基于SonarWiz的多波束声纳图像智能底质分类技术研究

多波束回波强度信息与海底底质类型具有较强的相关性,通过海底声纳图像能够实现底质类型的划分.为提高海底底质分类质量,依托SonarWiz的智能底质分类优势,在海底声纳图像纹理特征自动分类基础上,引入地形属性信息修正分类结果.以三亚崖州湾附近海域为例,基于实测海底地形数据和海底表面声纳图像,利用数据处理技术和图像分类方法,...     

基于BP神经网络的海底地形复杂度自动分类方法研究

针对海底地形复杂程度分类问题,在考虑传统水深均值的基础上引入坡度和起伏度两个地形因子作为表征海底地形复杂程度的分类指标并进行量化,对水深数据空间分辨率进行统一,建立包含18种典型海底特征的海底地形复杂度分类库,利用BP神经网络对建立的分类库进行训练学习。为验证该方法的有效性和适用性,选取地形复杂度不同的4块实验区分别采用统计学方法和BP神经网络算法进行海底地形复杂度进行分类,对比发现该方法可以实现海区海底平坦、一般、复杂三种地形的自动识别与分类,并保留实验区海底地形复杂度细节信息。     

用于海底底质分类的多波束声强数据选取研究

高质量的海底声强图是进行多波束海底底质分类、目标识别的基础。要得到"单纯"反映海底底质信息的声强图,就需要对原始声强数据进行地形改正,消除地形因素的影响。在描述了多波束数据中水深数据不能满足声强数据的改正要求问题的基础上,提出了以水深数据覆盖范围为约束的声强数据选取方法。实例计算结果表明:该方法在能有效地选取高质量的声强数据,提高了基于声强图像的海底底质分类精度。     

南沙群岛海底地貌制图研究——以1∶100万郑和群礁幅为例

中国海域辽阔,但公开发表和出版的1∶100万及更大比例尺的海底地貌图尚属空白。在综合研究已有的海底地貌分类系统的基础上,以南沙群岛郑和群礁幅为实验区,尝试建立了该海区1∶100万海洋地貌分类系统,利用历年来南沙群岛海区等深线图(1∶50万)、沉积图(1∶200万)、地质地球物理图集(1∶100万)及各种文献资料和在专家指导的基础上,绘制了该幅的海底地貌图并对该区域的地貌格局进行了分析。实验表明,通过对现有资料的综合进行1∶100万海底地貌制图是可行的。实验发现:1)等深线数据如同陆地上的等高线数据,是进行海底地貌制图的基本和主要数据源;2)海底底质和沉积物数据是进行海底地貌成因类型判别的重要依据;3)海底构造格局对海底地貌格局起着根本的控制作用,因此海底地质地球物理数据也是进行海底地貌制图不可或缺的数据之一。     

介绍几种典型的海底底质分类技术

本文主要介绍了四家海洋仪器公司的最新海底底质分类技术。它们分别利用多波束的反向散射强度数据、单波束的回声波形结构数据和旁侧声纳数据。采用了多参数统计分析、波形结构分析和影像属性分析等方法，实现了快速、高效、大面积地对海底底质进行间接的分类。尽管它们的技术各不相同，但都可以分为监督分类方式和非监督分类方式。     

基于浅剖数据的海底底质分类研究与应用

海底浅部沉积物声学研究是海洋地质、水下工程地质、海底矿产资源、军事地质等领域重要的研究内容,海底底质的识别与分类是海洋科学研究的热点问题。相比多波束探测仪,浅地层剖面仪的声源发射频率更低,具有穿透底质能力强的特点,这一特性更有利于进行准确和可靠的海底底质分类。通过浅剖数据进行底质分类技术研究,有望实现目标研究区面向全海域的海底底质分类推广应用。本文在浅剖数据振幅校正处理的基础上,消除了不同采集时间及采集参数对浅剖数据振幅一致性的影响,在层位约束下提取均方根振幅属性,进行研究区海底底质类型识别。初步的取样结果表明：研究区有2类不同的底质类型,分别为黏土和粉砂质黏土。本文对浅剖数据的底质分类结果分区明显且自然,在不同类型底质区的取样处对应不同的均方根振幅强度,黏土取样区的浅剖振幅属性为强振幅,粉砂质黏土取样区的浅剖振幅属性为弱振幅,底质分类结果与地质取样匹配良好。利用本文的浅剖处理与属性提取方法能够有效地实现海洋底质分类。     

