Recent Progress and Plans for Improvement of ILRS Infrastructure and Data Product Delivery
M. R. Pearlman, Noll, Carey, Pavlis, Erricos C., Otsubo, Toshimichi, Torre, Jean-Marie, Kirchner, Georg, Schreiber, Ulrich · Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium) · 2020
The ILRS provides laser ranging data and products on an operational basis to geodesy analysts as well as a broader scientific community • ILRS is one of four services within the International Association for Geodesy (IAG) supporting space geodesy • IAG established these services to facilitate international cooperation and scientific research • Networks • Data centers • Analysis groups • Services perform successful operations through cooperation of many international organizations, leveraging their respective resources to all levels of service functionality