美国地质调查局激光雷达应用新进展

随着激光雷达(Light detection and ranging,Lidar)技术的成熟,美国地质调查局(U.S.Geo-logical Survey,USGS)在这个方向开展了许多应用研究。科学家们正在发展表达、使用高分辨率Lidar数据的新型技术;同时,为方便公众获取相应信息,数据及提取信息的发布手段也在研究之中。以下通过几个实例做一简要介绍。1典型研究1.1数据分发建立国家地图集(National Map)的一个目标是向公众发布基础数字地理信息。该地图集的高程部分是通过USGS地球观测系统(EROS)数据中心的国家高程数据集(National ElevationDataset,NED)维护的。NED提供3种…     

基于GIS+BIM的铁路三维信息化管理平台研究

铁路实景三维建设是国家新型基础设施建设的重要组成部分,是建设“智慧铁路”的重要科技支撑。本文基于GIS+BIM核心技术,集成集团铁路全路段三维基础地理空间数据及铁路行车固定设备和设施的三维模型数据,包括数字高程模型(DEM)、数字表面模型(DSM)、数字正射影像(DOM)、真正射影像(TDOM)、倾斜摄影三维模型、激光雷达扫描点云等空间数据,以及铁路专业及相关设备和设施的三维BIM模型数据等多源、多形态,二维、三维铁路时空数据,综合利用互联网、大数据、云计算、地理空间信息、遥感遥测、北斗定位系统BDS、物联网和人工智能等多学科交叉融合技术,面向集团各业务部门统一提供数据资源服务和高精度二、三维地理信息服务,在集团层面建成高精度铁路实景三维地理信息公共服务平台,为铁路安全运行与智慧化管理提供坚实支撑。     

全球变化:地理研究的若干概念和问题(苏联-美国研究计划的一些结果)

苏美全球变化研究计划专著的作者们,在概括阐述了国际地圈一生物圈计划的背景后得出结论:要充分了解全球变化,就必须对现今的景观进行比较精确的模拟,分析特定区域内人为变化的因果,评价社会可能对这些变化的新认识作出反应的条件,以及具有基于具体研究场所的大大加强的地理信息系统。苏联和美国的地理学家参加了全球变化研究的地理学途径,由国际科学联盟理事会倡议,在其国际地圈一生物圈计划中曾列入了关于研究世界环境重大变化的新项目。作为该项目的一部分,苏美地理学家审查了有关的地理学经验。     

在世界包围中的新西兰农业:当今政策的调整

在这篇文章里,我研究了十九世纪世界贸易和殖民扩展中的新西兰农业发展,继而研究了导致农业出口依赖于世界贸易、技术和动力平衡所出现的经济过程。我调查了农业(1963—1984年)近期的竞争,以及转向调整和出现二十世纪经济和剩余农业的含意。     

A database of archived drilling records of the drill cuttings piles at the North West Hutton oil platform

Drill cuttings piles are found underneath several hundred oil platforms in the North Sea, and are contaminated with hydrocarbons and chemical products. This study characterised the environmental risk posed by the cuttings pile at the North West Hutton (NWH) oil platform. Data on the drilling fluids and chemical products used over the platform's drilling history were transferred from archived well reports into a custom database, to which were added toxicological and safety data. Although the database contained many gaps, it established that only seven chemical products used at NWH were not in the lowest category of the Offshore Chemicals Notification Scheme, and were used in only small quantities. The study therefore supports the view that the main environmental risk posed by cuttings piles comes from hydrocarbon contamination. The (dated) well records could help future core sampling to be targeted at specific locations in the cuttings piles. Data from many platforms could also be pooled to determine generic 'discharge profiles.' Future study would benefit from the existence, in the public domain, of a standardised, 'legacy' database of chemical products.     

Ore Genesis and Deposit Model of Carbonatite-host REE Deposits: the Mianning-Dechang REE Belt, Western Sichuan Province, China

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Persistent organic pollutants and histological lesions in Mayan catfish Ariopsis assimilis from the Bay of Chetumal, Mexico

Livers of catfish (Ariopsis assimilis) from the Bay of Chetumal were analyzed for organochlorine compounds and hydrocarbons as part of a study to diagnose the environmental health of the Bay after a catfish mass mortality that occurred in 1996. The presence of histological lesions in several organs of the fish as result of chemical exposure was also evaluated. The concentrations of organic pollutants found in the Bay may be considered high if compared to the levels reported for sites affected by chemical pollution. High prevalences of cellular alteration histopathologies were found in liver, including hepatic tumors. The presence of some lesions may be related statistically to environmental pollution in the Bay, specially with chlorinated compounds.     

A Note on Reviving the Goddard Satellite-Based Surface Turbulent Fluxes （GSSTF） Dataset

Accurate sea surface flux measurements are crucial for understanding the global water and energy cycles. The oceanic evaporation, which is a major component of the global oceanic fresh water flux, is useful for predicting oceanic circulation and transport. The global Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes Version-2 (GSSTF2; July 1987--December 2000) dateset that was officially released in 2001 has been widely used by scientific community for global energy and water cycle research, and regional and short period data analyses. We have recently been funded by NASA to resume processing the GSSTF dataset with an objective of continually producing a uniform dataset of sea surface turbulent fluxes, derived from remote sensing data. The dataset is to be reprocessed and brought up-to-date (GSSTF2b) using improved input datasets such as a recently upgraded NCEP/DOE sea surface temperature reanalysis, and an upgraded surface wind and microwave brightness temperature V6 dataset (Version 6) from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) produced by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS). A second new product (GSSTF3) is further proposed with a finer temporal (12-h) and spatial (0.25^ox0.25^o) resolution. GSSTF2b (July 1987--December 2008) and GSSTF3 (July 1999--December 2009) will be released for the research community to use by late 2009 and early 2011, respectively.     

Challenges in the Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Surface Temperature Trends Since 1850

Since 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) has heavily relied on the comparison between global climate model hindcasts and global surface temperature(ST) estimates for concluding that post-1950s global warming is mostly human-caused. In Connolly et al., we cautioned that this approach to the detection and attribution of climate change was highly dependent on the choice of Total Solar Irradiance(TSI) and ST data sets.We compiled 16 TSI and five ST data sets and found by alter...