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SLR Global Performance Report Card

January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013

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 10327 2105 5480 17912 166761 20416 23142 210319 150540 5.8 8.2 10.0
Changchun 7237 7088 1080 4677 12845 59000 6481 12828 78309 49652 8.6 11.3 14.1
Zimmerwald_532 7810 4901 1006 3410 9317 77193 14095 14496 105784 81930 5.1 8.6 11.3
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 6065 978 1025 8068 79642 6996 4361 90999 69316 3.4 6.7 9.1
Graz 7839 3671 571 2751 6993 64047 4761 16218 85026 48152 2.0 3.4 4.9
Wettzell 8834 3482 557 2558 6597 33715 3562 8651 45928 31189 6.9 11.2 14.0
Matera_MLRO 7941 3471 1260 1415 6146 42041 10812 5996 58849 57426 1.2 3.3 4.3
Greenbelt 7105 4021 775 685 5481 72264 7834 2850 82948 59006 4.6 8.6 9.9
Herstmonceux 7840 2797 669 1747 5213 35763 6344 5519 47626 36836 4.6 13.1 14.0
Monument_Peak 7110 3339 705 692 4736 59975 5990 2069 68034 47161 10.2 14.3 16.2
Hartebeesthoek 7501 2585 724 486 3795 40625 6907 2815 50347 43395 7.2 12.0 12.6
Shanghai_2 7821 1698 373 1291 3362 14579 1804 4506 20889 13831 7.5 14.4 11.8
Potsdam_3 7841 2249 355 254 2858 39777 4123 1984 45884 31466 6.8 10.6 13.4
San_Juan 7406 1695 391 742 2828 25292 4086 4425 33803 27448 9.6   14.1
Grasse_MEO 7845 1083 584 1135 2802 39715 6937 4199 50851 35401 8.9 16.9 16.1
Arequipa 7403 2261 206   2467 26329 1375   27704 20823 5.9 10.6 9.4
Arkhyz 1886 803 362 695 1860 5359 1895 2492 9746 9416   9.0 9.3
Haleakala 7119 1374 342   1716 19186 3359   22545 21445 5.3 9.9 13.3
Simosato 7838 1209 374 88 1671 23470 7026 689 31185 36808 4.7 6.0 9.8
Altay 1879 206 152 1249 1607 2671 976 4761 8408 4729     5.9
Katzively 1893 1310 239 39 1588 18174 2008 288 20470 17177 27.3 36.5 31.9
McDonald 7080 930 393 207 1530 9430 3239 716 13385 15416 8.2 11.8 12.8
Beijing 7249 922 166 378 1466 9529 1115 1723 12367 9060 9.3 12.8 17.9
San_Fernando 7824 1372 25   1397 17320 79   17399 10643 6.9 14.3  
Kiev 1824 1108 204 77 1389 9138 899 228 10265 8264 12.5    
Komsomolsk 1868 55 125 1194 1374 347 576 3199 4122 2049      
Concepcion_847 7405 1002 283 74 1359 9564 2525 415 12504 14657 8.5 14.0 17.4
Papeete 7124 674 188 375 1237 10277 1562 1696 13535 10912 7.5 7.8 8.7
Badary 1890 966 160 101 1227 9716 1028 404 11148 8998   11.1 8.3
Simeiz 1873 915 238 72 1225 11686 1819 385 13890 11984   11.1 14.2
Baikonur 1887 101 512 553 1166 896 4156 1994 7046 13364   16.0 10.0
Zelenchukskya 1889 160 143 359 662 1939 1165 1491 4595 4795   11.9 11.3
Koganei 7308 227 116 181 524 2996 877 1018 4891 4624 9.7 11.6 14.0
Riga 1884 342 10   352 5445 52   5497 2910      
Svetloe 1888 229 82 22 333 2182 616 107 2905 3285    .4 10.3

 

 

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 103 424 110 35.6
Matera_MLRO 7941 8 21    
McDonald 7080 9 18 8 29.4

 

 

