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- Session 00: Introduction and invited talks
- Session 01: Strategies and priorities for laser ranging
- Session 02: Progress in laser ranging analysis
- Session 03: Co-locations and other intra- and inter- technique calibrations
- Session 04: Current trends in lunar ranging
- Session 05: Automation of laser ranging systems
- Session 06: Understanding and addressing SLR station systematics
- Session 07: Advances in laser ranging technology and new applications
- Session 08: Advances in retroreflector arrays and their modeling
- Session 09: Interplanetary ranging and time transfer
- Session 10: SLR tracking of space debris
- Closing Session
- Posters
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Monday, October 10 | |||||||
Session 00: Introduction and invited talks | |||||||
09:00 - | 09:30 | Introduction | |||||
09:30 - | 09:45 | ILRS Overview | |||||
09:45 - | 10:00 | The Role of GGOS, Robert Heinkelmann/GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences | |||||
10:00 - | 10:30 | Reference Frames for science and society and the fundamental contribution of Satellite Laser Ranging to the ITRF (Invited) - Zuheir Altamimi/IGN, Paris | |||||
10:30 - | 11:00 | Laser Ranging Contributions to Earth Rotation Studies (Invited) - Richard Gross/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena | |||||
11:00 - | 11:30 | Coffee Break | |||||
Session 01: Strategies and priorities for laser ranging | |||||||
Chairs: M. Pearlman, C. Noll, V. Shargorodsky, P. Bianco | |||||||
11:30 - | 11:45 | Strategies and Priorities for Laser Ranging - Michael Pearlman/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | |||||
11:45 - | 12:00 | Methods for coordinate and time data collection in the laser station "Tochka" - Sergey Martynov/Precision Systems Instruments, Moscow | |||||
12:00 - | 12:15 | Multi-satellite tracking at SGF Herstmonceux - Rob Sherwood/SGF Herstmonceux, Hailsham | |||||
12:15 - | 12:30 | NASA SLR Network scheduling and considerations for improvement - David McCormick/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt | |||||
12:30 - | 12:45 | Yarragadee SLR station (MOBLAS-5) scheduling and optimal tracking strategies - Randall Carman/Geoscience, Australia | |||||
12:45 - | 13:00 | Simulation of realistic SLR observations to optimize tracking scenarios - Florian Andritsch/University Berne | |||||
13:00 - | 13:15 | Satellite laser ranging network: Where should a new station be placed? - Toshimichi Otsubo/Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo | |||||
13:15 - | 13:20 | Poster Session 1 Brief | |||||
13:20 - | 14:15 | Lunch | |||||
Session 02: Progress in laser ranging analysis | Chairs: E. Pavlis, C. Luceri, M. Bloßfeld | ||||||
14:15 - | 14:45 | Contribution of consistent laser observations to Earth system sciences - Mathis Bloßfeld/DGFI TUM | |||||
14:45 - | 15:00 | Reconciling Estimates of Annual Geocenter Motion from Space Geodesy - John C Ries/ Center for Space Research, Austin | |||||
15:00 - | 15:15 | Accuracy of adopted centre of mass corrections for the Etalon geodetic satellites - José Rodríguez/BGS Space Geodesy Facility | |||||
15:15 - | 15:30 | SLR parameter estimation under the influence of mass redistributions - Matthias Weigelt/BKG, Frankfurt | |||||
15:30 - | 15:50 | A new general model for the evolution of the Spin vector of the two LAGEOS satellites and LARES and the LARASE research program - Lucchesi D.M./INFN and INAF/IAPS, Rome | |||||
15:50 - | 16:20 | Coffee break | |||||
16:20 - | 18:00 | Poster Session: Addendum posters to the oral sessions(8) Poster Session: General topics in laser ranging (23) |
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18:00 - | 21:00 | Ice Breaker Event | |||||
Tuesday, October 11 | |||||||
08:00 - | 09:00 | Registration | |||||
09:00 - | 09:30 | Ranging the GNSS Constellation (Invited) - Urs Hugentobler/Technical University Munich | |||||
Session 03: Co-locations and other intra- and inter- technique calibrations | |||||||
Chairs: J. Long, J. Eckl, U. Schreiber | |||||||
09:30 - | 09:45 | The current state of ground surveys - Sten Bergstrand/SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden | |||||
