate Analysis Centers are organizations that produce special products not necessarily at regular intervals, such as satellite predictions, time bias information, precise orbits for special-purpose satellites, station coordinates and velocities within a certain geographic region, or scientific data products of a mission-specific nature.
(c.f. ILRS Terms of Reference sec 2.4.1 and 2.4.2)
Related Links: WWW Analysis Centers hyperlinks, ILRS Analysis Working Group Email is ilrs-awg @ lists.nasa.gov .
Analysis Centers (ACs) |
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| Center | Contact | |
| Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäesie (BKG) Germany (log) | Dr. Daniela Thaller, Dr. Maria Mareyen | Daniela.Thaller@bkg.bund.de, Maria.Mareyen@bkg.bund.de |
| Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI) Germany (log) | Horst Mueller | horst.mueller@dgfi.badw.de |
| ESA/ESOC, Germany | Dr. Tim Springer | Tim.Springer@esa.int |
| Groupe de Recherche en Géodésie Spatiale (GRGS) France (log) | Dr. Florent Deleflie | florent.deleflie@obs-azur.fr |
| Helmholtz Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany (log) | Dr. Rolf Koenig | rolf.koenig@gfz-potsdam.de |
| Italian Space Agency, Centro de Geodasia Spaziale "G. Colombo" (ASI/CGS), Italy (log) | Dr. Giuseppe Bianco | giuseppe.bianco@asi.it |
| Joint Center for Earth System Technology/Goddard Space Flight Center (JCET/GSFC) Greenbelt, Maryland, USA (log) | Dr. Erricos Pavlis | epavlis@umbc.edu |
| NERC Space Geodesy Facility (NSGF) formely RGO Satellite Laser Ranging Group, United Kingdom (log) | Dr. Graham Appleby | gapp@nerc.ac.uk |
Lunar Analysis Centers (Lunar ACs) |
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| Center | Contact | |
| Forschungseinrichting SatellitenGeodasie/Institut fuer Erdmessung (FESG/IFE) Germany | Dr. Ing. Jurgen Mueller | mueller@ife.uni-hannover.de |
| Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA | Mr. James Williams | James.G.Williams@jpl.nasa.gov |
| Paris Observatory Lunar Analysis Center, France | Dr. Sebastien Bouquillon | sebastien.bouquillon@obspm.fr |
| UT Analysis Center for LLR, Austin, Texas, USA | Dr. Peter Shelus | pjs@astro.as.utexas.edu |
Associate Analysis Centers (AACs) |
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| Center | Contact | |
| Analysis Center GRAZ, Austria | Mr. Walter Hausleitner | hausl@geomatics.tu-graz.ac.at |
| Center for Orbit Determination in Europe (CODE) Switzerland | Rolf Dach | rolf.dach@aiub.unibe.ch |
| Central Laboratory for Geodesy, Bulgaria | Ivan Georgiev | ivan@argo.bas.bg |
| Delft Institute for Earth Oriented Space Research (DEOS) The Netherlands | Ron Noomen | ron.noomen@lr.tudelft.nl |
| Forsvarets ForskningsInstitutt (FFI) Norway | Dr. Per Helge Anderson | per-helge.andersen@ffi.no |
| Hitotsubashi University, Japan | Toshimichi Otsubo | t.otsubo@srv.cc.hit-u.ac.jp |
| Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia | Dr. Iskander Gayazov | gayazov@ipa.nw.ru |
| Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia | Dr. Suriya Tatevian | statev@inasan.rssi.ru |
| Institute of Metrology for Time and Space (IMVP) Moscow | Dr. Mark Kaufman | imvp@mx.iki.rssi.ru |
| Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (GAOUA) Ukraine | Prof. Yaroslav Yatskiv | yatskiv@mao.kiev.ua |
| National Institute of Information and Communications Technology | Tadahiro Gotoh | tara@nict.go.jp |
| Newcastle University, United Kingdom | Dr. Philip Moore | Philip.Moore@ncl.ac.uk |
| Pulkovo EOP and Reference Systems Analysis Center (PERSAC) | Zinovy Malkin | malkin@gao.spb.ru |
| Russian Mission Control Centre, Moscow, Russia | Dr. Vladimir Glotov | cnss@mcc.rsa.ru |
| Shanghai, China | Mr. Hunag Cheng | hc@center.shao.ac.cn |
| Tsukuba Space Center/JAXA, Japan | Shinichi Nakamura | nakamura.shinichi@jaxa.jp |
| University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA | Dr. Richard Eanes | eanes@csr.utexas.edu |
Former AC/AAC Centers |
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| Center | Contact | |
| Geoscience Australia (formerly Australian Surveying and Land Information Group, AUSLIG) Australia (log) | Dr. Ramesh Govind | Ramesh.Govind@ga.gov.au |