南沙群岛海底地貌制图研究——以1：100万郑和群礁幅为例

中国海域辽阔，但公开发表和出版的1：100万及更大比例尺的海底地貌图尚属空白。在综合研究已有的海底地貌分类系统的基础上，以南沙群岛郑和群礁幅为实验区，尝试建立了该海区1：100万海洋地貌分类系统，利用历年来南沙群岛海区等深线图（1：50万）、沉积图（1：200万）、地质地球物理图集（1：100万）及各种文献资料和在专家指导的基础上，绘制了该幅的海底地貌图并对该区域的地貌格局进行了分析。实验表明，通过对现有资料的综合进行1：100万海底地貌制图是可行的。实验发现：1）等深线数据如同陆地上的等高线数据，是进行海底地貌制图的基本和主要数据源；2）海底底质和沉积物数据是进行海底地貌成因类型判别的重要依据；3）海底构造格局对海底地貌格局起着根本的控制作用，因此海底地质地球物理数据也是进行海底地貌制图不可或缺的数据之一。     

济州岛南部海域海底声呐图像分析与声学底质分类

东海北部外陆架靠近济州岛南部海域,是黄海槽向冲绳海槽延伸的部分,属于黑潮分支黄海暖流的通道入口,分布着脊槽相间的海底底形,对其海底声呐图像的处理分析及声学底质分类的分析研究,有助于了解该通道海底底形表层纹理特征及沉积物分布规律。基于在济州岛南部海域获取的多波束声呐数据,应用图像处理技术和方法,对数据进行了处理,获得了海底声呐影像图,并对其表层纹理特征进行了描述和分析;同时,基于多波束反向散射强度数据,结合19组海底地质取样数据,建立研究区海底反向散射强度与沉积物粒度特征之间的统计关系模型,并以改进的学习向量量化神经网络方法,实现对海底粉砂质砂、黏土质砂以及砂-粉砂-黏土3种底质类型的快速自动分类识别。     

基于多维度声学特征优选的多波束海底底质分类

海底表层底质分布信息的准确获取在构建海洋基础地理数据库中发挥着重要作用。目前,多波束是实现大范围海底底质分类的有效手段之一,基于多波束测深和反向散射强度数据所派生的声学特征被广泛应用于底质分类建模。然而,随着特征维度的增加,特征空间中存在的无关和冗余特征严重影响底质分类精度。为了定量评估声学特征对底质类别的表征能力,并消除无效特征对分类结果的干扰,本文提出了基于多维度声学特征优选的海底底质分类方法。首先,结合实际底质样本的物理属性对多维特征进行排序和优选,排除冗余和无关特征。其次,分别应用支持向量机、随机森林和深度信念网络构建海底底质监督分类模型。通过利用爱尔兰海南部多波束调查数据和实地取样信息进行试验,结果表明提出方法对海底底质的总体分类精度和Kappa系数分别最高达到了86.20%和0.834,相较于主成分分析和熵指标特征选择方法有明显提高,突出了该方法在海底底质探测及制图的应用潜力。     

基于粒子群优化算法的PSO-BP海底声学底质分类方法

利用粒子群优化算法（PSO）较强的鲁棒性和全局搜索能力等优点,将PSO算法与BP神经网络相结合,优化了BP神经网络分类时的初始权值和阈值。基于珠江河口三角洲的侧扫声呐图像数据,提取了海底声呐图像中砂、礁石、泥3类典型底质的6种主要特征向量,利用PSO-BP方法对海底底质进行分类识别。实验表明,3类底质分类精度均大于90%,高于BP神经网络70%左右的分类精度,表明PSO-BP方法可有效应用于海底底质的分类识别。     

