Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the upper Cretaceous succession (Abtalkh Formation) of the Kopeh-Dagh Basin,northeastern Iran based on foraminiferal and palynological analyses     

Ghourchaei  Shemshad  Ghasemi-Nejad  Ebrahim  Vahidinia  Mohammad  Ashouri  Alireza 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2015,8(4):2153-2168

Arabian Journal of Geosciences - In order to reconstruct sea surface water productivity and sea floor oxygenation during late Campanian-Maastrichtian, planktonic and benthic foraminiferal...  相似文献   

Integration of ASTER and landsat TM remote sensing data for chromite prospecting and lithological mapping in Neyriz ophiolite zone,south Iran          下载免费PDF全文

Alireza Eslami  Majid Ghaderi  Sankaran Rajendran  Amin Beiranvand Pour  Mazlan Hashim 《Resource Geology》2015,65(4):375-388

Chromite deposits in Iran are located in the ophiolite complexes, which have mostly podiform types and irregular in their settings. Exploration for podiform chromite deposits associated with ophiolite complexes has been a challenge for the prospectors due to tectonic disturbance and their distribution patterns. Most of Iranian ophiolitic zones are located in mountainous and inaccessible regions. Remote sensing approach could be applicable tool for choromite prospecting in Iranian ophiolitic zones with intensely rugged topography, where systematic sampling and conventional geological mapping are limited. In this study, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) satellite data were used for chromite prospecting and lithological mapping in the Neyriz ophiolitic zone in the south of Iran. Image transformation techniques, namely decorrelation stretch, band ratio and principal component analysis (PCA) were applied to Landsat TM and ASTER data sets for lithological mapping at regional scale. The RGB decorrelated image of Landsat TM spectral bands 7, 5, and 4, and the principal components PC1, PC2 and PC3 image of ASTER SWIR spectral bands efficiently showed the occurrence of major lithological units in the study area at regional scale. The band ratios of 5/3, 5/1, 7/5 applied on ASTER VNIR‐SWIR bands were very useful for discriminating most of rock units in the study area and delineation of the transition zone and mantle harzburgite in the Neyriz ophiolitic complex. Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) technique was implemented to ASTER VNIR‐SWIR spectral bands for detecting minerals of rock units and especially delineation of the transition zone and mantle harzburgite as potential zones with high chromite mineralization in the Neyriz ophiolitic complex. The integration of information extracted from the image processing algorithms used in this study mapped most of lithological units of the Neyriz ophiolitic complex and identified potential areas of high chromite mineralization (transition zone and mantle harzburgite) for chromite prospecting targets in the future. Furthermore, image processing results were verified by comprehensive fieldwork and laboratory analysis in the study area. Accordingly, result of this investigation indicate that the integration of information extracted from the image processing algorithms using Landsat TM and ASTER data sets could be broadly applicable tool for chromite prospecting and lithological mapping in mountainous and inaccessible regions such Iranian ophiolitic zones.  相似文献   

Time dependence of advection-dominated accretion flow with a toroidal magnetic field     

Alireza Khesali  Kazem Faghei 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,398(3):1361-1367

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Optimization of Flue Gas Composition to Maximize Base Gas Replacement During UGS Process     

Namdar  Hamed  Khodapanah  Elnaz  Tabatabaei-Nejad  Seyyed Alireza 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(6):4175-4197

Natural Resources Research - Base gas replacement by a cheap gas is one of the approved methods to reduce the cost of investment in underground gas storage process. Maximizing the amount of...  相似文献   

Road condition assessment by OBIA and feature selection techniques using very high-resolution WorldView-2 imagery     

Kaveh Shahi  Alireza Hamedianfar 《国际地球制图》2017,32(12):1389-1406

Accurate information on the conditions of road asphalt is necessary for economic development and transportation management. In this study, object-based image analysis (OBIA) rule-sets are proposed based on feature selection technique to extract road asphalt conditions (good and poor) using WorldView-2 (WV-2) satellite data. Different feature selection techniques, including support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF) and chi-square (CHI) are evaluated to indicate the most effective algorithm to identify the best set of OBIA attributes (spatial, spectral, textural and colour). The chi-square algorithm outperformed SVM and RF techniques. The classification result based on CHI algorithm achieved an overall accuracy of 83.19% for the training image (first site). Furthermore, the proposed model was used to examine its performance in different areas; and it achieved accuracy levels of 83.44, 87.80 and 80.26% for the different selected areas. Therefore, the selected method can be potentially useful for detecting road conditions based on WV-2 images.  相似文献   

A new descriptor for improving geometric-based matching of linear objects on multi-scale datasets     

Alireza Chehreghan 《地理信息系统科学与遥感》2017,54(6):836-861

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Laboratory Study of Topographic Effects on the Near-surface Tornado Flow Field     

Alireza Razavi  Partha P. Sarkar 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2018,168(2):189-212

