Choosing GIS graduate programs from afar: Chinese students' perspectives     

Yikang Wang  Yuhao Kang  Haokun Liu  Ce Hou  Bing Zhou  Shan Ye  Yuyan Liu  Jinmeng Rao  Zhenghao Pei  Xiang Ye  Song Gao 《Transactions in GIS》2023,27(2):450-475

With the increasing demands for geospatial analytics in industry and academia, the need for Geographic Information Systems/Science (GIS) education is on the rise. A growing number of departments in geography have launched or expanded their GIS graduate programs. However, the factors influencing students choosing GIS programs have not been examined yet. In this study, we looked at Chinese students applying for overseas GIS programs and examined factors influencing their decision-making. We distributed the survey in GISphere, one of the largest GIS international student communities, and 84 valid questionnaires were returned. We analyzed the spatial and demographic patterns of Chinese students applying for overseas GIS programs. We identify five main factors that affect their choices of GIS programs: (1) education quality and awareness, (2) physical, social, and political environments, (3) improved employment prospects, (4) personal recommendations, and (5) the application process. Our study offers implications for the development of GIS graduate programs. We anticipate that the conclusions drawn from this research will benefit and advance geography and GIS education globally.  相似文献   

Spatio-temporal analysis of human wellbeing and its coupling relationship with ecosystem services in Shandong province,China     

Wang  Chao  Wang  Xuan  Wang  Yifan  Zhan  Jinyan  Chu  Xi  Teng  Yanmin  Liu  Wei  Wang  Huihui 《地理学报(英文版)》2023,33(2):392-412

Journal of Geographical Sciences - Rapid economic and social change promotes to improve human wellbeing (HW), but poses threats to ecosystems and the environment. Studying the coupling relationship...  相似文献   

强雷区高层建筑雷电风险评估技术探讨     

侯安校 《气象研究与应用》2014,(2):98-102

通过对某高层建筑物的雷电风险评估,雷电风险评估方法和从雷电环境特点、风险分量和损失类型、风险评估计算等方面对某高层建筑物的雷电风险评估,得到评估建筑物的雷电风险评估综合结论,并提出了具体的防护建议.  相似文献   

Use of ALS, Airborne CIR and ALOS AVNIR-2 data for estimating tropical forest attributes in Lao PDR     

Zhengyang Hou  Qing Xu  Timo Tokola 《ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing》2011,66(6):776-786

In this study, the potential of remote sensing in tropical forests is examined in relation to the diversification of sensors. We report here on the comparison of alternative methods that use multisource data from Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS), Airborne CIR and ALOS AVNIR-2 to estimate stem volume and basal area, in Laos. Multivariate linear regression analyses with stepwise selection of predictors were implemented for modelling. The predictors of ALS metrics were calculated by means of the canopy height distribution approach, while predictors from both spectral and textual features were respectively generated for Airborne CIR and ALOS AVNIR-2 data. With respect to the estimation capacity from individual data sources after leave-one-out cross-validation, the ALS data proved superior, with the lowest RMSE of 36.92% for stem volume and 47.35% for basal area, whereas Airborne CIR and ALOS AVNIR-2 remained at similar accuracy levels, but fell well behind the ALS data. By integrating ALS metrics with other predictors from Airborne CIR or ALOS AVNIR-2, hybrid modelling was further tested respectively. The results showed that only the hybrid model for stem volume involving ALS and Airborne CIR improved the accuracy of 1.9% in terms of relative RMSE than that of using ALS alone.  相似文献   

SRTM支持下的城市地方独立坐标系的构建方法研究     

王忠礼  张洪岩  侯光雷  吴多朋 《北京测绘》2011,(4):5-7

为满足在城市进行大比例尺地形图测绘、城镇地籍测量或是进行工程施工放样的需要,往往需要构建城市地方坐标系。城市地方坐标系建立的方法一般采用抵偿高程面法或抵偿子午线法,这些方法涉及到整个测区范围(如整个的地级市范围)的平均高程的计算。本文采用非常容易获取的SRTM的DEM数据及测区范围的矢量数据,在ArcGIS软件平台上进行了测区范围的平均高程计算。并结合某地级市以抵偿子午线法建立城市地方独立坐标系为例进行了尝试,以期为城市地方独立坐标系的建立提供相应的依据。  相似文献   

A seasonal scale analysis correlating total cloud amount anomalies with ENSO over the tropical Pacific     

Meiting Hou  Xiaodong Yan 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2011,103(3-4):471-478

The seasonal patterns of total cloud amount (TCA) responsible for El Ni?o/La Ni?a-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies were investigated using the ISCCP-D2 cloud and NOAA OI.v2 SST datasets for the period of July 1983 to June 2008. The results show three main ENSO-sensitive regions obtained by spatial overlapping of seasonal correlations, two in the western tropical Pacific and one in the central tropical Pacific. These regions were named WTP1, WTP2, and CTP. In all three regions, except the JJA (June?CAugust) WTP2, the TCA changes were significantly correlated with the Ni?o 3.4 anomalies during the four seasons (December?CJanuary?CFebruary (DJF), March?CApril?CMay, JJA, and September?COctober?CNovember (SON)). Remarkable differences in the seasonal variability of TCA were observed in these regions. In the WTP1, the DJF TCA always remained the highest value among the four seasons in all years. In the WTP2, the maximum TCA occurred during JJA in most years. In the CTP, the extreme value of TCA was mainly observed in DJF or SON near the peak time of ENSO. Seasonal cross-correlation analyses also showed significant relations between TCA and Ni?o 3.4 SST in these regions, which may be helpful for forecasting the evolution of ENSO.  相似文献   

