International Laser Ranging Service

ILRS Networks and Engineering Standing Committee (NESC) Activities

2024

• Virtual meeting via Teams (February 15): Slides | Summary

2023

• Virtual meeting via Teams (February 02): Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (April 06): Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (June 08): Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (September 7): Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (November 16): Slides | Summary

2022

• Virtual meeting via Teams (January 20): Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (March 24): Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (May 19): Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (July 07): Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (September 15): Slides | Summary
• Virtual/In person meeting via Teams (November 08): Slides | Summary
  • Frank Lemoine (online) - Geodesy and Earth Observation
  • Graham Appleby - SLR Analysis, Geodesy and Station Bias
  • Ivan Prochazka - SLR Technology
  • Julien Chabé (online) - Atmospheric Delays
  • Jan Kodet - Timing and Time Transfer
  • Adrien Bourgouin - Towards a Lunar Laser Ranging at the sub-centimetric level
  • Michael Steindorfer - Debris Tracking

2021

• Virtual meeting via Teams (February 25): Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (April 15): Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (June 24): Slides | Notes | Answers to Questions
• Virtual meeting via Teams (August 26): Agenda | Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (November 18): Agenda | Slides | Notes

2020

• Virtual meeting via Teams (September 30): Slides | Summary
• Virtual meeting via Teams (December 17): Slides | Summary

2019

• Meeting in Stuttgart, Germany (October 22, 2019): Slides | Summary slides

2018

• Meeting in Canberra, Australia (November 07, 2018): Summary slides | Summary report

2017

• Meeting in Riga, Latvia (October 03, 2017): Presentations | Summary

2016

• Meeting in Potsdam, Germany (October 2016): Slides | Summary slides | Summary report

2015

• Meeting in Matera, Italy (October 2015)

2014

• Meeting in Annapolis, MD, USA (October 2014): Summary | Minutes

2013

• Meeting in Fujiyoshida, Japan, (November 2013): Minutes

2012

• Meeting in Frascati, Italy (November 2012): Summary

2008

• Meeting in Poznan, Poland (October 2008): Summary

2006

• Meeting in Canberra, Australia (October 2006)

2004

• Meeting in San Fernando, Spain (June 2004): Minutes

2003

• Meeting in Nice, France (April 2003): Minutes

2002

• The compilation of site logs into a database was completed. It can be accessed at ftp://cddis.gsfc.nasa.gov/reports/slr/slrlog/site_log_book_full.xlsm
• Meeting in Washington, D.C. (October 2002): Minutes
• Meeting in Nice, France (April 2002): Minutes
• In March 2002 the EUROLAS Workshop: Detecting and eliminating errors in the EUROLAS network was held.

2001

• Meeting in Nice, France (March 2001): Minutes
• Ulrich Schreiber organized the second SLR Calibration Colloquium to be held in conjunction with the SPIE Remote Sensing Symposium in Toulouse, France (September 2001). This colloquium was canceled due the event of September 11, 2001.

2000

• Meeting in Matera, Italy (November 2000): Minutes
• Meeting in Nice, France (April 2000): Minutes
• The CB streamlined the ILRS message distribution process.
• The CB and NESC defined a procedure to quickly notify station operators of urgent messages.
• The CB and NESC developed and documented normal point data submission procedures including backup modes.
• Site Logs were completed by the most of the ILRS network stations by the end of 2000.
• Ulrich Schreiber published the results from the first SLR Calibration Colloquium held in Florence, Italy (September 1999).

1999

• The first Networks and Engineering Standing Committee (NESC) meeting was held in September 1999, in Florence, Italy. During this meeting, the members of the SC were finalized. The following 6 major activities were defined based on the NESC Charter. In order to distribute the work load, each committee member was assigned one or more fields of activities.
• The CB developed the ILRS Bibliography, an online collection of papers, reports, descriptions, manuals, etc.
• The CB generated a list of catalogue of quality checks performed by the various analysis centers.
• HTSI developed an automated format and data integrity program for ILRS normal point (ref: data integrity and format algorithm)
• The NESC email exploder was created (ilrs-newg @ lists.nasa.gov).
• The Data Centers developed a satellites prediction flow chart.
• W. Gurtner developed an ILRS site log form based on the IGS site log form.
• EUROLAS developed a real-time system status exchange, including recently tracked satellites and their time biases. The ILRS CB established a weekly network status report.
• Stefan Reipl develop a program to compute satellite link budgets, normalized for LAGEOS (ref: http://www.wettzell.ifag.de/publ-cgi-bin/linkbudget.py).
• Ulrich Schreiber organized and conducted the first SLR Calibration Colloquium held in Florence, Italy (September 1999).