The CDDIS archive of laser ranging products consists of solutions derived by analysis centers in support of the ILRS. Products derived from these SLR observations include precise satellite ephemerides, station positions and velocities of sites in the ILRS network, and EOPs (polar motion and rates, length-of-day). ILRS analysis centers deliver the station position/EOP product to the ILRS data centers, including the CDDIS. The ILRS combination centers retrieve these solutions and produce the combined ILRS A and B solutions (generated by the primary and backup ILRS combination centers, respectively) which are in turn archived in the CDDIS. Prior to 2012, ILRS analysis centers generated the products on a weekly basis; today, these products are generated daily. Station positions and EOP date from 1976 through the present. SLR products are available from the CDDIS in subdirectories by year and date.
Reference Frames:
- ITRF2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/SLR/slr_itrf20200_repro2020_001
Product formats:
- Software INdependent EXchange (SINEX) format
The starting directory for these files is:
Append the following directory and file names to the starting directory:
YYYY/YYMMDD/ACNAME.pos+eop.YYMMDD.v###.TYP.gz
as described in the table below.
Analysis Center | Code |
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Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäesie (BKG) Germany | bkg |
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI) Germany | dgfi |
ESA/ESOC, Germany | esa |
Groupe de Recherche en Géodésie Spatiale (GRGS) France | grgs |
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany | gfz |
ILRS primary combination solution | ilrsa |
ILRS backup combination solution | ilrsb |
Italian Space Agency, Centro de Geodasia Spaziale "G. Colombo" (ASI/CGS), Italy | afi |
Joint Center for Earth System Technology/Goddard Space Flight Center (JCET/GSFC) Greenbelt, Maryland, USA | jcet |
NERC Space Geodesy Facility (NSGF) formely RGO Satellite Laser Ranging Group, United Kingdom | ngsf |
Code | Meaning |
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YYYY | 4-digit year |
YY | 2-digit year |
MM | 2-digit month |
DD | 2-digit day |
ACNAME | Analysis Center Name |
### | version of solution |
TYP | type of solution (SNX or SUM) |
gz | Compressed file |