To study topographic effects on the near-surface tornado flow field, the Iowa State University tornado simulator was used to simulate a translating tornado passing over three different two-dimensional topographies: a ridge, an escarpment and a valley. The effect of the translation speed on maximum horizontal wind speeds is observed for translation speeds of 0.15 and 0.50 \(\hbox {m}\,\hbox {s}^{-1}\), with the lower value resulting in a larger maximum horizontal wind speed. The tornado translation over the three topographies with respect to flat terrain is assessed for changes in: (a) the maximum horizontal wind speeds in terms of the flow-amplification factor; (b) the maximum aerodynamic drag in terms of the tornado speed-up ratio; (c) the maximum duration of exposure at any location to high wind speeds of a specific range in terms of the exposure amplification factor. Results show that both the maximum wind amplification factor of 14%, as well as the maximum speed-up ratio of 14%, occur on the ridge. For all topographies, the increase in aerodynamic drag is observed to be maximized for low-rise buildings, which illustrates the importance of the vertical profiles of the horizontal wind speed near the ground. The maximum exposure amplification factors, estimated for the range of wind speeds corresponding to the EF2 (50–60 \(\hbox {m}\,\hbox {s}^{-1}\)) and EF3 (61–75 \(\hbox {m}\,\hbox {s}^{-1})\) scales, are 86 and 110% for the ridge, 4 and 60% for the escarpment and ? 6 and 47% for the valley, respectively.  相似文献   

Spatial correlation for horizontal and vertical components of acceleration from northern Iran seismic events     

Alireza Garakaninezhad  Morteza Bastami  Mohammad Reza Soghrat 《Journal of Seismology》2017,21(6):1505-1516

The evaluation of seismic risk of spatially distributed systems requires the spatial correlation model for ground motion intensity measures. This study investigates the spatial correlation of four earthquakes recorded in northern Iran. The intra-event spatial correlation for both horizontal and vertical components of spectral acceleration at eight periods in the range of 0.0–3.0 s is estimated using geostatistical tools. An exponential form is chosen to fit experimental semivariograms, and the correlation ranges of spectral accelerations as a function of period are derived. The results show similar trend of correlation ranges for both components. It should be mentioned that the ranges for the vertical component, in general, are higher than those observed for the horizontal one. For both components, the correlation ranges as a function of period are divided into three segments. The first and the third one are increasing while the second one is decreasing with increasing period.  相似文献   

A general weighted total Kalman filter algorithm with numerical evaluation     

Vahid Mahboub  Mohammad Saadatseresht  Alireza A. Ardalan 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2017,61(1):19-34

An applicable algorithm for Total Kalman Filter (TKF) approach is proposed. Meanwhile, we extend it to the case in which we can consider arbitrary weight matrixes for the observation vector, the random design matrix and possible correlation between them. Also the updated dispersion matrix of the predicted unknown is given. This approach makes use of condition equations and straightforward variance propagation rules. It is applicable to data fusion within a dynamic errors-in-variables (DEIV) model, which usually appears in the determination of the position and attitude of mobile sensors. Then, we apply for the first time the TKF algorithm and its extended version named WTKF to a DEIV model and compare the results. The results show the efficiency of the proposed WTKF algorithm. In particular in the case of large weights, WTKF shows approximately 25% improvement in contrast to TKF approach.  相似文献   

Strong ground motion from the November 12, 2017, <Emphasis Type="Bold">M</Emphasis> 7.3 Kermanshah earthquake in western Iran     

Alireza Babaie Mahani  Javad Kazemian 《Journal of Seismology》2018,22(6):1339-1358

In this paper, we analyzed the strong ground motion from the November 12, 2017, Kermanshah earthquake in western Iran with moment magnitude (M) of 7.3. Nonlinear and linear amplification of ground motion amplitudes were observed at stations with soft soil condition at hypocentral distances below and above 100 km, respectively. Observation of large ground motion amplitudes dominated with long-period pulses on the strike-normal component of the velocity time series suggests a right-lateral component of movement and propagation of rupture towards southeast. Comparison of the horizontal peak ground acceleration (PGA) from the M 7.3 earthquake with global PGA values showed a similar decay in ground motion amplitudes, although it seems that PGA from the M 7.3 Kermanshah earthquake is higher than global values for NEHRP site class B. We also found that the bracketed duration (D_b) was higher in the velocity domain than in the acceleration domain for the same modified Mercalli intensity (MMI) threshold. For example, D_b reached ~?30 s at the maximum PGA while it was ~?50 s at the maximum peak ground velocity above the threshold of MMI?=?5. Although the standard design spectrum from Iranian Code of Practice for Seismic Resistant Design of Buildings (standard No. 2800) seems to include appropriate values for the design of structures with fundamental period of 1 s and higher, it is underestimated for near-field ground motions at lower periods.  相似文献