SLR Global Performance Report Card

July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019

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 18067 2477 7410 27954 282850 18598 28154 329602 162648 2.8 4.7 4.9
Changchun 7237 10087 767 4883 15737 128048 6277 18604 152929 61664 5.6 9.5 11.2
Zimmerwald_532 7810 9611 1221 4747 15579 162786 18242 18281 199309 124117 6.1 8.8 11.7
Herstmonceux 7840 6587 870 4172 11629 90074 10787 13268 114129 66533 3.5 9.2 12.5
Wettzell 8834 5476 799 3669 9944 104033 11800 31916 147749 92977 7.1 8.4 11.9
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 6820 1070 1835 9725 100453 8612 5000570 5109635 77011 3.3 4.9 7.4
Kunming 7819 3946 556 4503 9005 45952 2292 10817 59061 24898 5.1 12.2 10.9
Wettzell_SOSW 7827 3881 622 4081 8584 84804 5476 22072 112352 56427 7.9 11.4 11.7
Matera_MLRO 7941 4727 1404 2295 8426 48411 10650 9807 68868 58969 1.0 2.5 3.0
Graz 7839 4743 512 2926 8181 87131 3130 12482 102743 46690 2.5 3.5 5.0
Greenbelt 7105 6115 810 784 7709 111745 7379 3125 122249 62314 2.0 6.4 9.9
Potsdam_3 7841 4246 479 1251 5976 57291 3303 4486 65080 30695 2.3 6.3 7.6
Monument_Peak 7110 4807 393 377 5577 82943 2861 1030 86834 40705 3.0 5.7 7.5
Hartebeesthoek_HARL 7501 3630 635 828 5093 48398 3967 4136 56501 34474 3.7 6.7 7.9
Shanghai_2 7821 1815 369 1939 4123 16798 3431 9147 29376 19204 8.3 8.3 7.8
Beijing 7249 1971 273 1477 3721 15948 1718 5284 22950 12404 4.1 8.4 13.5
Arequipa 7403 3562 106   3668 36084 428   36512 19546 3.9 7.4 7.7
Simeiz 1873 2252 296 379 2927 23298 1585 1616 26499 13827 15.7 10.5 12.6
Haleakala 7119 2125 437   2562 31787 3541   35328 25029 2.7 5.7 8.5
Badary 1890 1479 413 338 2230 13768 2256 1093 17117 14074   35.7 36.5
Katzively 1893 2008 149 1 2158 21861 896 2 22759 13435 23.2 9.7 10.6
Grasse_MEO 7845 394 382 1347 2123 4129 4725 4750 13604 17743 8.7   16.4
Irkutsk 1891 1316 221 576 2113 10559 1528 1214 13301 8691 39.7 28.7 35.5
Hartebeesthoek_HRTL 7503 1040 253 675 1968 10763 1173 2156 14092 7890 28.8 24.4 26.2
Altay 1879 94 176 1608 1878 966 913 4316 6195 3393     34.6
Komsomolsk 1868 75 151 1614 1840 1470 886 5450 7806 3130     29.5
Papeete 7124 1005 126 346 1477 14457 1004 1738 17199 9453 7.9 10.1 10.3
Brasilia 7407 303 304 846 1453 1531 973 2332 4836 3697 29.9 19.2 28.0
Svetloe 1888 947 189 163 1299 6407 929 410 7746 6120   25.5 32.5
Arkhyz 1886 447 196 615 1258 3645 1027 2090 6762 5155   42.5 33.7
Zelenchukskya 1889 817 99 281 1197 6527 537 734 7798 5426   28.7 38.1
Borowiec 7811 897 134 87 1118 14987 1622 426 17035 10745 13.6 22.6 17.7
Simosato 7838 767 172 20 959 11014 2240 132 13386 13966 14.3 12.4 15.0
Baikonur 1887   316 469 785   1324 1732 3056 3972     29.6
Riga 1884 647 86 35 768 11483 816 167 12466 6251 8.1 13.4 10.3
Kiev 1824 646 61   707 6325 443   6768 4675 11.3 23.0 35.7
Sejong 7394 569 89 10 668 7539 566 65 8170 7062 3.9 8.3 11.0
Mendeleevo 1874 64 39 152 255 1449 676 439 2564 2620      
McDonald 7080 53     53 403     403 261      

 

 

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 374 1527 450 23.0
Matera_MLRO 7941 27 59    
Wettzell 8834 3 12 8 17.5

 

 

