SLR Global Performance Report Card

October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2005

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 9553 1491 1143 12187 176862 18933 11672 207467 147311 4.8 8.3 9.2
Graz 7839 5683 818 521 7022 116446 10153 4251 130850 73157 2.1 4.0 7.7
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4750 1556 631 6937 76097 22358 4629 103084 93487 3.3 6.6 8.4
Wettzell 8834 5507 965 442 6914 73608 7022 2084 82714 47907 3.7 11.8 17.7
Zimmerwald_423
Zimmerwald_846		 7810 4922
4988		 1001
1021		 774
738		 6697
6747		 72045
72437		 13375
14707		 6463
5882		 91883
93026		 80832
80640		 9.7
18.1		 15.2
19.8		 17.4
21.9
Riyadh 7832 4792 1090 786 6668 68215 9732 4602 82549 64072 9.7 13.3 16.2
Monument_Peak 7110 4474 641 213 5328 65926 4662 1557 72145 36372 6.0 12.9 14.1
Herstmoncex 7840 3932 840 350 5122 61156 10306 1709 73171 46554 8.0 12.4 15.5
Matera_MLRO 7941 2411 542 101 3054 32971 4814 593 38378 23656 2.2 4.4 6.0
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2259 429 118 2806 31302 3967 1106 36375 23807 5.5 8.1 9.6
Changchun 7237 2356 283 69 2708 27713 2242 331 30286 14890 10.7 14.7 15.4
San_Fernando 7824 2338 352   2690 33134 2352   35486 15053 5.6 11.5 15.6
Simosato 7838 1914 508 5 2427 40260 8336 55 48651 29565 11.9 15.1 18.1
Greenbelt 7105 2027 250 87 2364 44600 2787 597 47984 21405 5.2 8.6 9.8
Potsdam_3 7841 1984 275 10 2269 39543 3400 56 42999 17925 11.5 6.8 9.0
Beijing 7249 1532 253 111 1896 22959 2703 786 26448 16443 15.9 158.1 33.3
Riga 1884 1537 143 7 1687 29235 1811 30 31076 11090 6.4 15.7 12.4
McDonald 7080 1147 333 171 1651 15019 3174 751 18944 14434 13.3 12.3 12.2
Ajaccio 7848 1327 71   1398 24012 286   24298 8028 5.7 10.7 18.5
Shanghai 7837 1076 160 15 1251 15607 1591 117 17315 8525      
Borowiec 7811 839 169   1008 13691 1882   15573 7680 17.9 20.9 22.4
Maidanak_1 1864 514 218 100 832 5950 1899 354 8203 7496   64.6 57.6
Grasse 7835 700 100   800 15171 961   16132 6178 5.8 11.8 17.4
Simeiz 1873 472 143 16 631 6012 1247 92 7351 4970   48.1 53.6
Papeete 7124 522 73 1 596 8692 506 2 9200 3624 5.5 8.6 10.4
Kiev 1824 418 57   475 4451 359   4810 2060 61.9    
Lviv 1831 336 108   444 5831 858   6689 3506 16.1 39.6 46.1
Helwan 7831 377     377 3986     3986 1223 6.0 19.8  
Metsahovi 7806 300 21 1 322 4159 167 6 4332 1405      
Concepcion_847
Concepcion_423		 7405 174
288		 101
58		 8
 		 283
346		 2076
2525		 922
261		 27
 		 3025
2786		 2748
1462		 14.0
8.0		 10.2
15.4		 23.4
17.4
Katzively 1893 194 27 2 223 2939 208 6 3153 1365 70.4 187.9 66.1
Urumqi 7355 135 56   191 1614 576   2190 1645 17.9 31.7 33.8
Koganei 7308 131 41 16 188 1752 390 111 2253 2090 11.1 10.6  
FTLRS_Brest_France 7604 131 3   134 2009 13   2022 659      
Tanegashim 7358 95 13 15 123 1364 133 67 1564 1025 4.1 4.3 7.0
Grnblt_TLRS4 7130 88 30   118 1352 325   1677 1045 5.3 10.3 10.7
Wuhan_2 7231 37 15   52 459 88   547 338 26.1 22.0 24.5

 

 

