Separating near surface thermal inertia signals from a thermal time series by standardized principal component analysis     

A. Soliman  R. Brown  R.J. Heck 《International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation》2011

Principal component analysis has been applied to remote sensing data to identify spatiotemporal patterns in a time series of images. Thermal inertia is a surface property that relates well to shallow surface thermal and physical properties. Mapping thermal inertia requires quantifying surface energy balance components and soil heat flux, both of which are difficult to measure remotely. This article describes a method to map soil thermal inertia using principal component analysis applied to a time series of thermal infrared images and it also assesses how sensitive this method is to the time intervals between images. Standardized principal component analysis (SPCA) was applied to thermal infrared images captured at half-hour intervals during a complete diurnal cycle. Shallow surface thermal properties accounted for 45%, 82% and 66% of the spatiotemporal variation in surface temperature observed during the heating phase, cooling phase and over the total diurnal cycle respectively. The remaining 55%, 18% and 34% of the variation was attributed to transient effects such as shadows, surface roughness and background noise. Signals related to thermal inertia explained 18% of total variation observed in a complete diurnal cycle and 7% of variation in the cooling series. The SPCA method was found useful to separate critical information such as timing and amplitude of maximum surface temperature variation from delays related to differential heating induced by micro-topography. For the field conditions experienced in this study, decreased temporal resolution when sampling intervals were greater than an hour significantly reduced the quality of results.  相似文献   

Aeromagnetic signature analysis of Gasus area and its surrounding,central eastern desert,Egypt     

O. A. Zaki  S. H. AbdAlnabi  S E. Abd El Wahab  A. A. Ismail  N. M. Soliman 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2017,10(14):310

This study presents analysis and interpretation of aeromagnetic data to construct subsurface structure maps and determine the depths to magnetic basement. Subsequent analysis steps are applied to the total magnetic intensity (TMI) data. These steps include Reduction to the Pole (RTP) map that was derived from the TMI map then subjected to spectral frequency analysis to isolate RTP map into high and low frequencies and determine pseudo-depth for each map from power spectrum in which there were two main average levels (interfaces) at depth 1.3 and 0.7 km for the deep-seated and near-surface magnetic structures, respectively. 3D Euler deconvolution technique is applied to calculate the depth to the magnetic contacts; the results show clustering of solutions, the shallow solutions are related to the outcrops less than 80 m from flight level, and the solutions which are related to sedimentary cover locations (Um al-Huweitat, Wasif, and Mohamed Rabah basins) are ranged between 200 and to more than 1100 m. Moreover, anomaly enhancement techniques such as tilt derivative (TD), horizontal tilt derivative (TDX), and source edge detect (SED) are applied to enhance shallow features, and determining structure element boundary for both shallow- and deep-seated anomalies and revealing possible faults such as 2D forward modeling are applied to selected profiles to adjust the interpreted structures and map the boundaries and basement relief of the three basins (Mohammed Rabah, Wasif, and Um al-Huweitat). The analysis shows that the study area is affected with network of dip–slip faults due to high shearing and compression stress which formed grabens and horsts at different depth levels in the study area. The trends of predominant faults related to deep-seated structures are NW–SE with depths ranged between 1 and 1.4 km and in regard to the shallow-seated structure, the predominant fault trends are NW–SE, NNW–SSE, and NNE–SSW with depths ranged between 0.3 and 0.8 km.  相似文献   

Theory of solar stills and its experimental verification under actual atmospheric conditions     

Elnesr  M. K.  Soliman  S. H. 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1969,74(1):145-150

Summary The distillation process by solar energy is explained by a system of equations based on heat and mass transfer laws. The efficiency of the still obtained theoretically, applying these equations, has been found in good agreement with the values obtained experimentally under actual atmospheric conditions. The validity of these equations has led to the evaluation of the different heat losses during the distillation process.  相似文献   

