SLR Global Performance Report Card

July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014

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 11617 2458 5601 19676 188687 21630 21250 231567 157011 5.9 8.3 10.2
Changchun 7237 8913 1279 5843 16035 73625 7856 16081 97562 59162 8.7 12.0 15.8
Zimmerwald_532 7810 6874 1375 4549 12798 111578 19974 18612 150164 116511 5.2 8.8 11.0
Wettzell 8834 5404 851 4140 10395 54789 6073 14957 75819 50269 6.8 10.2 13.4
Graz 7839 4310 697 3171 8178 78445 5651 18606 102702 58017 2.0 3.6 5.0
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 5273 871 900 7044 67299 6289 3331 76919 57832 3.4 6.9 10.2
Herstmonceux 7840 3294 740 2189 6223 41520 7134 6647 55301 41768 7.2 15.6 15.3
Greenbelt 7105 4451 809 796 6056 82342 7988 3313 93643 61332 4.4 8.2 10.5
Monument_Peak 7110 3998 821 555 5374 71640 6991 1607 80238 53814 7.1 12.8 14.1
Matera_MLRO 7941 2802 1080 1167 5049 33966 9379 5208 48553 48106 1.2 3.1 3.9
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2716 947 641 4304 44523 9354 3945 57822 52375 6.8 13.0 12.8
Shanghai_2 7821 2069 378 1437 3884 17315 1945 5055 24315 15789 5.1 10.3 11.6
San_Juan 7406 1971 602 771 3344 32820 6485 4720 44025 37676 13.2   13.9
Potsdam_3 7841 2679 298 269 3246 47611 3147 2102 52860 31236 7.3 10.7 12.9
Arequipa 7403 2839 271   3110 31448 1791   33239 24670 5.6 11.0 9.0
Grasse_MEO 7845 895 559 877 2331 34406 6624 3343 44373 32069 9.0   16.2
Haleakala 7119 1609 450   2059 19002 4249   23251 24303 5.2 9.3 15.0
Arkhyz 1886 795 330 772 1897 5065 1731 2837 9633 8742   9.5 9.3
Simosato 7838 1386 379 106 1871 26801 6768 857 34426 37738 4.3 6.2 10.0
Beijing 7249 1097 167 567 1831 11654 1228 2782 15664 10538 5.7 9.8 16.9
Badary 1890 1302 208 239 1749 12924 1101 784 14809 11215   11.5 10.2
Kunming 7820 1495 224   1719 22333 1435   23768 16809 6.5 21.8 23.7
Katzively 1893 1474 205 28 1707 14539 1246 154 15939 11824 29.3 37.6 36.8
Daedoek 7359 1035 268 362 1665 25528 4362 3713 33603 30494 6.1 8.5 10.8
McDonald 7080 1044 348 249 1641 10387 2769 917 14073 14808 6.8 10.1 11.1
Altay 1879 171 152 1267 1590 1984 890 5380 8254 3950     7.8
Papeete 7124 806 216 428 1450 10940 1803 1819 14562 12098 6.5 7.8 8.6
Svetloe 1888 948 276 113 1337 9954 1991 534 12479 12899   16.2 14.2
Simeiz 1873 946 216 109 1271 12510 1621 561 14692 11229   11.6 12.7
Kiev 1824 1097 126 29 1252 8640 561 75 9276 6652 13.8    
Baikonur 1887 72 424 575 1071 695 3360 2135 6190 10775   4.6 8.7
Komsomolsk 1868 34 87 862 983 229 427 2709 3365 1496      
Zelenchukskya 1889 250 126 519 895 2314 904 1598 4816 4291   10.8 6.0
Concepcion_847 7405 577 208 74 859 5262 2083 429 7774 10005      
Koganei 7308 261 115 230 606 3523 885 1304 5712 4783      
San_Fernando 7824 537     537 6225     6225 4073      
Riga 1884 49     49 670     670 361      

 

 

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 94 362 50 37.1
McDonald 7080 7 15    
Matera_MLRO 7941 6 10    

 

 

