SLR Global Performance Report Card

January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011

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 11300 2066 3230 16596 193729 23665 18601 235995 196690 5.8 8.0 9.2
Zimmerwald_532 7810 8867 1694 4288 14849 165259 26841 27771 219871 238677 5.0 8.1 10.7
Matera_MLRO 7941 4756 1408 1484 7648 68927 16679 11871 97477 115149 1.2 2.9 5.2
Graz 7839 4677 695 1804 7176 87608 7013 12049 106670 99036 2.3 3.9 5.1
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 5383 901 346 6630 56282 7761 1561 65604 43026 6.3 4.2 12.5
Changchun 7237 5085 526 985 6596 52924 3420 4606 60950 45903 7.0 10.8 13.8
Herstmonceux 7840 3609 703 1596 5908 55127 8485 5843 69455 61578 6.1 11.1 14.5
Wettzell 8834 3823 888 851 5562 44020 7445 4350 55815 51505 6.1 11.4 15.3
Greenbelt 7105 4157 475 394 5026 79842 4535 2389 86766 43882 5.9 10.3 10.7
Monument_Peak 7110 3106 661 574 4341 55370 7413 3417 66200 48308 6.0 17.4 13.4
San_Juan 7406 2653 569 730 3952 36368 6854 5177 48399 50342 5.0 10.7 9.9
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2688 706 472 3866 40490 8044 3509 52043 46415 6.5 12.4 12.2
Potsdam_3 7841 2211 330 84 2625 45320 3798 713 49831 23442 8.0 11.9 14.9
Arequipa 7403 1931 146   2077 26674 1118   27792 10945 5.1 7.9 7.4
Shanghai_2 7821 1438 221 403 2062 15440 1190 2182 18812 18063 6.2 11.4 11.9
Grasse_MEO 7845 845 529 552 1926 29620 6324 2366 38310 32067 5.8 14.0 14.5
Katzively 1893 1413 240 210 1863 20156 1961 1455 23572 17582 34.3 60.2 38.1
San_Fernando 7824 1614 177 19 1810 18995 850 52 19897 8085 6.4 12.4 18.1
Simosato 7838 1233 431 124 1788 34329 10754 1461 46544 40840 5.3 8.1 9.8
Haleakala 7119 1415 367   1782 22818 4340   27158 15806 4.0 8.6 11.0
McDonald 7080 1133 373 188 1694 11327 3049 692 15068 13333 7.8 13.9 13.9
Concepcion_847 7405 1026 557 109 1692 13521 7552 774 21847 23953 6.3 14.2 17.5
Concepcion 7405 1     1 2     2        
Riga 1884 1394 104 2 1500 26605 922 11 27538 9286 7.2 12.6 12.6
Simeiz 1873 1108 296 10 1414 14898 2309 75 17282 9518   50.6 53.9
Kiev 1824 850 159 88 1097 6631 758 269 7658 4955 14.6 21.8 29.2
Altay 1879 203 207 461 871 2261 1434 2226 5921 14817     31.6
Koganei 7308 439 163 261 863 7267 1655 2264 11186 16929 7.7   13.9
Papeete 7124 530 151   681 9564 2112   11676 7200 4.3 7.5 9.4
Beijing 7249 563 45 1 609 7194 312 8 7514 2913      
Komsomolsk 1868 59 123 286 468 465 806 1274 2545 8206     36.5
Tanegashima 7358 232 22 40 294 2505 155 466 3126 3444 2.0 4.5 6.2
Arkhyz 1886 26 68 86 180 479 760 435 1674 3857   36.9 34.5
Koganei 7328 129 34   163 1868 373   2241 1319 23.2    
FTLRS_Tahiti 7822 69 16   85 1317 141   1458 726 4.1    
Helwan 7831 2     2 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
Grasse_MEO 7845 19 270 200 13.6
McDonald 7080 16 27    
Matera_MLRO 7941 4 9 3 52.5

 

 

