--- Important information ---
The EDC has released a
new API (version 3), which replaces version 1. Access to the current API (version 1) will be stopped on
1 January 2027.
For security reasons, the EDC will
stop access via FTP and SFTP and switch to
HTTPS functionality in the near future.
The new API (version 3) already provides new functionalities such as data upload, data download and data browsing.
Detailed documentation can be found at
https://edc-api.readthe docs.io/.
Products
Products derived from SLR data archived in the EDC support scientific research in:
- Terrestrial reference frame (center of mass and scale)
- Improve understanding of the dynamics and modeling of GNSS orbits (one of our major users)
- Calibration and validation of ocean and ice altimetry missions
- Static and time-varying gravity field (low order/degree terms)
- Plate tectonics and crustal deformation
- Earth orientation and rotation (polar motion, length of day)
- Total Earth mass distribution
- Space science - satellite dynamics, etc.
- Relativity and lunar science
The EDC archive of laser ranging products consists of solutions derived by analysis centers in support of the ILRS.
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).
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 and combination centers deliver the precise orbit and station position/EOP products to the ILRS data centers, including the EDC.
List of Products
Quality Control of ILRS products
Live status of processed ILRS products can be found
here.
This page was mirrored from CDDIS and adapted for the Eurolas Data Center (EDC).