An Ontology of the Submarine Relief for Analysis and Representation on Nautical Charts

Abstract

A nautical chart is a kind of map used to describe the seafloor morphology and shoreline of adjacent lands. One of its main purposes is to guarantee safety of navigation. As a consequence, the construction of a nautical chart follows very specific rules. The cartographer has to select and highlight undersea features according to their relevance to navigation. In an automated process, the system must be able to identify and classify these features from the terrain model. This paper aims therefore to define ontologies of the submarine relief and nautical chart that will be at the root of a model-oriented generalization process. To the best of our knowledge, no ontology has been defined to formalize the geographical and cartographic objects for nautical chart representation. Thus, a bottom-up approach was developed to extract and model knowledge derived from standards established by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and cartographers’ expertise. The submarine relief ontology formalizes undersea features describing the submarine relief. Four concepts (composition, morphometric class, shape value and depth value) are introduced to describe properties and relationships between undersea features. The cartographic representation ontology of nautical charts will define several concepts (chart, features, isobathymetric lines and soundings) for the representation of undersea features on the chart.     

应用稀疏非负矩阵分解聚类实现高光谱影像波段的优化选择

针对高光谱影像数据高维性、高度相关性和冗余性等特点,提出应用稀疏非负矩阵分解聚类实现高光谱影像波段的优化选择。通过稀疏非负矩阵分解方法对高光谱影像进行稀疏化表示,同时顾及其可聚类的特性,在保留所选波段物理意义的基础上,得到波段选择后的高光谱影像降维数据。通过该方法对PHI-3高光谱影像进行波段选择的试验分析,应用聚类特征有效性分析波段聚类结果,并采用波段子集的信息量、相关性和可分性3类评价指标来验证方法的效果。最终,从运行效率和分类精度两方面证明了基于无监督聚类的稀疏非负矩阵分解对高光谱影像的波段选择的实用性。     

A new modelling method for evaluating external disturbing potential based on theory of unified representation of gravitational field

For a special use a new modelling method of evaluating external disturbing potential is presented in this paper. Being different from classical methods in physical geodesy this method is grounded upon the theory of unified representation of gravitational field. The models created in this way are particularly satisfactory for a high-speed computation of gravitational field in low altitude because they take account of topographic effects and have their kernel functions with simple structure and weak singularity.     

街区式居民地多尺度表达不确定性分析

本文对街区式居民地多尺度表达的不确定性进行了分析,认为制图综合是街区式居民地多尺度表达存在不确定性的根本原因,并挖掘探讨了街区式居民地多尺度表达不确定性的本质及其分类。针对街区式居民地多尺度表达的各类不确定性,重点分析并确立了用街区式符号表达居民地时的不确定性类型及评价指标和方法。本文的研究成果可以应用于街区式居民地多尺度表达尺度转换方法优劣及产品不确定性的评估。     

Multi-scale representation of building feature in urban GIS

This paper aims at multiscale representation of urban GIS, presenting a model to dynamically generalize the building on the basis of Delaunay triangulation model. Considering the constraints of position accuracy, statistical area balance and orthogonal characteristics in building cluster generalization, this paper gives a progressive algorithm of building cluster aggregation, including conflict detection (where), object (who) displacement, and geometrical combination operation (how). The algorithm has been realized in an interactive generalization system and some experiment illustrations are provided.     

Equity in Transportation Planning: An Analysis of the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization

This article presents an analysis of representational equity within the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). MPOs are regional transportation organizations that exert significant influence over state transportation planning and the allocation of funding. The analysis shows that under almost any voting or membership configuration, population representation is correlated with racial and ethnic composition. This outcome is not just a function of the system of representation but also the geography of residential segregation. The results of this analysis highlight the problem of creating systems of equitable representation within the context of preexisting and persistent social inequalities.     

Continuous surface representation and approximation: spatial analytical implications

Field-based continuous representation in a geographical information system (GIS) has long been important for describing complex spatially distributed phenomena, such as population, precipitation, air pollution, temperature elevation and land cover. Though theoretical knowledge and properties of continuous distributions can be employed, such surfaces are generally approximated or abstracted in practice due to a lack of complete information. That is, such surfaces are based on finite spatial samples, which is a practical necessity with regard to the infinite underlying attribute variability. These approximated surfaces are then used in various spatial analyses, yet impacts are not well understood. This article will examine theoretical properties and errors that result in practice when approximated continuous surfaces are relied on in spatial analysis.     

An adaptive high-dimensional model representation method for reliability analysis of geotechnical engineering problems

In this study, a new reliability analysis method was developed based on the adaptive high-dimensional model representation (HDMR) and applied to geotechnical engineering problems. For practical problems requiring finite element (FE) analysis or other numerical methods to evaluate system responses such as stresses and deformations, an efficient and accurate metamodeling technique is needed because it is not efficient or straightforward to directly adopt the conventional sampling-based or gradient-based reliability analysis approaches. In this work, an adaptive metamodeling approach was created and studied based on the HDMR framework and augmented radial basis functions (ARBFs). In this adaptive ARBF-HDMR technique, a simple and inexpensive first-order ARBF-HDMR metamodel was first constructed to explicitly express a performance function, and an alternate first-order reliability method (FORM) was applied to locate the design point and compute the reliability index. A local window was then defined such that additional sample points were generated and a higher-order HDMR component function was created using ARBF and added to the existing ARBF-HDMR metamodel. The accuracy of the ARBF-HDMR metamodel was improved through this adaptive process, especially in the region surrounding the design point. One mathematical and four geotechnical engineering problems were studied and solved using the proposed adaptive ARBF-HDMR approach. The proposed method was found to be capable of obtaining accurate reliability indices within a few iterations in all test problems.     

Interactions between subgrid‐scale resolution,feature representation and grid‐scale resolution in flood inundation modelling

Numerical modelling of flood inundation over large and complex floodplains often requires mesh resolutions coarser than the structural features (e.g. buildings) that are known to influence the inundation process. Recent research has shown that this mismatch is not well represented by conventional roughness treatments, but that finer‐scale features can be represented through porosity‐based subgrid‐scale treatments. This paper develops this work by testing the interactions between feature representation, subgrid‐scale resolution and mesh resolution. It uses as the basis for this testing a 2D diffusion‐based flood inundation model which is applied to a 2004 flood event in a topologically complex upland floodplain in northern England. This study formulated simulations with different grid mesh resolution and subgrid mesh ratio. The sensitivity of the model to mesh resolution and roughness specification was investigated. Model validation and verification suggest that the subgrid treatment with higher subgrid mesh ratio can give much improved predictions of flood propagation, in particular, in terms of the predicted water depth. This study also highlighted the limitation of using at‐a‐point in time inundation extent for validation of flood models of this type. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.