Author:  AC Coordinator / AIUB/CODE

Rapid IGS Orbit Prediction Combination - Week 1088   Day: 1   (Nov 13, 2000)

Contacts: T.A. Springer (springer@aiub.unibe.ch)
          H. Bock (bock@aiub.unibe.ch), R. Dach (dach@aiub.unibe.ch)


COMBINATION STRATEGY:

For a complete description of the combination strategy along with all tables 
and statistics, please refer to the IGS Final Combination reports posted on 
CDDIS within 11 days after the end of the GPS week.


REMARKS on IGS Rapid Orbit Prediction Combination:


1. Clock corrections found in the IGP sp3 orbit file are clock predictions 
   provided by COP. Users are reminded to use them with extreme caution.

2. The following orbit solutions were excluded from the combination because
   they were biasing the weighted average. They were still used for statistics
   computation unless all centres were excluded for the problem satellites in 
   which case they were simply eliminated from the combination and statistics.
   The following table lists the exclusions:

                        Centre | PRN list
                        -------+---------------
                         COP   |  15
                         SIP   |  ALL (high Transformation - See Table 1)

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Table 1: Daily transformation of each centre to the combined IGP orbit and
         clocks. 

         WRMS - RMS weighted by the centres SP3 header accuracy codes.
         STA  - Number of stations in the daily solutions.
         Units: meters, mas, ppb, nano-sec, nano-sec/day.

Table 1.1088.1   GPS week: 1088   Day: 1   MJD: 51861.0

CENT STA|  DX   DY   DZ    RX    RY    RZ  SCL  RMS WRMS |   TOFT  TDRFT    RMS
--------|------------------------------------------------|---------------------
cop  n/a|0.00 0.00-0.01  1.29 -0.74  0.89 -0.1 0.21 0.20 |    0.0    0.0   0.00
emp  n/a|0.00 0.00 0.03 -0.64  0.35 -1.02  0.0 0.17 0.15 |    0.0    0.0   0.00
gfp  n/a|-.01 0.01-0.03 -1.35  0.24  0.36  0.1 0.89 0.21 |    0.0    0.0   0.00
sip  n/a|0.00-0.01 0.04 -0.60  0.07 -7.63  0.0 1.41 1.19 |    0.0    0.0   0.00
usp  n/a|0.01-0.01 0.00 -0.66  1.41 -0.13  0.7 1.12 0.50 |    0.0    0.0   0.00


Table 2: Daily fit for each satellite and each centre resulting from weighted
         average combination. 

         The last column gives the IGP resulting satellite accuracy measures 
         found in the IGP SP3 header. Eclipsing satellites are flagged with
         and "E" beside the PRN number.
         "MEDI" stands for median of the centre's satellite RMS.

         Units: cm.

Table 2.1088.1   GPS week: 1088   Day: 1   MJD: 51861.0

        Weighted Average
 PRN  | cop emp gfp sip usp  IGP |
------|--------------------------|
   1  |  12   4  22  49  13    7 | 
   2  |  11  22  21  32 159   29 | 
   3  |   7   8  16 142  28    7 | 
   4  |   6   9   9  62  30    7 | 
   5  |   8  31  91 131 298   55 | 
   6  |   7   4   9 129  20    5 | 
   7  |  11  10  38 303  39   11 | 
   8  |   9  11  17 107  31    8 | 
   9  |  11  10  10 130  10    6 | 
  10E |  29  15 107  38  51   26 | 
  11  |  11  12  11 201  51   11 | 
  13  |  11  12  12  47  23    7 | 
 X15  | >>>   8  10  90 ---  >>> | 
  17  |  15   9   8 241  32    8 | 
 X19  | 119  77 104 281 ---   71 | 
  20E |  12  11  65  87  67   18 | 
  21E |  67   8 303  88 101   67 | 
  22  |  11  28  22  57 203   36 | 
 X24  |  83  23 196 183 ---   63 | 
  25  |  14  19  23 225  16   10 | 
  26  |  17  13  14  90  30   10 | 
  27  |  13  10  11 129  12    7 | 
  28  |  17  49 234  30  28   51 | 
  29  |  12   6  12 188  19    6 | 
  30  |  44  14  81  75 325   59 | 
  31  |   5   5   9 196  20    5 | 
------|--------------------------|
 RMS  |  21  17  89 141 112      | 
 WRMS |  20  15  21 119  50      |
 MEDI |  12  11  19 118  30      |