SLR Global Performance Report Card

November 1, 2014 through October 31, 2015

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 14171 2760 7207 24138 269653 23335 25470 318458 180017 5.6 7.9 9.4
Changchun 7237 10057 1261 6699 18017 84849 6965 18465 110279 56233 5.0 8.6 11.6
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 7143 1414 3433 11990 103900 12727 14273 130900 91939 3.5 5.6 7.8
Greenbelt 7105 6204 1173 1655 9032 121600 11096 5700 138396 82286 4.0 7.4 10.1
Herstmonceux 7840 3865 855 3082 7802 52176 8130 9923 70229 45513 3.5 9.1 12.8
Matera_MLRO 7941 3434 1398 2951 7783 39488 11947 11132 62567 60365 1.1 2.6 4.5
Monument_Peak 7110 5030 908 1198 7136 93194 7593 3564 104351 61571 4.7 7.4 9.5
Graz 7839 3509 613 2705 6827 65756 3789 12896 82441 43493 2.1 4.5 5.1
Zimmerwald_532 7810 3786 658 2242 6686 62588 7548 17209 87345 52896 5.9 8.8 11.5
Wettzell 8834 2852 316 2269 5437 25710 2099 9309 37118 21209 7.2 11.5 14.5
Shanghai_2 7821 1899 374 1947 4220 14926 2464 8220 25610 15306 8.0 11.9 8.4
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2537 705 584 3826 42359 6860 3329 52548 42546 7.2 18.1 19.3
Badary 1890 3006 343 443 3792 33766 2345 1492 37603 22349   33.5 34.9
Potsdam_3 7841 2952 340 332 3624 50390 3477 2218 56085 33503 7.4 10.6 12.0
San_Fernando 7824 2426 252 45 2723 25605 1281 139 27025 15719 8.0 15.2 29.4
Altay 1879 383 248 2077 2708 3396 1374 8089 12859 6841   31.9 30.1
Arequipa 7403 2326 196   2522 26231 1171   27402 18735 6.0 10.0 9.8
Komsomolsk 1868 140 181 1763 2084 1385 1017 6609 9011 4174   32.1 29.9
Svetloe 1888 1071 431 480 1982 12503 4196 1363 18062 19529   30.1 30.7
Beijing 7249 930 225 789 1944 10133 1665 3321 15119 10082      
Arkhyz 1886 396 242 1220 1858 2345 959 4567 7871 4489   34.4 37.6
Katzively 1893 1654 182   1836 16836 1107   17943 11872 26.0 8.3 12.5
Haleakala 7119 1321 415   1736 18821 4540   23361 23467 5.5 8.9 11.2
Simeiz 1873 1333 229 112 1674 15535 1473 522 17530 11394   10.6 10.9
Zelenchukskya 1889 648 266 753 1667 6211 2652 2258 11121 11620   23.6 32.7
Papeete 7124 769 232 532 1533 12711 2063 2014 16788 13031 8.0 8.2 9.5
Simosato 7838 842 258 21 1121 15954 4183 160 20297 23034 6.6 9.7 15.8
Brasilia 7407 13 273 825 1111 53 899 3104 4056 2711 28.3   26.2
Kiev 1824 868 160 5 1033 5389 745 16 6150 5164 11.7 21.6 22.3
McDonald 7080 553 203 201 957 5213 1659 600 7472 8125      
Irkutsk 1891 77 250 618 945 994 2948 1974 5916 9708   30.1 33.2
Grasse_MEO 7845 350 303 115 768 15066 4230 508 19804 17790 11.3   17.4
Baikonur 1887 43 243 425 711 241 1415 1332 2988 4456   33.4 33.5
Mendeleevo 1874 165 123 399 687 2732 1720 1268 5720 6612   28.5 33.9
Daedoek 7359 55 6 11 72 771 35 73 879 637      
San_Juan 7406 35 10 14 59 593 112 95 800 659      
San_Juan 7406 35 10 14 59 593 112 95 800 659      

 

 

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 111 364 34 36.9
Matera_MLRO 7941 9 20    
McDonald 7080 1 2    

 

 

