Using GIS to develop a mobile communications network for disaster-damaged areas     

Youhei Kawamura  Ashraf M. Dewan  Bert Veenendaal  Masahiro Hayashi  Takeshi Shibuya  Itaru Kitahara 《International Journal of Digital Earth》2014,7(4):279-293

Communications network damage resulting from a large disaster causes difficulties in the ability to rapidly understand the current situation and thus make appropriate decisions towards mitigating problems, such as where to send and dispense emergency supplies. The research outlined in this paper focuses on the rapid construction of a network after a disaster occurs. This study suggests ZigBee and geographic information systems (GIS) technologies to resolve these problems and provide an effective communication system. The experimental results of the ZigBee network system are presented, examples are provided of the mapping and analysis undertaken using GIS for the disaster-stricken area of Tsukuba City, Japan, and the communications node arrangements are determined for this region. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of establishing such a communications system for supporting efforts to relieve disaster-damaged areas.  相似文献   

Recent advance in study of K-Pg boundary in Jiayin of Heilongjiang,China and its adjacent area     

SUN Ge  SUN Chunlin  SUN Yuewu  ZHANG Shuqin  WU Wenhao  YANG Tao  LIANG Fei  FENG Yuhui  Markevich V  Ashraf A R  Bugdaeva E  Tekleva M  Suzuki S 《世界地质(英文版)》2021,24(4):189-197

The non-marine Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary ( KPgB) in Jiayin of Heilongjiang was first defined and reported in China by the authors' research team in 2011 . Thereafter the continuous research on the KPgB and its related Late Cretaceous biota in Jiayin has been made by the authors in 2012-2020 . The achievements of the research are mainly reflected as follows:(1) a new drilling borehole with 60 m in depth carried out in the Xiaoheyan of Jiayin in 2016 , supplemented new palynological evidence for the KPgB definition in 2011;( 2 ) some radiometric dating newly made on the strata related to the KPgB in Jiayin and its neighboring Russian area, provided the supplemental evidence for the KPgB definition in Jiayin;( 3 ) many new fossils found by the au-thors, represented by the angiosperms Dalembia and Nelumbo, refresh understanding the Late Cretaceous envi-ronment of Jiayin;and (4) the TEM method is applied in the study of pollen exine ultrastructure of Pseudoin-tegricorpus, Wodehouseia, and Aquilapollenites, promoting the late Maastrichtian ecological study in Jiayin, re-lated to the KPgB.  相似文献   

Efficient and accurate edge‐preserving smoothing for 3D hexagonally sampled seismic data          下载免费PDF全文

Haroon Ashraf  Wail A. Mousa  Saleh Al‐Dossary 《Geophysical Prospecting》2017,65(3):696-710

The automatic detection of geological features such as faults and channels is a challenging problem in today's seismic exploration industry. Edge detection filters are generally applied to locate features. It is desirable to reduce noise in the data before edge detection. The application of smoothing or low‐pass filters results in noise suppression, but this causes edge blurring as well. Edge‐preserving smoothing is a technique that results in simultaneous edge preservation and noise suppression. Until now, edge‐preserving smoothing has been carried out on rectangular sampled seismic data. In this paper, an attempt has been made to detect edges by applying edge‐preserving smoothing as a pre‐processing step in the hexagonally sampled seismic‐data spatial domain. A hexagonal approach is an efficient method of sampling and has greater symmetry than a rectangular approach. Here, spiral architecture has been employed to handle the hexagonally sampled seismic data. A comparison of edge‐preserving smoothing on both rectangular and hexagonally sampled seismic data is carried out. The data used were provided by Saudi Aramco. It is shown that hexagonal processing results in well‐defined edges with fewer computations.  相似文献   

Response-based damage assessment of structures     

A. Ghobarah  H. Abou-Elfath  Ashraf Biddah 《地震工程与结构动力学》1999,28(1):79-104

The structure's ability to survive an earthquake may be measured in terms of the expected state of damage of the structure after the earthquake. Damage may be quantified by using any of several damage indices defined as functions whose values can be related to particular structural damage states. A number of available response-based damage indices are discussed and critically evaluated for their applicability in seismic damage evaluation. A new rational approach for damage assessment is presented which provides a measure of the physical response characteristics of the structure and is better suited for non-linear structural analysis. A practical method based on the static pushover analysis is proposed to estimate the expected damage to structures when subjected to earthquakes of different intensities. Results of the analysis of ductile and non-ductile reinforced concrete buildings show that the proposed procedure for damage assessment gives a simple, consistent and rational damage indicator for structures. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Holocene landscape reconstruction in the surroundings of the Temple of Pepi I at ancient Bubastis,southeastern Nile Delta (Egypt)     

Philipp Garbe  Amr Abd El-Raouf  Ashraf Es-Senussi  Eva Lange-Athinodorou  Julia Meister 《Geoarchaeology》2024,39(1):17-34

In ancient Egypt, lakes, canals, and other water bodies were an essential part of the sacred landscape in which temples were embedded. In recent years, geoarchaeological research at the site of the Temple of Bastet at Bubastis in the southeastern Nile Delta has proven the existence of two water canals surrounding the temple. It has now been investigated whether these canals were connected to the Temple of Pepi I (2300–2250 B.C.E.), located approximately 100 m to the west of the Temple of Bastet. To explore the Holocene landscape genesis of the Temple of Pepi I, 15 drillings and six geoelectrical profile lines were performed in the surroundings of the temple in spring 2022. The results show loamy to clayey sediments in deeper sections of all drillings with a maximum thickness of 1.70 m, indicating a marshy or swampy depositional environment. Based on the recovered sediment sequences and archaeological remains in the vicinity of the Temple of Pepi I, the marshy or swampy area existed before the Fourth Dynasty. During the Old Kingdom (ca. 2850–2180 B.C.E.), the former marshland either dried up through natural processes or was intentionally drained and filled with sediments for subsequent use for occupation. Regarding the original research question, there is as yet no evidence for a direct connection to the canals of the Temple of Bastet.  相似文献