IDS CONTRIBUTION TO ITRF2004
TIME SERIES OF STATION COORDINATES
IDS Analysis Coordination team
June 2005
SERIES OF COORDINATE RESIDUALS TO LINEAR MOTION
Time series of N, E, U residual coordinates with respect to linear motion are
plotted for all stations that were analysed by the three analysis centers
listed in table 1. The residuals are output from the CATREF analysis of
series of unconstrained weekly solutions available at the IDS Data Centers.
Table 1. The sets of station coordinates analysed
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Solution Time span No of
stations
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ignwd05 1993.0-2005.3 120
inawd03 1993.0-2004.5 116
lcawd12 1993.0-2005.1 119
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The graphs show the residuals with color codes as follows.
Blue: ignwd05, brown: inawd03, green: lcawd12.
An average annual variation is superimposed (yellow solid line). It is derived
as the mean of the annual sine waves for ign and lca analysis centers.
When a discontinuity was defined by the Analysis Centers, a red line shows
the corresponding date. Note that the derivation of coordinates residuals by
the CATREF software took those declared discontinuity into account by estimating
independent positions and velocities before and after the break date. Therefore
the corresponding sets of residuals do not belong to the same set. An additional
list of discontinuities is under discussion in June 2005. The proposed dates
are marked by a green line.
An additional zone shows the number of satellites used for positioning according
to the time frame.
At the bottom of the page, the number of weekly coordinates and some statistics
extracted from the the core_net software output files
- ignwd05.a.txt
- inawd03.a.txt
- lcawd12.a.txt
are listed with the same color code as the plots. The extracted statistics include
the Allan standard deviation (in millimetres) for the one-year sampling time and
the spectral signature in the East, North and Up directions, and the stability
index derived from the plotted data. For more details about the core_net
software (explanation).
Note that the correct Ottawa DOMES number for the period Feb 1, 1994 - Jan 31, 1998
is 40102S009. The ina and lca contributions were corrected accordingly.