9:30   Opening of the 2005 Laser Workshop


10:30   Tea Break

11:00   Analysis  Chairs:   R. Noomen & G. Appleby

• How is SLR progressing toward 1 mm accuracy observations?
• What would we need to make two-color ranging useful for refraction models?
• What steps need to be taken to reach a real 1 mm accuracy?
• The importance or not of two colour laser ranging
• The relation between accuracy of individual observations vs that of analysis products?
• New Refraction model
• What is the minimum amount of track needed for a 'good' pass? What parts of the pass are needed for mm orbit production? Full pass? Beginning and end and middle?
• modeling of station/satellite signature. These signatures need to be converted into something that is directly, without possible error, usable by the analysts ("station X, use value Y"). What at the station level? What at the analyst level?
• additional useful observations? ("angle"?)
• what steps need to be taken to reach a real 1 mm accuracy?
• the relation between accuracy of individual observations vs that of analysis products?
  

12:30   Lunch

13:30   Analysis (cont.)

15:30 Tea Break

Introduction ‑ Mike Pearlman  (5 minutes)

How good are our intertechnique surveys and which ones are missing? by Zuheir Altamimi (15 minutes)

How surveys are done and what site markers should be used? by John Luck (15 minutes)

Examples of Recent Surveys
 Hartebeesthoek ‑ Ludwig Combrinck (10 minutes)
 Matera ‑ Pippo Bianco (10 minutes)
 Wettzell/Tigo - Stefan Riepl (10 minutes)

Stations have been asked to come prepared with charts to discuss:

• When was your last station survey done? By whom?
• How was it documented? Where?
• Anything special about the technique?
• What kind of monumentation do you use?
• How good do you think your survey is? How do you know?
• What are your future survey plans? How often do you redo the survey?
• Do you routinely monitor your system calibration for consistency?     

17:30  End