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 3 months
    • the second AC column is the measure of short term bias stability, in millimeters, during the last 3 months. 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 the last 3 months 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 21.0 2.8 99.9 2.2 7.3 1.9 100.0 2.7 17.1 2.4 99.5 2.6 20.2 2.7 97.6 2.1 11.8 1.1 91.6
Changchun 7237 5.7 27.8 4.7 99.8 4.8 26.2 6.1 99.9 2.1 29.7 7.2 97.4 5.5 32.1 15.2 94.8        
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 3.8 18.6 3.3 99.6 2.8 8.9 1.9 100.0 2.1 13.8 3.4 99.5 2.9 13.5 11.7 97.5 1.8 12.6 3.8 95.4
Greenbelt 7105 3.6 15.3 3.2 99.8 2.0 6.9 2.2 99.8 2.2 12.7 3.7 99.3 2.2 17.1 3.9 98.2 2.2 10.0 2.9 92.5
Herstmonceux 7840 2.1 13.4 3.0 99.9 1.0 6.2 2.0 100.0 0.7 12.0 3.1 99.3 1.6 9.6 2.0 99.2 0.8 9.5 1.9 97.8
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.3 16.8 6.4 99.8 1.0 9.4 3.8 100.0 1.1 14.9 5.7 100.0 1.5 15.7 4.6 99.6 0.8 13.5 4.4 95.3
Monument_Peak 7110 4.5 19.8 5.3 99.9 2.0 14.3 4.5 99.8 2.2 20.7 6.1 99.1 2.3 18.4 6.5 97.0 1.7 15.8 3.9 92.0
Graz 7839 2.1 13.8 3.9 99.7 1.1 6.1 1.8 100.0 0.3 12.4 5.1 98.3 1.9 10.9 10.9 98.3 0.4 7.5 7.4 97.8
Zimmerwald_532 7810 2.7 16.8 4.2 99.8 1.6 7.0 1.8 99.9 1.0 13.4   99.9 2.6 16.1   96.6 1.1 10.4   93.3
Wettzell 8834 3.5 12.0 4.4 100.0 2.5 8.2 2.9 100.0 2.1 11.1 3.8 99.7 2.6 9.1 8.8 98.3 2.2 8.9 6.1 92.7
Shanghai_2 7821 2.2 19.1 5.4 100.0 0.9 10.0 3.3 100.0 0.6 18.2 8.5 100.0 1.6 20.6 10.8 98.7 0.1 14.0 13.5 97.4
Hartebeesthoek 7501 5.4 26.7 8.4 99.8 3.2 9.3 3.3 99.8 3.2 24.7 5.8 98.7 3.1 24.5 6.3 95.6 2.6 17.5 4.9 90.7
Badary 1890 9.1 18.2 5.9 99.8 7.1 17.1 4.5 99.8 4.2 16.8 5.5 90.5 5.7 23.5 7.3 95.3        
Potsdam_3 7841 4.3 13.4 4.8 98.8 2.1 9.0 2.9 99.4 2.3 12.9 4.0 97.6 2.9 13.3 4.5 93.0 1.3 11.6 6.3 93.5
San_Fernando 7824 9.4 26.8 18.1 100.0 8.0 20.9 16.6 100.0 3.4 20.6 17.8 92.8 7.5 36.5 10.0 94.7        
Altay 1879 5.5 26.4 15.7 100.0 3.2 24.1 14.9 100.0 2.5 21.2 16.3 98.8 2.7 24.0 10.7 100.0 3.2 17.4 21.7 98.6
Arequipa 7403 5.9 35.3 26.6 100.0 2.6 32.9 24.4 100.0 2.5 31.9 21.3 97.2 3.3 34.1 25.7 96.8 2.3 25.1 28.9 91.9
Komsomolsk 1868 11.7 62.8 29.2 100.0 6.3 62.7 25.0 100.0         4.1 36.9 25.9 95.7        
Svetloe 1888 8.8 21.8 4.7 100.0 6.7 21.6 5.9 99.8 5.2 24.4 14.0 93.0 7.0 18.9 7.7 93.2 4.7 20.5 5.5 95.7
Arkhyz 1886 11.1 32.1 10.8 100.0 9.0 29.3 7.8 99.6 4.2 40.8 19.1 88.3 8.2 20.8 16.6 92.5        
Katzively 1893 13.3 15.8 11.6 97.9 10.0 14.7 9.0 95.5 7.0 13.2 9.8 82.5 10.1 25.4 19.6 82.3        
Haleakala 7119 4.4 20.6 4.9 99.5 2.7 10.4 3.4 99.4 2.6 13.6 3.6 99.1 2.9 15.2 5.5 99.5 2.4 17.2 5.6 91.4
Simeiz 1873 27.7 45.6 21.7 93.0 28.1 45.1 16.2 97.4 6.4 45.0 13.6 63.0 25.5 47.3 19.8 90.9        
Zelenchukskya 1889 7.5 18.4 8.8 100.0 5.4 17.0 9.7 100.0 4.4 19.1 7.1 97.2 5.7 28.3 10.6 96.7        
Papeete 7124 4.5 17.3 4.7 100.0 2.4 9.2 2.3 100.0 2.2 12.8 5.5 99.1 2.5 22.4 14.7 100.0 1.1 18.5 15.4 94.0
Simosato 7838 5.8 15.8 4.6 100.0 3.7 12.6 5.5 99.8 3.8 15.2 5.9 98.3 6.1 22.0 34.5 99.8 3.3 9.2 5.7 93.9
Brasilia 7407 4.5 24.8 7.9 100.0 3.8 16.3 7.2 100.0 2.7 36.4 15.4 99.3 7.3 22.5 14.8 98.2        
Irkutsk 1891 6.1 12.5   100.0 4.5 11.9 4.6 99.8 3.9 18.1   97.6 5.4 13.9 13.4 98.3        
Grasse_MEO 7845 4.7 13.1 5.3 99.9 2.5 11.0 4.8 100.0 2.6 19.5 4.5 98.6 3.0 16.7 9.6 97.3 3.0 10.2 5.2 95.2
Baikonur 1887 9.9 15.2 23.2 100.0 6.1 12.4 21.2 100.0 6.1 19.3 20.1 96.9 6.1 8.4 9.0 98.8        
Mendeleevo 1874 5.3 9.6 6.9 100.0         3.3 9.0   97.9 5.2 13.1 10.5 99.2