Experiment on Driving Precipitable Water Vapor from Ground-Based GPS Network in Chengdu Plain

The estimates of total zenith delay are derived using Bernese GPS Software V4. 2 based on GPS data every 30 s from the first measurement experiment of a ground-based GPS network in Chengdu Plain of Southwest China during the period from July to September 2004. Then the estimates of 0.5 hourly precipitable water vapor (PWV) derived from global positioning system (GPS) are obtained using meteorological data from automatic weather stations (AWS). The comparison of PWV derived from GPS and those from radiosonde observations is given for the Chengdu station, with RMS (root mean square) differences of 3.09m. The consis- tency of precipitable water vapor derived from GPS to those from radiosonde is good. It is concluded that Bevis’ empirical formula for estimating the weighted atmospheric mean temperature can be applicable in Chengdu area because the relationship of GPS PWV with Bevis’ formula and GPS PWV with radiosonde method shows a high correlation. The result of this GPS measurement experiment is helpful both for accumu- lating the study of precipitable water vapor derived from GPS in Chengdu areas located at the eastern side of the Tibetan Plateau and for studying spatial-temporal variations of regional atmospheric water vapor through many disciplines cooperatively.     

Retrieval of the Change of Precipitable Water Vapor by GPS Technique

The feasibility of GPS precipitable water vapor (PWV) is discussed based on the comparison of Radiosonde and GPS PWV where the correlation coefficient is 0.94 and the RMS is 4.0 mm. PWV change in the C...     

Remote sensing of water vapor content using ground-based GPS data

Spatial and temporal resolution of water vapor content is useful in improving the accuracy of short-term weather prediction.Dense and continuously tracking regional GPS arrays will play an important role in remote sensing atmospheric water vapor content.In this study,a piecewise linear solution method was proposed to estimate the precipitable water vapor (PWV) content from ground-based GPS observations in Hong Kong.To evaluate the solution accuracy of the water vapor content sensed by GPS,the upper air sounding data (radiosonde) that are collected locally was used to calculate the precipitable water vapor during the same period.One-month results of PWV from both ground-based GPS sensing technique and radiosonde method are in agreement within 1～2 mm.This encouraging result will motivate the GPS meteorology application based on the establishment of a dense GPS array in Hong Kong.     

Change detection based on DSM and image features in urban areas

On the basis of atereo image analysis,the change detection of man-made objects in urban areas is in-troduced. Information of the height of man-made objects can be applied to reinforce their change detection. By comparison between the new and old DSMs, the changed regions are extracted. However, our aim is to detect changes of man-made objects in urban area and further in the potental areas by the means of line-feature matching and gradient direction histogram. The experiments based on the aerial images from Japan have proven that the algorithm is correct and efficient.     

渤海近岸水体漫衰减系数Kd(490)遥感反演模型

Irrigated land is one of the most important parts in land cover classification system, but until now it has seldom been reported about extracting it from remote sensing data and monitoring its dynamic change. The existing researches are focused on the land use-cover change (LUCC) and the irrigated area mapping, so the study on extracting irrigated land is much more important. On the basis of close relationship between water deficit index (WDI) and soil water content, this paper firstly combines two neighbor NDVI and the surface-air temperature (Ts-Ta) and conforms one Vegetation Index Temperature (VIT). It makes the timely incomparable WDI comparable and then computes the change of WDI during the monitored period. Secondly it infers the change of soil water. Thirdly it removes the rainfall’s influence under some assumption and extracts the irrigated land of the survey area. Results show that comparing with census data all the deviation is below 7% in the survey area except Shanxi province, which means that the extracted results are comparable with census data. Extracted irrigated land mainly distributes around rivers, lakes, and reservoirs or on the irrigated regions and oasises. The results are consistent with the centralized region which has abundant irrigated land known before. The results are checked elementarily using TM images. All the precisions are above 70% except in Shanxi province. The precision in Xinjiang municipality is the highest.     

Establishment and data processing of high-precision city subsidence monitoring network by GPS surveying instead of leveling

The feasibility of monitoring the change of city settlement using GPS surveying instead of leveling is studied. A fiducial network and a monitoring network are established in Ningbo city. Two periods of GPS observation are completed. Some measures are taken during the observation in order to ensure to obtain the high-precise height component. The Saastamoinen model is adopted in the data processing of the dry component part of the tropospheric delay. The wet component change of the tropospheric delay is estimated by stochastic processes model. When Bernese software is used to process the data, the millimeter level precision of height measuring is achieved.     

