SLR Global Performance Report Card

January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007

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 9157 1799 1333 12289 185376 23606 12582 221564 159023 4.8 8.8 9.5
Zimmerwald_423
Zimmerwald_846		 7810 5812
5736		 1192
1199		 686
625		 7690
7560		 91464
90428		 14378
16171		 4363
3563		 110205
110162		 75943
75403		 11.5
24.9		 14.3
21.6		 17.6
24.7
San_Juan 7406 5022 892 1173 7087 79811 11156 7721 98688 83366 8.5 24.9 14.2
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4882 1193 502 6577 61919 11713 3325 76957 61113 3.2 4.7 6.5
Graz 7839 4811 825 529 6165 96207 9263 4380 109850 64786 2.3 4.0 8.0
Wettzell 8834 4152 1041 518 5711 43944 8055 2288 54287 42329 5.8 12.9 18.5
Changchun 7237 4361 772 541 5674 48622 6321 2810 57753 40822 14.1 14.4 17.5
Riyadh 7832 3773 970 658 5401 48095 8135 3881 60111 51027 11.2 14.2 17.2
Herstmoncex 7840 3858 932 413 5203 60840 11396 1843 74079 47268 6.1 10.1 12.9
Concepcion_847
Concepcion_423		 7405 2188
21		 1078
4		 238
 		 3504
25		 30884
185		 14860
19		 1897
 		 47641
204		 50858
120		 5.4
4.1		 10.1
8.3		 12.0
10.4
Matera_MLRO 7941 2261 753 232 3246 31590 8142 2076 41808 37355 2.1 5.0 5.9
San_Fernando 7824 2587 523 52 3162 38147 4072 286 42505 21414 5.2 11.5 15.1
Monument_Peak 7110 2482 484 192 3158 48238 5188 1664 55090 31832 5.3 13.2 15.9
Arequipa 7403 2065 218   2283 24398 1481   25879 10793 5.5 7.9 6.9
Greenbelt 7105 1830 321 69 2220 41050 3412 400 44862 19619 5.6 8.7 9.5
Beijing 7249 1702 339 154 2195 23782 3267 1213 28262 20292 7.3 16.9 16.6
Potsdam_3 7841 1724 304   2028 32666 3532   36198 15563 12.2 14.7 19.2
McDonald 7080 1378 412 236 2026 15249 3735 925 19909 16535 15.8 13.1 12.5
Hartebeesthoek 7501 1535 304 35 1874 19676 2708 214 22598 12756 6.0 7.8 10.4
Haleakala 7119 1488 350   1838 23479 4056   27535 15518 4.8 9.9 9.9
Katzively 1893 1192 287 36 1515 19542 2453 227 22222 12395 31.1 42.8 40.2
Koganei 7308 703 248 164 1115 10638 2529 1509 14676 16316 9.7 13.1 15.5
Shanghai_2 7821 957 53 3 1013 11459 486 22 11967 4865 14.6 22.1 24.8
Simosato 7838 717 266 1 984 13349 3914 11 17274 12255      
Maidanak_1 1864 509 216 141 866 6086 1672 600 8358 7849   51.1 69.5
Riga 1884 557 111   668 9965 1134   11099 4912 7.4 9.0 12.0
Simeiz 1873 450 151 11 612 5375 1348 166 6889 4944   54.8 58.7
Borowiec 7811 360 99 4 463 5910 1039 14 6963 3961 13.8 19.8  
Tanegashim 7358 240 70 54 364 4071 683 464 5218 4896 3.3 4.5 5.8
Lviv 1831 127 18   145 2344 166   2510 1055 14.3 47.6 70.0
Burnie_Tafe 7370 100 2   102 1957 12   1969 686 5.9 11.7 17.7
Helwan 7831 54     54 379     379 113 6.0 8.4  
Kunming 7820 18 2   20 262 15   277 118 18.5 16.9 37.4
Papeete 7124 19     19 254     254 83      
NRL 7865 9     9 131     131 10      
Kiev 1824 1     1 12     12 6      

 

 

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 39 79 38 66.9
Matera_MLRO 7941 1 2    

 

 

