[IGSREPORT-8641] Wk 1131 MIT T2 Analysis Report

Tom Herring tah at mtglas.mit.edu
Wed Sep 26 23:22:46 PDT 2001


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IGS Electronic Report   26 Sep 23:23:13 PDT 2001      Message Number 8641
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Author: Thomas Herring

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MIT ANALYSIS REPORT GPS-WEEK 1131    Dates: 01sep09  to  01sep15 
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MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
Room 54-618
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 
Cambridge,  MA  02139
e-mail: tah at mtglas.mit.edu 
tel:    (617)253-5941 (Tom Herring)
fax:    (617)253-1699

PRODUCTS GENERATED:
The following products are generated and uploaded into CDDIS @ NASA/GSFC
   MIT1131g.SNX   Combined sinex file from all available analysis centers
   MIT1131g.SUM   Name of this summary file
   MIT1131g.RES   File of the individual AC position estimates residuals 
                  to the combined solution for the week. 

0.0 Starting Week 1125, we removed AREQ from the sites used in determining
    the variance re-scaling of the center SINEX files.  This site
    appears to have moved by 0.5 meters at around week 1120.
0.1 Starting Week 1110, we stopped applied a pole-tide correction to
    SIO sinex files because this correction is already made in their
    analysis.
0.2 Starting Week 1066, we adopted the IGS realization of the ITRF97
    (referred to as IGS97).  We also replaced our constrained solution
    a loose solution with translation (+-1 mm) and orientation (+-0.1 mas)
    constraints applied.
0.3 Starting Week 1020, we adopted the ITRF97 reference frame
0.4 Starting Week 1002, we re-ordered the summary to give the residual
    summary and the SINEX file errors first.  


CENTER SUMMARY STATISTICS
 CENTER   #       North           East           Up
               RMS    Chi     RMS    Chi    RMS     Chi
              (mm)           (mm)          (mm)
 COD      0     .0     .0      .0     .0      .0     .0  
 JPL      0     .0     .0      .0     .0      .0     .0  
 SIO      0     .0     .0      .0     .0      .0     .0  
 EMR     47     .0     .0      .0     .0      .0     .0  
 ESA      0     .0     .0      .0     .0      .0     .0  
 GFZ      0     .0     .0      .0     .0      .0     .0  
 NGS      0     .0     .0      .0     .0      .0     .0  
 
CENTER SINEX ERRORS: (corrected during processing).
 CNT  Site Type of Error           Used values                       IGS.SNX values

HISTORY and PROCEDURES
----------------------

0.0 Starting Week 998 we adopted full checking of the center sinex
    headers and we correct the solutions for differences between the
    headers and a modified version of IGS.SNX.  (The modifications are
    to put full precision antenna L1/L2 offsets and to correct the WUHN
    entry.  The station log for this site shows height to BCR not ARP).
    A new error reporting block has been added below.  We also have 
    removed some of the routine documention in this summary.

0.1 Starting week 993 we started to add corrections for the pole-tide to
    the SIO, NGS, and ESA sinex.  According to the analysis descriptions
    none of these centers apply the pole tide correction.  Starting with
    the re-submission of week 992, we corrected the LOD values in JPL sinex
    files from regularized LOD (should be called LODR in the SINEX file)
    to standard LOD.  (Since starting multiday polar motion combinations
    we have been correcting the sign error in the JPL LOD values.

0.2 Starting week 989 we include as Section 5.0 of this summary, the
    Earth rotation parameter estimates from the constrained combination
    solution in the IERS format.

0.3 Starting Week 980 we include multiday polar motion/UT1 estimates into
    our analysis.   We also no longer need to deconstrain the AC sinex 
    files although to add back into the covariance matrices at rotational
    uncertainity which is coupled between station positions and EOPs.


