SLR Global Performance Report Card

October 1, 2012 through November 30, 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 9847 2026 5348 17221 159103 20117 23004 202224 146650 6.0 8.2 10.0
Changchun 7237 6831 1012 4518 12361 56961 5985 12484 75430 47384 8.8 11.3 14.2
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 5897 962 952 7811 78468 7006 4211 89685 68748 3.4 6.7 9.0
Zimmerwald_532 7810 4045 833 2851 7729 62412 11670 11969 86051 67258 5.1 8.5 11.3
Wettzell 8834 3651 588 2635 6874 35436 3794 8918 48148 33017 7.1 11.3 14.1
Graz 7839 3619 555 2698 6872 65226 4651 16105 85982 48730 2.0 3.4 4.9
Matera_MLRO 7941 3295 1183 1406 5884 40023 10172 5998 56193 54438 1.2 3.3 4.0
Greenbelt 7105 4048 758 683 5489 73116 7597 2871 83584 59146 4.7 8.7 9.9
Herstmonceux 7840 2810 657 1742 5209 37581 6356 5841 49778 37703 4.2 14.8 14.4
Monument_Peak 7110 3152 657 705 4514 56937 5606 2121 64664 44565 10.8 14.3 16.4
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2543 703 495 3741 40088 6752 2874 49714 42620 6.5 11.4 12.4
San_Juan 7406 1857 467 857 3181 28819 5219 5404 39442 33830 9.1   13.0
Shanghai_2 7821 1556 342 1128 3026 13752 1680 3976 19408 12884 8.1 15.3 11.5
Grasse_MEO 7845 1149 556 1157 2862 42634 6668 4180 53482 35608 8.7 16.7 16.0
Potsdam_3 7841 2212 343 233 2788 39160 3999 1813 44972 31081 7.0 10.7 13.2
Arequipa 7403 2214 205   2419 25895 1371   27266 20578 5.8 10.4 9.6
Arkhyz 1886 790 354 659 1803 5360 1838 2403 9601 9188   9.5 10.0
Simosato 7838 1256 380 95 1731 24428 7242 730 32400 38170 4.5 6.2 9.7
Haleakala 7119 1362 359   1721 19701 3473   23174 22096 5.0 9.9 12.5
San_Fernando 7824 1631 28   1659 20810 96   20906 12144 6.7 13.3  
McDonald 7080 1007 408 223 1638 10178 3299 773 14250 16026 7.9 11.8 12.8
Altay 1879 202 148 1161 1511 2756 967 4300 8023 4772     10.9
Katzively 1893 1215 230 43 1488 17458 2106 415 19979 17316 27.2 37.9 31.5
Kiev 1824 1137 203 80 1420 9689 941 262 10892 8670 12.6    
Beijing 7249 906 154 339 1399 9671 1042 1516 12229 8883 8.9 12.7 17.9
Concepcion_847 7405 1011 270 64 1345 9742 2310 356 12408 14154 8.3 14.5 17.5
Komsomolsk 1868 55 121 1080 1256 358 554 2795 3707 1994      
Papeete 7124 639 181 365 1185 9834 1517 1657 13008 10530 7.5 8.0 8.7
Simeiz 1873 862 231 77 1170 10745 1765 421 12931 11589   11.4 13.7
Baikonur 1887 107 505 552 1164 961 4128 2045 7134 13345   16.0 10.8
Badary 1890 885 146 96 1127 8821 962 391 10174 8405   9.5 8.3
Zelenchukskya 1889 125 126 284 535 1630 1043 1272 3945 4238   13.5 10.0
Koganei 7308 234 93 118 445 3175 693 673 4541 4096 12.7 11.7 14.2
Riga 1884 346 10   356 5494 52   5546 2948      
Svetloe 1888 229 82 22 333 2182 616 107 2905 3285    .4 8.2

 

 

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 102 398 53 35.9
Matera_MLRO 7941 8 21    
McDonald 7080 10 20 6 35.1

 

 

