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SLR Global Performance Report Card

November 1, 2012 through October 31, 2013

The performance report card is divided into three tables for readability. Table 1 contains performance parameters based on data volume, on-site processing statistics and operational compliance issues. Table 1 L contains information about Lunar Laser Ranging during the past year. Table 2 contains performance parameters based on various Analysis Centers' rapid orbital analysis results.

Below are the detailed descriptions of each column in Table 1 plots of the columns are linked in this description and in Table 1:

  • Column 1 is the station location name.
  • Column 2 is the monument marker number.
  • Column 3 is the LEO pass total during the past 12 months.
  • Column 4 is the LAGEOS pass total during the past 12 months.
  • Column 5 is the high satellite pass total during the past 12 months.
  • Column 6 is the pass total (i.e., all satellites) during the past 12 months.
  • Column 7 is the LEO NP total during the past 12 months.
  • Column 8 is the LAGEOS NP total during the past 12 months.
  • Column 9 is the high satellite NP total during the past 12 months.
  • Column 10 is the NP total (i.e., all satellites) during the past 12 months.
  • Column 11 is the total tracking minutes (i.e., all satellites) during the past 12 months. This is computed by the summation of the number of normal points multiplied by its bin size in minutes.
  • Column 12 is the average single-shot calibration RMS, in millimeters, during the last quarter.
  • Column 13 is the average single-shot Starlette RMS, in millimeters, during the last quarter.
  • Column 14 is the average single-shot LAGEOS RMS, in millimeters, during the last quarter.

The first entry in each table is for the performance baseline goal. Note: There are no baseline goals for NP data quantities, single shot RMS's.

Additional Notes: Blanks in any columns implies either that there was no data or that there was insufficient data. Only stations that have supplied data within the last year are included in the table. The table is sorted in descending order by total passes.

Table 1

Site Information Data Volume Data Quality
Column 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Location Station
Number
LEO pass
Tot
LAGEOS
pass Tot
High pass
Tot
Total
passes
LEO NP
Total
LAGEOS
NP Total
High NP
Total
Total
NP
Minutes of
Data
Cal.
RMS
Star
RMS
LAG
RMS
Baseline 1000 400 100 1500
Yarragadee 7090 10121 2069 5571 17761 164126 20790 24139 209055 151076 6.1 8.1 9.9
Changchun 7237 6613 942 4356 11911 55219 5438 12107 72764 44816 8.6 11.3 14.1
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 5617 896 820 7333 75648 6529 3736 85913 65826 3.5 6.8 8.9
Wettzell 8834 3792 620 2730 7142 36727 4075 9275 50077 34777 7.2 11.4 14.1
Zimmerwald_532 7810 3707 757 2653 7117 57590 10731 11238 79559 61756 5.1 8.5 11.3
Graz 7839 3564 545 2682 6791 63638 4637 16071 84346 48131 2.0 3.3 5.0
Matera_MLRO 7941 3436 1204 1488 6128 41975 10370 6408 58753 56156 1.1 3.2 3.9
Greenbelt 7105 4006 724 663 5393 72806 7136 2824 82766 57895 4.9 8.8 10.3
Herstmonceux 7840 2840 648 1694 5182 39802 6733 5971 52506 39992 3.6 14.7 14.4
Monument_Peak 7110 3118 654 700 4472 55700 5680 2129 63509 44501 11.6 14.0 17.2
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2568 693 495 3756 39883 6750 2801 49434 42482 6.0 11.3 13.8
San_Juan 7406 1991 547 964 3502 31912 6531 6405 44848 39823 8.2 12.4 11.2
Grasse_MEO 7845 1134 533 1129 2796 42522 6440 4085 53047 34830 9.2 16.0 16.0
Potsdam_3 7841 2112 323 214 2649 37618 3778 1679 43075 29477 7.2 10.7 13.0
Shanghai_2 7821 1349 293 939 2581 12085 1428 3326 16839 11241 8.5 14.7 11.3
Arequipa 7403 2179 220   2399 25734 1488   27222 20821 6.0 10.4 10.0
Haleakala 7119 1422 389   1811 21128 3718   24846 23613 5.0 9.9 13.4
McDonald 7080 1105 423 235 1763 11299 3379 832 15510 16961 7.8 11.6 12.4
San_Fernando 7824 1689 29   1718 21978 97   22075 12683 6.3 12.1  
Simosato 7838 1247 370 100 1717 24255 6913 747 31915 37496 4.6 6.3 10.1
Arkhyz 1886 736 291 589 1616 5444 1541 2302 9287 8353   11.7 11.8
Concepcion_847 7405 1061 293 53 1407 10684 2721 293 13698 16204 8.1 14.8 17.6
Kiev 1824 1105 191 87 1383 9671 899 289 10859 8522 12.1    
Beijing 7249 925 145 313 1383 10169 972 1478 12619 8995 8.2 12.6 17.7
Katzively 1893 1107 200 62 1369 17201 1964 777 19942 17248 25.9 36.4 30.8
Altay 1879 175 136 1037 1348 2613 931 3836 7380 4496     11.2
Komsomolsk 1868 58 114 1005 1177 388 544 2583 3515 1984      
Papeete 7124 618 177 378 1173 9663 1553 1706 12922 10522 7.6 8.0 8.7
Simeiz 1873 836 204 62 1102 10334 1580 360 12274 10924   11.9 13.6
Baikonur 1887 117 458 514 1089 1096 3775 2022 6893 12421   14.1 11.1
Badary 1890 770 126 80 976 7935 869 356 9160 7598   11.8 8.8
Zelenchukskya 1889 133 113 324 570 1767 931 1422 4120 3972   13.8 10.4
Riga 1884 364 11   375 5680 55   5735 3070 4.1 11.1  
Svetloe 1888 205 77 22 304 1899 586 107 2592 2983   5.6 7.1
Koganei 7308 160 54 90 304 2172 394 537 3103 2641 24.0 13.4 14.6

