Long-term monitoring of the behavior of a talus-colluvium deposit     

Ehrlich  Mauricio  da Costa  Douglas Pereira  Silva  Rafael Cerqueira 《Landslides》2021,18(6):2225-2245

Landslides - This article describes the behavior of a talus-colluvium deposit up to 70-m thick located in the Serra dos Orgaos, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil. The monitoring dataset of 13 years...  相似文献   

Indoor localization for pedestrians with real-time capability using multi-sensor smartphones     

Catia Real Ehrlich 《地球空间信息科学学报》2019,22(2):73-88

ABSTRACT

The localization of persons or objects usually refers to a position determined in a spatial reference system. Outdoors, this is usually accomplished with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). However, the automatic positioning of people in GNSS-free environments, especially inside of buildings (indoors) poses a huge challenge. Indoors, satellite signals are attenuated, shielded or reflected by building components (e.g. walls or ceilings). For selected applications, the automatic indoor positioning is possible based on different technologies (e.g. WiFi, RFID, or UWB). However, a standard solution is still not available. Many indoor positioning systems are only suitable for specific applications or are deployed under certain conditions, e.g. additional infrastructures or sensor technologies. Smartphones, as popular cost-effective multi-sensor systems, is a promising indoor localization platform for the mass-market and is increasingly coming into focus. Today’s devices are equipped with a variety of sensors that can be used for indoor positioning. In this contribution, an approach to smartphone-based pedestrian indoor localization is presented. The novelty of this approach refers to a holistic, real-time pedestrian localization inside of buildings based on multi-sensor smartphones and easy-to-install local positioning systems. For this purpose, the barometric altitude is estimated in order to derive the floor on which the user is located. The 2D position is determined subsequently using the principle of pedestrian dead reckoning based on user's movements extracted from the smartphone sensors. In order to minimize the strong error accumulation in the localization caused by various sensor errors, additional information is integrated into the position estimation. The building model is used to identify permissible (e.g. rooms, passageways) and impermissible (e.g. walls) building areas for the pedestrian. Several technologies contributing to higher precision and robustness are also included. For the fusion of different linear and non-linear data, an advanced algorithm based on the Sequential Monte Carlo method is presented.  相似文献   

Combining climate with other influential factors for modelling the impact of climate change on species distribution     

Ana Luz M??rquez  Raimundo Real  Jes??s Olivero  Alba Estrada 《Climatic change》2011,108(1-2):135-157

We tested two approaches to forecast species distributions while balancing the impact of climate change against the inertia promoted by other influential factors that have been forecast as not changing. Given that mountain species are presumed to be more at risk due to climate warming, we selected an amphibian, a reptile, a bird, and a mammal species present in the Spanish mountains, to model their distributional response to climate change during this century. The climatic forecasts were made according to the general circulation models CGCM2 and ECHAM4 and to the A2 and B2 emission scenarios. We modelled the response of the species to spatial, topographic, human, and climatic variables separately. In our first approach, we compared each of these single-factor models using the Akaike Information Criterion, and produced a combined model weighting each factor (spatial, topographic, human, and climatic) according to Akaike weights. This procedure overestimated the best model, and the other factors were neglected in the combined model output. In our second approach, we produced a combined model using stepwise selection of the variables previously selected within each factor. In this way every factor was effectively represented in the combined explanatory model of the distributional response of the species to environmental conditions. This enabled the construction of models that combined climate with the other explanatory factors, to be later extrapolated to the future by replacing current climatic and human values with those expected from each emission and socio-economic scenario, while preserving spatial and topographic variables in the model.  相似文献   

Permeability of coals and characteristics of desorption tests: Implications for coalbed methane production     

W. Rupert Bodden III  Robert Ehrlich   《International Journal of Coal Geology》1998,35(1-4)

Desorption tests, conducted before development drilling, can predict early production rates of coalbed methane wells. In this study, results from 136 desorption tests from 30 coreholes are compared to subsequent production histories of surrounding wells. Coals studied are from the Carboniferous Pottsville Formation in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama, USA. The investigation indicates that the best predictor for gas production is ‘‘gas yield at 120 days, divided by sample depth'. This quotient has a higher correlation with actual gas production than other variables examined, including original reserves in-place. Gas content of coal generally increases with depth. However, coal permeability, and hence the recovery factor, tends to decrease with depth. Therefore, coalbed methane exploration should focus on finding the optimal balance between gas yield and depth. Commercially successful wells are characterized by coals with high gas yields at shallow depths. Desorption tests, especially of slowly-desorbing coals, should be run for a minimum of 120 days, or else should be extrapolated to that time if tests are terminated earlier.  相似文献   

AN EFFICIENCY EVALUATION OF FOUR DRAINAGE BASIN SHAPE RATIOS*     

David S. McArthur  Robert Ehrlich 《The Professional geographer》1977,29(3):290-295

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Petrogenesis of oceanic granites from the Aves Ridge in the Caribbean Basin     

Bruce M. WalkerThomas A. Vogel  Robert Ehrlich 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1972

A genetic model proposed for granitic rocks dredged from the Aves Rise involves a sodium-enriched hydrothermal fluid phase, shallow emplacement, and significant derivation of components from the upper mantle. Megascopic observations of serially slabbed sections of the rock samples show that aggregates of plagioclase phenocrysts concentrate into channel-like mats. The presence of a late-stage, hydrothermal fluid is suggested by crystal-lined cavities in the plagioclase aggregates.  相似文献   

Thermophilic microorganisms and life at high temperatures: Thomas D. Brock,Springer, 465 pp., 195 figs., $25.80, 1978     

Garry G. Ehrlich 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1979,43(6):948

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Chemical Changes in an Industrial Waste Liquid During Post-Injection Movement in a Limestone Aquifer, Pensacola, Florida     

G. G. Ehrlich  E. M. Godsy  C. A. Pascale  John Vecchioli 《Ground water》1979,17(6):562-573

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Inhibited hatching success of marine fish eggs by power plant effluent     

Karl F Ehrlich 《Marine pollution bulletin》1977,8(10):228-229

The hatching success of California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) was significantly reduced by a non-thermal component of the effluent from an electricity generating station. The embryos appeared to develop normally morphologically but showed reduced viability with respect to hatching.  相似文献   

Geodatabase版本控制原理剖析   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

任娟  杨平 《国土资源信息化》2005,(3):41-44

随着地理信息系统的发展及其应用的不断扩大,多用户并发操作、长事务处理以及历史数据回溯管理成为大型空间数据库的基本要求,ESRI在面向对象地理模型(Geodatabase数据模型)中通过版本控制为空间数据库的上述要求提供了有效的解决方案。本文详细分析了Geodatabase版本控制基本原理,为建立、管理大型空间数据库以及研究开发全新面向对象空间数据库管理系统提供参考。  相似文献