Data Integration Issues for a Farm Decision Support System     

Marion Jones  George Taylor 《Transactions in GIS》2004,8(4):459-477

This paper explores data integration and compatibility issues raised during the development of a prototype spatial decision support system (SDSS) as a support tool for the farm manager of the University of Central Lancashire's farm at Newton Rigg and as a teaching resource for staff and students on campus. Metadata concerns and interoperability problems are addressed in detail. The paper outlines the proposed model for the SDSS and issues identified during the investigation of the users’ requirements and the analysis of the underlying spatial data sets. The initial data issues relate to the identification of existing and missing data sets ( Parker et al. 1996 ) and the creation of metadata describing the data sets. The second area to be explored concerns interoperability issues. This is relevant when users must access more than one dataset using distributed computing resources ( Sondheim et al. 1999 ).  相似文献   

Halogen geochemistry of the McMurdo dry valleys lakes, Antarctica: Clues to the origin of solutes and lake evolution   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

W. Berry Lyons  Kathleen A. Welch  John Olesik  Giles M. Marion 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2005,69(2):305-323

We have determined the halogen and boron concentrations in the ice-covered lakes of Taylor Valley, Antarctica, to better establish the sources of salts and evolutionary histories of these unusual water bodies. In addition, we report on a series of ¹²⁹I measurements that were compared with previous ³⁶Cl data that also help constrain the source of solutes and histories of the lakes. The new data, when put into context of previous work on these systems over the past forty years, allow us to make the following conclusions. The primary source of solutes to Lake Hoare, the youngest of the lakes, is the dissolution of marine aerosols and aeolian salts and the chemical weathering of dust on the glaciers. The geochemistry of Lake Fryxell, the brackish water lake, is primarily dominated by the diffusion from a halite-saturated brine at the sediment-water interface and the recent infilling of the lake by glacier meltwater. These waters have chemical weathering and marine aerosols components. Lake Bonney has two distinct lobes whose hypersaline hypolimnia have different chemistries. Both of the lobes are remnants of ancient marine waters that have been modified by the input of weathering products. This lake has also been modified by periods of cryogenic concentration when solutes have been lost via mineral precipitation. Thus the geochemistry of Lake Bonney owes its unusual geochemistry, in part, to variations in the climate in the Taylor Valley over at least the past 300kyr. The ¹²⁹I data from the Taylor Valley are similar to those from fracture fluids in crystalline rocks from the Northern Hemisphere.  相似文献   

Fractionation change of hydrogen isotopes in trees due to atmospheric pollutants     

Martine M. Savard  Christian Bégin  Joëlle Marion  Michel Parent 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2005,69(15):3723-3731

Atmospheric pollution effects on hydrogen fractionation in trees are demonstrated for the first time in this study. The δ²H ring-cellulose series obtained for black spruce trees at a site near a SO₂-emitting smelter display short-term fluctuations superimposed on a first order −11‰ shift coincident with the onset of smelter operations. The isotopic depletion in trees exposed to various levels of SO₂ diminish with increasing distance relative to the location of the smelter, and it is not detected at the most distant selected stand, 116 km downwind from the point source. Both the spatial and temporal isotopic trends likely result from the combined effects of leaf transpiration, biochemical processes and water uptake by the root system. The spatial and temporal trends of δ²H values are the reverse of the δ¹³C trends previously obtained for the same tree ring series. These coupled isotopic fractionations underline an important response of trees to pollution stresses likely generated by ambient atmospheric SO₂ concentrations. The degradation of global air quality during the last 150 yr likely generated large scale modifications in the way terrestrial vegetation grows. In this respect, hydrogen dendrogeochemistry combined with other tracers such as C isotope ratios constitutes a new tool to evaluate the past behavior of forest ecosystems in terms of C uptake and acclimation to various types of atmospheric pollution.  相似文献   

Remote and in situ plume measurements of acid gas release from La Soufrière volcano, Guadeloupe     

Marie-Lise Bernard  Jack Molini  Rose-Helen Petit  Franois Beauducel  Gilbert Hammouya  Guy Marion 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2006,150(4):395-409

This paper presents the first remote measurements of La Soufrière gas emissions since the fumarolic and seismic reactivation in 1992. The chemical composition of the plumes has been measured from May 2003 to September 2004 using an Open Path Fourier Transform InfraRed (OP-FTIR) spectrometer, up to 15 m downwind the South Crater. HCl is clearly detected (concentration between 2.4 and 12 ppmv) whereas SO₂ and H₂S generally remain below the detection limit of the OP-FTIR. Direct measurements of SO₂ and H₂S near the South Crater with a Lancom III analyzer show a fast decrease of their concentrations with the distance. Calculated Cl / S mass ratios are high: from 9.4 ± 1.7 at 15 m from the vent to 2.8 ± 0.6 at 140 m. The enrichment in HCl of the gas emitted at La Soufrière, observed since 1998, corresponds to the degassing of a magma enriched in Cl and depleted in S. This result agrees with isotopic measurements which suggest a magmatic origin of the gases. Readjustments inside the volcanic system may have taken place during the seismic activity beginning in 1992 and enhance the transfer of magmatic gases to the summit.  相似文献   

