Mapping fractional landscape soils and vegetation components from Hyperion satellite imagery using an unsupervised machine-learning workflow     

Michael J. Friedel  Massimo Buscema  Luiz Eduardo Vicente  Fabio Iwashita  Andréa Koga-Vicente 《International Journal of Digital Earth》2018,11(7):670-690

An unsupervised machine-learning workflow is proposed for estimating fractional landscape soils and vegetation components from remotely sensed hyperspectral imagery. The workflow is applied to EO-1 Hyperion satellite imagery collected near Ibirací, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The proposed workflow includes subset feature selection, learning, and estimation algorithms. Network training with landscape feature class realizations provide a hypersurface from which to estimate mixtures of soil (e.g. 0.5 exceedance for pixels: 75% clay-rich Nitisols, 15% iron-rich Latosols, and 1% quartz-rich Arenosols) and vegetation (e.g. 0.5 exceedance for pixels: 4% Aspen-like trees, 7% Blackberry-like trees, 0% live grass, and 2% dead grass). The process correctly maps forests and iron-rich Latosols as being coincident with existing drainages, and correctly classifies the clay-rich Nitisols and grasses on the intervening hills. These classifications are independently corroborated visually (Google Earth) and quantitatively (random soil samples and crossplots of field spectra). Some mapping challenges are the underestimation of forest fractions and overestimation of soil fractions where steep valley shadows exist, and the under representation of classified grass in some dry areas of the Hyperion image. These preliminary results provide impetus for future hyperspectral studies involving airborne and satellite sensors with higher signal-to-noise and smaller footprints.  相似文献   

The Digital Belt and Road program in support of regional sustainability     

Huadong Guo  Yubao Qiu  Massimo Menenti  Fang Chen  Paul F. Uhlir 《International Journal of Digital Earth》2018,11(7):657-669

The Belt and Road initiative has a significant focus on infrastructure, trade, and economic development across a vast region, and it also provides significant opportunities for sustainable development. The combined pressure of climate variability, intensified use of resources, and the fragility of ecosystems make it very challenging, however, to achieve future sustainability. To develop the path in a sustainable way, it is important to have a comprehensive understanding of these issues across nations and evaluate them in a scientific and well-informed approach. In this context, the Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) program was initiated as an international venture to share expertise, knowledge, technologies, and data to demonstrate the role of Earth observation science and technology and big Earth data applications to support large-scale development. In this paper, we identify pressing challenges, present the research priorities and foci of the DBAR program, and propose solutions where big Earth data can make significant contributions. This paper calls for further joint actions and collaboration to build a digital silk road in support of sustainable development at national, regional and global levels.  相似文献   

A novel methodological approach for land subsidence prediction through data assimilation techniques     

Gazzola  Laura  Ferronato  Massimiliano  Frigo  Matteo  Janna  Carlo  Teatini  Pietro  Zoccarato  Claudia  Antonelli  Massimo  Corradi  Anna  Dacome  Maria Carolina  Mantica  Stefano 《Computational Geosciences》2021,25(5):1731-1750

Computational Geosciences - Anthropogenic land subsidence can be evaluated and predicted by numerical models, which are often built over deterministic analyses. However, uncertainties and...  相似文献   

Multistage evolution of the European lithospheric mantle: new evidence from Sardinian peridotite xenoliths     

Luigi Beccaluva  Gianluca Bianchini  Massimo Coltorti  William Perkins  Franca Siena  Carmela Vaccaro  Marjorie Wilson 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2001,142(3):284-297

Peridotite xenoliths entrained in Plio-Pleistocene alkali basalts from Sardinia represent fragments of the uppermost lithospheric mantle, and are characterised by an anhydrous four-phase mineral assemblage. They range in bulk rock composition from fertile spinel-lherzolites to residual spinel-harzburgites. The Sr-Nd isotope and trace element composition of clinopyroxene mineral separates varies between LREE-depleted samples with ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr as low as 0.70262 and ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd up to 0.51323 and LREE-enriched samples with ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr up to 0.70461 and ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd down to 0.51252. The available data suggest that all the studied peridotite samples suffered variable degrees of partial melting during Pre-Mesozoic times (based on Nd model ages relative to CHUR and DMM). The overprinted enrichment is related to a subsequent metasomatism, induced by fluids rising through the lithosphere that preferentially percolated the originally most depleted domains. Despite the occurrence of orogenic volcanism in the area, preferential enrichment in elements typically associated with slab derived fluids/melts (K, Rb, Sr, Th) relative to LREE has not been detected, and metasomatism seems to be more likely related to the infiltration of highly alkaline basic melts characterised by an EM-like Sr-Nd isotopic composition. Similar ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr-¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd compositions, characterised by an EM signature, are observed in anorogenic mafic lavas and peridotite xenoliths from widespread localities within the "European" plate, whereas they have not previously been recorded in peridotite xenoliths and associated alkaline mafic lavas from the stable "African" lithospheric domain.  相似文献   

Variation of the gradient and balmer discontinuity during the eclipse of the variable RW Tauri: Comparison between observations and theory     

Pier Luigi Battistini  Massimo Fracassini  Laura E. Pasinetti 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1971,14(2):438-445

For the first time after Barbier and Chalonge's (1938, 1941) pioneering works, the variations of b andD during the eclipse of a variable (RT Tau), have been observed. The observations have been performed at the Observatories of Jungfraujoch and Haute Provence with the photoelectric system in seven colors of Geneva (Golay, 1964; Hauck, 1968). The comparison between the observed curves ofD and the theoretical ones, provides the limb darkening coefficients; the same comparison between the observed b (reddened) and theoretical ones (not reddened) together with that ofD, points out some anomalies of the variable RW Tau.

