[IGSREPORT-166] EMR analysis report (week 0685)

[Jan Kouba]

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IGS Electronic Report     10-MAR-1993 16:40:22       Message Number 166
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From:    Jan Kouba <kouba at geod.emr.ca>
Subject: EMR analysis report (week 0685)
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Jan Kouba
Geodetic Survey of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Internet: kouba at geod.emr.ca

    Subject: Geodetic Survey Division (GSD), SMRSS, EMR analysis results
             for the GPS week # 685 (Feb.21-27, 1993)

    Submitted by:
       J. Kouba **, P. Tetreault, R. Ferland, F. Lahaye, P. Heroux, L. Mancuso

    Geodetic Survey Division (GSD), Surveys Mapping & Remote Sensing Sector
    (SMRS), Energy Mines and Resources (EMR), 615 Booth Str., Ottawa, K1A 0E9
     **  on secondment to the Geodetic Survey from the Geophysics Div.
         Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), EMR, 1 Observatory Crescent,
	 Ottawa, K1A 0Y3

      Our analysis utilizes the JPL GIPSY/OASIS II (UNIX) software system
and data from all (up to 7) Canadian stations augmented by up to 12, globally
distributed, core stations (see Table 1 for the list of stations).

      This effort is a part of a joint pilot project to test the so called
"Active Control System" in Canada and involves the Geodetic Survey Division
(GSD), SMRSS, the Geophysics Division and Pacific Geoscience Centre of the
Geological Survey of Canada, all three institutions are part of the
Department of Energy, Mines & Resources (EMR).

      Table 1 : Station Summary (also indicated are day no. for which a
particular station is not included in the daily solution, either due to
being down or data being late).

   STATION            IGS code       MISSING DAY NO. 1993
Albert Head, CAN       ALBH
Algonquin, CAN         ALGO*
Fairbanks              FAIR*
Goldstone              GOLD*
Hartebeesthoek         HART*           056
Holberg,CAN            HOLB
Kokee Park             KOKB            052 to 058
Madrid                 MADR*
McMurdo                MCMU*           052 to 058
Pamatai                PAMA
Penticton, CAN         DRAO
Santiago               SANT*
St. Johns, CAN         STJO
Canbera                TIDB*
Tromsoe                TROM*           052, 055, 056
Wettzell               WETT*           052, 055,
Yarragadee             YAR1*           052 to 058
Yellowknife, CAN       YELL*           052
* indicates constrained stations, remaining are solved for (50m apriori sig.)

SOLUTION CHARACTERISTICS

Reference frame and orientation:
      Nominally ITRF91, at epoch 1992.5 is realized by constraining up to 11
of the above stations at the IGS coordinates (see IGS message #90).
Orientation is realized through the above coordinates and, once a week,
the fixed DUT1 values from the current NEOS/IERS (Bull. A).

Constants and models:
- no change, see the IGS mess. #101 for details.

Estimation strategies:
- no change, see the IGS mess. #101 for details - , except for the estimation
  of DUT1, stochastic orbit modeling, new weighting of L3,P3,
  see IGS mess. #130.

      ALGO was used as time reference.
      Aposteriori variance factors typically are between 0.5 and 1.0 (noise
about 3mm and 200mm for phase and smoothed pseudorange observations, resp.).

PRODUCTS GENERATED:
The following products are generated and uploaded into CDDIS @ NASA/GSFC
   EMR06857.EPH        	GPS ephem. for week # 685 in sp3 format
   EMR06857.ERP        	pole x,y and DUT1 solutions for week # 685
   EMR06857.SUM        	name of this text summary   file

REMARKS on EMR's products:
1. ALGO hydrogen maser used as a time reference. In the sp3 EPH file sat.
   epochs with no reference (e.g. ALGO not observing a satellite) have a value
   of 99999. microseconds.
   ALGO clock error & drift were about -600ns (49039) & -67 ns/day w.r.t.
   GPS time.
2. MCMU & KOKB were excluded from processing, due to data problems.
3. AS was activated on the following days:
		from 17h on Feb.20  to  08h on Feb.21
		from 12h on Feb.26  to  07h on Feb.28
4. PRN22 was first tracked on 93feb22.  PRN22 was deleted from processing
   for Feb 22 to 27, wk # 685.
5. The following days the orbit modelling (errors) experienced:
   Feb 19, PRN3 (up to 1.7m); Feb 20  PRN20 (~1.6m); PRN25 (~3.2m); Feb 26 Prn15(~2,0m)
   PRN24(~3.0m) PRN26(~2.0), PRN17(~2.3); Feb27 PRN14(~2.0) PRN32(~5.1) PRN10(~5.2)
   PRN20(~2.5) (most may be due to AS)
6. Our orbit and EOP solution quality is affected by AS, AS pseudoranges asigned
   30m sigmas.