0.4 Starting Week 0943 we base the analysis on the ITRF96 system and the
    reference site list for the ITRF96 system. The increase in the number
    of sites used to obtain analysis variances increases the variance 
    factors for all centers by factors between 2 and 4.  The Chi**2 for
    the center residuals is now much closer to 1.0

0.5 Starting Week 0931 we added a new residual file to our submissions.  
    A description of the contents of the file is given in the file itself.
    We also changed the treatment of the translation of the individual 
    AC solutions.  The generation of the weighting factors and the constrained
    combined solution remains unchanged.  However, in the unconstrained 
    analyses (used for AC comparisons) we now allow explicit translation
    and scale parameters in the solution.  The net effect is to generate
    more realisitic sigmas for the center of mass position estimates and to
    make the coordinate estimates immune to real center of mass translations
    and scale changes. 

0.6 Starting Week 0901 we started using a new apriori file not Non-ITRF94 coordinates
    based on the analysis of week 0822-0900 sinex files.

1.0 Analysis Procedures:

(1) Each centers sinex solutions are de-constrained by adding back
 in a rotational uncertainty.
 
(2) Covariance matrices from each center are re-scaled to generate
 unit increment in chi square per degree in the tight constraints solution.
 The values are are based in the chi**2 per degree of freedom increment
 when the loosely constrained solution is constrained to the ITRF1996
 coordinates of the 55 Reference sites.  Orientation changes are estimated
 in this step, but translations and scale are NOT estimated.
 
(3) The tight solution is generated with the following constraints on
 the core sites.  Starting Week 0858, ITRF94 is used for the coordinate
 system.  Starting Week 0878, we changed the site selection here to use
 WTZR and GOL2.  Starting Week 0897 we stopped using MADR as a core site.
 We continue not use MADR in the reference site list.

 Earth rotation parameters are estimated for each center (even when not given
 in the original SINEX files.  In this case the partial derivatives are
 computed from the station coordinates).

(4) When the combined and center solutions are compared to ITRF97, the
heights are given a variance 10 times larger than the horizontal coordinates.
The same variance ratio is used when the RMS to ITRF97 core sites is
computed.

(5) Starting Week 0826, we show the differences in the coordinates for
five non-core sites, in remote areas.  Four of these sites are processed 
by all centers.  These sites are not used in the RMS calculations or 
the transformation estimation to the 13 core sites.  The change in procedure
was because FORT is no longer being processed by all centers.  AREQ has
been added to the list for this reason.  After Week 0943, when the reference
site list increased we no long summarize additional sites.

(6) Starting Week 0826, we start to show a comparison of each centers
results with the combined solution for the week.  When the constraints
are applied to loose combined solution to translate, rotate and scale it
to the ITRF97, the constraints are actually applied using the full 
covariance matrix of the combined solution (rather than simply directly
applying the transformations to the coordinates).  The approach we use
constrains the center of mass to have zero variance relative to ITRF97.
The result of this is that the combined solution has the same center
of mass position and scale as ITRF97, and therefore when each of the
centers are compared to the combined solution, they generate very similar
translations and scales as they do the ITRF97.  Had we simply applied
the transformations to the coordinates, the translations and scale would
have been the difference between the combined translations and scale and
the individual center's translations and scale.
This new section is numbered 4.0.

(7) Starting Week 868, we updated the coordinates of sites not included
in the ITRF94 coordinate files.  This introduces a discontinuity in the
the adjustments to some of the "isolated" sites shown below.

 
 2.0 COMBINED FIT TO IGS97 
 Transformation of loose solution COMBINED to IGS97
 -----------------------------------------------
 For   29 Sites, RMS after 7 parameter transformation   3.9 mm  COMBINED wrt IGS97 
   X-tran  +-      Y-tran  +-      Z-tran   +-   Scale   +-
   (mm)   (mm)     (mm)   (mm)      (mm)   (mm)  (ppb)  (ppb)
   -8.0   11.8     -4.5   13.1     37.7   28.9  -2.214  0.317  COMBINED  CoM
 
