Toward mapping land-use patterns from volunteered geographic information   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jamal Jokar Arsanjani  Marco Helbich  Mohamed Bakillah  Julian Hagenauer  Alexander Zipf 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(12):2264-2278

A large number of applications have been launched to gather geo-located information from the public. This article introduces an approach toward generating land-use patterns from volunteered geographic information (VGI) without applying remote-sensing techniques and/or engaging official data. Hence, collaboratively collected OpenStreetMap (OSM) data sets are employed to map land-use patterns in Vienna, Austria. Initially the spatial pattern of the landscape was delineated and thereafter the most relevant land type was assigned to each land parcel through a hierarchical GIS-based decision tree approach. To evaluate the proposed approach, the results are compared with the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Urban Atlas (GMESUA) data. The results are compared in two ways: first, the texture of the resulting land-use patterns is analyzed using texture-variability analysis. Second, the attributes assigned to each land segment are evaluated. The achieved land-use map shows kappa indices of 91, 79, and 76% agreement for location in comparison with the GMESUA data set at three levels of classification. Furthermore, the attributes of the two data sets match at 81, 67, and 65%. The results demonstrate that this approach opens a promising avenue to integrate freely available VGI to map land-use patterns for environmental planning purposes.  相似文献   

Developing an agricultural flood loss estimation function (case study: rice)     

Zahra Ganji  Alireza Shokoohi  Jamal M. V. Samani 《Natural Hazards》2012,64(1):405-419

In recent years, flood control has been replaced by flood management concept in terms of living with flood, making benefit of it, and minimizing its losses. Succeeding in flood management in any region depends on the evaluation of different types of flood losses. Because of providing water resources and suitable arable lands, especially in arid and semiarid countries, floodplains are very important for agricultural activities. These lands are naturally vulnerable to flood; henceforth, determining the degree of protection and acceptable risk in flood damage-reduction projects without agricultural flood loss evaluation could be unrealistic. In this research, effective hydraulic parameters for flood loss estimation were determined and a set of laboratory tests were performed to evaluate the loss of rice, as the main crop in the study region, under different hydraulic conditions. In this regard, flow parameters like depth, velocity, multiplication of depth and velocity, shear stress, the Froude number, and the Reynolds number were employed for different rice growth stages including after transplanting, shooting, clustering, and harvesting. Analyzing the results showed that the Reynolds number, as a dimensionless parameter, is the best one for simulation of flood physical factor-loss function. Statistical analysis revealed that the logarithmic function is the best regression equation fitted to the Reynolds number-loss function. The amount of loss depends on growth stage; therefore, the time of flood occurrence is of vital importance for agricultural loss estimation. In this research, it was realized that the amount of loss is increased in the following order: after transplanting, shooting, harvesting, and clustering.  相似文献   

Quaternary fossil coral communities in uplifted strata along the Balochistan coast of Pakistan: understanding modern coral decline in the Arabian Sea     

Amjad Ali  Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui  Kate Bromfield  Athar Ali Khan  Pervaiz Iqbal 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2017,10(23):520

Uplifted reefs due to being important palaeoclimate archives and a rich source of information on past physical and geochemical changes globally have become the centre of marine research. The uplifted fossil Quaternary coral communities of Jiwani and Gwadar are perfect places to study the palaeoclimatic and geological changes that have shaped the Balochistan coast. Studies on the palaeodiversity of corals along the Makran coast of Pakistan are lacking. In the present study, the samples collected using line intercept method from four uplifted sites (Balochistan coast: one at Gwadar and three at Jiwani) were analysed. The relative distribution and diversity of scleractinian fossil corals was determined, and the factors responsible for coral decline along Pakistan coast were compared with modern coral distribution and diversity. A total of 48 fossil coral species were recorded in nine families and 22 genera. High coral diversity was recorded in the uplifted landward sites of Jiwani and Gwadar headland. Terraces close to the shore at Jiwani had lower diversity. The corals seem to be Quaternary: most likely Pleistocene to Holocene. The modern fauna lacks many species recorded in the fossil community, thus suggesting a faunal turnover in diversity and redistribution of coral fauna which may be linked with past geological events and increasing anthropogenic pressure.  相似文献   

Application of a mixture distribution of extreme values to earthquake magnitudes in Iraq and conterminous regions     

Khalid J. Fahmi  Jamal N. Al Abbasi 《Geophysical Journal International》1991,107(2):209-217

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Role of stochastic model on GPS integer ambiguity resolution success rate   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Ali Reza Amiri-Simkooei  Shahram Jazaeri  Farzaneh Zangeneh-Nejad  Jamal Asgari 《GPS Solutions》2016,20(1):51-61

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Local site effects on seismic ground response of major cities in UAE     

