SLR Global Performance Report Card

April 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012

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 11325 1963 3928 17216 190456 23260 21493 235209 210947 5.5 7.9 9.2
Zimmerwald_532 7810 9028 1725 5078 15831 155390 25347 28921 209658 239706 4.7 8.5 11.0
Graz 7839 4742 747 2541 8030 79868 6404 15504 101776 114027 2.2 3.7 5.1
Matera_MLRO 7941 4778 1444 1478 7700 61764 15851 10598 88213 105263 1.4 3.2 5.2
Changchun 7237 4991 700 1760 7451 45458 4158 7546 57162 59779 4.4 9.8 12.8
Herstmonceux 7840 3844 810 1964 6618 54156 8882 6680 69718 67890 6.3 11.2 14.3
Greenbelt 7105 5208 666 577 6451 97397 6451 3246 107094 57155 5.9 10.0 10.6
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4980 763 296 6039 49198 5128 1237 55563 34022 3.5 5.7 7.6
Wettzell 8834 3675 815 832 5322 36258 6106 3929 46293 44283 5.2 11.7 15.4
San_Juan 7406 3070 592 948 4610 41125 7024 6282 54431 57901 5.3 11.0 9.3
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2768 723 487 3978 41951 8414 3687 54052 48450 5.8 13.3 10.9
Monument_Peak 7110 2756 581 538 3875 48742 6440 3146 58328 43140 6.8 10.7 12.5
San_Fernando 7824 2374 241 18 2633 27120 1113 49 28282 11385 6.3 12.9 17.8
Potsdam_3 7841 2101 333 114 2548 37295 3686 873 41854 22261 8.2 12.3 14.8
Katzively 1893 1551 318 256 2125 20427 2567 1707 24701 20131 34.8 68.3 38.0
Haleakala 7119 1668 430   2098 27799 5360   33159 19396 4.0 8.3 10.7
Grasse_MEO 7845 883 552 589 2024 27887 6429 2510 36826 32697 10.1 15.7 16.4
Arequipa 7403 1869 146   2015 26082 1118   27200 10733      
Simosato 7838 1198 453 135 1786 39345 14030 1831 55206 51206 5.4 8.2 9.5
Shanghai_2 7821 1129 225 408 1762 10815 1198 2068 14081 16146 6.1 11.1 12.6
McDonald 7080 1025 422 176 1623 10270 3747 698 14715 14458 7.5 12.2 12.8
Simeiz 1873 1061 326 31 1418 13986 2508 203 16697 10290   49.0 45.0
Riga 1884 1159 113 2 1274 22251 995 11 23257 8092  .3 12.6 17.8
Kiev 1824 935 194 84 1213 7104 903 248 8255 5297 13.5 27.3 23.6
Koganei 7308 392 188 312 892 4967 1405 2616 8988 17548 8.1 11.5 14.0
Papeete 7124 482 139   621 8430 1990   10420 6723 4.9 7.8 8.9
Altay 1879 120 165 280 565 1296 1118 1261 3675 8964     31.1
Komsomolsk 1868 28 93 158 279 217 614 619 1450 4430     36.7
Tanegashima 7358 227 14 30 271 2483 98 445 3026 3239 2.6 4.9 5.8
Arkhyz 1886 26 68 86 180 479 760 435 1674 3857      
Beijing 7249 146 19 6 171 1950 162 39 2151 1188 20.0 12.4 16.4
FTLRS_Tahiti 7822 69 16   85 1317 141   1458 726      
Concepcion_847 7405 1325 631 267 2223 13622 6737 1691 22050 27591 6.1 15.1 15.4
Koganei 7328 21 1   22 298 5   303 107      
Baikonur 1887 5 4   9 27 24   51 61   35.5 31.4
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 26 374 150 24.1
McDonald 7080 12 27 14 46.0
Matera_MLRO 7941 1 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 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 20.0 95
Yarragadee 7090 3.8 16.3 2.9 100.0 2.0 9.0 3.6 100.0 4.5 24.0 3.9 99.2 2.7 15.7 2.6 98.0 2.0 12.6 2.8 95.0