 Adjustments to core site positions for COMBINED
 SITE    dNorth  +-     dEast   +-    dUp    +- 
          (mm)  (mm)    (mm)   (mm)   (mm)  (mm)
 VILL     1.5    2.1   -6.2    3.0   -1.6    6.3  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 MAS1     3.8    2.1   -3.1    3.4   12.3    6.9  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 FORT    -6.1    3.5   10.0    8.6   -5.3   14.4  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 KOUR    -7.0    3.7   -8.0    7.3  -30.4   14.0  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 OHIG     0.0    4.3   -3.6    4.3   12.4   10.9  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 BRMU     0.7    2.3    1.2    4.0  -14.7    8.0  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 SANT    -3.8    3.5    6.7    4.4    1.1    8.3  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 ALGO     1.4    2.1   -2.4    2.9   -4.7    6.2  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 MDO1    -0.5    5.2    3.1    9.2    0.8   19.0  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 PIE1     3.2    2.6   -1.1    4.4    3.3    8.4  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 YELL    -0.2    2.9   -4.1    3.3   -3.0    7.4  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 DRAO     3.5    2.5   -3.1    3.2   -2.3    6.5  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 FAIR    -1.4   13.2   -2.5   17.0   19.5   40.5  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 CHAT     1.9    3.0   -1.3    4.5    0.8    8.8  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 MCM4     6.3    5.8    5.5    7.1    2.0   19.0  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 MAC1     6.5    2.9    1.1    4.0    1.9    8.6  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 TIDB    -1.6    2.6   -1.8    3.9   15.3    8.3  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 GUAM     2.7    3.4   -0.5    6.4  -18.6   10.9  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 TSKB     8.9    3.1    9.9    4.2  -11.1    8.7  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 PERT    -1.9    2.5   -3.5    3.8  -25.1    8.0  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 CAS1    -4.6    3.5   -1.7    4.3    4.6    9.5  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 IRKT     0.2    3.1   -0.1    3.7   18.7    7.6  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 DAV1    -1.4    3.5   -3.7    4.3   -1.4   10.0  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 KERG     1.2    3.2  -13.6    4.6   -8.4    9.1  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 BAHR    -1.0    3.2    7.5    5.6   11.1   10.3  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 MALI    -8.1    4.1    6.4    8.9   15.2   14.8  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 MATE    -3.6    2.2    5.2    3.2    4.5    6.8  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 ONSA     0.3    2.2   -2.8    2.8   13.5    6.5  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 NYAL    -0.1    2.7   -0.6    3.0    0.4    8.9  COMBINED wrt IGS97
 Reference sites NOT used 
 
 
 3.0 CENTER FITS TO IGS1997
 CENTER EMR
 -------------------
 VARIANCE RESCALING FACTOR FOR EMR 8.435
 
 Transformation of loose solution EMR to IGS97
 -----------------------------------------------
 For   29 Sites, RMS after 7 parameter transformation   3.9 mm  EMR wrt IGS97 
   X-tran  +-      Y-tran  +-      Z-tran   +-   Scale   +-
   (mm)   (mm)     (mm)   (mm)      (mm)   (mm)  (ppb)  (ppb)
   -8.0   11.8     -4.5   13.1     37.7   28.9  -2.214  0.317  EMR  CoM
 
