SLR Global Performance Report Card

July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010

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 11343 2152 1783 15278 243687 26087 15404 285178 189371 5.4 8.2 8.7
Changchun 7237 6615 734 441 7790 71856 5446 2115 79417 41368 5.5 10.9 13.3
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 6223 1129 365 7717 69931 11235 2532 83698 58637 3.9 3.8 6.4
Zimmerwald_532 7810 4728 932 876 6536 94464 13363 7528 115355 88804 5.5 8.5 11.1
Herstmonceux 7840 4131 842 891 5864 66355 9710 3318 79383 52883 4.9 10.1 13.2
Graz 7839 4558 625 487 5670 88164 6520 3777 98461 53420 2.1 4.3 5.1
San_Juan 7406 3364 736 923 5023 49230 7711 5764 62705 58423 7.1 8.7 8.5
Greenbelt 7105 3828 570 362 4760 81867 5300 2317 89484 41518 5.3 9.3 10.0
Matera_MLRO 7941 3013 934 493 4440 42685 10611 4233 57529 56100 1.1 3.4 4.7
Concepcion_847 7405 2327 770 379 3476 28518 9218 2687 40423 41421 6.4    
Concepcion 7405 377 108 3 488 3617 797 17 4431 2956      
San_Fernando 7824 3033 292 96 3421 39179 1617 456 41252 17206 5.1 11.1 14.9
Wettzell 8834 2276 425 160 2861 30405 3380 730 34515 19879      
Potsdam_3 7841 2371 405 61 2837 47408 4193 403 52004 22598 10.8 12.8 15.5
Koganei 7308 1584 348 368 2300 24805 3235 3280 31320 30498 9.6   15.5
Grasse_MEO 7845 1053 578 577 2208 33212 7414 2988 43614 38480 5.5 16.2 14.2
Haleakala 7119 1772 402   2174 30608 4620   35228 18241 4.7 9.9 11.0
Katzively 1893 1631 163 216 2010 25405 1193 1434 28032 17120 33.6 67.1 40.6
Monument_Peak 7110 1319 320 277 1916 24670 3700 2159 30529 24292 5.4 15.0 13.5
Hartebeesthoek 7501 1409 303 90 1802 21518 2874 585 24977 14945 12.7 19.1 14.1
Riyadh 7832 1259 296 196 1751 15272 2232 1148 18652 15116 10.4 13.7 16.3
McDonald 7080 1056 342 196 1594 12131 3302 768 16201 14094 8.8 12.0 13.2
Shanghai_2 7821 1169 167 146 1482 12713 1021 769 14503 9727 6.1 11.0 11.5
Simeiz 1873 1023 238 60 1321 13910 1887 372 16169 10146   42.0 35.3
Kiev 1824 1006 131 13 1150 8460 615 39 9114 4058 9.8 21.2 22.2
Riga 1884 858 74   932 18051 722   18773 6221 6.4 10.8 12.6
Arequipa 7403 663 45   708 7720 342   8062 3056 5.5 9.8 6.6
Borowiec 7811 475 41   516 5017 252   5269 2184      
Simosato 7838 386 114 1 501 6373 1493 4 7870 5272 6.3 10.8 11.1
Tanegashima 7358 331 79 85 495 3979 541 465 4985 4611      
Papeete 7124 286 64 16 366 4679 813 71 5563 3441 6.7 25.4 25.2
Altay 1879 56 87 150 293 559 531 560 1650 4069     28.6
Lviv 1831 226 13   239 4061 115   4176 1453      
Komsomolsk 1868 28 117 75 220 159 671 251 1081 2676     34.2
Grasse 7829 73     73 1422     1422 453      
Beijing 7249 46 5 3 54 612 55 18 685 383      
NRL 7865 1     1 25     25 2      

 

 

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 30 52 9 52.3
Matera_MLRO 7941 1 6    
Grasse_MEO 7845 1 4 4 36.3

 

 

