Wetland hydroperiod classification in the western prairies using multitemporal synthetic aperture radar          下载免费PDF全文

Joshua S. Montgomery  Chris Hopkinson  Brian Brisco  Shane Patterson  Stewart B. Rood 《水文研究》2018,32(10):1476-1490

Wetlands represent one of the world's most biodiverse and threatened ecosystem types and were diminished globally by about two‐thirds in the 20th century. There is continuing decline in wetland quantity and function due to infilling and other human activities. In addition, with climate change, warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation and evapotranspiration are reducing wetland surface and groundwater supplies, further altering wetland hydrology and vegetation. There is a need to automate inventory and monitoring of wetlands, and as a study system, we investigated the Shepard Slough wetlands complex, which includes numerous wetlands in urban, suburban, and agricultural zones in the prairie pothole region of southern Alberta, Canada. Here, wetlands are generally confined to depressions in the undulating terrain, challenging wetlands inventory and monitoring. This study applied threshold and frequency analysis routines for high‐resolution, single‐polarization (HH) RADARSAT‐2, synthetic aperture radar mapping. This enabled a growing season surface water extent hyroperiod‐based wetland classification, which can support water and wetland resource monitoring. This 3‐year study demonstrated synthetic aperture radar‐derived multitemporal open‐water masks provided an effective index of wetland permanence class, with overall accuracies of 89% to 95% compared with optical validation data, and RMSE between 0.2 and 0.7 m between model and field validation data. This allowed for characterizing the distribution and dynamics of 4 marsh wetlands hydroperiod classes, temporary, seasonal, semipermanent, and permanent, and mapping of the sequential vegetation bands that included emergent, obligate wetland, facultative wetland, and upland plant communities. Hydroperiod variation and surface water extent were found to be influenced by short‐term rainfall events in both wet and dry years. Seasonal hydroperiods in wetlands were particularly variable if there was a decrease in the temporary or semipermanent hydroperiod classes. In years with extreme rain events, the temporary wetlands especially increased relative to longer lasting wetlands (84% in 2015 with significant rainfall events, compared with 42% otherwise).  相似文献   

Revised masses of dust and gas of SCUBA Local Universe Survey far-infrared bright galaxies based on a recent CO survey     

Ernest Seaquist  Lihong Yao  Loretta Dunne  Heather Cameron 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,349(4):1428-1434

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In-Orbit Vignetting Calibrations of XMM-Newton Telescopes     

D. H. Lumb  A. Finoguenov  R. Saxton  B. Aschenbach  P. Gondoin  M. Kirsch  I. M. Stewart 《Experimental Astronomy》2003,15(2):89-111

We describe measurements of the mirror vignetting in the XMM-Newton Observatory made in-orbit, using observations of SNR G21.5-09 and SNR 3C58 with the EPIC imaging cameras. The instrument features that complicate these measurements are briefly described. We show the spatial and energy dependences of measured vignetting, outlining assumptions made in deriving the eventual agreement between simulation and measurement. Alternate methods to confirm these are described, including an assessment of source elongation with off-axis angle, the surface brightness distribution of the diffuse X-ray background, and the consistency of Coma cluster emission at different position angles. A synthesis of these measurements leads to a change in the XMM calibration data base, for the optical axis of two of the three telescopes, by in excess of 1 arcmin. This has a small but measureable effect on the assumed spectral responses of the cameras for on-axis targets. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Variable stars in the field of open cluster NGC 6819     

R. A.Street  KeithHorne  T. A.Lister  A.Penny  Y.Tsapras  A.Quirrenbach  N.Safizadeh  J.Cooke  D.Mitchell  A.Collier Cameron 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,330(3):737-754

We report on the discovery of 25 variable stars plus 13 suspected variables found in the field of the open cluster NGC 6819. The stars were identified from time-series photometric data obtained on the Isaac Newton Telescope, La Palma, during two observing runs covering the 19 nights between 1999 June  22–30  and 1999 July  22–31  . The variables found include 12 eclipsing binaries with an additional three suspected, nine BY Draconis systems, plus four variables of other types, including one star believed to be a Cepheid. Three of the 15 eclipsing binaries are believed to be cluster members. Details of a further 10 suspected variable stars are also included.  相似文献   

Saturn: Edited by Tom Gehrels and Mildred Shapley Matthews (with 78 collaborating authors). University of Arizona Press,Tucson, 1984. xii + 968 pp., numerous illustrations including 4 color pages, $37.50     

A.G.W. Cameron 《Icarus》1985,63(1):178-179

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An Overview of the Performance of the Chandra X-ray Observatory     

M. C. Weisskopf  T. L. Aldcroft  M. Bautz  R. A. Cameron  D. Dewey  J. J. Drake  C. E. Grant  H. L. Marshall  S. S. Murray 《Experimental Astronomy》2003,16(1):1-68

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Polar fields for AB Doradus     

T. McIvor  M. Jardine  A. Collier Cameron  K. Wood  J.-F. Donati 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,345(2):601-608

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Culgoora radio and skylab euv observations of emerging magnetic flux in the lower corona     

R. T. Stewart  G. E. Brueckner  K. P. Dere 《Solar physics》1986,106(1):107-130

Detailed comparisons of Culgoora 160 MHz radioheliograms of solar noise storms and Skylab EUV spectroheliograms of coronal loop structures are presented. It is concluded that: (1) there is a close association between changes in large-scale magnetic fields in the corona and the onset or cessation of noise storms; (2) these coronal changes result from the emergence of new magnetic flux at the photospheric level; (3) although new magnetic flux at the photospheric level is often accompanied by an increase in flare activity the latter is not directly responsible for noise storm activity; rather the new magnetic flux diffuses slowly outwards through the corona at rates 1–2 km s^–1 and produces noise storms at 160 MHz 1–2 days later; (4) the coronal density above or in large-scale EUV loop systems is sufficiently dense to account for noise storm emission at the fundamental plasma frequency; (5) the scatter in noise storm positions can be accounted for by the appearance and disappearance of individual loops in a system.  相似文献   

THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISE IN FIJI: R. F. Watters     

Stewart Cameron 《New Zealand geographer》1967,23(1):84-84

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RAINFALL IN THE TROPICAL SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. By H. C. Brookfield and Doreen Hart     

Stewart Cameron 《New Zealand geographer》1967,23(1):86-86

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