Geographic analysis of manufacturing industry in Saudi Arabia     

Farouk M. El Gammal Ph. D.  El-Sayed El-Bushra Ph. D. 《GeoJournal》1986,13(2):157-171

The study focuses on the analysis of manufacturing industry in Saudi Arabia by examining development, structure and spatial distribution. The analysis has shown that Saudi manufacturing is basically of recent development and is highly capital- and energy-intensive, particularly the hydrocarbon-based groups. Perhaps the most conspicuous weakness of Saudi industrialization is the almost total dependence on expatriate labour. Foreign capital and expertise share in the building and development of the industrial sector by providing technical, managerial, and marketing skills. Saudi industry is heavily subsidized by the government, and the public sector plays a commanding role in industrial development. Large-scale basic industries are owned and run by the government, while light manufacturing of the import-substitution type is dominated by the private sector. One of the main characteristics of manufacturing industry is that it is scantily diversified, modestly concentrated and remarkably linked geographically but not functionally or structurally. Although the authorities are exerting tremendous efforts to achieve a regional balance in industrial development, Saudi manufacturing industry is significantly polarized, urban-oriented and highly associated with the major axes of population scatter. Like all developing countries beginning to industrialize, Saudi manufacturing industry faces certain problems which have to be resolved so as to lay the foundations for a sound and prosperous industrial future. The paper goes on to indicate problems and to suggest solutions.  相似文献   

TEM investigation of the crystal microstructures in a quartz-coesite assemblage of the western alps     

J. Ingrin  Ph. Gillet 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1986,13(5):325-330

Atransmission electron microscope (TEM) study of quartz-coesite inclusions in garnet in crustal rocks from the Western Alps is presented. Coesite shows a low dislocation density (<10⁷ cm^?2), and quartz a higher density of defects, Brasil twins (10⁴ cm^?1) and dislocations (10⁸ cm^?2). It is concluded that coesite has been not or only slightly plastically deformed and that the yield strength of coesite is higher than that of quartz. The large scale deformation implications are briefly discussed. TEM observations show no systematic topotactic relationship between the two polymorphs and their boundaries have a scalloped morphology which suggests that growth of quartz from coesite was controlled by a diffusion process.  相似文献   

Planning in Nigeria: The agricultural base 1962–1985     

E. Sokari-George Ph. D. 《GeoJournal》1987,14(1):97-108

This paper critically examines some of the causes and the problems of agricultural development in Nigeria. It also discusses very minimally, the rise and the contribution of the petroleum industry to the Nigerian economy and its effect on the agricultural sector. Finally, some possible suggestions are made in order to ameliorate the situation of agriculture and to overcome the shortage of food production in the country.  相似文献   

Is there any hope for agriculture in California's rapid growth areas?     

P. R. Pryde Ph.D. 《GeoJournal》1982,6(6):533-538

The experience of San Diego County, California, indicates that none of the commonly used legislative methods of preserving valuable agricultural land (large lot zoning, differential taxation, purchase or transfer of development rights, creation of exclusive agricultural districts) may be successful in very rapidly urbanizing metropolitan areas. Unless a local municipality can purchase the land outright, the profits to be made from selling greatly appreciated suburban land for development will tempt even the most dedicated farmer to sell and seek out less vulnerable land elsewhere. Steps such as large lot zoning need to be taken early to keep large blocks of agricultural land intact, the retention of these lands must be made part of a mandatory rather than a voluntary program in order to be successful, and the local jurisdictions must be sure that adequate economic incentives are available for those persons who do wish to continue farming the land.  相似文献   

The Integration of Cooperation Model and Genetic Algorithm     

ZHENGZhaobao 《地球空间信息科学学报》2002,5(1):1-6

In the photogrammetry,some researchers have applied genetic algorithms in aerial image texture classification and reducing hyper-spectrum remote sensing data.Genetic algorithm can rapidly find the solutions which are close to the optimal solution.But it is not easy to find the optimal solution.In order to solve the problem,a cooperative evolution idea integrating genetic algorithm and ant colony algorithm is presented in this paper.On the basis of the advantages of ant colony algorithm,this paper proposes the method integrating genetic algorithms and ant colony algorithm to overcome the drawback of genetic algorithms.Moreover,the paper takes designing texture classification masks of aerial images as an example to illustrate the integration theory and procedures.  相似文献   

Shape Similarity measures of Linear Entities     

ZhangQiaopin  LIDeren 《地球空间信息科学学报》2002,5(2):62-67

The essential of feature matching technology lies in how to measure the similarity of spatial entities.Among all the possible similarity measures,the shape similarity measure is one of the most important measures because it is easy to collect the necessary parameters and it is also well matched with the human intuition.In this paper a new shape similarity measure of linear entities based on the differences of direction change along each line is presented and its effectiveness is illustrated.  相似文献   

Possibilities of GPS Kinematic Measurements for Geological Survey in East Slovakia     