Recharging of contaminated aquifer with reclaimed sewage water     

M. M. Soliman  M. Nour El-Din  N. A. Hassan 《Environmental Geology》1995,25(3):211-213

About 40% of the water supply of Cairo, Egypt, is drawn from a groundwater reservoir located southeast of the Nile Delta. Several thousand shallow wells supply drinking water to the farmers from the same groundwater reservoir, which is recharged by seepage from Ismailia canal, the irrigation canal network, and other wastewater lagoons in the same areas. Sewage water lagoons were located at the high ground of the area, recharging contaminated water into the aquifer. Since the groundwater in this area is used for drinking purposes, it was decided to treat the sewage water recharging the aquifer for health reasons. In this paper a solution to the problem is presented using an injection well recharging good quality water into the aquifer. A pumping well located at a distance downstream is used to pump the contaminated water out of the aquifer. A three-dimensional solute transport model was developed to study the concentration distribution with remediation time in the contaminated zone.  相似文献   

Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentation on a Miocene fault-block,Gulf of Suez,Egypt     

A. El Haddad  D.M. Aissaoui  M.A. Soliman 《Sedimentary Geology》1984,37(3):185-202

The Miocene sediments at Abu Shaar (Red Sea, Egypt) include both carbonates and detrital silicates whose distribution is closely related to a pre-Miocene basement fault-block. As such, they demonstrate the relationships between local distensional tectonics and sedimentation. Because of the vertical bathymetric relief of the basement block, the carbonates include both a spectacular talus and massive platform facies. In spite of the presence of scattered corals, sedimentation is not truly reefal as deposits consist essentially of muddy bioclastic and silicate sands. The most typical ecological elements are numerous spectacular stromatolites. Rigidity of the sedimentary mass was mainly induced by early marine cementation. Carbonate-siliciclastic transitions on and around the Abu Shaar platform were determined mainly by basement morphology and related pre-Miocene tectonics.  相似文献   

The Cambrian Araba Formation in northeastern Egypt: Facies and depositional environments     

M.A. Khalifa  H.E. Soliman  H.A. Wanas 《Journal of Asian Earth Sciences》2006,27(6):873-884

The Cambrian Araba Formation exposed in Gabal El Zeit and in the Sinai Peninsula unconformably overlies Precambrian basement rocks, and is in turn overlain unconformably by the Ordovician Naqus formation. The Araba Formation has been subdivided into three informal lithologic units: lower, middle and upper, from field observations. Seven sedimentary facies assignable to three facies associations (fluvial, tidal and coastal to open marine) are recognized within the Araba Formation. The lower unit comprises two main facies: matrix-supported conglomerate (facies-A) in the south (Gabal Araba and Wadi Feiran) and interbeds of granulestone and sandstone (facies-B) in the north (Gabal Dhalal and Taba) deposited in fluvial conditions. The middle unit includes four facies: cross-bedded sandstone (facies-C), thin laminated sandstone (facies-D), burrowed-massive sandstone (facies-E) and rhythmically bedded sandstone–mudstone (facies-F) deposited mainly under tidal conditions in the coastal zone. The upper unit consists mainly of interbeds of burrowed mudstone-siltstone, with Skolithos, probably deposited in open marine environment. The sequence records the southward transgression of the Tethys Ocean over a horst and graben system developed in the late Precambrian on the northern margin of the Arabo-Nubian continent.  相似文献   

Benthic foraminiferal turnover across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) event in Eastern Desert,Egypt     

Hassan A. Soliman  Nageh A. Obaidalla  Amr A. Metwally  Azza A. Mohamed 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2018,11(14):394

