城中村休闲空间建设与本、外地人口之间的社区融合--以广州市石牌村为例

促进城中村本地人口与外来人口之间的社区融合是广州市城市发展需要解决的重要任务之一,休闲空间为社区居民提供了社会交往场所,理应成为促进社区融合的重要工具。广州市外来人口集中分布在“城中村”里,本文以广州市典型的“城中村”石牌村为例,通过广泛而深入的社会调查,试图分析“城中村”休闲空间建设在促进本地人口和外来人口之间的社区融合方面所起的作用。调研结果显示,“城中村”休闲设施建设有效地促进了本地人口内部和外来人口内部的社会融合,但由于各种制度约束和本地人口与外来人口心理和行为的差异等因素的影响,这些设施建设在促进外来人口与本地人口之间的社会融合等方面并未起到多大作用。因此,地方政府应加大“城中村”社区休闲设施建设,营造和谐的社区环境,同时大力提倡多元文化的并存发展,消除外来人口和本地人口之间的隔阂,让休闲场所真正成为促进本地人口与外地人口社会交往与社区融合的重要手段。     

A Review of: “Accuracy of Spatial Databases”. Edited by M. Goodchild and S. Gopal. (London: Taylor & Francis, 1989.) [Pp. 290.] Price £35.00.

The integration of multisource heterogeneous spatial data is one of the major challenges for many spatial data users. To facilitate multisource spatial data integration, many initiatives including federated databases, feature manipulation engines (FMEs), ontology-driven data integration and spatial mediators have been proposed. The major aim of these initiatives is to harmonize data sets and establish interoperability between different data sources.

On the contrary, spatial data integration and interoperability is not a pure technical exercise, and there are other nontechnical issues including institutional, policy, legal and social issues involved. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) framework aims to better address the technical and nontechnical issues and facilitate data integration. The SDIs aim to provide a holistic platform for users to interact with spatial data through technical and nontechnical tools.

This article aims to discuss the complexity of the challenges associated with data integration and propose a tool that facilitates data harmonization through the assessment of multisource spatial data sets against many measures. The measures represent harmonization criteria and are defined based on the requirement of the respective jurisdiction. Information on technical and nontechnical characteristics of spatial data sets is extracted to form metadata and actual data. Then the tool evaluates the characteristics against measures and identifies the items of inconsistency. The tool also proposes available manipulation tools or guidelines to overcome inconsistencies among data sets. The tool can assist practitioners and organizations to avoid the time-consuming and costly process of validating data sets for effective data integration.     

Crossing natural and data set boundaries: coastal terrain modelling in the South-West Finnish Archipelago

Geographical information systems (GIS) are important tools in coastal research and management. Coastal GIS applications involve special challenges, because the coastal environment is a complex transitional system between the terrestrial and marine realms. Also acquisition methods and responsibilities for spatial data (and thus their properties) change at the shoreline. This article explores the consequences of this land-sea divide for coastal terrain modelling. We study how methods designed for terrestrial environments can be used to create integrated raster coastal terrain models (CTMs) from coarse elevation and depth data. We focus on shore slopes, because many particularities of coastal terrain and the data which describe it as well as the resulting problems are concentrated in the shore zone. Based on shorelines, terrestrial contours, depth contours and depth points, we used the ANUDEM algorithm to interpolate CTMs at different spatial resolutions, with and without drainage enforcement, for two test areas in a highly complex archipelago coast. Slope aspect and gradient rasters were derived from the CTMs using Horn's algorithm. Values were assigned from the slope rasters to thousands of points along the test areas' shorelines in different ways. Shore slope gradients and aspects were also calculated directly from the shorelines and contours. These modelled data were compared to each other and to field-measured shore profiles using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. As far as the coarse source data permitted, the interpolation and slope calculations delivered good results at fine spatial resolutions. Vector-based slope calculations were very sensitive to quality problems of the source data. Fine-resolution raster data were consequently found most suitable for describing shore slopes from coarse coastal terrain data. Terrestrial and marine parts of the CTMs were subject to different errors, and modelling methods and parameters had different consequences there. Thus, methods designed for terrestrial applications can be successfully used for coastal terrain modelling, but the choice of methods and parameters and the interpretation of modelling results require special attention to the differences of terrestrial and marine topography and data.     

A grid-based collaborative virtual geographic environment for the planning of silt dam systems

To improve the efficiency of planning and designing silt dam systems, this article employs theories and technologies of collaboration and distributed virtual geographic environments (VGEs) to construct a collaborative virtual geographic environment (CVGE) system. The CVGE system provides geographically distributed users with a shared virtual space and a collaborative platform to implement collaborative planning. Many difficulties have been found in integrating data resources and model procedures for the planning of silt dam systems because of their diversity in heterogeneous environments. Unlike most of the current distributed system applications, the proposed CVGE system not only supports multi-platform and multi-program-language interoperability in the dynamically changing network environment, but also shares programs, data and software in the collaborative environment. Based on creating a shared 3D space by virtual reality technology, agent and grid technologies were tightly coupled to develop the CVGE system. A grid-based multi-agent system service framework was designed to implement this new paradigm for the CVGE system, which efficiently integrates and shares geographically distributed resources as well as having the ability to build modelling procedures on different platforms. At the same time, mobile agent computing services were implemented to reduce the network load, process parallel tasks, enhance communication efficiency and adapt dynamically to the changing network environment. Using Java, JMF (Java Media Framework API), Globus Toolkits (GT) core, Voyager, C++, and the OpenGL development package, a prototype system was developed to support silt dam systems planning in the case study area, the Jiu-Yuan-Gou watershed of the Loess Plateau, China. Compared with the traditional workflow, the CVGE system can reduce the workload by between one third and a half.     