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 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 3.7 19.0 2.9 100.0 2.1 10.0 2.6 99.9 4.6 20.7 3.3 99.5 2.4 15.0 3.1 97.9 2.0 11.7 3.0 95.2
Changchun 7237 5.9 28.5 8.4 98.7 3.9 23.1 7.9 99.0 5.8 22.1 4.8 93.5 3.9 24.6 9.9 95.5 2.9 25.5 3.3 94.8
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 5.4 19.5 3.2 100.0 4.0 12.7 2.6 100.0 5.2 19.6 3.9 98.4 3.8 11.8 1.5 95.5 3.2 13.6 4.5 94.9
Zimmerwald_532 7810 2.5 16.6 3.7 100.0 1.6 9.3 3.1 100.0 3.3 21.0 3.2 98.4 2.2 7.4 2.4 98.8 1.2 11.0 2.3 95.7
Herstmonceux 7840 3.1 14.4 3.7 100.0 1.9 8.0 2.4 100.0 3.5 17.4 2.7 99.7 2.5 7.6 2.3 98.6 1.7 8.7 3.1 96.5
Graz 7839 2.6 15.1 3.5 100.0 1.3 8.3 3.7 100.0 2.4 18.8 16.2 99.8 1.9 8.9 2.8 98.8 1.1 11.4 1.8 97.1
San_Juan 7406 6.9 48.9 6.5 93.1 3.3 52.2 8.4 99.1 8.8 29.8 9.5 88.2 6.1 17.3 9.4 98.1 4.4 21.1 8.2 95.8
Greenbelt 7105 3.6 16.3 5.7 100.0 2.6 11.1 2.6 100.0 6.1 20.2 3.4 99.3 2.5 14.9 4.1 99.4 1.6 16.9 7.9 96.0
Matera_MLRO 7941 3.2 14.9 3.8 99.9 2.2 9.2 4.6 99.9 3.3 17.2 7.0 99.5 2.6 11.6 4.4 98.6 2.6 27.9 3.9 98.5
Concepcion_847 7405 3.1 23.4 10.1 93.3                                
Concepcion 7405                         4.5 28.9 12.7 98.8        
San_Fernando 7824 3.5 21.4 10.2 100.0 2.5 13.1 8.1 100.0 4.0 22.4 7.9 100.0 3.3 12.9 11.2 98.8 2.3 26.4 7.5 97.3
Potsdam_3 7841 4.3 19.3 11.2 99.4 2.7 11.1 11.0 99.5 4.5 16.3 6.6 99.1 3.5 12.2 9.9 95.2        
Grasse_MEO 7845 4.2 19.9 5.8 100.0 2.4 16.1 7.1 100.0 4.0 18.4 6.3 99.3 3.2 10.9 4.1 96.9 2.1 11.0 4.0 95.2
Haleakala 7119 4.4 24.2 5.5 99.9 2.7 16.2 3.9 99.8 5.0 17.7 4.1 99.1 3.5 27.3 9.0 98.8 3.0 28.6 13.2 97.3
Katzively 1893 11.7 28.9 10.1 100.0                 7.4 27.2 12.0 91.4 7.7 29.0 18.2 94.6
Monument_Peak 7110 4.0 21.3 5.9 100.0 1.9 9.3 4.1 100.0 4.8 18.8 6.7 99.2 2.6 19.2 4.1 98.1 1.7 14.3 2.9 96.0
Riyadh 7832 3.6 18.0 10.3 100.0 2.3 12.0 5.2 100.0 4.0 26.3 3.4 97.6 3.7 27.8 6.9 97.0 2.5 30.4 13.6 96.9
McDonald 7080 3.6 23.6 4.5 98.8 2.5 12.9 4.4 100.0 5.6 24.2 4.4 95.4 2.8 17.7 5.9 97.9 1.9 15.4 4.5 96.8
Shanghai_2 7821 3.9 34.8   100.0 3.2 41.3   100.0         5.5 27.8 23.5 100.0 3.3 33.4   96.4
Simeiz 1873                         34.8 40.1 31.2 80.6        
Kiev 1824 22.7 34.2 22.9 83.6 19.0 43.8 22.0 83.9 2.8 18.6 17.9 56.2 22.7 38.2 28.3 83.7        
Riga 1884 13.7 23.1 32.1 93.1                                
Arequipa 7403 13.2 56.4   100.0 3.0 56.3   100.0 8.1 30.5   58.9 2.7 15.9   99.3 2.0 18.1   97.0
Simosato 7838 7.3 40.6   99.4 3.5 20.3   99.3         5.5 24.6   98.2 5.2 18.3   93.0
Papeete 7124 5.8 14.6   99.5 3.9 8.4   100.0 6.1 21.9   97.7 5.6 16.9   99.0        
Altay 1879 5.6 33.9 22.4 95.1                 3.7 18.4 12.1 97.8        
Komsomolsk 1868 19.7 52.8 44.0 98.3                 11.6 23.8 15.2 94.4