SLR Global Performance Report Card

February 1, 2015 through January 31, 2016

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 13799 2792 6966 23557 267761 23996 24774 316531 178290 5.6 7.8 8.3
Changchun 7237 10238 1247 7305 18790 84108 6709 19087 109904 54263 3.3 7.3 10.5
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 6549 1252 2626 10427 95070 10861 11362 117293 80980 3.4 5.4 8.0
Greenbelt 7105 6346 1171 1778 9295 122111 10827 6229 139167 81696 4.2 8.0 10.7
Graz 7839 4157 734 3384 8275 79424 4844 16582 100850 53627 2.1 4.0 5.1
Zimmerwald_532 7810 4312 756 2668 7736 72013 8320 18710 99043 60501 5.8 8.7 11.2
Herstmonceux 7840 3832 800 3036 7668 51407 7633 9687 68727 43250 3.5 8.9 12.3
Matera_MLRO 7941 3237 1412 2876 7525 36726 12202 10953 59881 59721 1.2 2.5 4.3
Monument_Peak 7110 4931 912 1097 6940 90817 7556 3256 101629 60757 5.5 7.9 10.3
Wettzell 8834 2863 302 2419 5584 25465 1995 9945 37405 21167 7.5 11.6 15.0
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2479 701 571 3751 41405 6817 3272 51494 41886 7.8 17.3 19.0
Potsdam_3 7841 3036 328 348 3712 51406 3207 2225 56838 32515 7.3 10.3 13.0
Badary 1890 2821 254 380 3455 31746 1994 1399 35139 20722 -0.1 33.5 34.0
Shanghai_2 7821 1391 236 1495 3122 10405 1609 6031 18045 10495 6.8 10.2 9.3
San_Fernando 7824 2369 196 54 2619 23383 1017 165 24565 13813 6.0 13.7 26.7
Arequipa 7403 2433 171   2604 27127 1000   28127 18195 6.6 10.6 6.2
Altay 1879 334 224 1945 2503 2824 1247 7220 11291 6111   31.7 28.9
Svetloe 1888 1266 449 521 2236 14692 4259 1505 20456 20910 -0.1 29.6 31.9
Komsomolsk 1868 144 175 1776 2095 1337 973 6152 8462 4095   30.7 30.7
Haleakala 7119 1454 496   1950 20981 5023   26004 25752 5.2 8.6 10.1
Arkhyz 1886 384 188 1143 1715 2214 748 4194 7156 3874   35.2 32.4
Simeiz 1873 1343 203 145 1691 16013 1353 694 18060 11130   11.7 11.9
Papeete 7124 861 251 535 1647 13815 2143 2018 17976 13880 8.3 7.7 9.0
Simosato 7838 1196 330 28 1554 23020 5340 228 28588 31226 6.2 9.8 16.0
Katzively 1893 1387 129   1516 14280 797   15077 9718      
Zelenchukskya 1889 586 179 597 1362 5459 1559 1849 8867 7987 -0.0 23.2 36.3
Brasilia 7407 13 265 809 1087 53 869 3088 4010 2621 28.1   26.1
Irkutsk 1891 115 270 667 1052 1426 3081 2116 6623 10483 -0.0 31.2 36.2
Beijing 7249 412 97 405 914 4685 691 1585 6961 3999      
Kiev 1824 789 115 2 906 4937 535 7 5479 4335 11.2 19.4 18.1
Grasse_MEO 7845 365 286 65 716 14453 3735 278 18466 15983 8.9   15.3
Mendeleevo 1874 142 112 366 620 2270 1515 1181 4966 5764 -0.0   35.2
Wettzell 7827 266 42 286 594 3281 325 1019 4625 2488 8.8 10.9 10.9
McDonald 7080 356 131 107 594 3450 996 300 4746 4996      
Baikonur 1887 43 174 321 538 241 1082 1009 2332 3457      

 

 