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 4.0 15.2 1.5 99.1 2.2 7.8 1.9 100.0 3.4 20.7 3.3 99.9 2.6 15.9 3.2 97.8 2.1 12.9 1.7 91.8
Changchun 7237 4.8 20.7 4.9 99.6 2.9 20.6 3.1 100.0 3.0 26.1 3.1 99.5 2.6 16.5 10.4 98.9 3.1 31.1 9.6 93.2
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4.5 15.7 4.1 99.8 3.4 8.4 1.9 100.0 3.5 15.2 4.1 99.8 4.2 13.0 2.5 95.5 2.5 10.9 3.5 93.8
Zimmerwald_532 7810 3.0 12.2 7.4 100.0 1.5 5.1 3.1 99.9 2.0 14.5 7.4 100.0 2.6 13.1 3.1 97.4 1.8 9.3 3.7 94.6
Wettzell 8834 3.3 11.0 3.4 100.0 2.2 7.2 2.3 100.0 2.7 15.4 3.7 100.0 2.3 11.4 4.6 98.0 1.7 16.9 6.1 94.1
Graz 7839 2.6 12.3 3.7 100.0 1.1 4.7 2.0 100.0 1.6 16.8 5.3 99.2 2.1 13.3 3.6 93.1 0.7 9.2 2.7 96.3
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.8 13.7 4.5 100.0 1.2 6.1 2.3 100.0 1.8 13.2 4.4 100.0 1.6 13.1 3.7 99.7 2.1 32.1 5.0 98.2
Greenbelt 7105 3.5 13.5 6.2 99.9 1.8 7.5 2.0 99.9 2.5 13.6 3.8 99.6 2.2 17.6 8.3 98.5 1.7 11.6 2.5 92.4
Herstmonceux 7840 3.0 11.8 3.3 99.5 1.4 5.9 1.5 100.0 1.7 17.1 2.9 100.0 2.7 9.1 2.4 96.2 1.4 8.5 2.1 97.4
Monument_Peak 7110 5.7 19.0 5.0 99.9 3.4 10.3 2.2 99.9 4.5 20.2 4.7 98.6 3.8 18.1 4.0 96.1 2.5 14.6 6.7 90.6
Hartebeesthoek 7501 4.0 17.4 5.1 100.0 2.1 7.5 3.2 100.0 3.2 19.3 5.5 99.4 2.4 23.9 4.7 97.3 2.3 18.2 5.2 91.9
San_Juan 7406 8.6 46.3 33.9 99.6 4.4 29.7 16.9 99.2 6.4 38.9 8.3 97.6 6.2 26.7 9.3 96.0 5.7 35.4 10.6 91.5
Shanghai_2 7821 5.3 31.9 20.0 99.2 2.7 33.7 18.5 100.0 3.2 32.2 25.9 98.4 5.0 29.2 19.6 98.5 3.1 17.3 15.7 93.5
Grasse_MEO 7845 4.5 16.3 3.5 100.0 2.6 14.4 1.9 100.0 3.6 19.7 2.5 100.0 2.9 14.7 2.9 97.4 2.1 14.7 3.0 92.9
Potsdam_3 7841 3.6 12.6 4.4 100.0 1.7 8.3 2.9 100.0 2.5 16.2 5.5 100.0 2.2 8.6 3.2 96.0        
Arequipa 7403 5.5 21.9 11.5 99.0 2.2 28.2 18.1 99.4 4.2 29.7 21.9 97.9 3.7 16.9 8.1 92.8 2.7 16.4 8.9 88.4
Arkhyz 1886 9.3 23.6 10.4 100.0 6.7 26.5 12.4 99.8 6.1 35.1 11.3 97.5 6.6 34.6 14.8 93.1        
Simosato 7838 6.1 27.7 10.5 100.0 2.7 19.4 6.6 100.0 5.0 20.3 8.6 98.6 4.1 18.4 10.8 99.4 4.9 15.4 6.7 91.7
Haleakala 7119 6.7 15.5 8.0 99.5 3.6 12.2 2.3 99.2 5.1 16.2 5.2 98.3 5.7 20.5 13.5 97.9        
McDonald 7080 4.3 14.6 5.0 86.7 3.4 12.5 2.5 99.7 3.2 13.3 2.8 84.0 5.5 20.4 6.5 95.9 2.8 15.4 2.9 91.6
Altay 1879 25.2 55.0 17.8 100.0                 5.0 25.8 10.2 98.0        
Katzively 1893 16.4 21.8 6.5 97.7 11.8 19.8 4.7 97.6 8.9 27.2 7.0 86.0 11.0 25.8 10.6 86.9 8.2 23.1 11.9 91.4
Kiev 1824 20.6 65.1 31.2 91.0 17.5 58.6 28.2 100.0                        
Beijing 7249 11.1 15.8 8.5 98.7 10.5 25.0   100.0 5.8 16.3 8.4 93.4 5.5 22.9 14.9 95.3        
Concepcion_847 7405 6.2 31.3 14.1 99.0 1.4 50.5 11.3 100.0 9.0 55.4   90.8 2.9 37.3 14.5 99.3        
Komsomolsk 1868 11.8 49.5 25.9 97.0 3.7 38.9 18.9 100.0 6.2 46.2 30.6 100.0 4.4 43.7 22.2 100.0        
Papeete 7124 4.4 14.7 8.0 99.4 2.5 8.6 4.0 100.0 3.6 17.1 4.3 99.7 3.4 18.0 8.3 99.8 6.6 13.9 9.0 90.4
Simeiz 1873         22.2 32.9 21.8 98.6 8.1 37.1   63.4 22.5 39.4 22.7 96.3 19.2 30.3 9.4 89.7
Baikonur 1887 9.5 31.1 15.1 99.6 6.6 36.0 12.8 99.9 7.7 35.8 9.6 96.3 6.9 22.1 16.6 95.6 5.5 30.6   97.4
Badary 1890 8.7 19.6 9.5 96.4 6.7 14.5 7.8 99.8 6.1 20.7 13.3 95.6 7.0 16.0 12.3 94.5        
Zelenchukskya 1889 7.0 10.4 5.5 100.0 4.8 8.9 3.4 100.0 5.1 17.5   99.3 6.7 25.2 10.9 95.5        
Koganei 7308 36.9 57.9   100.0 7.3 52.5   99.5         6.5 39.7 35.0 97.4        
Svetloe 1888 8.1 15.0 8.5 94.8 6.5 11.3 5.5 99.2         8.1 15.8 22.1 98.1