New Horizons for Latin American SLR Network (poster)

PACHECO, A; PODESTA, R.; QUINTEROS, J; YANYACHI, P; VALVERDE, J; HAEFNER, MICHAEL, TOLEDO, FLORENCIA; BORGES, R; BORGES, G

Workshop; 21st International Workshop on Laser Ranging; 2018

International Laser Ranging Service

Within the ILRS (International Laser Ranging Service) globalnetwork, continental subnets that carry out various scientificprojects coexist.In particular, in South America there are four SLR stations welllocated in the area; being the Arequipa Station in Perú the oldestone in the Southern hemisphere, code ILRS 7403 (set up in1989). The ILRS 7407 Station in Brasilia is operational since2014, and finally two stations in Argentina are operational aswell, one of them, ILRS 7406 in San Juan (OAFA) and the otherone ILRS 7408 in La Plata (AGGO), Buenos Aires, set up in 2006and 2015, respectively.According to what was settled down at the Second LatinAmerican SLR Workshop in November 2017, to work oncommon basis for the observation processing was decided inorder to assimilate this system to the SIRGAS framework.At this presentation the four SLR stations in the continent areshown at their present status and the challenges-to-come forthis satellite technique in Latin America, taking intoconsideration future projects in the network