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 4.1 16.4 1.3 99.2 2.3 7.5 2.1 100.0 3.1 19.9 3.3 99.9 2.6 17.3 3.5 97.4 2.2 13.2 2.7 91.7
Changchun 7237 4.9 20.8 4.9 99.5 3.1 20.9 3.3 100.0 2.3 27.7 2.8 99.3 2.6 15.7 11.2 99.0 3.6 31.0 9.5 92.8
Zimmerwald_532 7810 3.1 12.9 3.1 100.0 1.4 5.1 1.3 100.0 1.6 16.7 3.4 100.0 2.6 10.2 3.0 98.0 1.8 8.8 3.6 94.4
Mount_Stromlo_2 7825 4.6 17.9 4.1 99.8 3.5 8.8 1.6 100.0 3.3 19.1 4.1 99.9 4.3 12.7 2.7 94.1 2.7 13.0 3.8 94.1
Graz 7839 2.8 12.7 3.7 100.0 1.1 4.8 1.9 100.0 1.2 14.0 5.4 99.2 2.2 12.8 3.7 96.2 0.7 9.8 3.2 96.0
Wettzell 8834 3.4 13.6 3.2 100.0 2.2 7.1 2.1 100.0 2.3 15.3 4.2 100.0 2.7 10.7 4.9 99.1 1.5 15.9 5.6 94.3
Matera_MLRO 7941 2.9 15.4 4.1 100.0 1.2 7.2 2.3 100.0 1.6 15.2 4.1 99.9 1.6 13.7 3.3 99.4 2.2 28.7 4.4 99.1
Greenbelt 7105 3.6 13.9 6.0 99.9 1.8 7.4 2.1 99.9 2.1 15.1 3.6 99.7 2.4 16.2 8.0 98.4 1.9 11.5 2.5 91.1
Herstmonceux 7840 3.3 12.9 3.5 99.4 1.6 6.3 1.7 100.0 1.5 18.3 2.9 99.9 2.6 10.2 2.6 92.9 1.3 9.4 4.3 96.5
Monument_Peak 7110 5.8 20.8 4.3 99.9 3.2 9.7 2.3 99.8 3.6 21.0 4.2 98.7 3.4 18.3 3.4 96.5 2.6 13.8 3.4 91.0
Hartebeesthoek 7501 4.0 19.5 4.2 100.0 2.1 7.7 2.8 100.0 2.9 20.6 5.5 99.9 2.5 24.1 4.4 97.3 2.2 18.7 4.8 91.3
Shanghai_2 7821 4.4 28.4 18.3 100.0 2.2 28.4 17.8 100.0 2.1 28.9 26.3 99.7 3.9 24.1 20.1 99.5 1.8 20.0 17.3 90.7
Potsdam_3 7841 3.6 13.3 4.4 100.0 1.6 7.1 2.9 100.0 2.0 15.9 5.2 99.6 2.2 9.5 3.1 96.8        
San_Juan 7406 8.6 50.6 33.6 99.7 5.3 32.1 18.3 99.0 6.1 45.1 11.8 96.7 6.7 29.2 9.9 94.6 5.8 34.5 12.8 92.6
Grasse_MEO 7845 4.4 17.2 3.6 100.0 2.5 14.4 1.5 100.0 3.1 22.1 2.5 100.0 3.0 13.7 2.8 97.6 2.0 13.9 3.1 92.9
Arequipa 7403 6.4 24.6 10.6 98.1 2.4 31.2 14.6 97.9 3.8 29.3 7.8 97.1 3.1 19.1 8.4 92.5 1.9 12.5 7.6 86.6
Arkhyz 1886 9.1 24.5 10.3 100.0 6.4 26.9 13.1 99.8 5.3 34.9 11.8 98.3 6.4 35.3 17.0 92.6        
Haleakala 7119 6.6 16.6 7.4 99.0 3.8 13.7 2.7 98.8 5.0 17.4 5.1 98.1 5.7 16.3 13.4 97.6        
Simosato 7838 6.7 25.3 9.9 100.0 2.9 17.9 6.4 99.8 4.5 17.4 7.8 98.3 4.5 17.8 9.6 99.1 4.3 12.8 7.5 94.1
Altay 1879 28.1 53.5 18.5 100.0         3.0 31.6 6.4 35.9 5.8 21.5 8.7 96.7        
Katzively 1893 17.4 22.4 6.3 97.8 12.3 18.7 4.5 97.3 8.9 29.4 7.7 85.5 11.9 25.6 10.4 85.4 10.2 22.9 13.9 93.1
McDonald 7080 3.9 15.1 5.1 87.1 2.9 13.2 2.5 99.7 3.0 16.9 5.1 88.1 5.2 19.9 7.2 94.6 2.5 15.7 2.8 90.4
Beijing 7249 10.5 15.9 9.9 98.0 9.6 23.7   100.0 5.6 16.5 8.9 93.9 5.5 23.8 13.4 95.4        
Kiev 1824 21.9 43.7 31.2 94.9 16.1 51.2 29.4 94.0 4.5 46.7 31.0 62.9 18.3 38.0 38.8 90.1        
Komsomolsk 1868 10.6 49.8 26.9 100.0 4.1 41.7 19.8 100.0 5.1 50.4 32.4 98.5 4.5 38.0 20.9 100.0        
Concepcion_847 7405 9.4 59.5 13.3 100.0 1.5 50.3 11.2 100.0 5.4 58.5   96.5 2.9 42.3 15.4 99.5        
Papeete 7124 4.3 13.6 7.6 99.2 2.5 9.6 4.0 100.0 3.3 19.8 5.4 100.0 3.9 15.9 7.8 99.7 6.8 19.4 9.3 94.6
Badary 1890 8.7 20.4 9.2 100.0 6.7 17.2 7.4 99.5 5.8 19.5 12.6 95.1 7.5 17.2 12.4 95.0        
Simeiz 1873         26.2 37.3 22.3 97.9 7.9 40.3   59.8 24.0 45.0 30.9 96.0 18.5 29.5 9.7 90.6
Baikonur 1887 9.7 31.1 14.0 99.4 6.9 37.9 16.7 99.9 7.5 34.8 9.1 97.5 6.8 23.1 12.6 95.0 5.6 28.8   95.9
Zelenchukskya 1889 6.9 11.4 5.9 100.0 4.8 11.6 3.8 99.6 5.0 17.3   99.5 6.3 22.3 10.6 95.2        
Koganei 7308 32.8 54.8   100.0 6.2 49.3   99.7 6.3 56.3   91.5 5.5 44.3 22.5 97.6        
Svetloe 1888 7.3 16.6 8.5 92.6 5.3 13.1 5.5 98.7         6.9 14.1 22.1 98.7