11th 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, Stephane Labrosse, Francois 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. Schleuter: IMPROVEMENTS TO LLR AND SLR BY ADAPTIVE OPTICS
  • J. Mueller; 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 Boer: 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. Koilbl: CLOCK DISTRIBUTION IN SLR STATIONS
  • J. Koilbl: 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., Schleuter 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