 

 


Below are the detailed descriptions of each column in Table 1 L:

  • the first column, L1, is the station location name.
  • the second column, L2, is the monument marker number.
  • the third column, L3, is the number of nights during the past 12 months in which there were Lunar ranging measurements
  • the fourth column, L4, is the number of Lunar Laser Ranging normal points during the past 12 months
  • the fifth column, L5, is the number of Lunar Laser Ranging normal points during the past 3 months
  • the sixth column, L6, is the average Lunar Laser Ranging normal points rms 3 months in mm

 

Table 1 L

Site Information
Data Information
Column L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6
Location Station
Number
num nights tracking
last 12 mon
num npt
last 12 mon
num npts
last 3 mon
ave npt rms
last 3 mon
Grasse_MEO 7845 102 399 100 33.5
Matera_MLRO 7941 10 25 3 44.3
McDonald 7080 10 21 12 39.3

 


 

Below are the detailed descriptions of each column in Table 2:

  • the first column is the station location name.
  • the second column is the monument marker number.
  • following columns are in grouped by analysis center with four columns for each
    • the first AC column is the average LAGEOS normal point RMS, in millimeters, during the last quarter
    • the second AC column is the measure of short term bias stability, in millimeters, during the last quarter. The short term stability is computed as the standard deviation about the mean of the pass-by-pass range biases (minimum number of passes in quarter is 10)
    • the third AC column is the measure of long term bias stability, in millimeters, during the past year. The long term stability is the standard deviation of the monthly range bias estimates. A station must have tracked LAGEOS (1,2) in at least 8 of the last 12 months in order to compute this metric.
    • the fourth AC column is the percentage of LAGEOS normal points that were accepted in the analysis.

The first entry in each table is for the performance baseline goal.

Additional Notes: Blanks in any columns implies either that there was no data or that there was insufficient data. Only stations that have supplied data within the last year are included in the table. The table is sorted in descending order by total data volume.

 