Validation of the Satellite-Derived Rainfall Estimates over the Tibet          下载免费PDF全文

CHU Duo  PUBU Tundrop  NORBU Ghancan  SAGAR Bajrachary  MANDIRA Shresth  GUO Jianping 《Acta Meteorologica Sinica》2011,25(6):734-741

Measuring rainfall from space appears to be the only cost effective and viable means in estimating regional precipitation over the Tibet, and the satellite rainfall products are essential to hydrological and agricultural modeling. A long-standing problem in the meteorological and hydrological studies is that there is only a sparse raingauge network representing the spatial distribution of precipitation and its quantity on small scales over the Tibet. Therefore, satellite derived quantitative precipitation estimates are extremely useful for obtaining rainfall patterns that can be used by hydrological models to produce forecasts of river discharge and to delineate the flood hazard area. In this paper, validation of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) RFE (rainfall estimate) 2.0 data was made by using daily rainfall observations at 11 weather stations over different climate zones from southeast to northwest of the Tibet during the rainy season from 1 June to 30 September 2005 and 2006. Analysis on the time series of daily rainfall of RFE-CPC and observed data in different climate zones reveals that the mean correlation coefficients between satellite estimated and observed rainfall is 0.74. Only at Pali and Nielamu stations located in the southern brink of the Tibet along the Himalayan Mountains, are the correlation coefficients less than 0.62. In addition, continuous validations show that the RFE performed well in different climate zones, with considerably low mean error (ME) and root mean square error (RMSE) scores except at Nielamu station along the Himalayan range. Likewise, for the dichotomous validation, at most stations over the Tibet, the probability of detection (POD) values is above 73% while the false alarm rate (FAR) is between 1% and 12%. Overall, NOAA CPC RFE 2.0 products performed well in the estimation and monitoring of rainfall over the Tibet and can be used to analyze the precipitation pattern, produce discharge forecast, and delineate the flood hazard area.  相似文献   

乌兰浩特市高温灾害天气评估方法研究     

刘宽晓  侯丽萍 《内蒙古气象》2011,(6):28-30,40

利用乌兰浩特市1951-2009年5-8月逐日最高气温资料,统计分析了乌兰浩特市高温天气的分布特征,并根据各月高温日数、持续时间、危害高温日数和强危害高温日数等指标,设置了月高温状况的异常指数,从气象角度建立了乌兰浩特市逐月高温评估方法,经过分析排序,揭示了乌兰浩特市“5a一遇”至“60a一遇”的年际高温灾害性天气分布情况,同时利用该方法对新出现的2010年6月高温天气进行了评估,结果显示:2010年6月的高温过程属于“20a一遇”的高温事件,这表明该方法对城市单站逐月高温状况影响评估具有应用价值.  相似文献   

2008年7月13-14日河南大暴雨过程的V-3θ图特征分析   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

侯凯  闫瑾瑜  靖春悦 《气象与环境科学》2011,34(2):49-53

运用天气学分析方法和V-3θ图结构分析方法,对2008年7月13-14日河南省中部、北部地区的突发性大暴雨过程进行了分析.结果表明:从常规天气学角度预报突发性暴雨难度较大,V-3θ图结构分析方法可以在一定程度上弥补天气学分析对突发性强降水预报能力的不足.在郑州、南阳及阜阳探空站的V-3θ图上,能明显看出此次暴雨过程中的...  相似文献   

The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth     

Di-Cheng Zhu  Zhi-Dan Zhao  Yaoling Niu  Xuan-Xue Mo  Sun-Lin Chung  Zeng-Qian Hou  Li-Quan Wang  Fu-Yuan Wu 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2011,301(1-2):241-255

The Lhasa Terrane in southern Tibet has long been accepted as the last geological block accreted to Eurasia before its collision with the northward drifting Indian continent in the Cenozoic, but its lithospheric architecture, drift and growth histories and the nature of its northern suture with Eurasia via the Qiangtang Terrane remain enigmatic. Using zircon in situ U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopic and bulk-rock geochemical data of Mesozoic–Early Tertiary magmatic rocks sampled along four north–south traverses across the Lhasa Terrane, we show that the Lhasa Terrane has ancient basement rocks of Proterozoic and Archean ages (up to 2870 Ma) in its centre with younger and juvenile crust (Phanerozoic) accreted towards its both northern and southern edges. This finding proves that the central Lhasa subterrane was once a microcontinent. This continent has survived from its long journey across the Paleo-Tethyan Ocean basins and has grown at the edges through magmatism resulting from oceanic lithosphere subduction towards beneath it during its journey and subsequent collisions with the Qiangtang Terrane to the north and with the Indian continent to the south. Zircon Hf isotope data indicate significant mantle source contributions to the generation of these granitoid rocks (e.g., ~ 50–90%, 0–70%, and 30–100% to the Mesozoic magmatism in the southern, central, and northern Lhasa subterranes, respectively). We suggest that much of the Mesozoic magmatism in the Lhasa Terrane may be associated with the southward Bangong–Nujiang Tethyan seafloor subduction beneath the Lhasa Terrane, which likely began in the Middle Permian (or earlier) and ceased in the late Early Cretaceous, and that the significant changes of zircon ε_Hf(t) at ~ 113 and ~ 52 Ma record tectonomagmatic activities as a result of slab break-off and related mantle melting events following the Qiangtang–Lhasa amalgamation and India–Lhasa amalgamation, respectively. These results manifest the efficacy of zircons as a chronometer (U–Pb dating) and a geochemical tracer (Hf isotopes) in understanding the origin and histories of lithospheric plates and in revealing the tectonic evolution of old orogenies in the context of plate tectonics.  相似文献