Vladimir  Sedlak  Viera  Hurcikova 《地球空间信息科学学报》2002,5(4):21-25

This paper deals with transformation procedures for observed GPS data from the world geodetic system WGS-84 into the national geodetic grid datum S-UTCN(system of united trigonometric cadaster network) and Baa(the Baltic Sea after adjustment).Transformation from WGS-84 into SUTCN is performed most frequently by means of the 7-element Helmert transformation with three identical points.Geodetic network was adjusted by two ways.  相似文献   

COMBINED GPS/GLONASS PRECISE POSITIONING FOR LONG-DISTANCE BASELINES     

HU Guorong CUI Weihong 《地球空间信息科学学报》2001,4(1):24-27

1　ＩｎｔｒｏｄｕｃｔｉｏｎＴｈｅｃｏｍｂｉｎｅｄＧＰＳ/ＧＬＯＮＡＳＳｏｆｆｅｒｓｍａｎｙａｄ ｖａｎｔａｇｅｓｃｏｍｐａｒｅｄｗｉｔｈＧＰＳ＿ｏｎｌｙｕｓｅｆｏｒｐｏｓｉｔｉｏｎ ｉｎｇａｐｐｌｉｃａｔｉｏｎｓｅｓｐｅｃｉａｌｌｙｉｎａｒｅａｓｗｈｅｒｅｔｈｅｎｕｍ ｂｅｒｏｆｖｉｓｉｂｌｅｓａｔｅｌｌｉｔｅｓｉｓｌｉｍｉｔｅｄ .ＴｈｅｉｎｃｌｕｓｉｏｎｏｆｔｈｅＧＬＯＮＡＳＳｓｉｇｎａｌｓｃａｎｉｎｃｒｅａｓｅｔｈｅａｃｃｕｒａｃｙｏｆｐｏｓｉｔｉｏｎｉｎｇａｓｗｅｌｌａｓｔｈｅａｖａｉｌａｂ…  相似文献   

A FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATED CHANGE DETECTION SYSTEM     

SUI Haigang LI Deren 《地球空间信息科学学报》2001,4(3):29-34

1Ｃｕｒｒｅｎｔｃｈａｎｇｅｄｅｔｅｃｔｉｏｎｔｅｃｈ ｎｉｑｕｅｓＡｕｔｏｍａｔｉｃｃｈａｎｇｅｄｅｔｅｃｔｉｏｎｉｎｉｍａｇｅｓｏｆａｇｉｖｅｎｓｃｅｎｅａｃｑｕｉｒｅｄａｔｄｉｆｆｅｒｅｎｔｔｉｍｅｓｉｓｏｎｅｏｆｔｈｅｍｏｓｔｉｎｔｅｒｅｓｔｉｎｇｔｏｐｉｃｓｏｆｉｍａｇｅｐｒｏｃｅｓｓｉｎｇ .Ｉｔｆｉｎｄｓｉｍ ｐｏｒｔａｎｔａｐｐｌｉｃａｔｉｏｎｓｗｉｔｈｉｎｄｉｆｆｅｒｅｎｔｃｏｎｔｅｘｔｓ,ｒａｎｇ ｉｎｇｆｒｏｍｖｉｓｕａｌｓｕｒｖｅｉｌｌａｎｃｅａｎｄｖｉｄｅｏｃｏｄｉｎｇｔｏｔ…  相似文献   

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF INTEGRATED GPS/GLONASS CARRIER PHASE-BASED POSITIONING   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

DAI LiwenHAN ShaoweiChris Rizos 《地球空间信息科学学报》2001,4(4):9-18

1　ＩｎｔｒｏｄｕｃｔｉｏｎＲｅａｌ＿ｔｉｍｅｋｉｎｅｍａｔｉｃＧＰＳｐｒｅｃｉｓｅｐｏｓｉｔｉｏｎｉｎｇｈａｓｂｅｅｎｐｌａｙｉｎｇａｎｉｎｃｒｅａｓｉｎｇｒｏｌｅｉｎｂｏｔｈｓｕｒｖｅｙｉｎｇａｎｄｎａｖｉｇａｔｉｏｎ ,ａｎｄｈａｓｂｅｃｏｍｅａｎｅｓｓｅｎｔｉａｌｔｏｏｌｆｏｒｐｒｅｃｉｓｅｒｅｌａｔｉｖｅｐｏｓｉｔｉｏｎｉｎｇ .Ｈｏｗｅｖｅｒ,ｒｅｌｉａｂｌｅａｎｄｃｏｒｒｅｃｔａｍｂｉｇｕｉｔｙｒｅｓｏｌｕｔｉｏｎｄｅｐｅｎｄｓｏｎｏｂｓｅｒｖａ ｔｉｏｎｓｕｐｏｎａｌａｒｇｅｎｕｍｂｅ…  相似文献