09:45 - | 10:00 | Systematic Bias Elimination by Co-locations as well as by Intra- and Inter- Technique Closure Measurements - Ulrich Schreiber/Technical University Bad Koetzting | |||||
10:00 - | 10:15 | Multi-Technique Ground Target - Jan Kodet/Technical University Munich | |||||
10:15 - | 10:30 | NASA's Next Generation Space Geodesy Co-located Sites - Stephen Merkowitz/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt | |||||
10:30 - | 10:45 | SGSLR Site Preparation and Deployment Plans for the First Set of SGSLR Systems - Scott Wetzel/Honeywell, Lanham | |||||
10:45 - | 11:00 | New face of the Borowiec Satellite Laser Ranging Station - Pawel Lejba/Space Research Center, Kornik | |||||
11:00 - | 11:30 | Coffee break | |||||
Session 04: Current trends in lunar ranging | |||||||
Chairs: L. Combrinck, J.-M. Torre, H. Noda | |||||||
11:30 - | 11:45 | Timing Calibration of the APOLLO Experiment - James Battat/Wellesley College | |||||
11:45 - | 12:00 | Lunar laser ranging In Infrared - Clement Courde/Geoazur, Caussols | |||||
12:00 - | 12:15 | Geopositioning and precision validation of landing locations on the Moon using LRO NAC images and LRRRs - B. Liu/Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing | |||||
12:15 - | 12:30 | Determining parameters of the Moon's orbital and rotational motion from LLR observations using GRAIL and IERS-recommended models - Vladimir Suvorkin/Institute Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg | |||||
12:30 - | 12:45 | Update of the IfE LLR analysis model and new fit of relativistic parameters - Franz Hofmann/Institut f. Erdmessung, Hannover | |||||
12:45 - | 13:00 | New results for the INPOP lunar ephemerides : new modelings for the inner structure and IR LLR data - Agnes Fienga/CNRS Geoazur, Valbonne | |||||
13:00 - | 13:15 | Parameters of new version of Lunar Ephemeris EPM2015 at the base of LLR observations 1970-2016 years - Yagudina E./Institute Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg | |||||
13:15 - | 13:20 | Poster Session 2 Brief | |||||
13:20 - | 14:20 | Lunch | |||||
14:20 - | 14:30 | Clinic intro in main auditorium and move to 1st clinic station | |||||
14:30 - | 14:55 | Clinic session 1 of 6 | |||||
14:55 - | 15:20 | Clinic session 2 of 6 | |||||
15:20 - | 15:45 | Clinic session 3 of 6 | |||||
15:45 - | 16:15 | Coffee Break | |||||
16:15 - | 16:45 | Poster Session - ILRS mission posters (10) Clinic Session 4 of 6 |
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16:45 - | 17:10 | Clinic Session 5 of 6 | |||||
17:10 - | 17:35 | Clinic Session 6 of 6 | |||||
17:35 - | 17:45 | Clinic Summary in auditorium | |||||
18:30 | Missions Committee Meeting | ||||||
Wednesday, October 12 | |||||||
08:00 - | 09:00 | Networks and Engineering Committe Meeting | |||||
09:00 - | 09:30 | The contributions of Satellite Laser Ranging to Satellite Altimetry (Invited) - Frank Lemoine/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt | |||||
Session 05: Automation of laser ranging systems | |||||||
Chairs: Ch. Moore, P. Lauber, J. McGarry | |||||||
09:30 - | 09:45 | Trials and limits of automation: Experiences from the Zimmerwald well characterized and fully automated SLR-system - Pierre Lauber/University Berne | |||||
09:45 - | 10:00 | Current status of automation of the SLRsystems at the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell - A. Neidhardt/FESG, TU of Munich | |||||
10:00 - | 10:15 | Autonomous tracking with High Repetition Rate Systems - Stefan Riepl/BKG, Bad Koetzting | |||||
10:15 - | 10:30 | Towards optimal pass scheduling for SLR - Jens Steinborn/DiGOS Potsdam GmbH | |||||
10:30 - | 10:40 | Designing NASA's Next Generation SLR stations with the goal of full automation - Jan McGarry/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt | |||||
10:40 - | 10:50 | Progress on the multifunctional range receiver for SGSLR - John Degnan/Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham | |||||
10:50 - | 11:00 | An upgraded SGSLR link analysis which includes the effects of atmospheric scintillation and target speckle - John Degnan/Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham | |||||
11:00 - | 11:30 | Coffee break | |||||
Session 06: Understanding and addressing SLR station systematics | |||||||