Assessing the Validity of Seismo-Acoustic Predictor Equations for Obtaining Seabed and Sub-Surface Sediment Physical Properties

The interdependence between the seismo-acoustic properties of a marine sediment and its geotechnical/physical parameters has been known for many years, and it has been postulated that this should allow the extraction of geotechnical information from seismic data. Though in the literature many correlations have been published for the surficial layer, there is a lack of information for greater sediment depths. In this article, a desktop study on a synthetic seafloor model illustrates how the application of published near-surface prediction equations to subsurface sediments (up to several tens of meters burial depth) can lead to spurious predictions. To test this further, acoustic and geotechnical properties were measured on a number of sediment core samples, some of which were subjected to loading in acoustically-equipped consolidation cells (oedometers) to simulate greater burial depth conditions. For low effective pressures (representing small burial depths extending to around 10 meters subsurface), the general applicability of established relationships was confirmed: the prediction of porosity, bulk density, and mean grain size from acoustic velocity and impedance appears generally possible for the investigated sedimentary environments. As effective pressure increases through, the observed relationships deviate more and more from the established ones for the near-surface area. For the samples tested in this study, in some instances increasing pressure even resulted in decreasing velocities. There are several possible explanations for this abnormal behavior, including the presence of gas, overconsolidation, or bimodal grain size distribution. The results indicate that an appropriate depth correction must be introduced into the published prediction equations in order to obtain reliable estimates of physical sediment properties for greater subsurface depths.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

Interannual Sea Level Variations and Annual Tides in the Northwestern Pacific

Specific properties of the interannual sea level variations and annual tides in the Northwestern Pacific were studied. Several tide stations were monitored. The monthly mean sea level for the year of 1995 was analyzed at each tide station. A seismic event in 1995, some tectonic activity around the subject area, and the Kuroshio (the oceanic western boundary current) may possibly contaminate results which would have occurred from the astronomical annual tide alone.     

Flow Cytometric Analysis of Coastal Lagoon Bacterioplankton and Picophytoplankton: Fixation and Storage Effects

The effect of different fixation and storage protocols on the flow cytometric (FCM) simultaneous analysis of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in coastal seawater samples (Mediterranean coastal lagoons) was investigated. FCM measurements (cell number, fluorescence and scatter characteristics) were obtained through DAPI staining. Three fixatives [glutaraldehyde (GA), formaldehyde (FA) and paraformaldehyde (PFA)] and two storage (3 months duration) methods (5 °C and −196 °C) were tested. Two dominant populations were detected in studied samples: bacteria and eukaryotic picophytoplankton. Adding fixatives (2% final concentration) appears necessary to obtain FCM exhaustive counts of all the bacteria and phytoplanktonic cells. This was related to the permeation effect of fixatives which allowed a better DAPI staining of the cells. Maximum fluorescence, i.e. optimal staining of the cells was obtained with FA or PFA, and significant lower fluorescences with GA. Fixed samples stored at 5 °C induced rapid cell loss. Only storage in liquid nitrogen of samples fixed with FA or PFA, allows mid-term (≥4 months) preservation of bacteria or picophytoplankton cell numbers, and limited evolution of DAPI-induced fluorescence and scatter characteristics.     

《Acta Oceanologica Sinica》Vol. 33(2014) contents

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<正>Acta Oceanologica Sinica(AOS)is a comprehensive academic journal edited by the Editorial Committee of Acta Oceanologica Sinica and is designed to provide a forum for important research papers of the marine scientific community which reflect the information on a worldwide basis.The journal publishes scholarly papers on marine science and technology,including physics,chemistry,biology,