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Sommario Per la prima volta, dopo i primi lavori di Barbier e Chalonge (1938, 1941), sono state osservate le variazioni di b eD durante l'eclisse di una variabile (RW Tau). Le osservazioni sono state fatte agli Osservatori della Jungfraujoch e di Haute Provence col sistema fotoelettrico in sette colori di Ginevra (Golay, 1964; Hauck, 1968). Il confronto fra le curve osservate e teoriche diD, fornisce i coefficienti di oscuramento al bordo; lo stesso confronto fra i b osservati (arrossati) e quelli teorici (non arrossati) unitamente a quello delleD mette in evidenza alcune anomalie della variabile RW Tau.

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青藏高原非均匀地表区域能量通量的研究   总被引：7，自引：1，他引：7  

马耀明  仲雷  田辉  孙方林  苏中波  Massimo Menenti 《遥感学报》2006,10(4):542-547

卫星遥感在研究青藏高原非均匀地表区域能量通量和蒸发（蒸散）量时有其独到的作用。本文介绍了基于NOAA-14 AVHRR和Landsat TM资料推算藏北高原地区区域地表特征参数、植被参数及区域地表热通量的方案，并把其用于GAME／Tibet（全球能量水循环之亚洲季风青藏高原试验研究）和CAMP／Tibet（“全球协调加强观测计划（CEOP）亚澳季风之青藏高原试验研究”）试验区。并指出了此方法估算青藏高原非均匀地表区域地表能量通量和蒸发（蒸散）量时存在的难点问题和解决问题的可能途径。  相似文献   

Carbonatites in a subduction system: The Pleistocene alvikites from Mt. Vulture (southern Italy)     

Massimo D''Orazio  Fabrizio Innocenti  Sonia Tonarini  Carlo Doglioni 《Lithos》2007,98(1-4):313-334

We report here, for the first time, on the new finding of extrusive calciocarbonatite (alvikite) rocks from the Pleistocene Mt. Vulture volcano (southern Italy). These volcanic rocks, which represent an outstanding occurrence in the wider scenario of the Italian potassic magmatism, form lavas, pyroclastic deposits, and feeder dikes exposed on the northern slope of the volcano. The petrography, mineralogy and whole-rock chemistry attest the genuine carbonatitic nature of these rocks, that are characterized by high to very high contents of Sr, Ba, U, LREE, Nb, P, F, Th, high Nb/Ta and LREE/HREE ratios, and low contents of Ti, Zr, K, Rb, Na and Cs. The O–C isotope compositions are close to the “primary igneous carbonatite” field and, thus, are compatible with an ultimate mantle origin for these rocks. The Sr–Nd–Pb–B isotope compositions, measured both in the alvikites and in the silicate volcanic rocks, indicate a close genetic relationship between the alvikites and the associated melilitite/nephelinite rocks. Furthermore, these latter products are geochemically distinct from the main foiditic-phonolitic association of Mt. Vulture. We propose a petrogenetic/geodynamic interpretation which has important implications for understanding the relationships between carbonatites and orogenic activity. In particular, we propose that the studied alvikites are generated through liquid unmixing at crustal levels, starting from nephelinitic or melilititic parent liquids. These latter were produced in a hybrid mantle resulting from the interaction through a vertical slab window, between a metasomatized mantle wedge, moving eastward from the Tyrrhenian/Campanian region, and the local Adriatic mantle. The occurrence of carbonatite rocks at Mt. Vulture, that lies on the leading edge of the Southern Apennines accretionary prism, is taken as an evidence for the carbonatation of the mantle sources of this volcano. We speculate that mantle carbonatation is related to the introduction of sedimentary carbon from the Adriatic lithosphere during Tertiary subduction.  相似文献   

Line emission from accretion discs around black holes: the analytic approach     

Andrej ?ade?  Claudio Fanton  Massimo Calvani 《New Astronomy》1998,3(8):528-654

The broad X-ray iron line observed in many active galactic nuclei spectra is thought to originate from the accretion disc surrounding the putative supermassive black hole. We show here how to perform the analytical integration of the geodesic equations that describe the photon trajectories in the general case of a rotating black hole (Kerr metric), in order to write a fast and efficient numerical code for modelling emission line profiles from accretion discs.  相似文献   

The significance of giant seismites in the Plio‐Pleistocene Baza palaeo‐lake (S Spain)     

Pedro Alfaro  Luis Gibert  Massimo Moretti  Francisco J. García‐Tortosa  Carlos Sanz de Galdeano  Jesús Galindo‐Zaldívar  Ángel C. López‐Garrido 《地学学报》2010,22(3):172-179

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Origin of Early Carboniferous pseudo‐adakites in northern Brittany (France) through massive amphibole fractionation from hydrous basalt     

Mélanie Barboni  François Bussy  Massimo Chiaradia 《地学学报》2011,23(1):1-10

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