Chairs: T. Otsubo, M. Wilkinson, I. Prochazka | |||||||
11:30 - | 11:50 | Systematics at the SGF, Herstmonceux - Matthew Wilkinson/Space Geodesy Facility, Hailsham | |||||
11:50 - | 12:05 | Identification and calibration of one-way systematic biases in SLR system - Ivan Prochazka/Czech Technical University | |||||
12:05 - | 12:15 | New external calibration target on 1824 - Mykhaylo Medvedskyy/Main Astronomical Observatory, Kiev | |||||
12:15 - | 12:25 | Improvements of Changchun SLR Station - Xue Dong/Changchun Observatory | |||||
12:25 - | 12:40 | Assessing and enforcing single-photon returns: Poisson filtering - José Rodríguez/BGS Space Geodesy Facility | |||||
12:40 - | 12:45 | Detection of various SLR systematic errors for mm accuracy - Toshimichi Otsubo/Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo | |||||
12:45 - | 12:55 | Quality control and bias analysis at DGFI-TUM - Horst Müller/DGFI-TUM, Munich | |||||
12:55 - | 13:00 | JCET Station Performance Assessment Tools for the ILRS Stations - Erricos C. Pavlis/Center Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore | |||||
13:00 - | 14:00 | Lunch break | |||||
14:00 - | 14:15 | Assessment of systematic error estimation - Vincenza Luceri/e-GEOS S.p.A., Matera | |||||
14:15 - | 14:30 | Ranging error determination using geodetic satellites in support of altimeter mission precise orbit determination - Franck Reinquin CNES/GRGS, Toulouse | |||||
14:30 - | 14:45 | SLR signature effect for Galileo with a focus on satellites launched into incorrect orbital planes - Krzysztof Sosnica/Wroclaw University | |||||
15:15 - | 14:45 | Bus transfer to boat trip | |||||
16:00 | Boat trip | ||||||
Thursday, October 13 | |||||||
09:00 - | 09:30 | On the principles of satellite-based Gravity Field Determination with special focus on the Satellite Laser Ranging technique (Invited) - Christoph Förste/GFZ, Potsdam | |||||
Session 07: Advances in laser ranging technology and new applications | |||||||
Chairs: F. Koidl, Z. Zhongping, E. Hoffman | |||||||
09:30 - | 09:50 | Optical metrology in space geodesy - Ulrich Schreiber/Technical University, Bad Koetzting | |||||
09:50 - | 10:05 | The Gimbal and Telescope Assembly for NASA's Next Generation Space Geodesy SLR Systems - H. Donovan/NASA SGSLR, Lanham | |||||
10:05 - | 10:20 | SGSLR Range Control Electronics Design and Implementation - Evan Hoffman/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt | |||||
10:20 - | 10:35 | 1064nm Laser Ranging Experiment using Superconducting nanowire single photon detector at Kunming SLR Station - Honglin Fu/Yunnan Observatories | |||||
10:35 - | 10:45 | Advances in laser ranging technology at CTU in Prague and new SLR applications - Ivan Prochazka/Czech Technical University | |||||
10:45 - | 11:00 | The Impact of Single Photon SLR Technology on Large Scale Topo-Bathymetric Mapping - John Degnan/Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham | |||||
11:00 - | 11:30 | Coffee break | |||||
11:30 - | 11:45 | Recent achievements in mono-static, high repetition rate ranging at the WLRS - Johann Eckl/BKG, Bad Koetzting | |||||
11:45 - | 12:00 | Tracking up to geostationary satellites with 15uJ laser and 70cm standard astronomical telescope - Peiyuan Wang/Austrian Academy of Sciences | |||||
12:00 - | 12:15 | Concept of a modular, multi-laser, multi-purpose SLR station - Georg Kirchner/Austrian Academy of Sciences | |||||
12:15 - | 12:30 | The Italian Ministry of Research's Project 'Laser Ranging to Galileo' - L. Porcelli/INFN-LNF, Frascati | |||||
12:30 - | 12:45 | Monolithic high energy picosecond laser sources for laser ranging applications - Andreas Boerner/InnoLas Laser GmbH, Krailling | |||||
12:45 - | 13:00 | Satellite Laser Ranging with a fibre-based transmitter - Daniel Hampf/DLR, Stuttgart | |||||
13:00 - | 13:15 | Advanced Solid State Lasers for Space Tracking - Yue Gao/EOS and SERC, Canberra | |||||
13:15 - | 13:20 | Poster Session 3 - Brief | |||||
13:20 - | 14:15 | Lunch break | |||||
Session 08: Advances in retroreflector arrays and their modeling | |||||||
Chairs: L. Grunwaldt, A. Sokolov, S. Wetzel | |||||||
14:15 - | 14:30 | Reducing the satellite contribution to range error - John J. Degnan/Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham | |||||
