Three-dimensional digital imaging of environmental data: selection of gridding parameters     

Carol A. EDDY  B. Looney 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(2):165-172

Abstract. Three-dimensional imaging is a powerful technique for the visualization and interpretation of environmental data. The success of the process is linked to careful, technically-justifiable selection of variable parameters during the gridding and imaging process. The impacts of various approaches to gridding and possible setting of parameters on the final image and volume calculations were examined by generating alternative images for a very well characterized contaminated site in layered coastal plain sediments. To image properly scattered data collected at close intervals in wells from layered geological media, a higher grid density in the z direction is required along with a weighting factor to emphasize the influence of data in the x and y directions. For steeply-varying contaminant concentration data, the best results were obtained by gridding the log of the property value; an anti-log transformation is carried out to restore property values to the correct value before the visualization file is prepared. The techniques and recommendations made in this article were designed for modelling contaminant values with very steep gradients dispersed in a strongly anisotropic media. These recommendations may not apply directly to other sites but the process of selecting parameters should be similar.  相似文献   

An event-based conceptual model for context-aware movement analysis     

Gennady Andrienko  Natalia Andrienko  Marco Heurich 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(9):1347-1370

Current tracking technologies enable collection of data, describing movements of various kinds of objects, including people, animals, icebergs, vehicles, containers with goods and so on. Analysis of movement data is now a hot research topic. However, most of the suggested analysis methods deal with movement data alone. Little has been done to support the analysis of movement in its spatio-temporal context, which includes various spatial and temporal objects as well as diverse properties associated with spatial locations and time moments. Comprehensive analysis of movement requires detection and analysis of relations that occur between moving objects and elements of the context in the process of the movement. We suggest a conceptual model in which movement is considered as a combination of spatial events of diverse types and extents in space and time. Spatial and temporal relations occur between movement events and elements of the spatial and temporal contexts. The model gives a ground to a generic approach based on extraction of interesting events from trajectories and treating the events as independent objects. By means of a prototype implementation, we tested the approach on complex real data about movement of wild animals. The testing showed the validity of the approach.  相似文献   

珠江三角洲西缘晚第四纪沉积演化和最大海侵古岸线的重建     

周良  王洋  杜学斌  卜建军  吴俊  吕万军  刘秀娟 《沉积学报》2022,40(1):119-135

第四纪以来,受全球气候和海平面变化影响,海岸带地区发生了一系列强烈的海陆相互作用和海侵—海退等地质事件,包含了丰富的沉积环境演化和海平面变化等信息.选用珠江三角洲西缘台山地区的30个地质钻孔,通过14C、光释光、地球化学特征、底栖有孔虫、磁化率数据,建立了晚更新世以来的地层框架,重建了最大海侵古岸线的位置.研究结果表明...  相似文献   

The British Cartographic Society Awards 2006     

none 《The Cartographic journal》2013,50(3):266-274

Abstract

While graphic variables in 2D maps have been extensively investigated, 4D cartography is still a widely unexplored field. In this paper, we investigate the usefulness of 4D maps (three spatial dimensions plus time) for cartographically illustrating spatio-temporal environmental phenomena. The presented approach focuses mostly on explorative research rather than on enhancement and extension of existing methods and principles. The user study described in the paper shows that 4D cartography is not a well-explored research area and that many experienced map users try to apply their knowledge from 2D maps to 4D dynamic visualisations. Thus, in order to foster the discussion within the community, we formulated several basic research questions for the area of 4D cartography, which range from methods for representing time in 4D visualisations and understanding the temporal context to finding generic methods to achieve optimized temporal generalisation and a consistent definition of graphical variables for 3D and 4D.  相似文献   

Total sediment budget of a transgressive barrier-spit,Skallingen, SW Denmark: A review     

Christian Christiansen  Troels Aagaard  Jesper Bartholdy  Merete Christiansen  Jørgen Nielsen  Niels Nielsen 《Geografisk tidskrift / udgivet af Bestyrelsen for Det Kongelige danske geografiske selskab》2013,113(1):107-126

Average sea-level rise in the northern part of the Danish Wadden Sea has been 1.3 mm a^?1 during the last 100 years but during the last 25 years a rise of 4.2 mm a^?1 was observed. Concurrent with the recent sea-level rise the Skallingen barrier spit has migrated landward by 3–5 m a^?1. Long term sediment budgets for each of the morphological units involved in the migration are reviewed (e.g. onshore in the shore face +90.000 m³ a^?1, longshore -641.000 m³ a^?1, foredunes +65,000 m³ a^?1, overwash fan including shorenormal dunes +11,000 m³ a^?1, spit terminus -96,000 m³ a^?1, tidal flat + 10,000 m³ a^?1 and backbarrier salt marsh +33,000 m³ a^?1) and used to establish the relative importance of sediment transport processes involved in barrier migration. Strong interannual variations exist in the long term budget making evaluation of barrier behaviour based on short term measurements doubtful. In a cross shore sense the barrier spit is accreting in spite of the sea level rise. This is specially pronounced at an active overwash fan. However, due to substantial sediment losses to longshore transport the barrier, gets narrower and shorter during its transgressive behaviour. This may indicate that preservation of barriers in the geological record during rapid sea level rise is promoted when sediment loss to longshore transport is insignificant.  相似文献   

