What the Range-Certified Station Certifies: A Correction of the Morning Summary and a Provenance Note

Correction and provenance note. A plain-language summary given on the morning of 10 November 2026 described the design deposited as DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24102256 ('A Range-Certified Electro-Optical Observation Station') as a co-located bearing pair (per-camera bearing standard uncertainty 0.00873 rad, 1.5 km baseline, relative range uncertainty 6.70% at 300 m), with a LiDAR gate of 2 m, a barometer 10-minute 3-sigma excursion of 11.1 hPa, and a GPS-disciplined clock figure of 100 ms. The deposited paper is a single-station design: one camera with combined bearing standard uncertainty 6.07 microrad, one 905 nm laser rangefinder channel with standard uncertainty 0.50 m over 5-3000 m, synchronous sampling at 10 Hz. This note establishes the provenance of the summary's figures: they appear together in exactly one document found, the deposit receipt for the version 1 blueprint package (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24112050), which records that they were listed in the brief for that package, do not appear in the deposited source design, and were not used; their origin upstream of that brief was not found. Of the six figures, only the 1.5 km baseline matches a deposited design - the surveyed baseline of the version 2 station (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24109707, blueprint DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24111972). The other five match neither version 1 nor version 2, and a deposited computation shows the summary's bearing-pair figures are not mutually consistent (0.00873 rad bearings triangulated on a 1500 m baseline at 300 m give 1.79%, not 6.70%). The correction: the morning summary conflated brief figures that were never part of any deposited design with the two deposited stations; the deposited record stands as written and no deposited number is changed by this note. All performance figures in the designs discussed are SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED. Sole author: William Alexander Aldred (ORCID: 0009-0000-1215-577X). CC BY 4.0. AI-use disclosure: produced by Dave, an AI system, under the author's direction; no hardware was built or measured.