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 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 3.8 17.0 2.6 100.0 2.0 8.5 1.2 100.0 2.7 16.7 2.6 99.6 2.3 18.1 3.5 98.2 1.9 11.2 2.4 91.4
Changchun 7237 6.1 24.1 4.1 99.3 4.5 23.9 4.6 99.7 2.4 29.4 5.4 96.9 4.0 22.4 10.1 95.5 2.6 31.6 11.7 92.7
Zimmerwald_532 7810 2.9 10.8 2.5 99.9 1.4 6.0 0.7 100.0 1.9 12.0 2.2 99.9 2.2 14.3 2.2 98.1 1.6 9.2 2.1 94.6
Wettzell 8834 3.0 13.8 2.4 99.8 1.8 8.4 4.0 100.0 1.7 12.4 4.4 98.7 2.1 14.5 2.8 97.2 1.7 12.1 3.3 91.8
Graz 7839 2.6 10.8 2.6 100.0 1.1 6.1 2.1 100.0 0.6 14.5 5.8 100.0 2.0 13.6 4.2 97.3 0.6 11.1 3.0 94.2
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4.6 14.9 2.0 100.0 2.7 10.8 1.7 100.0 4.7 15.9 1.8 100.0 3.6 20.1 5.6 95.3 2.1 10.8 3.1 93.7
Herstmonceux 7840 3.3 11.1 3.3 100.0 1.7 6.6 1.1 99.9 1.4 11.1 2.8 99.9 2.6 8.6 2.1 97.5 1.2 10.4 3.1 96.8
Greenbelt 7105 3.9 14.2 6.6 100.0 2.1 7.8 2.3 100.0 2.3 12.4 4.0 99.6 2.4 20.5 8.6 97.4 2.3 11.3 4.0 90.4
Monument_Peak 7110 5.8 21.0 3.4 99.9 2.9 13.0 3.1 99.8 2.8 21.0 4.7 98.6 3.9 15.4 3.9 97.1 3.0 15.2 2.9 89.1
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.7 14.2 3.8 100.0 0.9 8.0 2.4 100.0 1.1 22.9 3.7 100.0 1.7 12.2 4.6 99.3 1.0 31.4 6.2 97.0
Hartebeesthoek 7501 4.0 16.9 3.8 100.0 2.0 8.6 3.1 100.0 2.3 16.8 3.8 99.3 2.7 20.3 7.2 97.7 2.1 16.2 5.1 93.8
Shanghai_2 7821 2.5 20.0 16.9 100.0 1.1 14.9 14.2 100.0 2.0 30.2 20.0 100.0 2.3 21.7 15.1 100.0 1.8 16.0 12.0 92.4
San_Juan 7406 9.7 31.4 36.5 99.3 6.0 30.2 21.3 98.3 4.7 31.2 16.8 90.2 64.2 33.3 9.3 92.2 6.1 29.8 12.2 89.8
Potsdam_3 7841 4.6 10.9 4.3 99.5 2.1 6.6 2.7 99.2 3.6 20.4 4.0 98.1 2.2 10.8 4.8 97.6        
Arequipa 7403 5.5 23.5 7.1 99.6 2.0 30.1 12.7 99.6 2.3 27.0 12.0 98.6 2.8 17.1 8.2 97.2 1.4 16.6 9.3 89.5
Grasse_MEO 7845 4.7 13.5 3.9 100.0 2.8 13.4 2.9 100.0 3.0 17.2 2.0 99.1 3.0 16.7 4.5 97.7 2.5 10.3 3.0 95.4
Haleakala 7119 7.5 22.1 7.0 98.9 4.3 11.1 2.1 98.9 4.7 18.8 6.1 94.9 7.7 20.8 10.4 96.7        
Arkhyz 1886 9.3 26.8 23.1 100.0 6.8 26.7 23.5 100.0 3.9 42.2 28.6 96.1 5.3 21.0 13.9 94.8        
Simosato 7838 5.5 13.9 11.3 99.9 3.1 10.3 9.8 99.8 3.8 9.8 7.2 98.1 4.3 18.7 7.1 98.8 4.3 11.6 5.6 91.6
Beijing 7249 9.4 18.1 10.5 97.3 11.3 17.0 9.9 100.0 4.5 22.9 10.5 85.4 5.7 8.4 12.1 93.2        
Badary 1890 8.2 20.0 5.6 99.5 34.3 15.7 4.7 100.0 3.3 21.0 9.7 92.3 5.7 13.9 9.8 97.0        
Kunming 7820 7.1 55.7 37.0 100.0 3.6 53.8 37.4 100.0 4.9 56.0 40.2 99.0 3.5 16.8   99.5        
Katzively 1893 18.9 23.3 7.9 93.2 23.8 28.8 8.2 96.7 3.5 29.8 8.7 64.5 27.1 32.2 25.7 78.5        
Daedoek 7359 4.0 12.9   98.8 4.2 15.6   99.8 1.6 15.2   99.3 3.1 24.9   98.5        
McDonald 7080 3.9 16.0 5.8 100.0 2.3 9.9 2.7 100.0 2.4 16.3 5.4 99.7 2.4 17.7 7.1 97.3 2.1 11.7 5.9 95.2
Altay 1879 6.1 19.9 21.7 100.0 3.6 19.1 38.3 100.0 3.0 16.5 7.8 98.8 3.4 20.1 14.6 97.7        
Papeete 7124 4.2 14.5 4.9 100.0 2.0 11.8 3.5 100.0 2.3 12.9 5.9 100.0 2.7 21.5 8.0 100.0 5.1 27.7 12.5 95.7
Svetloe 1888 7.9 22.2 9.5 100.0 5.8 14.7 11.5 100.0 5.2 24.4   93.9 6.6 16.5 17.1 96.3 8.9 28.6   87.3
Simeiz 1873         24.4 35.1 16.6 97.4 4.7 36.1 14.8 50.3 20.4 43.5 19.2 84.9        
Kiev 1824 16.3 51.7 42.2 87.7 85.7 59.3 35.6 89.3 3.6 50.4 39.0 63.5 14.2 38.7 50.5 86.0        
Baikonur 1887 12.7 19.1 28.6 100.0 9.3 23.4 32.9 99.1 5.4 27.2 20.4 80.4 8.1 22.0 15.5 89.7        
Komsomolsk 1868 8.5 68.2 16.4 100.0 2.9 52.4 15.6 100.0         3.5 51.6 43.2 98.3        
Zelenchukskya 1889 8.0 19.3 10.7 100.0 6.7 13.6 7.9 100.0         7.2 14.5 12.3 98.6        
San_Fernando 7824 7.2 29.4   100.0