自动检测地震事件筛选方法研究     

唐伟  刘俊民  王海军  王晓明  石建芳  唐恒专  王燕  李靓  刘哲函 《地震地磁观测与研究》2013,34(3)

重点介绍禁核试北京国家数据中心研究的自动检测地震事件筛选方法.通过分析自动检测事件关联台站分布的合理性、关联台站的类型、关联信号参数的可靠性、多频带平均能量比等方法,判断自动检测事件的真伪.以国际数据中心审核公报事件为参考,研究的筛选方法可有效筛除43％自动检测虚假事件,使得自动检测误检率降低13％,并保持较低的误筛选率.此筛选方法可对国际数据中心以及禁核试北京国家数据中心不同处理平台的自动检测事件进行筛选分析.  相似文献   

Ensemble prediction model of solar proton events associated with solar flares and coronal mass ejections     

Xin Huang  Hua-Ning Wang  Le-Ping Li 《天体物理学报》2012,(3):313-321

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Meso-Cenozoic Tectonic Events Recorded by Apatite Fission Track in the Northern Longmen-Micang Mountains Region   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

LEI Yongliang  JIA Chengzao  LI Benliang  WEI Guoqi  CHEN Zhuxin  SHI Xin 《《地质学报》英文版》2012,86(1):153-165

There is a cross-cutting relationship between the E-W trending structures and the NE-trending structures in the northern Longmen-Micang Mountains region,which reflects possible regional tectonic transi...  相似文献   

An exceptional rocky shore preserved during Oligocene (Late Rupelian) transgression in the Upper Rhine Graben (Mainz Basin,Germany)     

Stephane Rousse  Philippe Duringer  Karl R. G. Stapf 《Geological Journal》2012,47(4):388-408

The Early Oligocene (Late Rupelian) Alzey Formation (Mainz Basin, Upper Rhine Graben, Germany) records the development of a rocky coast depositional system during transgression. The formation unconformably overlies Permian bedrock across a composite transgressive ravinement surface. Exposure of the surface shows a succession of subplanar bedrock terraces, separated by near‐vertical risers. Terraces show a broad staircase geometry and display wave‐erosional features (notches, sea stacks, furrows). Detailed sedimentological and palaeoecological investigations reveal prograding beachface and shoreface depositional units that overlie terraces and are adjacent to risers. Terraces are interpreted as wave‐cut platforms, backed by palaeocliffs. The staircase architecture records the episodic landward migration of palaeoshorelines onto palaeotopographic highs during the Early Oligocene. Stacking patterns of gravelly beach and shoreface associated units (facies tracts) indicate successive episodes of terrace cutting, beach development, drowning and shoreline backstepping during an overall relative sea‐level rise. The exceptional preservation of the stair‐cased rocky shore may be attributed to a highly jerky rising relative sea‐level, as the result of the conjugated effects of rift‐controlled tectonic subsidence and eustatic sea‐level oscillations. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION CHARACTERISTICS OF EXTREMELY HEAVY PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY OVER SOUTH CHINA IN THE LAST 50 YEARS     

陆虹  陈思蓉  郭媛  何慧  徐圣璇 《热带气象学报(英文版)》2014,20(3):279-288

This paper comprehensively studies the spatio-temporal characteristics of the frequency of extremely heavy precipitation events over South China by using the daily precipitation data of 110 stations during 1961 to 2008 and the extremely heavy precipitation thresholds determined for different stations by REOF, trend coefficients, linear trend, Mann-Kendall test and variance analysis. The results are shown as follows. The frequency distribution of extremely heavy precipitation is high in the middle of South China and low in the Guangdong coast and western Guangxi. There are three spatial distribution types of extremely heavy precipitation in South China. The consistent anomaly distribution is the main type. Distribution reversed between the east and the west and between the south and the north is also an important type. Extremely heavy precipitation events in South China mainly occurred in the summer-half of the year. Their frequency during this time accounts for 83.7% of the total frequency. In the 1960s and 1980s, extremely heavy precipitation events were less frequent while having an increasing trend from the late 1980s. Their climatological tendency rates decrease in the central and rise in the other areas of South China, and on average the mean series also shows an upward but insignificant trend at all of the stations. South China＇s frequency of extremely heavy precipitation events can be divided into six major areas and each of them shows a different inter-annual trend and three of the representative stations experience abrupt changes by showing remarkable increases in terms of Mann-Kendall tests.  相似文献