 Adjustments to core site positions for EMR
 SITE    dNorth  +-     dEast   +-    dUp    +- 
          (mm)  (mm)    (mm)   (mm)   (mm)  (mm)
 VILL     1.5    2.1   -6.2    3.0   -1.6    6.3  EMR wrt IGS97
 MAS1     3.8    2.1   -3.1    3.4   12.3    6.9  EMR wrt IGS97
 FORT    -6.1    3.5   10.0    8.6   -5.3   14.4  EMR wrt IGS97
 KOUR    -7.0    3.7   -8.0    7.3  -30.4   14.0  EMR wrt IGS97
 OHIG     0.0    4.3   -3.6    4.3   12.4   10.9  EMR wrt IGS97
 BRMU     0.7    2.3    1.2    4.0  -14.7    8.0  EMR wrt IGS97
 SANT    -3.8    3.5    6.7    4.4    1.1    8.3  EMR wrt IGS97
 ALGO     1.4    2.1   -2.4    2.9   -4.7    6.2  EMR wrt IGS97
 MDO1    -0.5    5.2    3.1    9.2    0.8   19.0  EMR wrt IGS97
 PIE1     3.2    2.6   -1.1    4.4    3.3    8.4  EMR wrt IGS97
 YELL    -0.2    2.9   -4.1    3.3   -3.0    7.4  EMR wrt IGS97
 DRAO     3.5    2.5   -3.1    3.2   -2.3    6.5  EMR wrt IGS97
 FAIR    -1.4   13.2   -2.5   17.0   19.5   40.5  EMR wrt IGS97
 CHAT     1.9    3.0   -1.3    4.5    0.8    8.8  EMR wrt IGS97
 MCM4     6.3    5.8    5.5    7.1    2.0   19.0  EMR wrt IGS97
 MAC1     6.5    2.9    1.1    4.0    1.9    8.6  EMR wrt IGS97
 TIDB    -1.6    2.6   -1.8    3.9   15.3    8.3  EMR wrt IGS97
 GUAM     2.7    3.4   -0.5    6.4  -18.6   10.9  EMR wrt IGS97
 TSKB     8.9    3.1    9.9    4.2  -11.1    8.7  EMR wrt IGS97
 PERT    -1.9    2.5   -3.5    3.8  -25.1    8.0  EMR wrt IGS97
 CAS1    -4.6    3.5   -1.7    4.3    4.6    9.5  EMR wrt IGS97
 IRKT     0.2    3.1   -0.1    3.7   18.7    7.6  EMR wrt IGS97
 DAV1    -1.4    3.5   -3.7    4.3   -1.4   10.0  EMR wrt IGS97
 KERG     1.2    3.2  -13.6    4.6   -8.4    9.1  EMR wrt IGS97
 BAHR    -1.0    3.2    7.5    5.6   11.1   10.3  EMR wrt IGS97
 MALI    -8.1    4.1    6.4    8.9   15.2   14.8  EMR wrt IGS97
 MATE    -3.6    2.2    5.2    3.2    4.5    6.8  EMR wrt IGS97
 ONSA     0.3    2.2   -2.8    2.8   13.5    6.5  EMR wrt IGS97
 NYAL    -0.1    2.7   -0.6    3.0    0.4    8.9  EMR wrt IGS97
 Reference sites NOT used 
 
 
 4.0 CENTER FITS TO COMBINED SOLUTION 
 CENTER EMR
 -------------------
 VARIANCE RESCALING FACTOR FOR EMR 8.435
 
 Transformation of loose solution EMR to COMB
 -----------------------------------------------
 For   30 Sites, RMS after 7 parameter transformation   0.0 mm  EMR wrt COMB 
   X-tran  +-      Y-tran  +-      Z-tran   +-   Scale   +-
   (mm)   (mm)     (mm)   (mm)      (mm)   (mm)  (ppb)  (ppb)
   -8.0   11.8     -4.5   13.1     37.7   28.9  -2.212  0.309  EMR  CoM
 