14:30 - | 14:45 | LAGEOS-2 and Circular Polarization - David Arnold/Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | |||||
14:45 - | 15:00 | Preliminary results of the laser ranging space experiment of spacecraft «Lomonosov» - A.L. Sokolov/JSC Res. Prod., Moscow | |||||
15:00 - | 15:15 | Optical Tests of a Large Number of Small COTS Cubes - Ludwig Grunwaldt/GFZ, Potsdam | |||||
15:15 - | 15:30 | Current Status of Next Generation Retroreflector for Lunar Laser Ranging - Douglas Currie/University Maryland | |||||
15:30 - | 15:45 | Large corner-cube retroreflector and laser ranging for Chang'e-4 relay satellite - Hsien-Chi Yeh/School Physics Astronomy, Guangzhou | |||||
15:45 - | 16:00 | On-Orbit Calibration of Laser Beam Intensity - B. Greene/SERC and EOS, Weston Creek | |||||
16:00 - | 16:30 | Coffee break | |||||
Session 09: Interplanetary ranging and time transfer | |||||||
Chairs: J. Degnan, P. Exertier, A. Schlichtl | |||||||
16:30 - | 16:45 | Testing Fundamental Physics with Clocks in Space: The ACES Mission - U. Schreiber/Technical University, Bad Koetzting | |||||
16:45 - | 17:00 | Status of the ELT data center - Schlicht, A./Technical University, Munich | |||||
17:00 - | 17:15 | The Project and plan of ground-satellite Laser Time Transfer in China - Wendong Meng/Shanghai Astronomical Observatory | |||||
17:15 - | 17:30 | The Moon and Mars as Laser-ranged Test Bodies for General Relativity - Simone Dell'Agnello/INFN-LNF, Frascati | |||||
17:30 - | 17:45 | Laser link experiment between Hayabusa2 laser altimeter and SLR stations - Hirotomo Noda/National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka | |||||
17:45 - | 18:00 | Can Planetary SLR Measure the Expansion of the Solar System? - David E Smith/Massachusetts Institute Technology | |||||
18:00 | Poster Session - ILRS station posters (22) Transponder Committee Meeting |
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Friday, October 14 | |||||||
08:00 - | 08:30 | Space Debris Committee Meeting | |||||
08:30 - | 09:00 | Relativity and Fundamental Physics (Invited) - Sergei Kopeikin/University of Missouri | |||||
Session 10: SLR tracking of space debris | |||||||
Chairs: G. Kirchner, T. Flohrer, J. Bennett | |||||||
09:00 - | 09:15 | ESA activities on satellite laser ranging to non-cooperative objects - T. Flohrer/ESA, Darmstadt | |||||
09:15 - | 09:30 | The scientific results of the optional laser tracking campaigns to the defunct satellites Envisat and Topex - Daniel Kucharski/SERC, Weston Creek | |||||
09:30 - | 09:45 | Stare and chase of space debris targets using real-time derived pointing data - Michael Steindorfer/Space Research Institute, Graz | |||||
09:45 - | 10:00 | Application of adaptive optics in Space Debris tracking - Francis Bennet/Australian National University | |||||
10:00 - | 10:15 | Two-color and multistatic space debris laser tracking - Fabian Sproll/Institute Technical Physics, Stuttgart | |||||
10:15 - | 10:30 | Validation and assessment of space debris orbits based on two-color and multi-static laser tracking data - Christoph Bamann/Technical University, Munich | |||||
10:30 - | 10:45 | Coffee break | |||||
10:45 - | 11:00 | A 53cm-binoculars telescope high-frequency debris laser ranging system - Haitao Zhang/Yunnan Observatories, Kunming | |||||
11:00 - | 11:30 | Orbit Determination and Conversion Processes at the Space Debris Office - Quirin Funke/ESA, Darmstadt | |||||
11:30 - | 11:45 | A method for sampling debris laser ranging data to generate range rates for orbit determination - James Bennett/SERC and EOS, Weston Creek | |||||
11:45 - | 12:00 | Orbit Determination of CZ-2C Rocket bodies with SLR - Liang Zhipeng/Changchun Observatory | |||||
Closing Session | |||||||
12:00 - | 13:00 | Summary Session (60 min) | |||||
13:00 - | 14:00 | Lunch break | |||||
14:00 - | 15:00 | Summary Session (60 min) Workshop resolutions |
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15:00 - | 15:10 | Clinic Summary (10 min) | |||||
15:10 - | 16:10 | Plenary/Business Mtg. (60 min) |
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16:10 | End of the meeting |
85 presentation abstracts
88 presentations
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11 papers of 56 posters