Magdi El-Emam  Zahid Khan  Jamal Abdalla  Muhammad Irfan 《Natural Hazards》2015,79(2):791-814

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Fractionation and risk assessment of heavy metals in soil samples collected along Zerqa River,Jordan   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Habes A. Ghrefat  Nigem Yusuf  Ahmad Jamarh  Jamal Nazzal 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2012,66(1):199-208

The objectives of the current study were to determine the chemical partitioning of Pb, Ni, Zn, Co, Cr, Mn, Fe and Cd using sequential extraction procedure and to assess the environmental risk associated with these metals in the farming soils along Zerqa River. Metal concentrations were measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometer. The study area demonstrated a wide range for pH, organic matter, carbonate contents, and cation exchange capacity, and is polluted with Pb, Cd, Mn, and Cu. The extensive use of fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural activities, and discharge of treated and untreated wastewater are the major sources of pollution in the study area. Principal component analysis coupled with Pearson’s correlation analysis between the heavy metals revealed strong and positive correlation between these metals in the study area. According to the Risk Assessment Code (RAC), major portions of Cd and Mn are contained in exchangeable and carbonates fractions and therefore can easily enter the food chain. These metals pose a high to very high risk to the environment. Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn pose medium risk, while Cr poses a low environment risk.  相似文献   

Integration multisource data for mineral exploration by using fuzzy logic,case study: Taknar deposit,NE of Iran     

Khosrow Maroufi Naghadehi  Ardeshir Hezarkhani  Jamal Honarpazhouh  Kumars Seifpanahi Shabani 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(8):3227-3241

The Taknar Zone is located at the northern margin of the eastern Iranian continental microplate, and it is host to the Taknar massive sulfide deposit. This study was conducted to find new exploration targets. We used multiple data sources (e.g., litho-geochemical and magnetic surveys) to produce more effective predictive maps. Principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis methods were used to organize the new information into favorability maps and to determine multi-element correlations. We then employed fuzzy logic modeling to create favorability maps from geochemical and magnetic data. A concentration–area multifractal method was used to evaluate the final integrated favorability map for massive sulfide exploration. Our new map identifies previously unexploited sites in the eastern part of the study area, near the boundary of the Taknar formation, with intrusive and subvolcanic rocks, with potential for mineral exploration. The newly defined targets are attractive because old mined ore bodies are also identified in the favorability map.  相似文献   

Estimation of joint trace length probability distribution function in igneous,sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks     

Jamal Zadhesh  Seyed-Mohammad Esmaeil Jalali  Ahmad Ramezanzadeh 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(6):2353-2361

To predict the behavior of structures in and on jointed rock masses, it is necessary to characterize the geomechanical properties of joints and intact rock. Among geometry properties of joints, trace length has a vital importance, because it affects rock mass strength and controls the stability of the rock structures in jointed rock masses. Since joint length has a range of values, it is useful to have an understanding of the distribution of these values in order to predict how the extreme values may be compared to the values obtained from a small sample. For this purpose, three datasets of joint systems from nine exposures of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are studied. Joint trace length is one of the most difficult properties to measure accurately, but it may be possible to record other geometrical properties of exposed joints accurately; thereby, support vector machine (SVM) model is used to predict the joint trace length. SVM is a novel machine learning method, which is a powerful tool used to solve the problem characterized by small sample and non-linearity with a good generalization performance. Consequently, goodness-of-fit (GOF) tests were applied on these data. According to these GOF tests, the lognormal distribution was found to be the best probability distribution function for representing a joint trace length distribution.  相似文献   

TBM Performance Analysis in Pyroclastic Rocks: A Case History of Karaj Water Conveyance Tunnel   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

J. Hassanpour  J. Rostami  Mashalah Khamehchiyan  A. Bruland  H. R. Tavakoli 《Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering》2010,43(4):427-445

Karaj Water Conveyance Tunnel (KWCT) is 30-km long and has been designed for transferring 16 m³/s of water from Amir-Kabir dam to northwest of Tehran. Lot No. 1 of this long tunnel, with a length of 16 km, is under construction with a double shield TBM and currently about 8.7 km of the tunnel has been excavated/lined. This paper will offer an overview of the project, concentrating on the TBM operation and will review the results of field performance of the machine. In addition to analysis of the available data including geological and geotechnical information and machine operational parameters, actual penetration and advance rates will be compared to the estimated machine performance using prediction models, such as CSM, NTNU and Q_TBM. Also, results of analysis to correlate TBM performance parameters to rock mass characteristics will be discussed. This involves statistical analysis of the available data to develop new empirical methods. The preliminary results of this study revealed that the available prediction models need some corrections or modifications to produce a more accurate prediction in geological conditions of this particular project.  相似文献