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF MAP COLOR

The design of map color is an important part in map design, especially for thematic mapping, importance is no less than that of map content itself.Tranditional method in map color design is to make several designing variants and then make a comparison among them and finally choose one of them.This method is time-consuming and rather expensive.With the development of interactive computer graphics,now the design of map color can be completed by means of computer processing. During this procedure, cartographer's knowledge in map design, rich color in computer and the powerful functions of graphic processing of computer can be combined together. Three main problems about comprter-aided design of map color are discussed in this paper: The first is to create a database which forms the basis of color producing; the second is to create a cartographic database for organized raster data; the third is to design an interactive svstem for the design of map color with the support of the two databases mentioned above.     

基于非线性扩散的纹理分割(英文)

A texture image segmentation based on nonlinear diffusion is presented. The scale of texture can be measured during the process of nonlinear diffusion. A smooth 5-channel vector image with edge preserved, which is composed of intensity, scale and orientation of texture image, can be achieved by coupled nonlinear diffusion. A multi-channel statistical region active contour is employed to segment this vector image. The method can be seen as a kind of unsupervised segmentation because parameters are not sensitive to different texture images. Experimental results show its high efficiency in the semiautomatic extraction of texture image.     

Solving multicollinearity in dam regression model using TSVD

Targeting the multicollinearity problem in dam statistical model and error perturbations resulting from the monitoring process,we built a regularized regression model using Truncated Singular Value Decomposition(TSVD).An earth-rock dam in China is presented and discussed as an example.The analysis consists of three steps:multicollinearity detection,regularization pa-rameter selection,and crack opening modeling and forecasting.Generalized Cross-Validation(GCV) function and L-curve criterion are both adopted in the regularization parameter selection.Partial Least-Squares Regression(PLSR) and stepwise regression are also included for comparison.The result indicates the TSVD can promisingly solve the multicollinearity problem of dam regression models.However,no general rules are available to make a decision when TSVD is superior to stepwise regression and PLSR due to the regularization parameter-choice problem.Both fitting accuracy and coefficients’ reasonability should be considered when evaluating the model reliability.     

Analyses and Solutions of Errors on GPS／GLONASS Positioning

This paper focuses mainly on the major errors and their reduction approaches pertaining to combined GPS/GLONASS positioning.To determine thd difference in the time reference systems,different receiver clock offsets are introduced with respect to GPS and GLONASS system time.A more desirable method for introducing a independent unknown parameter of fifth receiver,which can be canceled out when forming difference measurements,is discussed.The error of orbit integration and the error of transformation parameters are addressed in detail.Results of numerical integration are give.To deal with the influence of ionospheric delay,a method for forming dual-frequency ionospheric free carrier phase measurements is detailed.     

GPS-Meteorology network in Wuhan region

There are three aspects in the study of GPS meteorology network in the Wuhan region. The first is the comparison of the GPS precipitable water vapor between final ephemeris and ultra-rapid ephemeris for which the relative coefficient is 99.97 and the root mean squares is 0.048 mm. It can be concluded that ultra-rapid ephemeris can be used to get the GPS precipitable water vapor for the real-time prediction. The second is the comparison of precipitable water vapor of GPS stations and the distribution of water vapor in the Wuhan region is acquired. The change of GPS precipitable water vapor and rainfall in a rainfall process are compared and analyzed. The change of GPS precipitable water vapor can reflect and predict the process of rainfall.     

武汉地区GPS气象网试验研究

将精密星历与快速预报星历GPS可降水量进行比较，两者的相关系数为99．97％，均方根为0．048mm，得出可以利用快速预报星历进行GPS可降水量的准实时预报的结论。通过对武汉地区GPS测站的可降水量的比较，得出武汉地区水汽的分布状况。对一次降雨过程进行了GPS可降水量与实际降雨量的比较，表明GPS可降水量变化可反映和预报降雨发生的过程。     

GPS数据解算对流层天顶总延迟探讨

运用GAMIT／GLOBK软件,对南极长城站与周边的各IGS跟踪站的GPS观测数据进行组网解算。在解算各站上空总天顶延迟的过程中,利用不同的星历进行解算,并对其解算结果进行了分析和探讨得出：实时预报。星历与精密星历在解算结果上差别不大,最小差值是0mm,最大差值仅为0．5mm。所以在计算各GPS站上空大气水汽含量时,可直接采用实时预报星历,对今后实时探测水汽及实时天气预报具有一定的实用意义。     

