Author: AC Coordinator / AIUB/CODE Rapid IGS Orbit Combination - Week 1092 Day: 3 (Dec 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 Combination: 1. Broadcast ("brd") orbits/clocks are included in the combination for statistics only. However broadcast clock corrections are used for clock alignment to GPS time and centre clock weight determination purposes. 2. The following IGR 2-day prediction and IGU Ultra rapid 1-day prediction orbits/clocks were excluded from the combination but kept for statistics: -> Centre: IGP IGU 3. The following centre clock solutions, which provide broadcast clock corrections, were excluded from the combination but kept in the combination statistics: -> Centre: NGS 4. The following clock solutions were excluded from the combination because they were biasing the combined clock solutions. Centre | PRN/STA list -------+--------------- ESA | 25 29 31 USN | 29 KOKB 5. 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 -------+--------------- ESA | 29 USN | 29 ESA | ALL (high Transformation - See Table 1) 6. Starting on 04-June-2000 (GPS Week 1065, day 0, MJD 51699) all IGS products, including the IGS combined orbits, are based on the IGS realization of the ITRF97 reference frame (IGS97). For more information see IGSMAILs #2899 and #2904. 7. Starting on 5-Nov-2000 (GPS Week 1087, day 0; mjd=51853) all IGS clock products are based on the new clock combination scheme which uses the the clock RINEX files as input if available, otherwise SP3 clocks are used. The navigation solution is still based on the SP3 clocks but this will soon adopt the clock RINEX files as well. 8. Starting on 29-Nov-1998 (GPS Week 986, day 0; mjd=51146) all IGS clock products reflect the use of the following antenna phase center offsets (satellite fixed reference frame): Block II/IIA: 0.279 0.000 1.023 X, Y, Z in meters Block IIR : 0.000 0.000 0.000 X, Y, Z in meters _______________________________________________________________________________ Table 1: Daily transformation of each centre to the combined IGS 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 1.1092.3 GPS week: 1092 Day: 3 MJD: 51891.0 CENT STA| DX DY DZ RX RY RZ SCL RMS WRMS | TOFT TDRFT RMS --------|------------------------------------------------|--------------------- brd n/a|0.12 0.21 0.20 -0.21 -3.98 5.71 6.699.9999.99 | 0.2 -0.6 5.48 cod 120|0.00 0.00 0.00 -0.01 0.03 0.18 0.0 0.04 0.04 | 5.7 -7.4 0.09 esa 45 |-.02 0.00 0.03 0.35 1.41 0.58 0.3 0.60 0.19 | 2226.3 15.6 0.22 gfz 32 |0.00-0.01 0.00 0.30 0.20 -0.14 0.2 0.06 0.06 | -0.3 1.2 0.09 igp n/a|0.00 0.00-0.01 -0.38 -1.79 1.96 0.1 7.29 8.40 | 0.2 -0.9 5.85 igu n/a|-.01 0.00-0.01 -0.32 -1.08 0.30 -0.3 4.80 1.95 | -0.4 3.1 4.48 ngs 52 |0.00 0.00-0.01 0.20 -0.03 0.09 0.5 0.13 0.13 | 0.2 -1.0 5.21 sio 39 |-.01 0.01 0.02 -0.36 -0.44 -0.01 -0.5 0.06 0.06 | 0.0 0.0 0.00 usn 34 |0.01 0.00-0.01 -0.02 0.18 -0.03 0.4 0.16 0.07 | 2227.3 15.3 0.11 Table 2: Daily fit for each satellite and each centre resulting from weighted average combination. The last column gives the IGS resulting satellite accuracy measures found in the IGS SP3 header. Eclipsing satellites are