Table 2

Site Information DGFI Orbital Analysis Hitotsubashi Univ.
Orbital Analysis
JCET
Orbital Analysis
MCC Orbital Analysis SHAO Orbital Analysis
Station
Location
Station
Number
LAG
NP
RMS
(mm)
short
term
(mm)
long
term
(mm)
%
good
LAG.
NP
LAG
NP
RMS
(mm)
short
term
(mm)
long
term
(mm)
%
good
LAG.
NP
LAG
NP
RMS
(mm)
short
term
(mm)
long
term
(mm)
%
good
LAG.
NP
LAG
NP
RMS
(mm)
short
term
(mm)
long
term
(mm)
%
good
LAG.
NP
LAG
NP
RMS
(mm)
short
term
(mm)
long
term
(mm)
%
good
LAG.
NP
Baseline 10.0 20.0 10.0 95 10.0 20.0 10.0 95 10.0 20.0 10.0 95 10.0 20.0 10.0 95 10.0 20.0 10.0 95
Yarragadee 7090 3.9 14.7 1.7 99.1 2.1 7.8 1.8 100.0 3.4 18.5 2.9 99.9 2.6 15.7 2.8 98.4 2.0 12.8 1.6 91.9
Changchun 7237 4.2 23.7 4.4 99.6 2.8 22.2 3.0 99.9 3.1 27.0 2.8 99.7 2.7 24.9 10.8 98.1 3.0 33.4 9.8 92.7
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4.5 14.3 4.1 99.8 3.3 8.3 2.0 100.0 3.6 13.7 3.8 99.9 4.4 13.3 3.2 95.6 2.6 11.7 3.6 93.9
Wettzell 8834 3.4 11.7 3.5 100.0 2.3 7.9 2.0 100.0 2.7 13.8 3.8 100.0 2.5 11.7 4.5 96.9 1.5 13.7 5.4 94.3
Zimmerwald_532 7810 3.0 11.6 7.8 99.9 1.5 5.6 3.3 99.8 2.1 11.8 7.7 100.0 2.7 14.4 3.2 97.9 1.6 9.2 3.9 95.3
Graz 7839 2.6 12.1 3.7 100.0 1.0 4.1 1.7 100.0 1.9 12.6 5.0 100.0 1.9 12.7 3.6 95.1 0.8 9.3 2.5 96.3
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.7 11.6 4.7 99.9 1.2 6.3 2.3 100.0 1.9 12.6 4.5 100.0 1.6 13.5 3.7 99.5 2.1 31.8 4.1 97.5
Greenbelt 7105 4.2 13.6 6.3 99.9 1.9 6.6 2.2 99.7 2.8 10.4 3.9 99.3 2.2 18.0 5.0 97.6 2.3 10.8 3.3 90.6
Herstmonceux 7840 2.8 10.7 3.3 99.5 1.3 5.7 1.5 100.0 1.7 13.1 2.8 100.0 2.6 8.8 2.6 96.7 1.4 9.8 2.1 97.0
Monument_Peak 7110 5.9 18.0 5.1 99.7 3.6 11.1 2.0 99.7 5.0 19.8 4.8 98.3 3.6 16.9 4.0 95.2 2.8 14.2 5.8 90.7
Hartebeesthoek 7501 4.5 18.4 5.0 99.9 2.6 8.1 3.3 99.9 3.6 18.9 5.4 99.1 3.1 23.7 5.2 96.7 2.3 18.6 5.4 91.8
San_Juan 7406 9.9 42.7 8.5 99.4 4.6 29.7 10.7 98.8 6.5 37.0 7.9 93.0 6.1 27.5 9.0 95.5 5.4 34.8 10.1 92.2
Grasse_MEO 7845 4.3 13.8 3.4 100.0 2.6 11.1 2.7 100.0 3.6 16.4 2.5 100.0 3.1 13.1 3.2 97.1 2.2 14.8 2.8 94.4
Potsdam_3 7841 3.7 10.5 4.2 100.0 1.7 7.5 2.5 100.0 2.6 11.9 5.3 100.0 2.3 8.3 3.2 95.3        
Shanghai_2 7821 7.8 43.1 20.4 99.4 3.8 44.2 18.4 100.0 4.1 47.5 24.6 93.3 5.3 44.1 17.9 97.2 2.8 28.3 16.1 94.9
Arequipa 7403 6.2 26.1 11.5 99.6 2.3 25.0 18.0 99.3 5.0 27.2 21.5 98.2 3.2 16.4 7.2 94.5 3.5 16.4 7.3 90.6
Haleakala 7119 6.9 20.0 9.0 98.6 3.4 11.7 2.7 98.5 5.1 15.0 4.9 98.4 5.9 23.7 14.3 97.4 5.5 41.1 20.0 91.2
McDonald 7080 4.9 14.7 5.2 87.0 3.4 11.5 2.6 99.5 3.8 11.5 2.9 82.1 6.7 22.6 6.9 94.5 3.0 11.0 3.9 98.0
Simosato 7838 6.4 29.2 11.0 100.0 2.9 19.6 6.9 99.8 5.8 21.7 8.4 98.1 4.4 18.8 11.4 99.2 5.2 16.4 6.0 92.5
Arkhyz 1886 9.1 22.3 10.5 100.0 6.6 26.0 13.0 99.7 6.5 29.1 11.4 96.3 6.9 28.9 14.4 92.9        
Concepcion_847 7405 8.0 37.5 11.5 98.9 1.4 49.5 11.3 100.0 10.5 51.7   88.4 2.7 35.2 14.0 99.2        
Kiev 1824 20.4 52.0 22.8 84.6 12.1 54.1 23.3 90.3 5.1 28.5 14.9 39.6 1627.5 47.2 42.2 89.6        
Beijing 7249 10.3 18.5 9.4 99.3 11.8 20.7   100.0 5.9 18.1 8.7 94.3 5.3 25.4 16.6 95.0        
Katzively 1893 16.0 17.5 5.9 98.2 11.2 15.6 3.5 98.5 9.2 24.3 6.2 87.0 11.0 17.4 10.4 88.3 8.8 20.2 12.3 91.7
Altay 1879 25.7 51.9 17.2 100.0                 4.6 23.3 7.7 98.6        
Komsomolsk 1868 12.0 52.3 25.9 96.4 3.4 39.9 18.5 100.0 6.0 42.6 28.5 100.0 3.3 47.2 22.4 99.2        
Papeete 7124 4.6 15.4 7.9 99.4 2.4 8.1 4.0 100.0 3.8 15.2 4.2 99.6 3.5 18.2 8.4 100.0 5.6 15.0 8.5 87.6
Simeiz 1873         24.3 32.5 22.8 98.6 7.3 37.0   58.0 24.4 40.3 24.6 95.4 20.0 28.4 9.9 87.9
Baikonur 1887 9.5 31.2 17.1 99.6 6.7 34.0 10.6 100.0 8.3 34.6 19.2 95.4 7.0 19.8 17.0 96.1        
Badary 1890 7.7 13.8 9.2 95.8 6.5 12.4 8.0 99.7 6.9 23.0   97.9 6.3 16.9 22.3 94.3        
Zelenchukskya 1889 6.4 11.2 5.7 100.0 4.6 8.6 3.2 100.0 4.8 18.8   99.0 7.3 19.1 11.2 98.0        
Svetloe 1888 8.5 16.2 8.8 94.0 6.8 13.9 5.6 100.0