无气象要素的GPS对流层延迟推算可降水量的研究

本文针对武汉地区GPS气象网资料,进行了GPS对流层延迟直接推算可降水量的研究。在武汉东湖站GPS对流层延迟与无线电探空可降水量的比较中,两者具有很好的相关性,相关系数达到了0.93;推导了对流层延迟直接推算可降水量的模型,对模型结果进行了检验,在武汉东湖站的对流层延迟转换的可降水量与无线电探空可降水量的比较中,均方根为7.8mm,相关性为0.91,这说明了在没有气象数据的地区对流层延迟直接推算的可降水量可以作为气象短期预报的参考。     

利用超快速星历进行数值天气预报的可行性研究

实时获取高时空分辨率的大气水汽是制约数值天气预报准确性的关键问题。基于地基GPS遥感大气水汽原理,结合香港CORS网的实测数据进行处理,对由IGU超快速星历、IGS精密星历和探空资料解算的大气可降水量(Precipitable Water Vapor,PWV)序列进行比较分析。实验结果表明,利用超快速星历估计PWV用于数值天气预报是切实可行的。     

基于BDS精密星历产品的水汽探测性能分析

研究北斗卫星导航系统（BDS）反演大气可降水量的性能有利于推动BDS在数值天气预报、气象学研究等方面的应用. 基于武汉大学发布的BDS最终精密星历产品(WUM)、快速精密星历产品(WHR)和超快速精密星历产品(WHU),利用MGEX站和单基站连续运行参考站（CORS）提供的全球卫星导航系统（GNSS）多模观测数据,在验证三种BDS精密星历产品解算对流层天顶延迟的精度达到要求后,将基于三种BDS精密星历产品解算的大气可降水量分别与GPS水汽探测结果、ERA-5再分析资料和探空站数据进行对比,分析基于三种精密星历产品的BDS水汽探测性能. 实验结果表明:基于BDS最终精密星历产品的大气水汽探测精度高于快速星历产品和超快速星历产品,三种BDS星历产品反演大气可降水量的相对精度和可靠性与GPS相当,满足中小尺度数值天气预报和气象学研究等要求.      

基于无线电探空的武汉大气加权平均温度模型研究

以武汉地区为例,本文推导无线电探空推导的大气加权平均温度模型并对其可靠性进行检验。采用武汉无线电探空数据推算武汉地区的大气加权平均温度计算模型,以此模型计算GPS可降水量,通过与无线电探空结果比较来检验该模型的精确度。在WHDH站GPS可降水量与无线电探空的比较中,两者差值的均方根为3.0mm,两者的相关性达到了0.952。利用中国地壳运动监测网络2002年武汉站GPS数据和武汉地区大气加权平均温度模型推算的可降水量与无线电探空比较,GPS可降水量与无线电探空可降水量在数值上和发展趋势上比较接近,说明了无线电探空的大气加权平均温度模型的可靠性。     

GPS反演大气综合水汽含量的影响因素分析

目前地基GPS遥感大气综合水汽含量的可行性已经被众多实验所验证,为进一步改善地基GPS遥感大气综合水汽含量的精度,本文对2004年6月哈尔滨GPS跟踪站的观测数据进行了解算,并结合探空资料计算的水汽结果对各项误差进行了分析。结果表明:广播星历不能用于高精度GPS水汽遥感;5cm的测站坐标误差将引起3mm的水汽误差,截止高度角的不同以及通用模型均会对水汽结果造成不同程度的影响。     

武汉地区GPS气象网应用研究

针对武汉地区GPS气象网进行了3方面的应用研究。首先为利用武汉地区的无线电探空资料推算了适合武汉地区的大气加权平均温度计算模型,该模型与Bevis模型存在一定的区别;其次为武汉地区GPS气象网的可降水量的可靠性研究,将GPS可降水量与无线电探空数据比较,得到两者差值的均方根为3.9 mm,相关系数为0.933。最后为武汉地区GPS气象网的可降水量序列对武汉地区2005年入秋季节的转换进行了监测,得到武汉地区的入秋转换为2005年262日14时开始,263日11时完成。     

基于超快速星历反演大气可降水量的精度分析

水汽是预报某些灾害性天气的重要依据,因此及时获得高分辨率的水汽产品对精准预报天气具有至关重要的意义．针对最终精密星历更新速度较慢、时延较长,无法满足实时反演大气可降水量的要求,提出一种利用超快速星历代替最终精密星历反演大气可降水量的方法:基于地基GNSS反演大气可降水量的原理,利用GAMIT软件,根据国际GNSS服务(IGS)网站提供的不同精度的星历产品获得大气可降水量,并与气象探空站所获得的大气可降水量对比分析．研究结果表明,利用超快速星历所获得的大气可将水量与最终精密星历一致,二者平均差值优于0.1 mm,且与探空站测得的大气可降水量值非常一致,其精度可以满足天气预报的需求．