SLR Global Performance Report Card

January 1, 2005 through December 31, 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 9745 1552 1227 12524 183528 19655 13664 216847 159711 4.9 8.3 9.3
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 5286 1631 693 7610 83870 22642 5514 112026 101173 3.4 6.6 9.1
Zimmerwald_423
Zimmerwald_846		 7810 5454
5614		 1074
1117		 884
884		 7412
7615		 81830
82970		 15093
16949		 7478
7199		 104401
107118		 91572
94273		 10.0
19.1		 15.0
19.8		 17.6
21.5
Wettzell 8834 5655 952 433 7040 75310 6822 1962 84094 47559 3.3 10.6 16.6
Graz 7839 5554 768 507 6829 112966 9747 4119 126832 70700 2.3 4.4 8.1
Riyadh 7832 4896 1126 761 6783 68086 10065 4330 82481 63216 9.6 12.8 15.3
Herstmoncex 7840 4551 1014 436 6001 70105 12923 2086 85114 56302 7.8 12.4 15.4
Monument_Peak 7110 4440 712 239 5391 68817 5722 1670 76209 39599 5.8 11.7 13.2
Matera_MLRO 7941 2768 612 102 3482 38383 5622 590 44595 26997 1.5 4.4 6.5
Changchun 7237 2746 471 114 3331 30686 4053 572 35311 20653 12.3 13.9 14.1
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2205 390 121 2716 29889 3583 1158 34630 22839 5.6 7.8 10.1
San_Fernando 7824 2180 432   2612 31681 3214   34895 16331 7.2 11.3 18.8
Greenbelt 7105 2059 305 125 2489 45510 3413 757 49680 23512 5.3 10.2 10.1
Potsdam_3 7841 2010 322 12 2344 40459 3911 72 44442 19232 12.7 7.9 10.1
Simosato 7838 1845 456 4 2305 36804 6821 49 43674 25612 10.3 13.0 14.8
Riga 1884 1565 196 7 1768 30535 2541 30 33106 12759 7.1 15.4 14.2
Beijing 7249 1378 296 68 1742 19861 3025 470 23356 14668 14.3 91.5 32.9
Ajaccio 7848 1610 81   1691 29034 306   29340 9685 5.6 10.6 18.5
McDonald 7080 1000 344 198 1542 12860 3245 906 17011 14680 14.1 12.0 13.5
Borowiec 7811 839 190   1029 13785 2121   15906 8239 16.2 19.3 21.9
Maidanak_1 1864 621 257 144 1022 6847 2155 503 9505 9018   55.5 55.3
Simeiz 1873 526 200 12 738 6602 1767 74 8443 6151   40.4 53.2
Papeete 7124 573 89 1 663 9810 649 2 10461 4114 5.2 8.5 9.3
Grasse 7835 540 70   610 11638 629   12267 4466      
Concepcion_847
Concepcion_423		 7405 288
297		 207
56		 9
 		 504
353		 3147
2561		 1953
264		 31
 		 5131
2825		 5284
1469		 11.1
7.5		 12.2
14.5		 20.7
13.1
Shanghai 7837 430 66 3 499 6272 712 30 7014 3440      
Lviv 1831 361 135   496 6230 1142   7372 4233 14.1 48.8 53.9
Kiev 1824 319 49   368 3157 291   3448 1541 62.9 79.2 93.7
Helwan 7831 360     360 3778     3778 1170 6.0 24.7  
Tanegashim 7358 269 33 35 337 3224 236 171 3631 2367 2.6 4.5 8.2
Metsahovi 7806 220 1   221 3173 2   3175 776      
Katzively 1893 172 17 4 193 2684 124 15 2823 1179 72.7   68.7
Urumqi 7355 135 56   191 1614 576   2190 1645      
Grnblt_TLRS4 7130 105 35   140 1575 380   1955 1220 5.8 7.8 9.7
Koganei 7308 95 24 16 135 1373 219 111 1703 1581      
Shanghai_2 7821 95 13   108 1189 158   1347 642 12.2 20.2 27.6
Wuhan_2 7231 83 18   101 883 110   993 531 14.2 23.3 27.8

 

 

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 43 77 26 45.1

 

 