Integration of air pollution data collected by mobile sensors and ground-based stations to derive a spatiotemporal air pollution profile of a city

ABSTRACT

Air pollution has become a serious environmental problem causing severe consequences in our ecology, climate, health, and urban development. Effective and efficient monitoring and mitigation of air pollution require a comprehensive understanding of the air pollution process through a reliable database carrying important information about the spatiotemporal variations of air pollutant concentrations at various spatial and temporal scales. Traditional analysis suffers from the severe insufficiency of data collected by only a few stations. In this study, we propose a rigorous framework for the integration of air pollutant concentration data coming from the ground-based stations, which are spatially sparse but temporally dense, and mobile sensors, which are spatially dense but temporally sparse. Based on the integrated database which is relatively dense in space and time, we then estimate air pollutant concentrations for given location and time by applying a two-step local regression model to the data. This study advances the frontier of basic research in air pollution monitoring via the integration of station and mobile sensors and sets up the stage for further research on other spatiotemporal problems involving multi-source and multi-scale information.     

Australian Climate,Energy and Water Policies: conflicts and synergies

Responding to the threat of climate change, conserving freshwater ecosystems and securing adequate energy and water supplies are among the greatest challenges facing modern societies. Yet recognition of the interdependencies between climate, energy and water policy—with resulting synergies and trade-offs—remains limited, leaving societies and governments alike vulnerable to the dangers of conflicted or unintended policy outcomes from sectoral decisions. In this paper, we analyse current Australian climate, energy and water policies to identify the risks of perverse outcomes between the three policy sectors. In doing so we categorise the conflicts and synergies between particular energy generation, carbon sequestration and water supply policies to improve understandings of the challenges facing decision makers in Australia and internationally. Four types of interventions are identified that would enable integration and optimisation of policies, namely: better cross-sectoral knowledge to inform decisions; the identification of technologies with co-benefits; markets with broader cross-sectoral participation (including linking water and carbon markets); and better-integrated governance institutions.     

虚拟震源方法用于探测地下陡倾角地质构造

当常规地震勘探数据处理方法不能对地下存在的陡倾角地质构造获得满意的成像效果时,应用虚拟震源方法将垂直地震剖面( VSP,vertical seismic profile) 数据重构成单井剖面( SWP,single well profile) 数据,可以使得观测系统重构到更接近于井附近目标体的位置,震源和检波器都位于复杂的覆盖之下并避免井和地表之间未知速度信息的影响,从而获得对地下地质构造更好的成像分辨率。尤其是当地下存在诸如断层这样的陡倾角地质构造时,虚拟震源方法可以对目标体产生很好的成像效果。本文进行了声波数据和弹性波数据的模拟实验,将模型中的陡构造设置为断层,测试虚拟震源方法用于探测地下陡倾角地质构造的能力,对声波和弹性波介质都获得了满意的成像结果; 在应用稀疏观测系统进行测量时,仍然可以得到较好的成像效果。     

华蓥山矿区龙滩煤矿开采系统涌水量分析比较

龙滩煤矿位于华蓥山背斜中段,水文地质条件较为复杂,在井巷开拓过程中发生过多起突水事故,严重影响了煤矿生产。在分析矿区水文地质条件及矿井充水因素的基础上,认为长兴组含水层是矿井的间接充水含水层,龙谭组含水层是煤层顶板直接充水含水层,茅口组含水层是煤层的底板直接充水含水层,运用大井法、水平廊道法和比拟法．对矿井开采系统涌水量进行了预算,并对结果进行分析对比,最后建议采用比拟法的计算结果作为矿井涌水量的评价结果．为矿井建设提供了依据。     

高原山地短临预警预报系统的设计与构建

高原山地地区由于其特殊的地形地貌与雷达资料障碍问题,利用SWAN系统的本地化建立强对流天气的短临预报系统非常困难。本项研究以西藏高原地区为例,基于MICAPS和SWAN系统平台的特征,考虑目前气象台站预报员对计算机分析预报系统的使用习惯,利用现有卫星遥感资料、自动站资料、闪电定位资料和常规气象要素等观测资料,以及已研制的有关西藏地区天气学模型、动力统计诊断指标和经验预报模型等,设计构建了西藏地区短临天气预警预报系统,通过VB语言环境实现了能集成MICAPS和SWAN系统的信息分析功能、适合西藏地区短临天气预警预报的实用系统。本项研究的系统集成思路将为不同区域气象预警预报系统的本地化和区域化提供有益的探索思路和实现技术,具有重要的实践指导意义。      

陕西测震台网技术系统

通过测震台网网络技术平台,分析其系统构成及虚拟台网、3G无线传输、远程网络监控等技术在陕西测震台网的应用.该平台的建成,提高了测震台网运行质量及流动测震台网的快速响应能力,实现省、市测震台网观测数据的实时共享,对进一步提升地震部门地震响应能力、完善监测体系,具有重要意义.