Zimmerwald_532 7810 2.4 13.4 5.5 99.9 1.2 6.2 3.3 100.0 2.6 19.4 6.3 99.4 2.2 9.9 2.8 99.0 1.3 9.1 2.4 96.0
Graz 7839 2.2 11.8 5.9 100.0 1.0 6.2 6.1 99.9 3.0 22.3 7.7 99.6 1.8 7.9 2.6 98.4 1.0 9.5 5.8 96.2
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.8 13.3 3.6 99.8 1.7 8.0 4.6 99.8 3.0 32.5 5.9 96.2 2.4 15.3 4.2 99.1 2.6 30.7 3.1 96.9
Changchun 7237 4.8 25.2 9.3 97.6 3.3 23.2 6.0 99.6 3.6 27.7 4.9 95.0 3.7 26.0 14.0 97.1 2.2 22.9 14.6 93.6
Herstmonceux 7840 2.8 13.4 3.8 100.0 1.7 6.1 1.7 100.0 3.0 20.1 5.2 100.0 2.9 8.1 2.7 97.9 2.1 10.1 3.3 96.4
Greenbelt 7105 4.4 15.8 4.6 100.0 2.5 10.0 3.5 100.0 5.3 27.5 4.1 97.4 2.9 17.9 6.8 97.0 2.2 15.1 4.1 94.6
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4.6 19.8 4.5 100.0 3.2 11.9 4.6 100.0 3.0 17.1 11.7 94.6 4.3 9.4 6.1 94.5 2.9 14.0 3.8 95.7
Wettzell 8834 3.1 13.5 5.3 99.9 2.2 9.7 3.7 100.0 3.3 16.2 4.9 100.0 2.7 11.4 4.6 97.4 1.5 12.9 2.2 96.3
San_Juan 7406 6.5 36.8 13.0 99.5 4.3 30.6 11.1 99.9 5.5 32.9 7.4 93.1 6.0 21.7 7.0 96.3 5.2 25.3 10.2 96.3
Hartebeesthoek 7501 3.2 37.5 16.3 100.0 1.6 34.4 17.1 100.0 3.6 42.5 16.1 100.0 2.6 30.6 15.3 97.9 2.4 23.1 24.5 97.1
Monument_Peak 7110 3.8 35.3 11.3 100.0 1.9 28.9 22.9 100.0 5.1 31.2 5.8 96.2 2.2 31.2 21.5 98.6 2.2 19.3 4.7 95.8
San_Fernando 7824 5.8 28.5 10.9 99.6 5.4 18.6 6.9 99.6 4.8 23.3 11.7 96.6 5.6 20.3 10.0 98.5 5.4 21.1   98.2
Potsdam_3 7841 3.4 12.1 6.2 99.9 1.8 8.6 8.2 99.9 3.7 23.3   99.8 2.2 9.3 5.7 97.6        
Katzively 1893 12.1 28.3 13.8 98.8 9.5 24.3 15.3 98.0 7.9 23.2 7.7 80.4 10.3 24.2 15.7 89.2 9.7 21.0 11.9 92.6
Haleakala 7119 3.8 19.3 4.2 99.9 2.0 9.0 3.4 99.9 3.9 18.0 4.6 97.6 3.4 20.1 8.8 98.9 3.5 28.1   96.0
Grasse_MEO 7845 4.2 15.0 9.6 100.0 3.2 15.2 15.9 99.9 4.2 11.5 8.5 99.8 3.2 10.7 8.8 96.1 2.4 13.1 3.9 94.6
Arequipa 7403 3.1 30.7 7.4 70.1                         1.5 18.0 12.0 94.3
Simosato 7838 5.9 24.8 12.6 100.0 2.6 17.7 7.8 99.9 5.2 21.9 7.3 95.6 5.1 20.5 7.4 99.4 5.1 16.3 7.2 95.8
Shanghai_2 7821 5.8 17.3 24.2 99.4 5.1 15.4 14.9 100.0 3.9 18.0 14.0 100.0 5.1 18.1 15.7 98.6 3.4 20.3 19.2 98.6
McDonald 7080 3.3 20.4 7.8 99.7 2.7 9.8 2.5 100.0 5.8 26.0 8.7 98.3 3.0 16.8 9.2 96.5 2.1 15.3 5.4 95.5
Simeiz 1873 27.8 26.1 8.8 48.6 77.2 43.5 15.7 95.4         55.7 55.4 28.0 81.1        
Riga 1884 13.8 31.6 21.3 93.0 15.6 35.0 15.5 99.3         11.4 39.9 25.9 88.8 10.1 22.2 13.1 92.6
Kiev 1824 10.6 45.7 20.5 87.5 13.7 31.9 26.1 94.0 2.4 29.3 16.9 50.0 12.2 26.9 27.7 92.0        
Koganei 7308 5.1 41.1   98.1 3.1 63.6 29.2 99.7 3.8 24.3 27.0 27.8 4.1 31.3 35.1 97.6        
Papeete 7124 3.2 12.6 4.9 100.0 2.3 9.8 10.3 100.0         3.4 21.1 7.3 100.0 3.9 28.8   95.4
Altay 1879                         8.2 35.8 14.6 89.7        
Komsomolsk 1868                         8.6 31.2 16.0 91.9        
Arkhyz 1886                         7.1 30.2 9.6 93.3        
Beijing 7249 6.7 41.3   98.6                                
Concepcion_847 7405 3.4 25.4 7.3 100.0 1.6 28.8 4.9 100.0 3.8 27.3 9.4 99.2 2.8 31.9 6.3 99.8        
Baikonur 1887                         9.5 11.8   88.2