flagged with and "E" beside the PRN number. "X" stands for excluded from combination but included in IGS orbit. "MEDI" stands for median of the centre's satellite RMS. Units: cm. Table 2.1092.3 GPS week: 1092 Day: 3 MJD: 51891.0 Weighted Average PRN | brd cod esa gfz igp igu ngs sio usn IGR | ------|------------------------------------------| 1 | 279 2 23 4 25 20 6 4 4 2 | 2 | 228 4 19 5 13 6 7 9 5 3 | 3E | 159 5 24 6 94 64 12 3 5 3 | 4 | 141 4 11 6 12 5 7 6 8 3 | 5 | 253 4 21 5 14 18 11 5 5 3 | 6E | 476 4 17 6 12 14 10 3 4 2 | 7E | 201 6 17 11 59 28 10 9 6 4 | 8 | 222 3 22 4 18 12 12 8 5 3 | 9 | 88 3 17 4 19 15 11 8 5 3 | 10 | 239 4 18 4 16 43 9 6 5 3 | 11 | 159 8 14 6 27 6 21 5 7 4 | 13 | 218 4 15 4 24 27 10 5 6 3 | 14 | 218 5 --- 8 --- 73 24 7 7 5 | 15 | 188 3 --- 6 --- 9 13 3 7 3 | 17 | 302 3 16 4 >>> 22 8 4 4 2 | 19 | 106 4 22 4 6 6 10 6 6 3 | 20E | 150 6 28 3 38 26 24 7 9 5 | 21 | 214 6 31 9 111 11 8 6 8 4 | 22 | 209 4 14 5 12 27 9 6 7 3 | 23E | >>> 6 20 6 --- --- 13 10 8 4 | 24 | 201 3 11 4 51 11 6 7 5 2 | 25 | 264 4 25 7 11 10 14 7 5 3 | 26 | 129 4 15 9 14 29 7 7 5 3 | 27 | 105 2 14 4 7 8 9 3 5 2 | 28 | 255 5 10 5 6 9 18 4 6 4 | 29 | >>> 6 302 10 >>> >>> 17 12 77 24 | 30 | 183 4 21 4 15 9 9 5 4 2 | 31E | 160 4 24 7 52 27 11 4 6 3 | ------|------------------------------------------| RMS | >>> 4 60 6 729 480 13 6 16 | WRMS | >>> 4 19 6 840 195 13 6 7 | MEDI | 212 4 19 5 18 15 10 6 6 | Table 3: Daily Precise Navigation Summary using the corresponding Centre orbit positions and satellite clock corrections at 15 min intervals. Each line gives the daily station RMS w.r.t. the estimated coordinates for the Latitude, Longitude and Height components. CLK - Satellite clocks used. EPO - Number of satellite clock epochs available for that day. Units: centimetres. Table 3.1092.3 GPS week: 1092 Day: 3 MJD: 51891.0 CENT| CLK EPO | BRUS | TOW2 | WILL | ----|----------|----------------|----------------|----------------| cod | cod 2585 | 2 1 3 | 1 2 7 | 1 2 3 | esa | esa 2443 | 3 4 7 | 3 4 11 | 7 3 7 | gfz | gfz 2666 | 3 3 5 | 2 3 5 | 1 2 3 | igr | igr 2668 | 3 4 5 | 2 2 5 | 1 2 2 | usn | usn 2668 | 3 5 4 | 2 3 6 | 2 4 4 | Table 4: Earth Orientation Parameters daily summary. Daily Centre ERP, ERP Rates and LOD differences with respect to IGR combined values. Xpole,Xrt: x pole and x pole rate (10**-5") Ypole,Yrt: y pole and y pole rate (10**-5"/day) LOD: Length Of Day (us) AC LOD BIAS: 21-day mean LOD bias with respect to Bulletin A (us) AC LOD BIAS RMS: RMS of AC LOD BIAS (us) FLAG: "u" (used), "x" (excluded), "-" (no submission) for Xpole, Ypole, Xrt, Yrt and LOD A star ("*") beside the AC name indicates that AC LOD values were derived from AC UT1-UTC values. Table 4.1092.3 GPS week: 1092 Day: 3 MJD: 51891.5 AC LOD AC LOD CENT FLAG | Xpole Ypole Xrt Yrt LOD | BIAS BIAS RMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cod uuuuu | -25 -14 -29 -18 -57 | 3 38 esa xxxxx | -151 -74 10 320 -107 | 29 39 gfz uuuuu | -36 -56 -40 -30 21 | 11 25 igu xxxxx | 120 -18 71 -3 -25 | -3 67 ngs uuuuu | -27 -20 -93 57 59 | 2 42 sio uuuuu | 113 103 101 97 -42 | -10 45 usn uuuuu | -32 -22 13 -63 -5 | 20 31