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 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 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 2.8 30.9 4.6 100.0 1.9 9.1 2.1 100.0 3.5 15.0   99.8 2.3 12.4 1.9 98.3 2.3 16.5 1.6 95.4
Zimmerwald_423
Zimmerwald_846		 7810 3.3
4.2		 24.1
25.8		 4.1
5.2		 100.0
100.0		 2.7
3.3		 6.6
7.1		 1.5
2.3		 100.0
99.9		 3.5
4.0		 14.7
13.7		  
 		 99.4
99.3		 3.2
3.6		 6.9
7.7		 2.4
3.0		 96.9
95.5		 2.7
3.6		 13.4
13.8		 1.9
2.8		 95.3
94.4
San_Juan 7406 3.9 30.9 6.4 100.0 2.9 28.7 7.1 99.8 4.4 15.2   97.3 4.6 18.2 7.2 99.8 3.8 23.9 6.3 96.0
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4.1 30.5 6.2 100.0 4.0 13.3 3.8 99.7 4.2 12.7   96.4 4.4 14.4 2.1 94.5 3.6 17.1 2.6 95.3
Graz 7839 1.8 26.0 4.8 100.0 1.1 5.8 1.1 100.0 2.4 15.0   98.6 1.9 6.2 2.1 99.1 1.4 10.2 2.2 95.4
Wettzell 8834 3.5 32.5 7.6 100.0 3.0 14.0 4.5 100.0 3.8 14.0   99.5 2.9 11.7 2.0 97.5 2.7 19.5 3.4 96.5
Changchun 7237 7.8 40.7 9.1 100.0 7.0 22.2 10.0 99.8 8.3 24.4   96.6 7.2 18.7 5.6 94.9 6.0 23.1 5.2 94.9
Riyadh 7832 3.5 45.5 8.7 100.0 2.7 16.0 4.0 100.0 3.9 16.1   99.2 3.3 18.6 8.1 96.5 2.6 28.0 4.4 96.0
Herstmoncex 7840 2.1 24.2 8.6 100.0 1.5 7.1 4.3 100.0 2.9 11.4   99.3 2.5 8.3 3.6 99.0 1.9 12.0 2.2 95.3
Concepcion_423
Concepcion_847		 7405  
2.4		  
31.7		  
3.4		  
100.0		  
1.5		  
12.8		  
2.4		  
100.0		  
3.5		  
17.6		  
 		  
99.8		  
2.5		  
18.5		  
3.4		  
100.0		  
2.1		  
26.3		  
5.4		  
97.4
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.3 33.5 10.5 100.0 1.8 11.5 9.5 100.0         2.3 12.0 7.5 98.0 1.5 20.1   100.0
San_Fernando 7824 2.7 39.1 14.4 100.0 2.9 15.6 6.7 100.0 3.9 27.3   99.2 3.8 12.2 6.5 98.5 3.0 25.6 7.8 95.6
Monument_Peak 7110 3.0 31.0 8.8 100.0 1.9 7.7 4.8 100.0 3.4 6.1   99.3 2.6 11.2 3.8 99.0 2.2 15.9 3.5 96.8
Arequipa 7403 2.8 40.2 15.9 100.0 2.8 28.3 8.7 100.0 8.1 30.2   62.1 3.0 13.0 6.4 96.1 2.0 19.5 8.6 95.6
Greenbelt 7105 2.1 31.4 4.9 100.0 1.6 13.1 4.4 100.0 2.5 14.0   100.0 2.1 14.5 7.5 99.4 1.7 12.6 3.2 96.8
Beijing 7249 7.5 40.8 23.2 100.0 6.8 25.1 6.1 97.3 6.1 19.8   88.0 8.0 18.9 9.6 97.1 6.3 28.4 5.6 95.0
Potsdam_3 7841 4.3 32.3 13.7 100.0 3.4 11.3 4.2 99.7 5.2 11.2   98.8 3.3 10.1 4.6 93.7        
McDonald 7080 3.5 41.0 10.2 100.0 2.4 15.1 4.6 99.7 4.2 10.6   99.1 3.2 17.0 5.9 96.6 2.7 17.9 5.9 95.5
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2.4 42.2 14.5 100.0 2.1 23.0 7.5 100.0 3.7 13.0   98.5 2.0 18.0 3.8 98.9 1.8 23.1 8.0 94.7
Haleakala 7119 3.2 41.8 5.5 100.0 2.0 10.8 2.8 99.9 3.7 10.6   99.6 3.4 12.4   99.6 4.1 29.9 12.7 93.7
Katzively 1893 11.0 46.3 12.1 100.0 7.6 17.6 11.7 98.3 7.6 24.2   86.8 7.9 26.2 14.4 89.2 8.9 21.1 21.5 94.4
Koganei 7308 5.1 45.1 12.7 100.0 4.3 15.5 9.3 99.9 5.6 13.7   98.2 5.0 13.1 6.8 97.6 4.5 24.7 6.6 96.6
Maidanak_1 1864 24.8 50.0 12.5 100.0 23.5 32.4 17.7 89.7 10.0 25.3   57.3 25.5 33.5 13.6 80.6 23.4 27.9 11.1 78.7
Riga 1884         3.6 14.3 13.3 100.0 6.2 7.7   100.0 4.9 18.9 16.7 100.0 3.2 18.5 12.2 93.1
Simeiz 1873 25.1 48.9 49.5 100.0         4.8 34.7   35.0 51.2 61.6   78.2 28.4 25.4 16.7 61.1
Tanegashim 7358 2.0 36.5 30.0 100.0 1.6 26.1 29.7 100.0 5.7 22.0   98.2         3.4 33.5   92.4