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 7.2 1.4 100.0 2.0 14.9 1.5 99.7 2.1 17.0 3.3 98.6 1.3 10.7 1.2 96.1
Changchun 7237         3.7 13.2 5.0 100.0 3.4 19.4 6.9 98.2 4.8 15.2 6.4 97.3 2.5 15.9 11.6 96.2
Zimmerwald_532 7810         1.5 6.6 2.0 100.0 1.5 13.9 2.3 99.2 2.5 11.6 1.2 95.3 1.8 10.6 1.8 94.2
Herstmonceux 7840         0.9 5.4 1.0 100.0 1.0 9.5 2.2 99.8 1.6 10.4 2.9 99.5 1.2 11.9 3.6 96.9
Wettzell 8834         1.8 7.1 2.7 100.0 1.6 12.2 2.8 100.0 2.2 13.4 3.4 98.2 1.1 11.5 3.5 96.0
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825         2.5 7.3 1.0 100.0 2.5 16.6 3.5 96.9 2.9 15.4 3.7 97.3 1.7 10.4 3.5 94.6
Kunming 7819         4.2 23.5 6.8 100.0 3.2 33.3 9.8 97.3 4.3 24.1 7.3 98.4        
Wettzell_SOSW 7827         1.9 7.2 2.8 100.0 1.3 16.0 3.8 99.0 2.4 12.4 3.9 91.6        
Matera_MLRO 7941         1.1 5.5 0.8 100.0 1.1 13.5 1.6 100.0 1.5 12.3 2.2 99.8 0.8 15.8 2.7 96.9
Graz 7839         1.1 6.2 3.0 100.0 0.9 13.4 5.9 100.0 2.1 7.7 4.9 98.7 0.6 10.2 2.9 95.9
Greenbelt 7105         1.7 7.6 1.5 100.0 2.0 16.2 4.5 99.3 2.6 15.7 6.4 98.5 2.1 15.0 3.0 95.6
Potsdam_3 7841         1.3 7.5 2.5 100.0 1.1 12.8 3.2 100.0 1.8 13.2 6.3 98.8 0.9 10.6 4.6 95.0
Monument_Peak 7110         2.4 7.9 4.1 100.0 1.8 16.2 8.6 98.3 2.2 12.3 14.4 99.2 1.5 11.2 10.3 97.5
Hartebeesthoek_HARL 7501         1.7 9.8 3.3 100.0 1.8 17.5 3.6 98.8 1.8 15.2 3.9 98.5 1.7 12.5 5.8 96.4
Shanghai_2 7821         1.9 11.3 5.1 100.0 1.5 18.2 12.4 99.1 2.2 13.5 7.4 97.2 1.7 21.1 20.8 98.6
Beijing 7249         5.6 21.7 10.3 100.0 4.7 28.6 15.2 89.5 5.2 23.8 14.7 100.0 3.3 23.5 10.1 95.7
Arequipa 7403         3.0 11.4 5.5 100.0 3.3 17.2 13.8 92.0 4.9 54.7 28.3 95.9        
Simeiz 1873         23.7 45.2 15.4 100.0 4.8 44.0 25.8 57.6 21.9 43.5 23.8 88.3        
Haleakala 7119         2.1 9.0 4.1 100.0 2.1 16.6 5.9 97.8 3.3 18.5 8.8 99.4 2.9 20.1 8.1 98.8
Badary 1890         5.2 13.4 7.6 100.0 3.6 25.7 9.8 94.7 5.3 15.3 10.3 98.4 3.2 21.1 6.5 94.9
Katzively 1893         9.8 23.2 8.8 100.0 4.6 30.7 9.3 81.7 9.8 17.5 10.4 88.9 8.5 26.8   90.0
Grasse_MEO 7845         2.8 13.1 2.9 100.0 2.9 21.0 6.1 99.0 2.9 12.7 4.8 97.0 2.5 11.1 3.9 95.8
Irkutsk 1891         7.0 14.0 6.3 100.0 4.5 19.8 9.4 93.3 7.3 13.6 6.9 97.0        
Hartebeesthoek_HRTL 7503         4.3 25.4 8.3 100.0 3.4 23.5 3.7 95.8 6.7 25.5 14.5 99.7        
Altay 1879         4.1 17.7 16.7 100.0 2.2 18.5   91.8 3.7 21.9 18.9 98.1 1.6 22.3 14.2 94.7
Komsomolsk 1868         4.7 16.8 8.0 100.0 4.0 29.3 16.0 87.9 4.9 20.4 13.6 98.2        
Papeete 7124         3.2 8.7 8.4 100.0 4.2 14.6 14.4 97.8 4.5 16.4 12.3 97.4        
Brasilia 7407         3.3 16.7 7.7 100.0 2.3 33.3 23.8 93.8 5.0 14.6 15.9 98.9 2.7 25.6   99.0
Svetloe 1888         4.2 12.9 7.1 100.0 3.2 17.6 6.6 97.4 4.6 19.0 11.1 99.0 3.4 16.5 18.9 96.5
Arkhyz 1886         4.4 26.8 10.8 100.0 4.1 30.3 11.7 92.6 4.9 22.5 8.7 99.0 6.5 23.0 14.0 98.3
Zelenchukskya 1889         6.7 24.1 8.1 100.0 3.5 15.9 8.7 97.5                
Borowiec 7811         3.9 11.7 3.6 100.0 3.8 15.6 6.1 98.7 4.4 12.4 7.1 99.8 3.5 12.2 7.0 93.3
Simosato 7838         5.0 19.7 19.7 100.0 3.3 26.4 26.3 93.3 3.8 13.3 22.3 98.7        
Baikonur 1887         6.8 15.0 10.2 100.0 4.8 25.3   92.8 5.8 12.1 13.8 95.2 5.9 25.5 5.3 95.2
Riga 1884         4.4 32.5 17.9 100.0 5.4 28.4 18.3 83.6 10.6 25.5 28.5 94.5 7.4 28.0   94.5
Sejong 7394         1.4 13.9 14.9 100.0                        
Mendeleevo 1874         3.4 13.3 3.2 100.0         4.4 15.2 6.1 99.0