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SLR Global Performance Report Card

December 1, 2015 through November 30, 2016

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 3500
Yarragadee 7090 15857 2706 6887 25450 272231 22521 23469 318221 176175 5.7 7.8 8.4
Changchun 7237 11442 1405 8280 21127 92843 8009 21241 122093 61897 4.5 7.5 9.6
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 6659 1203 2592 10454 92534 8471 9043 110048 70989 3.4 5.0 7.8
Greenbelt 7105 6413 1127 1326 8866 110368 9463 4671 124502 71832 2.0 6.1 7.5
Herstmonceux 7840 4619 762 3444 8825 60117 7822 10165 78104 48235 3.4 9.2 12.3
Graz 7839 3931 570 3052 7553 72438 3735 14950 91123 45427 2.1 3.6 5.0
Monument_Peak 7110 5435 598 884 6917 90775 4442 2201 97418 50493 4.8 7.6 9.8
Wettzell 8834 3129 405 2446 5980 24468 2289 9439 36196 21155 7.1 10.8 14.4
Wettzell 7827 1795 422 2043 4260 20372 2867 6591 29830 17700 7.2 9.2 9.3
Potsdam_3 7841 3364 409 364 4137 53236 3884 1994 59114 34076 7.0 10.4 12.0
Zimmerwald_532 7810 3140 495 307 3942 47919 5519 1187 54625 39709 6.2 9.3 12.3
Shanghai_2 7821 1839 304 1798 3941 15066 2370 7410 24846 14054 7.1 7.2 7.1
Matera_MLRO 7941 1745 738 1453 3936 18645 6244 5976 30865 30212 1.1 2.5 3.9
Haleakala 7119 2488 609   3097 38787 5399   44186 34259 5.1 8.5 11.0
Arequipa 7403 2839 130   2969 28921 695   29616 18084 6.9 10.9 10.2
Altay 1879 259 256 2106 2621 2545 1448 7460 11453 6532   46.0 29.3
Komsomolsk 1868 139 221 1916 2276 1373 1265 6129 8767 4992   43.6 34.1
Brasilia 7407 455 403 1271 2129 1227 1491 5255 7973 5328 32.0 24.2 28.5
Baikonur 1887 131 423 1457 2011 895 2023 5075 7993 6921   29.5 34.3
Katzively 1893 1585 269 94 1948 16397 2015 573 18985 14366 26.6 8.9 12.1
Badary 1890 1685 87 77 1849 15855 619 256 16730 10236 -0.1 33.5 31.9
Arkhyz 1886 470 267 1066 1803 3366 1115 3513 7994 5469   33.1 36.7
Irkutsk 1891 831 284 611 1726 7546 2715 1689 11950 13475 -0.1 29.4 33.3
Papeete 7124 998 193 526 1717 15475 1663 2087 19225 12853 7.3 8.1 8.9
Simeiz 1873 1321 227 102 1650 14902 1546 470 16918 12140   12.2 13.2
Hartebeesthoek 7501 1271 269 91 1631 19879 2712 436 23027 18348 5.0 8.5 9.9
Svetloe 1888 1202 246 122 1570 11248 1995 398 13641 11825 -0.1 34.4 34.8
Simosato 7838 1085 295 27 1407 20967 4892 216 26075 28206 7.0 9.9 15.1
Beijing 7249 764 156 453 1373 6936 1203 1968 10107 7233 7.3 15.9 19.7
Zelenchukskya 1889 703 226 388 1317 6808 1624 1324 9756 8423 -0.1 28.9 38.8
Grasse_MEO 7845 681 314 67 1062 22183 3266 412 25861 17131 9.0   16.0
Sejong 7394 764 144 72 980 13852 2094 639 16585 16514 4.3 9.6 12.8
Borowiec 7811 470 127 13 610 7714 1252 52 9018 7511 12.5 21.5 16.5
Kiev 1824 555 42   597 3532 156   3688 2683 14.3 18.2 19.3
Mendeleevo 1874 165 108 240 513 2718 1655 839 5212 6297 -0.1 27.0 35.8
McDonald 7080 345 31 12 388 2269 115 39 2423 1614 9.9 11.3 14.5
San_Fernando 7824 220 4 4 228 2045 8 13 2066 967      
Riga 1884 77 19 2 98 1298 161 12 1471 1069      
Riga 1884 77 19 2 98 1298 161 12 1471 1069      

 

 

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 24 62    

 

 