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 64 162    
Matera_MLRO 7941 7 15    
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 3.4 16.8 3.2 100.0 1.9 9.2 1.7 100.0 2.2 15.9 2.2 99.7 2.4 16.2 2.6 98.3        
Changchun 7237 4.7 28.8 5.7 98.7 3.7 23.8 6.4 99.6 2.1 27.9 7.6 96.5 3.9 20.4 15.3 95.5        
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 3.3 20.6 2.8 100.0 2.5 9.5 1.7 100.0 2.0 18.5 3.0 99.8 2.8 13.8 11.7 98.6        
Greenbelt 7105 3.9 40.6 5.6 100.0 2.0 31.1 8.1 100.0 2.5 30.4 7.8 98.7 2.6 29.3 8.7 96.6        
Zimmerwald_532 7810 2.6 9.3 4.3 100.0 1.7 8.5 1.9 100.0 1.2 11.6   100.0 2.5 11.7   96.4        
Graz 7839 1.9 13.1 3.9 100.0 1.3 8.5 2.6 100.0 0.7 10.8 4.3 100.0 1.4 9.7 11.5 97.9        
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.1 16.5 6.3 100.0 1.0 10.2 3.1 100.0 1.2 12.0 4.8 100.0 1.4 15.3 4.3 99.7        
Herstmonceux 7840 2.5 17.6 4.6 100.0 1.1 9.1 2.3 100.0 0.9 14.7 3.6 98.2 1.5 7.7 2.3 96.8        
Monument_Peak 7110 4.5 19.6 3.9 99.6 2.3 15.9 4.0 99.5 2.7 20.0 8.1 98.5 2.6 14.1 5.3 96.1        
Hartebeesthoek 7501         2.8 10.3 2.2 100.0 3.4 17.7 6.9 99.2 2.6 16.2 4.7 95.9        
Potsdam_3 7841 3.6 11.8 5.8 100.0 1.9 7.2 2.8 100.0 2.0 12.0 4.0 99.6 2.8 11.0 5.1 96.2        
Badary 1890 8.8 15.6 6.7 98.5 7.4 10.8 4.9 99.1 4.6 17.5 6.2 86.2 6.0 18.4 7.6 94.7        
Shanghai_2 7821         1.4 13.7 4.3 100.0 0.8 19.3 8.0 100.0 1.5 13.7 12.4 99.1        
Altay 1879 4.9 22.4 16.1 100.0 3.4 23.8 12.5 100.0 3.6 30.5 11.7 97.3 5.5 32.9 14.2 96.3        
Svetloe 1888 7.1 18.5 5.1 100.0 7.0 25.3 5.7 99.5 4.2 22.6 12.9 89.9 7.6 18.1 6.8 98.9        
Haleakala 7119 4.1 24.4 4.8 100.0 1.9 11.4 3.3 100.0 2.5 17.1 4.0 98.4 3.5 20.6 6.6 98.3        
Arkhyz 1886         4.4 34.6 8.0 100.0 4.1 38.3 24.1 100.0 5.5 15.9 12.8 100.0        
Komsomolsk 1868 13.5 33.9 31.3 100.0                 92.6 27.4 27.1 99.2        
Papeete 7124 3.6 15.1 5.8 100.0 2.0 12.7 3.8 100.0 2.8 21.9 6.6 99.3 3.4 12.9 14.3 100.0        
Simosato 7838 6.0 13.9 4.2 99.7 3.6 13.5 5.8 99.9 3.8 17.0 5.5 98.1 4.7 15.2 29.0 99.6        
Zelenchukskya 1889 6.3 16.7 11.1 100.0 3.9 17.8 8.5 100.0 3.5 21.9 8.6 96.7 6.5 22.8 8.5 99.0        
Brasilia 7407 4.2 20.8 10.1 100.0 3.3 15.2 7.6 100.0 2.3 25.4 15.2 94.9 4.9 20.7 14.3 93.4        
Irkutsk 1891 6.2 18.9   100.0 6.4 15.3   100.0 3.4 20.6   93.9 5.6 19.4 8.1 95.2        
Grasse_MEO 7845 3.8 21.0 4.6 100.0 2.4 14.0 5.0 100.0 2.4 20.1 5.4 99.8 3.1 20.6 9.2 98.1        
Wettzell 7827         1.3 7.1   100.0 0.6 13.9   100.0