NASA’s Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS) archives Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) Combination Center (CC) station position and Earth Rotation Parameter (ERP) products (weekly files, generated daily).
doi: 10.5067/SLR/SLR_ILRSSNX_001
Data Center Citation
Noll, Carey E., The Crustal Dynamics Data Information System: A resource to support scientific analysis using space geodesy, Advances in Space Research, Volume 45, Issue 12, 15 June 2010, Pages 1421-1440, ISSN 0273-1177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2010.01.018.
Data Citation
International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS), SLR Combination Center (CC) Station Position and ERP Product, Greenbelt, MD, USA:NASA Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS), Accessed [[enter user data access date]] at doi: 10.5067/SLR/SLR_ILRSSNX_001.
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Summary
- Name: SLR Combination Center (CC) Station Position and ERP Product
- Format: SINEX format
- Spatial Coverage: 90.0 to -90.0, 180.0 to -180.0
- Temporal Coverage: 1976-01-01 to present
- Temporal Resolution: daily
- File Size: 30kb
- Platforms: etalon1, etalon2, lageos1, lageos2
Description
The CDDIS archive of laser ranging products consists of solutions derived by analysis centers in support of the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS). These products include station positions and velocities of sites in the ILRS network, and Earth orientation parameters (EOPs) including polar motion and rates and length-of-day that support the creation of the Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) and International Terrestrial Reference Frames. ILRS analysis centers (AC) deliver the station position/EOP product to the ILRS data centers, including CDDIS.
The ILRS combination centers (CC) retrieve these solutions and produce the combined ILRS A and B solutions (generated by the primary and backup ILRS combination centers, respectively) which are also archived in CDDIS. Prior to 2012, ILRS analysis centers generated the products on a weekly basis; today, these products are generated daily. Station positions and EOP date from 1983 through the present. SLR Combination products are available from CDDIS in subdirectories by year and date.
Data Access
The SLR CC Station Position and ERP Product is online: https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/slr/products/pos+eop/
in subdirectories by year, month, and day as follows:
YYMMDD/CENTERNAME.pos+eop.YYMMDD.vXXX.snx.gz
| Code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| YY | 2-digit year |
| MM | 2-digit month |
| DD | 2-digit day |
| CENTERNAME | ilrsa ILRS primary combination solution - Italian Space Agency, Centro di Geodesia Spaziale "G. Colombo" (ASI/CGS), Italy ilrsb ILRS backup combination solution - Joint Center for Earth System Technology/Goddard Space Flight Center (JCET/GSFC) Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| XXX | numeric version number |
| gz | gzipped file |
Documentation
http://cddis.nasa.gov/Data_and_Derived_Products/SLR/SLR_data_and_product_archive.html