 Adjustments to core site positions for EMR
 SITE    dNorth  +-     dEast   +-    dUp    +- 
          (mm)  (mm)    (mm)   (mm)   (mm)  (mm)
 VILL     0.0    2.1    0.0    3.0    0.0    6.4  EMR wrt COMB
 MAS1     0.0    2.1   -0.1    3.4    0.0    6.9  EMR wrt COMB
 FORT     0.0    3.4    0.0    8.6   -0.1   14.4  EMR wrt COMB
 KOUR     0.0    3.6    0.0    7.3    0.0   14.0  EMR wrt COMB
 OHIG     0.0    4.2    0.0    4.2    0.0   10.9  EMR wrt COMB
 BRMU     0.0    2.3    0.0    4.0    0.0    8.0  EMR wrt COMB
 SANT     0.0    3.3    0.0    4.1    0.0    8.2  EMR wrt COMB
 AREQ     0.0    2.8    0.0    4.4    0.0    8.2  EMR wrt COMB
 ALGO     0.0    2.2    0.0    3.0    0.0    6.2  EMR wrt COMB
 MDO1     0.0    5.2    0.0    9.2    0.0   19.0  EMR wrt COMB
 PIE1     0.0    2.6    0.0    4.4    0.0    8.4  EMR wrt COMB
 YELL     0.0    2.9    0.0    3.3    0.0    7.4  EMR wrt COMB
 DRAO     0.0    2.5    0.0    3.2    0.0    6.5  EMR wrt COMB
 FAIR     0.0   13.2    0.0   17.0    0.0   40.5  EMR wrt COMB
 CHAT     0.0    3.0    0.0    4.5    0.0    8.8  EMR wrt COMB
 MCM4     0.0    5.8    0.0    7.1    0.0   19.0  EMR wrt COMB
 MAC1     0.1    3.0    0.0    4.1    0.0    8.6  EMR wrt COMB
 TIDB     0.0    2.6    0.0    3.9    0.0    8.4  EMR wrt COMB
 GUAM     0.0    3.5    0.0    6.4    0.0   11.0  EMR wrt COMB
 TSKB     0.0    3.1    0.0    4.2    0.0    8.7  EMR wrt COMB
 PERT     0.0    2.5    0.0    3.8    0.0    8.1  EMR wrt COMB
 CAS1     0.0    3.5    0.0    4.3    0.0    9.6  EMR wrt COMB
 IRKT     0.0    3.1    0.0    3.7    0.0    7.6  EMR wrt COMB
 DAV1     0.0    3.6    0.0    4.3    0.0   10.0  EMR wrt COMB
 KERG     0.0    3.2    0.0    4.7    0.0    9.2  EMR wrt COMB
 BAHR     0.0    3.2   -0.1    5.6    0.0   10.4  EMR wrt COMB
 MALI     0.0    4.2    0.0    9.0    0.0   14.8  EMR wrt COMB
 MATE     0.0    2.2    0.0    3.2    0.0    6.8  EMR wrt COMB
 ONSA     0.0    2.3    0.0    2.8    0.0    6.5  EMR wrt COMB
 NYAL     0.0    2.7    0.0    3.0    0.0    8.9  EMR wrt COMB
 Reference sites NOT used 
 
 
 5.0 EOP ESIMATES FROM THE CONSTRAINED COMBINED SOLUTION
  MJD      Xpole   Ypole  UT1-UTC    LOD  Xsig  Ysig   UTsig  LODsig  Nr Nf Nt    Xrt    Yrt  Xrtsig  Yrtsig XYcorr XUTcor YUTcor
             (10**-6")       (0.1 usec)    (10**-6")     (0.1 usec)              (10**-6"/d)    (10**-6"/d)
52154.50  155510  147175  -277209   1734 27160 27018   66670     186  47  0  0  -2816  -1143    291    290    -.004   .000   .000
52155.50  152393  145476  -279714   3237 27160 27018   66674     160  47  0  0  -2692  -1429    252    251    -.004   .000   .000
52156.50  149202  143949  -283526   4299 27160 27018   66677     155  47  0  0  -2864  -1799    244    241    -.004   .000   .000
52157.50  145900  141949  -288153   4838 27160 27018   66681     155  47  0  0  -2636  -2149    241    241    -.004   .000   .000
52158.50  143005  140114  -292898   4543 27160 27018   66685     156  47  0  0  -2257  -1842    245    245    -.004   .000   .000
52159.50  140498  138644  -296988   3562 27160 27018   66689     165  47  0  0  -1991  -1547    262    265    -.004   .000   .000
52160.50  138244  137303  -299967   2356 27160 27018   66693     188  47  0  0  -1870  -1391    295    300    -.004   .000   .000



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