Local Level Lab

Airborne measurements. Open methods.

Timing and calibration differences in the remaining stretches

Eight outstanding primary/repeat pairs, from all four unresolved stretches, are compared at their preserved pre-boundary-check endpoints. No new fit, integration, original-file read or disposition change is involved.

Stretch / case / model Repeat minus primary time Relative cost difference Local timing retained, primary / repeat
0e73879f98c3b701fd7c42df::bias1_profiled_removal::sphere_still -69.9996 ms 6.42158e-06 0.048 / 0.0474
0e73879f98c3b701fd7c42df::bias1_unsubtracted::sphere_still -17.297 ms 1.15662e-05 0.046 / 0.0473
370cec66878c4c1cf84b4ceb::bias1_profiled_removal::sphere_rotating -1.39197e-05 ms 2.92008e-09 0.0127 / 0.0127
50f24131843071ae9312c082::bias1_unsubtracted::sphere_still -44.9967 ms 2.10474e-06 0.0193 / 0.0202
b4e44ddc0f130ecd45674c78::bias1_profiled_removal::sphere_rotating -0.000112003 ms 2.31758e-10 0.0121 / 0.0121
b4e44ddc0f130ecd45674c78::bias1_profiled_removal::sphere_still 57.0566 ms 9.69382e-06 0.0141 / 0.0146
b4e44ddc0f130ecd45674c78::bias1_unsubtracted::sphere_rotating 0.000172776 ms 9.30699e-10 0.0121 / 0.0121
b4e44ddc0f130ecd45674c78::bias1_unsubtracted::sphere_still 57.0566 ms 9.69381e-06 0.0141 / 0.0146

Interpretation

A time difference changes which part of the inertial stream corresponds to a receiver epoch. The local projection asks how much the timing tangent can be imitated by changing the other active nuisance parameters. It includes parameters at their limits and temporarily ignores those limits for this linear diagnostic. It supplies no new convergence or scientific gate.

The saved first-order predictions and their errors are preserved in the report data. Large endpoint separations require a nonlinear profile before a local tangent can describe the intervening cost. Small cost differences alone do not establish matching reconstructed tracks.

The next matched profile should hold selected time offsets fixed while reoptimizing the other nuisance parameters from both saved starting solutions. It must then distinguish a numerically incomplete profile from a genuinely different stable solution. Fixed-time profiles are diagnostic and cannot replace the full free-time comparison or its repeat checks.

Current status · Next steps · Finite plan.