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
McDonald 7080 41 81 17 60.7
Matera_MLRO 7941 1 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 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 millimeter, 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 CSR Orbital Analysis Delft Orbital Analysis NICT Orbital Analysis MCC Orbital Analysis SHAO Orbital Analysis
Station
Location		 Station
Number		 NP
RMS		 short
term
(mm)		 long
term
(mm)		 %
good
LAG.
NP		 NP
RMS		 short
term
(mm)		 long
term
(mm)		 %
good
LAG.
NP		 NP
RMS		 short
term
(mm)		 long
term
(mm)		 %
good
LAG.
NP		 NP
RMS		 short
term
(mm)		 long
term
(mm)		 %
good
LAG.
NP		 NP
RMS		 short
term
(mm)		 long
term
(mm)		 %
good
LAG.
NP
Baseline 10.0 20.0 20.0 95 10.0 20.0 20.0 95 10.0 20.0 20.0 95 10.0 20.0 20.0 95 10.0 20.0 20.0 95
Yarragadee 7090 2.2 5.7   99.0 2.1 10.4 1.6 99.9 1.6 12.6 7.9 100.0 1.9 16.1 2.4 98.3 1.9 13.1 2.4 95.5
Graz 7839 1.3 4.6   99.7 0.8 6.8 2.1 100.0 1.0 7.4 3.4 100.0 1.4 5.2 1.8 100.0 1.2 10.4 2.6 96.3
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 3.4 8.7   97.5 3.8 10.0 1.5 99.0 3.3 17.0 5.3 99.2 3.0 9.8 4.7 92.9 3.0 14.5 3.1 93.6
Wettzell 8834 3.8 10.4   99.3 3.5 16.8 3.6 99.7 4.2 13.2 6.6 99.5 2.9 10.9 2.2 96.5 3.1 17.6 4.2 94.9
Zimmerwald_423
Zimmerwald_846		 7810 3.0
3.2		 5.4
6.7		  
 		 99.6
98.7		 3.1
4.1		 11.3
11.3		 3.2
4.3		 100.0
100.0		 2.6
3.1		 10.3
10.8		 3.5
3.3		 99.9
99.9		 3.6
3.9		 7.6
8.8		 1.9
2.4		 93.6
91.1		 2.4
2.8		 10.3
10.9		 2.8
3.6		 95.0
94.9
Riyadh 7832 2.8 9.4   98.9 3.1 13.8 1.1 99.7 3.2 14.7 6.2 99.7 3.6 27.2 6.1 96.0 2.5 18.9 6.1 94.3
Monument_Peak 7110 2.3 7.6   99.6 2.0 16.4 3.3 99.7 2.4 13.7 9.3 99.5 2.2 14.8 2.6 96.8 1.7 15.1 3.1 94.1
Herstmonceux 7840 2.1 5.0   99.8 2.2 8.0 1.8 100.0 1.8 8.8 5.3 99.9 2.6 6.0 1.6 97.9 1.6 10.2 4.0 95.9
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.1 7.1   99.9 1.7 17.0 3.2 100.0 1.8 11.3 5.5 100.0 2.1 13.5 2.8 97.8        
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2.0 9.1   98.8 1.6 15.0 3.9 99.9 1.7 17.5 8.0 100.0 1.8 15.8 3.7 97.9 1.8 24.0 7.6 96.8
Changchun 7237 3.8 18.1   89.1 7.5 34.8 11.1 99.1 6.9 31.3 10.1 99.5 4.6 24.9 9.9 84.9 5.3 29.7 14.5 93.4
San_Fernando 7824 2.7 13.3   99.3 3.9 23.2 15.3 100.0 3.1 11.8 18.0 99.9 2.7 14.7 5.5 97.0 5.0 25.3 10.6 95.0
Simosato 7838 6.1 8.0   98.3 7.3 14.5 5.4 99.7 4.2 11.9 6.9 96.9 5.1 20.5 5.5 83.0 5.7 17.1 8.2 94.5
Greenbelt 7105 2.0 5.5   99.7 2.3 11.7 3.5 99.9 1.6 9.1 9.5 99.8 2.1 9.9 2.5 97.3 1.5 13.9 4.8 95.5
Potsdam_3 7841 3.8 9.3   99.5 3.8 14.0 1.7 98.7 3.6 11.3 14.5 99.3 2.8 12.0 4.8 93.0        
Beijing 7249         9.9 11.3 3.7 95.4 5.6 21.9 16.9 90.4 7.4 46.0 19.0 79.6 6.8 21.6 11.0 90.0
Riga 1884 3.3 11.1   100.0 4.3 15.8 21.0 100.0 2.4 14.4 24.7 100.0 4.5 15.8 26.6 90.4 5.0 15.5 14.0 96.2
McDonald 7080 2.1 9.4   100.0 2.2 14.8 4.5 100.0 2.3 17.6 12.9 99.7 2.5 11.5 3.4 97.1 1.8 15.2 3.1 95.7
Ajaccio 7848 2.0 9.4   100.0 1.5 3.7   100.0 2.4 8.7   100.0 3.7 19.6   93.6 2.1 11.2   97.8
Borowiec 7811 7.5 6.4   99.1 7.7 10.1 5.3 100.0 6.8 9.6 5.8 99.2 5.6 12.1 9.2 86.5 6.3 8.7 6.6 93.0
Maidanak_1 1864 9.2 13.1   84.6 20.4 22.5 18.5 100.0 13.6 18.6 18.0 96.7 10.4 18.5 11.5 79.8 16.9 23.4 15.4 80.2
Simeiz 1873 10.7 19.7   57.9 5.1 37.4 11.5 100.0 15.3 33.8 26.9 87.2 17.5 27.8 21.9 77.6 15.9 32.3   81.5
Papeete 7124         2.3 15.6 9.6 99.6 1.7 12.3 5.8 99.5 2.4 21.4 7.6 97.1 2.0 30.0 14.9 96.8
Lviv 1831         11.2 43.8 29.1 92.9 10.2 24.3 16.2 100.0                
Concepcion_423
Concepcion_847		 7405 3.9
 		 17.1
 		  
 		 83.9
 		 1.5
 		 24.7
 		 27.7
 		 100.0
 		 6.8
4.3		 11.0
18.5		 15.6
28.1		 100.0
99.2		  
4.5		  
27.4		  
11.7		  
91.3		  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 
Katzively 1893         19.5 40.3   100.0 13.0 43.1   98.7 7.7 18.8   82.3        
Urumqi 7355         15.8 26.9   85.0 12.6 37.9   98.6                
Tanegashima 7358         2.9 6.0   100.0