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		 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 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 2.5 7.2   99.3 2.6 13.1 1.8 99.9 2.0 12.6 6.8 100.0 2.5 15.4 3.5 97.9 1.7 11.8 2.5 94.7
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4.3 8.8   97.3 4.8 16.8 2.0 97.6 4.7 17.6 4.3 99.3 4.1 10.6 4.0 90.9 3.3 13.8 3.4 92.8
Zimmerwald_423
Zimmerwald_846		 7810 3.1
3.2		 5.4
5.1		  
 		 99.2
99.2		 3.1
3.8		 9.6
13.7		 4.6
3.9		 100.0
100.0		 2.9
3.2		 8.2
11.0		 4.1
4.5		 100.0
100.0		 4.2
4.0		 7.4
7.5		 2.5
3.0		 93.6
92.3		 2.3
2.8		 7.3
8.6		 3.2
4.9		 94.3
95.5
Wettzell 8834 3.1 9.8   99.8 3.0 13.1 3.2 100.0 3.3 14.3 4.6 100.0 2.8 11.5 1.3 97.4 3.1 16.4 4.2 96.3
Graz 7839 1.6 4.5   99.8 0.9 7.9 2.0 100.0 1.4 7.3 3.2 100.0 2.2 7.3 1.9 100.0 1.2 8.4 2.6 95.9
Riyadh 7832 2.9 12.0   99.4 2.9 15.3 1.3 99.9 2.9 13.9 5.5 99.8 3.5 23.5 16.6 96.8 2.7 18.4 8.0 95.9
Herstmonceux 7840 2.1 6.1   99.8 2.1 12.1 1.8 100.0 1.9 8.9 3.2 100.0 2.9 6.4 1.8 98.4 1.5 6.5 3.3 95.1
Monument_Peak 7110 2.5 5.7   99.0 2.1 14.4 3.8 99.7 2.1 12.0 7.8 100.0 2.2 12.2 3.2 97.7 1.6 11.1 3.0 95.4
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.2 9.5   98.8 2.4 17.9 3.1 100.0 2.1 15.1 5.0 100.0 2.4 13.7 2.4 98.5        
Changchun 7237 6.0 14.3   90.1 6.7 22.5 13.2 99.5 6.8 24.9 13.6 99.7 5.5 21.6 12.9 84.6 5.5 21.1 16.9 94.6
Hartebeesthoek 7501 1.6 8.9   100.0 1.1 14.2 7.0 100.0 1.6 12.3 3.9 99.5 1.7 11.7 4.8 99.0 1.6 18.5 6.9 97.6
San_Fernando 7824 2.8 14.6   97.3 3.8 25.4 15.0 100.0 3.2 16.7 18.0 99.9 5.5 17.7 6.4 96.0 3.8 23.1 12.2 95.2
Greenbelt 7105 2.0 6.0   99.7 1.7 20.3 2.1 100.0 1.7 12.8 7.9 100.0 2.1 13.6 2.9 98.8 1.4 12.1 4.8 94.9
Potsdam_3 7841 3.9 11.7   97.8 4.0 16.1 2.4 99.5 3.3 10.7 11.6 99.6 3.4 12.7 5.2 91.6        
Simosato 7838 4.9 9.9   98.3 5.5 16.5 2.6 100.0 3.6 12.6 5.5 99.8 5.3 17.3 6.8 84.2 4.7 14.8 8.3 96.4
Riga 1884 3.5 23.9   86.8 5.5 27.9 21.0 100.0 3.1 25.2 22.3 100.0 4.7 26.9 24.9 87.6 5.1 24.2 11.8 94.9
Beijing 7249 7.2 15.5   86.8 11.4 20.7 3.7 96.7 10.6 21.5 15.7 96.4 9.0 44.3 16.9 77.2 8.6 20.1 11.3 90.5
McDonald 7080 3.5 9.9   98.6 3.4 17.7 6.1 100.0 3.1 16.5 12.6 100.0 3.3 13.1 5.9 95.4 2.4 11.5 4.2 94.6
Borowiec 7811 7.3 8.9   96.5 9.1 15.5 5.6 100.0 9.0 14.5 4.9 99.8 6.0 11.1 8.8 81.1 6.6 11.1 4.1 93.4
Maidanak_1 1864 9.2 16.8   81.8 15.5 34.7 22.0 100.0 13.4 32.9 21.7 98.9 9.2 24.9 13.8 80.3 14.1 27.0 17.3 87.0
Simeiz 1873 10.0 14.5   71.0 1.2 28.1 11.1 100.0 18.5 35.1 23.8 94.1 13.0 29.5 22.1 74.7 17.8 22.5 12.5 88.8
Papeete 7124 2.0 17.8   100.0 1.8 15.2 11.2 100.0 1.6 12.3 7.6 100.0 1.6 25.6 6.0 97.7 1.2 15.9 16.4 97.9
Lviv 1831 5.9 24.1   34.2 14.1 32.2 24.8 100.0 16.7 37.0 23.7 100.0                
Kiev 1824 8.4 15.9   33.3 33.0 40.8   98.1                        
Concepcion_423
Concepcion_847		 7405 4.1
 		 24.4
 		  
 		 81.5
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		  
5.4		  
22.8		  
20.1		  
99.9		  
4.6		  
25.0		  
8.9		  
90.4		  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 
Tanegashima 7358         1.7 27.9   100.0 3.2 28.2   100.0                
Shanghai_2 7821                                 6.7 11.1   94.0