TSIP中期地震预报方法在辽宁地区的应用与研究     

郭育  蒋秀琴 《东北地震研究》1998,14(2):35-42

本文用ＣＮ算法研究了辽宁省两个地震重点监视防御区的中强震前的强震发生概率增长时间,结果表明预测效果较好,有震报准率为９０％,ＴＩＰ预测警戒占时空率为３０％左右,Ｒ值评分为０．６左右。在ＴＩＰ预测的基础上,进一步用ＳＩＰ方法分析这两个区域的空间背景发震概率的不均匀分布。综合应用ＴＩＰ方法和ＳＩＰ方法,对辽宁省及邻近地区进行了试验性地震预报。  相似文献   

Crustal make-up of the northern Andes: evidence based on deep crustal xenolith suites, Mercaderes, SW Colombia   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Marion B. I. Weber  John Tarney  Pamela D. Kempton  Raymond W. Kent   《Tectonophysics》2002,345(1-4)

Samples of the deep crust and upper mantle in the Northern Andes occur as abundant xenoliths in the Granatífera Tuff, a late Cenozoic vent in the Mercaderes area of SW Colombia. The lower crustal assemblage includes granulites, hornblendites, pyribolites, pyroxenites and gneisses; mafic rocks predominate, but felsic material is also common. P–T conditions for the pyribolite assemblages (i.e. Hbl+Fs/Scp+Grt+Cpx+Qtz±Bt), which are the best constrained, are 720–850 °C and 10–14 kbar, consistent with a deep-to-lower crustal origin. A notable feature of this xenolith suite is that it is dominated by hornblende. However, mineral reactions within the suite show that there is a transition from amphibolite to granulite facies, and there is a probable restite–melt relationship represented within the suite. However, the latter appears to be dominated by hornblende and garnet.The mafic rocks mostly lack the high Cr and Ni that would be expected of cumulates. Neither do they possess the positive Sr and Eu anomalies that would be consistent with resite or cumulate models for the lower crust. They bear greatest similarity to oceanic basalts (s.l.). The Rb contents of the xenoliths, whether mafic or silicic, are very low, and the more silicic members of the suite tend to have small positive Sr and Eu anomalies, which are transitional to adakitic compositions. The Sr isotopic compositions of the xenoliths lie between 0.704 and 0.705; however, the Nd isotopic compositions are much more variable, indicating considerable long-term heterogeneity. Few of the xenoliths can be compositionally recognised as metasedimentary; however, a sedimentary component is evident in the Pb isotopic compositions. Within these constraints, our favoured model is a deep crust formed by basaltic components (subduction–accretion?), and minor sediment, which is subject to an increase in thermal gradient to produce the granulites, any melting being dominated by hornblende-out reactions involving garnet. However, there is no evidence of any pervasive crustal melting, leading to the conclusion that the voluminous Andean magmatism arises from the mantle wedge.  相似文献   

A Theoretical Framework for Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection Using Spectral and Spatial A Priori Information     

Yver  B. Marion  R. 《Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE》2007,4(3):436-440

This letter presents a new theoretical approach for anomaly detection using a priori information about targets. This a priori knowledge deals with the general spectral behavior and the spatial distribution of targets. In this letter, we consider subpixel and isolated targets that are spectrally anomalous in one region of the spectrum but not in another. This method is totally different from matched filters that suffer from a relative sensitivity to low errors in the target spectral signature. We incorporate the spectral a priori knowledge in a new detection distance, and we propose a Bayesian approach with a Markovian regularization to suppress the potential targets that do not respect the spatial a priori. The interest of the method is illustrated on simulated data consisting in realistic anomalies that are superimposed on a real HyMap hyperspectral image.  相似文献   

Fate and effects of picric acid and 2,6-DNT in marine environments: toxicity of degradation products     

Nipper M  Carr RS  Biedenbach JM  Hooten RL  Miller K 《Marine pollution bulletin》2005,50(11):1205-1217

The toxicity of transformation products of 2,6-dinitrotoluene (2,6-DNT) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (picric acid) were assessed in spiked sandy and fine-grained marine sediments and in seawater. Toxicity of pore water from sediments spiked with 2,6-DNT decreased for the macro-alga, Ulva fasciata, zoospores as biotransformation proceeded, but increased for the copepod, Schizopera knabeni, nauplii. The primary biotransformation product of 2,6-DNT, 2-amino-6-nitrotoluene, was also more toxic than the parent compound to copepod nauplii, but not to alga zoospores, in spiked seawater tests. Two biotransformation products of picric acid, picramic acid and 2,4-DNP, were more toxic than their parent compound. Porewater toxicity from picric acid-spiked sediments decreased significantly at the end of six-months incubation. Fine-grained sediment spiked with either ordnance compound had lower toxicity than its sandy counterpart after six months, suggesting faster microbial transformation in the former and production of less toxic products. Photo-transformation of 2,6-DNT in seawater resulted in a reduction in toxicity.  相似文献   

A multi‐proxy analysis of late Quaternary palaeoenvironments,Sekhokong Range,eastern Lesotho          下载免费PDF全文

Jennifer M. Fitchett  Stefan W. Grab  Marion K. Bamford  Anson W. Mackay 《第四纪科学杂志》2016,31(7):788-798

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Timing and conditions of brittle faulting on the Silltal-Brenner Fault Zone,Eastern Alps (Austria)     

Neil Mancktelow  Horst Zwingmann  Marion Campani  Bernhard Fügenschuh  Andreas Mulch 《Swiss Journal of Geoscience》2015,108(2-3):305-326

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