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 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 4.0 16.2 3.4 100.0 2.3 9.5 4.8 100.0 4.8 28.9 3.8 98.2 2.8 14.5 2.2 97.2 2.9 13.0 3.2 96.6
Zimmerwald_532 7810 2.6 15.4 7.9 99.2 1.3 5.2 5.8 100.0 3.0 21.0 8.2 99.3 2.5 9.6 3.0 98.1 2.0 12.2 2.7 97.7
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.9 14.4 2.6 100.0 1.9 7.9 5.1 100.0 3.1 22.5 4.9 99.2 2.4 14.4 3.3 98.8 2.4 31.2 4.5 97.9
Graz 7839 2.0 12.4 5.2 100.0 1.4 5.9 6.9 100.0 3.0 27.6 6.5 97.0 2.0 13.7 6.1 97.8 2.0 7.9 7.4 100.0
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 5.7 15.8 5.6 99.7 4.5 13.1 4.3 100.0 3.0 17.6 5.2 79.1 437.8 10.0 5.4 89.9        
Changchun 7237 4.2 17.7 12.0 99.1 2.8 16.1 8.8 99.4 3.8 24.1 4.4 96.0 3.5 17.1 14.6 96.3 2.8 19.3 16.8 98.8
Herstmonceux 7840 2.6 13.3 5.8 100.0 1.6 6.3 3.8 100.0 3.1 24.4 5.1 99.8 2.6 10.5 2.7 96.4 2.4 11.4 3.5 98.5
Wettzell 8834 2.8 14.8 7.0 100.0 2.1 6.7 3.4 100.0 2.8 18.3 6.0 100.0 2.4 8.1 5.1 99.1 1.2 16.4 5.0 98.3
Greenbelt 7105 4.7 16.4 4.1 99.7 2.7 11.4 3.3 99.4 5.6 26.6 7.4 99.1 3.1 16.6 6.1 95.3 2.7 10.2 3.2 96.5
Monument_Peak 7110 4.0 24.6 7.8 100.0 1.9 16.0 3.7 100.0 5.3 28.7 4.2 96.5 2.5 19.6 7.6 98.3 1.6 24.8 4.0 98.0
San_Juan 7406 7.8 28.8 8.0 98.1 4.0 17.4 6.7 99.2 6.9 31.8 3.1 92.6 6.1 20.9 6.4 95.8        
Hartebeesthoek 7501 4.2 19.2 4.3 99.9 2.5 11.4 4.0 99.9 4.8 30.3 6.6 97.3 3.0 14.9 7.5 98.0        
Potsdam_3 7841 3.7 12.7 4.9 99.8 2.0 7.7 6.3 99.5 4.2 26.6   99.3 2.4 10.2 4.1 97.1        
Arequipa 7403 2.4 13.9 6.9 99.4 1.9 18.8   98.9 3.7 34.1   92.4                
Shanghai_2 7821 5.3 25.7 31.2 99.7 4.5 12.1 16.3 100.0 5.0 20.3 13.0 99.0 4.7 19.7 15.9 99.6        
Grasse_MEO 7845 3.8 21.3 8.7 100.0 2.5 16.6 6.2 100.0 4.1 30.1 7.7 99.0 2.9 15.7 8.9 97.1 2.1 15.5 3.9 97.4
Katzively 1893 11.2 23.2 27.2 97.9 9.0 19.1 17.4 99.8 8.9 27.9 8.0 89.7 8.9 18.4 17.0 93.8 6.3 21.8 11.7 96.2
San_Fernando 7824 4.6 20.2 15.2 100.0 3.8 13.8 14.1 100.0 3.8 22.9   97.6 3.8 15.8 13.2 99.4        
Simosato 7838 5.3 26.4 9.8 96.7 2.9 16.6 4.3 99.9 6.0 34.3 7.7 94.1 4.9 21.6 6.7 99.7 4.4 15.9 7.6 95.6
Haleakala 7119 3.4 19.8 3.5 98.2 2.2 11.9 3.3 99.8 4.3 28.5 7.5 98.6 3.2 27.2 9.4 99.7        
McDonald 7080 4.2 17.5 10.8 99.7 3.3 9.5 3.2 100.0 4.6 21.3 7.1 98.0 3.5 13.8 9.5 92.8        
Concepcion_847 7405 3.0 25.4 6.5 99.1 1.7 21.8 7.3 100.0 5.2 34.8 11.0 93.4 2.5 24.8 12.6 99.8        
Riga 1884 12.5 24.1 28.6 97.4 8.5 23.3 29.2 99.4 9.0 30.9 29.4 91.9                
Simeiz 1873 32.7 43.7 11.8 61.0 81.6 55.6   93.6         77.1 64.0 30.2 87.4 35.6 41.4   67.9
Kiev 1824 14.1 35.8 22.4 87.2 13.3 34.7 28.2 90.8 7.3 36.2 15.4 70.1 15.0 33.8 32.1 95.2        
Altay 1879                         4.7 21.2 10.2 96.3        
Koganei 7308 4.5 29.4   95.8 3.0 59.3 29.3 100.0 4.4 29.3 24.6 26.7 3.3 36.9 34.3 97.6        
Papeete 7124 3.3 19.7 5.4 100.0 1.9 13.2 10.9 100.0 3.5 35.8 12.0 98.9 3.2 13.3 6.9 98.6        
Komsomolsk 1868         9.7 41.0 35.0 99.1         7.8 47.9 14.4 92.9        
Arkhyz 1886 9.1 37.7   88.3 8.5 28.9   99.5 9.0 30.5   71.0 7.2 31.5 8.3 95.0