[IGSREPORT-0687] EMR Analysis Report (w. 729)

[Geodetic]

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IGS Electronic Report    Tue Jan  4  7:17:58 PST 1994      Message Number 0687
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Author: Geodetic Survey of Canada
Subject: EMR Analysis Report (w. 729)

					          (Dec 26 - Jan 01,94) 

      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  called 
"Active Control System" 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 Natural Resources (NRCan), (formerly 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*           
Holberg,CAN            HOLB             
Kokee Park             KOKB           
Madrid                 MADR*           
McMurdo                MCMU             360 to 001
Pamatai                PAMA             365
Penticton, CAN         DRAO              
Santiago               SANT*          
St. Johns, CAN         STJO            
Canbera                TIDB*           
Tromsoe                TROM*            364, 365
Wettzell               WETT*            
Yarragadee             YAR1*            
Yellowknife, CAN       YELL*            
* 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 12 
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
   EMR07290-6.SP3       GPS ephem. files for days 0-6, week #729 in sp3 format 
   EMR07297.ERP        	pole x,y and DUT1 solutions for week #729
   EMR07297.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 -1900 ns (49347) & -20 ns/day w.r.t.
   GPS time. 
2. Starting with the week #720 we are assigning nominal sigma codes of 8(256mm)
   for all the orbits passing our quality analysis. For errors larger than 1.5m
   we are assigning sigmas of abs(error)/4, expressed by the binary
   exponent in the sp3 header. 
3. Starting with the week #726, the name of the ephemeris file will end with
   ".sp3"  instead of ".eph".