Benthic foraminiferal fauna are analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively at three stratigraphic sections in Eastern Desert of Egypt (Serai, Duwi, and Um El Huetat). These sections embrace the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) interval which is represented by the occurrence of five distinctive beds. These beds constitute the Dababiya Quarry Member at the lower part of Esna Formation. The occurrence of them indicates an expanded and relatively continuous record across the P/E boundary. The organic-rich clay layer (bed no. 1 of the Dababiya Quarry Member) marks the start of the PETM event. This bed is characterized by the extinction of all benthic foraminiferal fauna except for the occurrence of rare agglutinated foraminiferal species. The presence of these species indicates an oceanic anoxic event at the sea floor. High concentration of phosphatic contents including fish remains occurred in the middle part of the PETM (bed nos. 2 and 3 of the Dababiya Quarry Member) with the continuous absence of benthic foraminiferal fauna except for few specimens at the top of bed 3. Bed nos. 4 and 5 of the Dababiya Quarry Member represent the upper part of the PETM and the initial stage of sea floor recovery. Low diversity and abundance of benthic foraminiferal taxa occurred within these beds, represented by Valvulineria scrobiculata, Lenticulina midwayensis, Loxostomoides appliane, and Siphogenerinoides eleganta. This phenomenon continues upward during the post-PETM event. The Paleocene velasco-type benthic foraminifera Angulogavelinella avnimelechi and Coryphostoma midwayensis species are extinct within the advent of the PETM event. The benthic foraminiferal assemblages at the studied sections are dominated by midway-type fauna with little representative of velasco-type fauna. The velasco-type species are represented with high abundance at Serai section and with low densities at Um El Huetat section, while at Duwi section, they rarely occurred. This suggests outer neritic-upper bathyal (150–400 m) setting at Serai section and mostly middle-outer neritic (50–150 m) setting at Um El Huetat and Duwi sections.  相似文献   

The expansion of negative powers of the mutual distance between two planets     

Osman M. Kamel  Adel S. Soliman 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1988,43(3):197-200

An outline of a new method is given to obtain the expansion of ^–S by the method of W. M. Smart, using Taylor theorem and neglecting powers higher than the fourth in the eccentricity and inclination.  相似文献   

内蒙古兴和-卓资太古宙孔兹岩系变质峰期水活度、氧逸度及其化学位变化   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

卢良兆  董永胜  周喜文 《岩石学报》1999,15(4):493-504

通过脱水反应的平衡热力学计算确定内蒙古兴和－卓资太古宙孔兹岩系变泥砂质岩中变质峰期ａＨ２Ｏ 总体较低, 变化于０．１２～０．４０ 之间, 黑云紫苏片麻岩中ａＨ２Ｏ为０．２０～０．４３。前者的ｌｏｇｆＯ２ 值最高为－ １３～－ １５, 但在有些岩石中极低,（μＨ２ Ｏ／ＸＢｔＭ ｇ ）Ｐ,Ｔ和（μＯ２ ／ＸＢｔＭ ｇ ）Ｐ,Ｔ的系数主要变化于－ ０．２４１～－ ０．３８３ 和－ １．０５２～－ １．８１０,（μＨ２Ｏ ／μＯ２ ）Ｐ,Ｔ的斜率也有一定变化。这些数值变化特征按 “碳质变质”观点不应出现, 主要也不是脱水熔融作用所致, 它们可能与非完全开放系统中Ｈ２Ｏ较ＣＯ２ 易于逸散有关。  相似文献   

阿拉善变质基底古元古代晚期的构造热事件   总被引：18，自引：7，他引：11  

耿元生  王新社  吴春明  周喜文 《岩石学报》2010,26(4):1159-1170

阿拉善地块可分为太古宙的叠布斯格杂岩(岩群)、古元古代的巴彦乌拉山杂岩(岩组)和古-中元古代的阿拉善杂岩(岩群)、波罗斯坦庙片麻杂岩和毕级格台片麻杂岩。太古宙的叠布斯格岩群和片麻岩中的锆石记录了1926Ma和1802Ma的变质事件年龄,角闪石记录了1918Ma的变质事件年龄,斜长石记录了1722Ma的冷却年龄。同时,在波罗斯坦庙变形的片麻状杂岩中的锆石记录了1839Ma的岩浆事件年龄。该区古元古代晚期的构造热事件,可初步将划分为2000～1900Ma的早期事件和1850～1800Ma的晚期事件,并在时间和特点上与大青山-集宁-大同一带变质地体中广泛发育古元古代晚期的岩浆-变质事件非常相似,进而表明,华北克拉通西部陆块中的古元古代晚期造山带(孔兹岩带)向西可延伸到阿拉善东部地区。  相似文献