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 3 months
    • the second AC column is the measure of short term bias stability, in millimeters, during the last 3 months. 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 the last 3 months 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 13.4 1.8 100.0 2.3 7.8 1.5 100.0 2.5 15.9 1.9 99.3 2.7 17.3 2.2 97.3 1.9 9.2   92.0
Changchun 7237 5.3 21.4 6.4 99.8 4.0 22.5 4.2 100.0 1.9 28.8 4.6 98.9 2.6 19.5 4.6 97.3 2.0 26.7   95.5
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 3.3 16.3 5.7 100.0 2.4 9.5 2.7 100.0 2.2 15.7 5.0 97.3 2.8 12.4 2.0 98.0 1.8 13.9   94.2
Greenbelt 7105 2.3 13.1 3.1 100.0 1.3 8.2 1.7 100.0 1.4 13.2 4.0 99.9 1.7 15.3 3.1 99.2 1.0 10.3   89.6
Herstmonceux 7840 1.7 8.0 3.6 100.0 1.1 6.7 1.5 100.0 0.8 12.5 3.5 99.4 1.6 8.0 1.9 99.6 0.8 9.8   97.6
Graz 7839 1.5 8.9 2.2 100.0 1.2 6.9 1.7 100.0 0.5 12.8 4.2 100.0 1.7 8.6 2.7 98.2 0.4 10.5   94.6
Monument_Peak 7110 4.9 19.8 6.8 100.0 2.4 12.5 3.1 100.0 2.5 16.2 6.5 99.3 2.7 15.2 9.8 97.1 2.3 11.5   92.1
Wettzell 8834 3.1 8.8 3.7 100.0 2.4 9.2 3.2 100.0 2.1 9.4 4.1 100.0 2.8 10.7 4.5 98.3 1.2 8.8   85.4
Wettzell 7827 2.0 11.8 4.5 100.0 1.6 8.9 3.4 100.0 0.5 14.3 5.6 100.0 2.1 12.5 4.1 97.1        
Potsdam_3 7841 3.0 9.9 3.0 99.8 1.8 8.0 2.6 100.0 1.7 13.4 3.7 99.1 2.5 12.0 3.2 97.5 1.2 13.1   96.4
Zimmerwald_532 7810 2.2 11.0 4.6 99.8 1.4 8.8 2.5 100.0 1.2 14.1   99.9 2.4 12.5   96.7        
Shanghai_2 7821 2.2 12.9 7.4 99.7 1.2 15.2 6.2 100.0 0.6 21.2 7.1 96.1 1.8 14.2 8.6 97.3 0.4 15.8   96.3
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.2 12.3 9.1 99.9 1.3 9.7 2.6 100.0 1.1 18.4 7.0 99.9 1.4 15.8 4.7 99.9 1.3 16.4   94.8
Haleakala 7119 4.7 20.0 5.5 99.2 2.5 8.6 2.7 100.0 2.3 18.4 3.2 97.2 3.4 20.5 7.2 98.5 2.6 21.0   91.7
Arequipa 7403 7.2 35.4 13.2 98.2 3.1 32.3 14.2 100.0 3.6 32.5 15.2 97.9 4.6 37.6 21.4 98.1        
Altay 1879 5.9 34.5 10.0 100.0 3.5 33.4 15.2 100.0 2.2 39.5 15.6 96.8 3.6 27.0 14.3 98.4 1.1 23.0   87.3
Komsomolsk 1868 14.5 47.0 23.7 100.0 3.4 46.7 12.7 100.0 3.4 38.1 33.3 98.8 2.7 21.8 15.4 98.4        
Brasilia 7407 6.8 23.2 7.2 100.0 4.8 20.0 3.3 100.0 2.5 29.8 13.8 98.1 8.0 20.4 18.8 91.9        
Baikonur 1887 8.6 27.0 15.3 100.0 4.7 14.9 5.0 100.0 3.0 24.3   97.7 5.4 18.3 7.7 98.1 2.7 32.0   100.0
Katzively 1893 15.3 24.2 7.0 96.9 11.1 23.8 7.2 100.0 5.7 26.5 13.1 78.2 12.2 28.5 8.5 91.3        
Badary 1890 6.9 14.6 9.9 100.0 5.2 22.1 10.5 100.0 3.7 20.8 10.5 100.0 4.6 18.9 22.1 91.9        
Arkhyz 1886 11.5 35.0 26.9 99.7 8.1 33.4 10.4 100.0 4.8 41.2 17.4 94.4 6.5 24.4 10.1 94.8        
Irkutsk 1891 6.7 11.9 6.2 99.9 5.5 14.8 8.4 100.0 3.9 16.5 8.2 95.5 5.9 21.2 7.7 95.8        
Papeete 7124 4.5 13.9 8.3 100.0 2.3 9.4 4.5 100.0 2.7 16.8 8.5 99.4 3.3 15.0 13.0 100.0 1.4 15.5   100.0
Simeiz 1873 25.4 38.1 29.9 90.9 27.7 36.4 25.7 100.0 4.4 31.4 20.1 48.2 22.7 41.5 37.8 91.2        
Hartebeesthoek 7501 3.0 14.4 5.0 100.0 1.6 8.4 3.3 100.0 1.7 11.1 5.2 99.5 1.8 14.7 5.2 99.0 1.6 13.0   90.0
Svetloe 1888 10.8 24.8 8.4 99.4 10.3 27.5 9.5 100.0 5.3 31.4 11.4 86.5 8.9 14.0 9.9 89.8        
Simosato 7838 5.2 22.8 3.6 100.0 3.1 20.6 5.3 100.0 3.2 17.9 14.7 98.6 3.6 16.9 4.1 99.7 3.3 18.9   93.9
Beijing 7249 5.7 15.5 10.9 97.5 9.6 26.5 9.7 100.0 3.8 25.1 15.4 94.8 5.2 16.8   99.2        
Zelenchukskya 1889 8.1 23.8 11.9 99.8 5.8 28.0 12.9 100.0 3.9 24.8 14.3 94.1 6.5 11.5 13.4 95.6 4.3 26.5   94.5
Grasse_MEO 7845 4.0 13.3 5.7 100.0 2.5 11.0 4.1 100.0 2.4 19.3 8.9 99.6 3.1 19.1 10.6 96.7 2.6 14.0   97.7
Sejong 7394 1.9 13.5   100.0         0.8 18.6   100.0 2.5 25.6   100.0        
Borowiec 7811 4.4 13.4 9.5 100.0 3.4 11.6 9.0 100.0 3.4 14.8 13.2 100.0 3.8 13.8 6.3 100.0        
Mendeleevo 1874 5.7 8.5 6.5 100.0         4.0 12.5 8.4 97.3 5.6 6.8 16.8 99.6        
Riga 1884 12.2 21.4 35.2 100.0 4.8 28.0 39.8 100.0 5.4 28.1   85.1