SLR Global Performance Report Card

1, 2017 through November 30, 2018

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 2300 600 3000 3500
Yarragadee 7090 17338 2640 9262 29240 283627 21579 35996 341202 179887 2.9 4.7 5.0
Changchun 7237 9286 872 4556 14714 101328 6536 14434 122298 56546 4.2 8.1 10.8
Zimmerwald_532 7810 8121 1118 4284 13523 133914 15873 15837 165624 106663 6.4 9.4 12.0
Herstmonceux 7840 6206 864 4339 11409 86088 10337 13733 110158 64825 3.4 9.4 12.5
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 6516 1088 2418 10022 93620 8820 8055 110495 75752 3.4 4.8 7.8
Wettzell 8834 5144 723 3603 9470 49567 4835 15610 70012 41422 7.1 8.3 12.2
Matera_MLRO 7941 4608 1365 2473 8446 54916 10841 10844 76601 60990 1.1 2.4 2.9
Greenbelt 7105 6345 821 840 8006 119846 8098 3352 131296 70161 2.4 6.9 9.4
Potsdam_3 7841 5238 656 1103 6997 81196 5334 4441 90971 47886 1.8 5.1 7.8
Shanghai_2 7821 3122 632 3171 6925 28934 6651 14895 50480 35992 7.1 8.3 8.1
Graz 7839 3936 493 2367 6796 74290 2938 11500 88728 42458 2.2 7.2 5.3
Monument_Peak 7110 5439 608 657 6704 94061 4526 1734 100321 51894 4.4 7.3 9.6
Wettzell_SOSW 7827 2659 480 3081 6220 33581 2173 8674 44428 20988 8.0 11.8 11.7
Kunming 7819 2607 416 2610 5633 33464 1816 6696 41976 20108 5.6 11.7 10.9
Hartebeesthoek_HARL 7501 3427 702 953 5082 47349 4859 4773 56981 36414 4.7 11.0 11.5
Beijing 7249 2259 414 1573 4246 19387 2921 6031 28339 18590 8.4 13.0 19.6
Arequipa 7403 3243 109   3352 35200 489   35689 19622 5.8 9.1 16.0
Simeiz 1873 2306 305 365 2976 25321 1670 1570 28561 14950 21.8 12.5 13.5
Altay 1879 164 295 2238 2697 3223 1574 6461 11258 5669     35.8
Irkutsk 1891 1502 321 822 2645 12075 2455 1711 16241 12795 39.6 30.3 33.0
Katzively 1893 2032 220 10 2262 22097 1580 50 23727 15391 25.1 10.4 14.3
Komsomolsk 1868 73 216 1892 2181 1370 1274 6890 9534 4315     30.7
Haleakala 7119 1748 316   2064 27364 2310   29674 18979 2.4 5.3 7.2
Papeete 7124 1297 173 450 1920 20076 1433 2384 23893 13025 6.7 8.7 10.9
Badary 1890 1420 224 196 1840 13630 1304 633 15567 10893     27.8
Simosato 7838 1289 358 17 1664 19724 5531 101 25356 29971 3.7 6.4 17.0
Hartebeesthoek_HRTL 7503 957 199 382 1538 10884 795 1085 12764 6644 30.3 26.4 28.0
Zelenchukskya 1889 909 148 385 1442 7714 1049 1020 9783 7346   26.6 39.0
Borowiec 7811 1030 200 63 1293 17538 2151 329 20018 13670 12.8 17.8 17.6
Arkhyz 1886 422 189 669 1280 3328 959 2231 6518 4827   37.7 30.2
Riga 1884 1101 111 34 1246 19334 964 156 20454 9304 7.4 9.4 10.1
Brasilia 7407 265 249 672 1186 1305 807 1758 3870 3055 31.5 25.4 30.8
Baikonur 1887 4 361 763 1128 35 1533 2777 4345 4634     30.8
Svetloe 1888 757 95 107 959 4575 354 249 5178 3575   25.4 35.1
Grasse_MEO 7845 63 202 416 681 1569 2587 1469 5625 8618 7.7   14.4
Kiev 1824 595 55   650 5792 353   6145 4033 11.7 22.7 25.6
Sejong 7394 452 76 6 534 6202 543 32 6777 5571 4.4 11.9 10.8
Mendeleevo 1874 133 87 293 513 2931 1411 848 5190 5407     28.8
McDonald 7080 166 27 2 195 1579 197 4 1780 1535 10.4 13.5  

 

 

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 300 1090 235 20.9
Matera_MLRO 7941 38 72 32 42.5

 

 

