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SLR Global Performance Report Card

August 1, 2013 through July 31, 2014

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 11755 2483 5854 20092 191899 21713 21635 235247 157829 6.1 7.8 9.8
Changchun 7237 9023 1288 6014 16325 74667 7959 16495 99121 59804 9.2 12.5 16.0
Zimmerwald_532 7810 6644 1287 4261 12192 107529 18550 18611 144690 110145 5.3  .8  .7
Wettzell 8834 4890 755 3896 9541 48838 5405 14102 68345 44530 6.8 10.2 13.5
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 6410 1068 1305 8783 85131 8127 4695 97953 72680 3.4 5.5 9.2
Graz 7839 4066 662 3069 7797 73718 5240 17462 96420 54126 2.0 3.7 5.0
Herstmonceux 7840 3363 738 2283 6384 42237 7078 6857 56172 41684 7.0 11.4 14.9
Greenbelt 7105 4581 819 804 6204 85489 8208 3244 96941 62622 4.7 7.9 10.3
Monument_Peak 7110 4129 857 565 5551 74312 7330 1657 83299 55848 6.8 11.6 12.6
Matera_MLRO 7941 3005 1137 1165 5307 36334 9614 5035 50983 49837 2.5 4.2 5.3
Hartebeesthoek 7501 3318 1147 825 5290 54533 11486 5107 71126 63872 6.5 12.5 12.1
Shanghai_2 7821 2017 361 1433 3811 16320 1805 5008 23133 14786 5.5 9.0 10.2
San_Juan 7406 1984 598 728 3310 34690 6573 4532 45795 37832 12.5   23.9
Arequipa 7403 2934 276   3210 32473 1859   34332 25233 5.7 9.8 8.7
Potsdam_3 7841 2639 284 261 3184 46868 3022 2025 51915 30706 7.3 10.2 12.0
Grasse_MEO 7845 889 574 868 2331 34412 6842 3404 44658 32619 9.7   15.8
Arkhyz 1886 921 368 918 2207 5738 1884 3304 10926 9639   32.0 31.4
Haleakala 7119 1534 428   1962 17988 4093   22081 23083 5.1 7.8 11.1
Badary 1890 1381 212 252 1845 13825 1118 823 15766 11831   31.8 34.7
Simosato 7838 1344 385 105 1834 25914 6869 841 33624 37479 4.5 5.9 10.1
Beijing 7249 1102 168 563 1833 11743 1252 2807 15802 10626 6.1 10.2 17.5
Altay 1879 175 188 1444 1807 2043 1086 6154 9283 4536     25.4
Svetloe 1888 1203 397 160 1760 12340 2674 694 15708 16607   27.9 31.6
Katzively 1893 1477 211 29 1717 14350 1287 164 15801 11762 28.9 10.3 15.4
Kunming 7820 1492 224   1716 22276 1435   23711 16785 6.7 12.1 12.9
Daedoek 7359 1037 268 389 1694 25566 4362 3901 33829 30532 6.1 8.8 11.1
McDonald 7080 1052 361 269 1682 10487 2968 998 14453 15445 7.1 9.2 10.4
Papeete 7124 828 217 425 1470 11336 1845 1773 14954 12304 6.1 7.5 8.2
Kiev 1824 1188 131 22 1341 8943 562 58 9563 6741 13.1 21.2 21.0
Simeiz 1873 997 224 118 1339 12980 1648 602 15230 11588   10.2 10.6
Baikonur 1887 84 447 616 1147 805 3443 2318 6566 11134   31.6 30.8
Komsomolsk 1868 33 88 891 1012 225 447 2854 3526 1555     34.6
Zelenchukskya 1889 298 141 559 998 2693 941 1677 5311 4687   21.9 26.4
Concepcion_847 7405 565 205 73 843 5153 2051 424 7628 9807 9.5    
Koganei 7308 260 115 230 605 3511 885 1304 5700 4779      
San_Fernando 7824 404     404 4137     4137 2659      
Greenbelt 7125 60 45 37 142 615 309 135 1059 1382 46.3 47.8 52.5
Riga 1884 40     40 486     486 285      
Brasilia 7407 2 16 20 38 23 147 64 234 442     30.1

 

 

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 87 324 48 40.4
McDonald 7080 7 15    
Matera_MLRO 7941 4 8    

 

 

