The day-to-day monitoring of the 2011 severe drought in China

Dry/wet condition has a large interannual variability. Decision-makers need to know the onset, duration, and intensity of drought, and require droughts be monitored at a daily to weekly scale. However, previous tools cannot monitor drought well at this short timescale. The Palmer Drought Severity Index has been found dissatisfactory in monitoring because of its complexity and numerous limitations. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) always asks for a timescale, and precipitation is averaged over the period of the scale. Because of this, the SPI cannot be used for short scales, e.g., several days, and what it tells is the overall drought situation of the period. The weighted average of precipitation (WAP) developed by Lu (Geophys Res Lett 36:L12707, 2009) overcomes the deficiency of the SPI; it does not require a timescale, and can provide the drought (and flood) extent of each day. Therefore, the WAP can monitor drought at scales from daily to weekly, monthly, and any longer scale, and is really “flexible and versatile for all timescales”. In this study, the standardized WAP (SWAP) is used to monitor the 2011 drought over China. Drought swept the country during the year from north to south and from east to west. In spring, a once-in-a-fifty-year drought occurred over the Yangtze River basin and the southern region, causing serious shortage of drinking water for people and livestock, as well as tremendous losses in agriculture and the shipping industry. Results show that the SWAP, with its monthly mean plots, can well reproduce the seasonal shift of the 2011 drought across the country. The animation of daily plots demonstrates that the SWAP would have been able to monitor the day-to-day variation of the spring drought around the Yangtze River basin. It can provide the details of the drought, such as when the drought emerged over the region, how long it maintained there (though drought area may move back and forth with extension and contraction of the area), and when the drought relieved over the basin.     

Has climate change driven spatio-temporal changes of cropland in northern China since the 1970s?

Improving the understanding of cropland change and its driving factors is a current focus for policy decision-makers in China. The datasets of cropland and cropland changes from the 1970s to the 2000s were used to explore whether climate change has produced spatio-temporal changes to cropland in northern China since the 1970s. Two representative indicators of heat and water resources, which are important determinants of crop growth and productivity, were considered to track climate change, including active accumulated temperatures ≥10 °C (AAT10) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI). Our results showed that rapid cropland change has occurred in northern China since the 1970s, and the area of cropland reclamation (10.23 million ha) was much greater than that of abandoned cropland (2.94 million ha). In the 2000s, the area of cropland with AAT10 higher than 3,000 °C·d increased, while the area of cropland with an SPEI greater than 0.25 decreased compared to the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. It appears that climate warming has provided thermal conditions that have aided rapid cropland reclamation in northern China since the 1970s, and drier climatic conditions did not become a limiting factor for cropland reclamation, especially from the 1990s to the 2000s. Approximately 70 % of cropland reclamation areas were located in warmer but drier regions from the 1990s to the 2000s, and approximately 40 % of cropland abandonment occurred in warmer and wetter conditions that were suitable for agriculture during the periods from the 1970s to the 1980s and the 1990s to the 2000s. Our results suggest that climate change can be considered a driving factor of cropland change in the past several decades in northern China, in addition to socioeconomic factors.     

第三次全国国土调查土地利用矢量数据栅格化方法

第三次全国国土调查县级土地利用图斑层包含利用类型、耕地类型、坡度等级、种植属性等多属性信息,将县级土地利用矢量数据集成栅格化形成全国无缝的多尺度、多专题栅格产品存在一定技术难度。本文针对第三次全国国土调查土地利用栅格产品应用需求,探讨了多属性综合编码、全国基础地理网格框架、栅格化产品数据模型、矢量栅格化等技术方法,建立了全国土地利用栅格产品生产流程,开展了全国多尺度、多专题土地利用栅格产品生产验证。结果表明:本文方法能够实现第三次全国国土调查土地利用矢量图斑多属性信息集成栅格化和全国多尺度、多专题土地利用栅格产品工程化生产,可为今后的国土调查土地利用栅格产品生产和共享应用提供支撑。     

高空间分辨率遥感影像最优分割结果自动确定方法EI北大核心CSCD

针对现有方法普遍存在不能充分顾及遥感影像多波段光谱信息,以及忽视遥感影像中地理要素的多尺度特性等问题,提出一种自动确定高空间分辨率遥感影像最优分割结果的非监督评价方法。该方法基于信息熵生成光谱信息离散度,利用光谱信息离散度构建能表达分割对象内部光谱均质性指标和分割对象与其相邻分割对象间光谱异质性指标。基于构建的光谱均质性和光谱异质性指标,采用“粗估计+精确定”的策略,逐步得到一个多级优化后的影像最优分割结果。本文在3个不同下垫面影像区域进行试验。结果表明,该方法能有效地实现自动确定高空间分辨率遥感影像最优分割结果,与现有方法相比,本文方法确定出的影像最优分割结果质量更高,与参考分割结果更加贴近。     

Detecting space–time patterns of disease risk under dynamic background population

Journal of Geographical Systems - We are able to collect vast quantities of spatiotemporal data due to recent technological advances. Exploratory space–time data analysis approaches can...     