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         1.7 6.3 1.1 100.0 2.1 14.2 1.8 98.5 2.5 21.6 2.5 98.5 1.4 11.2 1.6 91.8
Changchun 7237         4.0 17.2 4.7 100.0 2.4 18.4 5.8 97.7 4.2 21.6 7.2 95.8 3.7 30.3 18.0 93.9
Zimmerwald_532 7810         1.2 5.2 2.8 100.0 1.5 10.1 2.7 99.9 3.0 15.0 3.2 96.9 1.9 8.9 2.9 94.8
Herstmonceux 7840         1.0 4.8 1.1 100.0 1.2 11.6 1.8 100.0 1.7 15.1 3.5 98.9 0.7 7.6 2.4 96.0
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825         2.5 6.9 1.4 100.0 2.4 17.8 3.3 100.0 3.4 18.8 3.0 97.7 1.7 14.3 3.3 95.5
Wettzell 8834         1.9 6.6 3.1 100.0 1.5 9.6 5.5 100.0 2.3 10.5 3.2 98.7 1.3 11.5 3.6 93.9
Matera_MLRO 7941         1.1 5.6 2.1 100.0 1.0 11.3 2.6 100.0 1.2 17.8 2.9 100.0 0.6 14.0 4.7 95.0
Greenbelt 7105         1.8 7.2 1.2 100.0 2.0 14.1 2.0 99.6 2.0 22.5 6.1 98.4 1.9 12.4 2.8 91.6
Potsdam_3 7841         1.4 8.3 5.1 100.0 1.2 8.2 4.8 99.0 1.6 9.8 5.4 98.7 0.9 14.1 5.1 95.1
Shanghai_2 7821         1.7 12.2 2.9 100.0 1.5 18.7 8.6 99.7 2.2 22.5 3.5 99.3 1.1 16.1 5.3 95.1
Graz 7839         1.5 8.3 3.4 100.0 1.0 10.4 6.3 100.0 2.3 10.4 4.8 96.1 0.8 11.8 2.8 96.2
Monument_Peak 7110         2.6 7.5 3.3 100.0 2.2 15.6 3.3 99.5 2.9 15.9 6.1 96.4 2.0 14.1 4.2 90.7
Wettzell_SOSW 7827         1.6 6.8 2.3 100.0 1.1 13.8 8.1 100.0 2.1 10.9 4.0 89.6        
Kunming 7819         3.4 18.7 8.4 100.0 3.0 31.0 10.4 98.9 3.5 25.1 11.8 99.1        
Hartebeesthoek_HARL 7501         2.2 11.3 4.4 100.0 2.2 18.0 10.0 99.5 3.0 15.9 4.9 97.6 1.9 16.7 3.2 87.3
Beijing 7249         12.5 22.7 6.0 100.0 4.6 19.5 8.2 87.3 6.5 20.1 8.8 95.7 3.9 18.5 7.9 90.8
Arequipa 7403         5.7 13.9 5.2 100.0                        
Simeiz 1873         25.1 40.8 19.3 100.0 3.4 39.7 27.6 55.1 23.0 45.2 20.7 91.9        
Altay 1879         3.6 16.7 8.7 100.0 3.6 23.5 14.9 94.5 4.7 22.6 8.8 98.7 2.4 14.2 11.0 95.1
Irkutsk 1891         7.5 15.0 5.8 100.0 5.5 16.0 5.5 90.8 6.6 17.0 8.0 94.9        
Komsomolsk 1868         4.5 18.7 8.3 100.0 3.3 31.9 23.4 94.6 4.3 28.4 16.0 97.5 4.0 19.8 5.5 94.0
Haleakala 7119         2.2 8.2 3.2 100.0 2.8 22.2 4.0 98.9 4.8 26.6 7.8 98.1 1.9 14.7 13.4 89.7
Papeete 7124         2.7 13.0 10.7 100.0 2.7 12.8 18.5 98.8 4.0 22.7 16.6 99.6 3.4 18.1 13.3 95.5
Badary 1890         3.9 14.6 8.3 100.0 3.5 18.8 12.1 98.5 5.0 22.7 9.0 99.1 2.4 18.0 6.7 94.1
Simosato 7838         3.5 11.2 4.2 100.0         6.7 28.8 8.5 98.1        
Hartebeesthoek_HRTL 7503         5.3 20.5   100.0                        
Zelenchukskya 1889         7.8 11.9 3.7 100.0 5.2 11.1 6.9 97.3 8.2 11.5 10.7 99.3 4.4 21.1 6.3 97.6
Borowiec 7811         3.2 12.4 4.9 100.0 3.3 11.2 5.3 99.6 4.0 11.5 6.4 99.7        
Arkhyz 1886         4.2 25.8 10.7 100.0         4.6 25.5 11.3 99.5 3.2 25.7 15.5 94.7
Riga 1884         2.5 24.6 14.0 100.0         16.5 40.6 23.2 93.7        
Brasilia 7407         4.7 17.6 11.2 100.0 4.4 42.9 23.6 79.7 5.1 19.5 16.8 93.3        
Baikonur 1887         5.4 15.6 14.3 100.0         4.6 14.9 13.4 96.1        
Svetloe 1888         7.6 17.0 8.2 100.0         6.0 14.8   98.1        
Grasse_MEO 7845         2.6 9.0 7.8 100.0 2.2 9.9 6.7 99.6 2.8 22.2 4.4 96.5 1.8 13.8 13.7 94.8
Sejong 7394         4.5 12.3 8.8 100.0                        
Mendeleevo 1874         3.4 7.1 4.7 100.0         4.5 7.0 6.4 99.4