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 10.0 95
Yarragadee 7090 3.7 16.4 2.5 100.0 1.9 7.9 1.2 100.0 2.2 14.8 2.8 99.6 2.4 16.5 3.3 98.3 1.9 8.4 2.4 91.1
Changchun 7237 5.5 24.6 5.1 99.2 4.7 23.0 6.5 99.9 2.0 27.5 6.8 97.9 4.3 19.3 10.3 96.2        
Zimmerwald_532 7810 2.9 11.6 3.0 99.9 1.4 6.5 1.6 99.9 1.4 10.3 2.4 99.9 2.2 15.4 1.9 97.9 1.8 9.8 2.1 95.1
Wettzell 8834 3.0 12.5 2.4 99.7 1.9 8.4 4.1 100.0 1.5 11.5 4.3 98.4 1.9 13.6 3.0 98.4 1.6 10.2 3.2 90.6
Graz 7839 2.4 10.5 2.6 100.0 1.2 6.9 2.1 100.0 0.5 15.2 5.8 100.0 2.1 13.6 4.1 97.3 0.5 10.9 3.2 93.6
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4.4 13.7 1.7 100.0 2.4 9.4 1.7 100.0 2.3 14.5 1.4 100.0                
Herstmonceux 7840 3.3 11.0 3.3 100.0 1.8 6.3 1.0 99.9 1.4 11.4 2.8 99.9 2.8 10.7 2.4 97.6 1.1 9.2 2.9 96.8
Greenbelt 7105 3.8 12.2 6.7 100.0 2.1 7.2 2.5 100.0 2.3 12.2 4.4 99.5 2.3 19.1 7.6 97.9 3.6 9.1 3.8 89.4
Monument_Peak 7110 5.5 20.3 3.4 100.0 2.4 13.3 3.2 100.0 2.6 20.2 4.4 99.3 3.4 16.9 3.5 97.8 3.2 17.3 2.9 88.9
Matera_MLRO 7941 3.1 12.4 4.7 100.0 1.4 8.2 2.6 100.0 1.4 15.2 3.4 100.0 1.8 15.1 4.5 99.1 0.9 29.9 6.4 96.8
Hartebeesthoek 7501 3.9 16.8 3.7 99.9 2.0 8.0 2.9 99.9 2.2 15.8 3.6 99.4 2.7 21.4 6.9 97.7 2.0 15.7 4.8 94.1
Shanghai_2 7821 5.3 24.5 15.7 100.0 1.0 15.6 13.5 100.0 0.6 31.3 19.8 92.3 2.2 22.9 15.7 100.0        
San_Juan 7406 10.0 28.4 36.5 99.1 6.1 27.4 21.8 98.1 5.1 26.1 17.5 91.1 7.0 29.8 9.4 91.9 6.9 30.5 10.5 93.0
Arequipa 7403 5.6 26.9 7.2 99.9 2.1 30.5 12.6 99.9 2.4 28.8 12.0 98.6 2.9 22.5 8.2 96.2 1.9 17.0 9.6 92.3
Potsdam_3 7841 5.7 8.4 4.4 99.2 2.3 6.6 2.8 98.9 3.1 12.2 4.1 96.6 2.7 11.2 4.2 95.1        
Grasse_MEO 7845 4.8 13.9 5.1 100.0 2.8 16.8 3.3 100.0 2.9 17.8 2.6 99.6 3.0 17.9 5.0 97.1 3.0 12.8 3.1 96.6
Arkhyz 1886 8.6 28.5 22.1 100.0 6.5 29.6 21.0 100.0 3.4 36.9 24.9 96.5 5.8 26.7 12.2 93.2        
Haleakala 7119 7.5 20.3 7.4 99.1 4.3 12.8 3.1 99.1 3.9 16.8 6.0 96.1 6.8 22.5 12.0 98.0        
Simosato 7838 6.1 15.0 11.6 99.9 3.5 9.9 10.9 99.8 4.2 10.6 7.8 98.2 4.8 22.0 6.2 98.8        
Badary 1890 8.6 13.8 5.8 99.5 37.6 18.4 4.5 100.0 4.0 25.2 11.6 88.9 5.4 13.6 8.5 95.7        
Beijing 7249 9.5 17.3 10.4 98.3 11.3 16.7 9.7 100.0 4.5 19.2 9.3 88.7 6.5 8.0 11.0 94.4        
Svetloe 1888 8.1 20.0 10.0 100.0 5.7 15.3 11.2 99.9 4.8 23.9 15.8 95.1 6.5 17.1 16.6 97.2        
Kunming 7820 7.9 54.1 37.0 100.0 3.6 51.8 37.4 100.0 3.5 52.2 40.2 98.7 3.8 16.3   99.3        
Altay 1879 5.6 20.7 21.4 100.0 2.9 24.1 39.3 100.0 2.8 21.3 10.5 99.2 3.3 20.4 14.8 99.2        
Katzively 1893 18.4 21.7 7.7 96.0 18.9 23.9 8.4 94.2 4.1 24.6 8.8 70.9 13.0 26.4 25.1 78.8        
McDonald 7080 3.8 16.1 4.7 100.0 2.4 10.2 2.5 100.0 2.2 16.7 6.1 100.0 2.2 20.5 7.4 98.0 1.8 10.0 6.2 95.1
Daedoek 7359 3.8 10.1   98.4 3.9 15.9   99.7 1.8 16.8   98.9 3.1 24.9   98.5        
Papeete 7124 4.0 12.6 4.9 100.0 2.2 11.7 3.6 100.0 2.3 11.3 6.4 100.0 2.7 17.8 5.7 100.0        
Kiev 1824 18.1 63.8 41.7 86.8 14.9 59.3 38.5 88.6 3.2 59.4 39.9 66.2 13.7 52.2 49.9 85.7        
Simeiz 1873         22.3 34.4 16.1 97.6 4.6 34.3 14.2 55.8 21.3 44.3 17.0 90.0        
Baikonur 1887 13.3 15.1 27.5 99.9 10.3 21.4 30.9 99.5 5.8 25.7 19.4 81.5 8.7 21.7 15.4 89.6        
Zelenchukskya 1889 6.5 18.2 11.6 100.0 5.5 12.2 8.2 100.0 3.8 24.2 10.3 98.6 6.6 16.5 12.3 99.3        
Komsomolsk 1868 8.3 71.1 16.8 100.0 3.2 66.6 14.4 100.0         3.4 33.1 39.0 98.6        
San_Fernando 7824 7.3 23.6   99.5 5.6 17.3   100.0 4.2 26.4   94.5