地理信息产业的产教深度融合支撑路径探讨

深化产教融合的相关国家政策加快了地理信息产业的产教深度融合进程,创造了一个携手聚力、共融赋能的新时代。聚焦地方应用型本科院校的人才培养,紧扣地理信息产业的教育链、人才链、产业链、创新链的有机衔接展开研究,提出相应的支撑路径和融合措施,旨在为地理信息产业未来发展提供人才技术保障,推动我国社会主义现代化建设新征程。     

北斗三号卫星经验型太阳光压模型分析与精化

太阳光压摄动作为在轨导航卫星受到的最大的非保守力,是卫星精密定轨的重要误差源。ECOM模型、ECOM2模型,这两种经验型光压模型被广泛应用于导航卫星定轨。然而,ECOM模型和ECOM2模型分别是针对GPS和GLONASS卫星设计的,并不完全适用于我国北斗三号(BDS-3)卫星。针对五参数ECOM模型在BDS-3卫星低太阳高度角时期轨道不连续性增大的问题,本文提出在 D方向引入一阶周期项来吸收未被模型化光压加速度。结果表明,引入一阶余弦周期项 D_c,能将低太阳高度角时期CAST卫星的切向、法向、径向重叠轨道误差分别减小约60%、52%、29%。针对ECOM2模型中 D_2c和 D₀、D_2s和 B_s之间存在的强相关性,本文提出了不估计 D_2c参数的八参数ECOM2模型和不估计 D_2c与 D_2s的七参数ECOM2模型。结果表明,相较九参数ECOM2模型,不估计 D_2c参数的八参数ECOM2模型能够将CAST卫星和SECM卫星径向重叠轨道误差分别减少约18%和27%。在此基础上,继续移除 D_2s后(七参数ECOM2),径向重叠轨道误差可进一步减小5.2%~8.5%。综合考察重叠轨道精度和SLR检核精度,不顾及 D_2c和 D_2s的七参数ECOM2模型表现最佳。CAST卫星和SECM卫星重叠轨道切向、法向、径向精度分别为5.0、3.4、1.4 cm和5.4、3.5、1.5 cm;SLR检核残差标准差分别为3.1~3.2 cm、4.4~4.7 cm。     

印度尼西亚卢瓦斯砂金矿床地质特征

卢瓦斯砂金矿位于印度尼西亚共和国苏门答腊岛东南部卢瓦斯河道及一侧阶地。矿区所处大地构造位置属喜马拉雅—马来西亚—苏门答腊火山活动带之东段。依据该砂金矿床的成矿地貌特征、地质特征、重砂矿物组合,初步认定该矿属近源型冲积型砂金矿,其砂金的物质来源于萨温河上游含金地质体,特别是火山碎屑岩中的含金石英脉和硅化脉。该砂金矿聚集于河道河漫滩及一级、二级河谷阶地中的泥、砂、砾等现代沉积物中。矿体产状受河流及两侧地形、地貌控制。     

中国晚侏罗世多瘤齿兽类哺乳动物的发现及其意义

多瘤齿兽是一类已绝灭的哺乳动物,其以后部牙齿上有很多小瘤(小的隆起,或者小尖)来适于咀嚼植物为特征。总的来说,它们的门齿和臼齿与那些啮齿类相似,但在演化时间上多瘤齿兽比新生代的啮齿类早的多。多瘤齿兽是杂食者,或者说是成功开拓了其它脊椎动物无法开拓的植食生境的植食者(可以树叶、种子、蕨类、裸子植物,再加上蠕虫和昆虫为食)。由于它们多种食性和运动方式,多瘤齿兽成为中生代数量最多的哺乳动物,几乎占侏罗纪和白垩纪时期所有哺乳动物种类的一半。它们的支系是哺乳动物历史上生存时间最长的支系,出现于170 Ma前,大约绝灭于35 Ma。但是,因为多瘤齿兽具有很多独特的、高度特化的牙齿和头骨特征,古生物学家们长期困惑于它们的进化起源。最近,中国辽西发现了一件产自晚侏罗世髫髻山组的多瘤齿兽类哺乳动物。由于其牙齿上发育明显的纹饰,如很多小的脊、沟、凹槽等,新发现的哺乳动物被命名为皱纹齿兽(Rugosodon)。另一方面,由于与皱纹齿兽亲缘关系最近的哺乳动物产自西欧的侏罗纪地层,因此其种名被命名为欧亚皱纹齿兽(Rugosodon eurasiaticus)。新发现为晚侏罗世时期欧洲和亚洲的哺乳动物具有高度的相似性提供了最新的证据。皱纹齿兽是一种夜行的哺乳动物,生活于气候温和的湖滨,与长羽毛的恐龙近鸟龙、翼龙类达尔文翼龙、大量节肢动物、其它几种哺乳动物共同生活于一起。根据与现生哺乳动物的比较,并依据欧亚皱纹齿兽手部比例、末端指节的形态等,推论欧亚皱纹齿兽很可能是地栖哺乳动物,或者说地栖比攀爬的可能性更大。这一发现对于研究多瘤齿兽早期的演化、食性分异、运动适应起源等具有重要的科学意义。     

都江堰市龙池镇黄央沟泥石流特征与防治工程效果分析

黄央沟位于"5.12"汶川地震的极重灾区四川省都江堰市龙池镇,地震使沟内山体发生大规模的滑坡和崩塌,其为泥石流的形成提供了丰富的松散固体物质。地震后黄央沟泥石流十分活跃,2010年8月13日、8月18日和2013年7月9日均暴发了泥石流,造成了严重的经济损失。笔者通过对黄央沟泥石流灾害现场进行实地调查,详细分析了黄央沟泥石流的形成条件和发育特征,并对已有防治工程效果进行了分析和探讨。针对防治工程存在的问题和黄央沟泥石流的特点,建议在沟道下游和堆积区修建排导沟,使泥石流顺畅排入龙溪河;采取工程和生物措施来稳定沟道内的崩滑堆积体和不稳定斜坡,减少泥石流物源;沟口公路采用高架桥跨越方式通过泥石流堆积扇。该研究结果可为强震区泥石流灾害的防治提供参考。