Ocean wave imaging mechanism by imaging radar

Analytical representations of the high frequency spectra of ocean wave and its variation due to the variation of ocean surface current are derived from the wave-number spectrum balance equation. The ocean surface imaging formulation of real aperture radar (RAR) is given using electromagnetic wave backscattering theory of ocean surface and the modulations of ocean surface winds, currents and their variations to RAR are described. A general representation of the phase modulation induced by the ocean surface motion is derived according to standard synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging theory. The detectability of ocean current and sea bottom topography by imaging radar is discussed. The results constitute the theoretical basis for detecting ocean wave fields, ocean surface winds, ocean surface current fields, sea bottom topography, internal wave and so on.     

地表破裂断层近场速度大脉冲研究

在分析和研究近场强震记录的基础上,对地面运动速度大脉冲进行了数值模拟。研究结果表明：有速度大脉冲的地面运动主要产生在断层周围。是地震发生时断层两盘突然错动在周围场地产生的特殊运动效应,单耳速度大脉冲常伴随有较大的地面永久位移,双耳或多耳速度脉冲常对应于位移大脉冲及可恢复位移,其产生机理与断层的破裂速度关系不大,与断层两盘的位移量有直接关系。速度大脉冲对近断层的长周期结构作用显著,值得研究。     

InSAR可检测的最大最小变形梯度的函数模型研究

InSAR干涉图中的相位噪声是相干性和视数的函数.InSAR能检测的地表最大最小形变梯度,除了受到InSAR硬件的限制外,还直接受到InSAR干涉图中噪声强弱的影响.此外,由于多视处理会改变像元的大小,也会引起可检测的最大最小形变梯度显著变化.本文研究了InSAR可检测的地表最大最小形变梯度与相干性和视数的关系,并建立了视数为1、5和20时（ERS和ENVISAT常采用的多视数）InSAR可检测的最大最小形变梯度的经验函数模型.最后,本文用伊朗Bam地区的Enivsat ASAR数据进行了试验,结果表明该模型能够准确地判别不同视数和相干性情况下地表变形能否被InSAR技术所检测.与Baran只考虑了相干性的模型相比,本文的模型适用范围更广.     

三江平原大面积开荒对自然环境影响及区域生态环境保护

根据多年在三江平原野外考察积累的大量资料,对比开垦前后不同年代的数据,分析在江平原大面积开荒引起的区域环境变化,包括生态类型的变化,土地退化、水环境变化以及动植物资源的变化等,并在总结三江平原开荒过程中经验教训的基础上提出区域环境保护对策。     

基于目标区的局部角度域方向照明分析及其在偏移成像中的应用

叠前深度偏移已成为近年来地震偏移成像领域广泛应用的技术之一,其中复杂盐丘下方目标区域结构的成像始终是偏移成像中较难解决的问题.局部角度域波场分解可以提供在空间和方向上的双重局部化信息,因而这一技术被广泛地应用在方向照明分析、成像振幅校正等方面.本文在采用局部指数标架小波束进行角度域方向照明分析的基础上,研究采集系统对复杂盐丘下部层状结构成像质量的影响;同时通过分析目标区对应于相对地表采集系统分布的照明能量,确定叠前炮集数据中对盐下目标区成像起重要贡献的部分,并将这些数据用来对目标区成像,从而达到提高盐下结构成像质量的目的.本文将二维SEG-EAGE盐丘模型中盐下反射体作为目标区,分别计算其照明分析和由照明能量分布确定的炮集数据对目标区的偏移成像结果,同时通过与成像振幅校正前后的成像结果对比,说明了该方法对提高目标区结构成像质量的有效性.     

2011年春季黄、东海墨绿多管水母(Aequorea coerulescens)分布特征

2011年4月在黄、东海的大面调查中观测到一种多管水母大量发生,在现场通过表层目测计数了其分布特征,采集现场样品测量了伞径、湿重和干重,并结合水文数据分析了其分布与水团的关系。经鉴定,该种为水螅水母纲、软水母亚纲、锥螅水母目、多管水母科、多管水母属、墨绿多管水母(Aequorea coerulescens)。在69个站位中,有11个站位出现,出现率16%,主要在东海南部近岸海域。个体伞径在17.40—142.00mm之间,湿、干重分别在3.07—75.47g和0.12—3.06g之间,湿、干重与伞径呈现显著的指数关系。碳含量占干重的3.15%±0.56%,氮含量占干重的14.44%±2.65%,碳氮比为4.58±0.30。伞径和温度、盐度显著相关。作者认为,墨绿多管水母来源于舟山群岛附近海域,受海流的作用,输送到观测海域;离源地越远的站位,由于生长时间长,水母伞径增大。     

A novel synthetic aperture radar scattering model for sea surface with breaking waves

In this study a novel synthetic aperture radar(SAR) scattering model for sea surface with breaking waves is proposed. Compared with existing models, the proposed model considers an empirical relationship between wind speed and wave breaking scattering to present the contribution of wave breaking. Moreover, the scattering weight factor p, and wave breaking rate q, are performed to present the contribution of the quasi-specular scattering term, Bragg scattering term, and wave breaking scattering t...     

Drought and deluge: Influence of environmental factors on water quality of kettle holes in two subsequent years with different precipitation

Thirty kettle hole ponds located in agricultural landscape of western Poland were studied with respect to physico-chemical (temperature and pH) and chemical (SC, dissolved oxygen, concentration of nutrients) variables of surface water quality during two subsequent years. Most of the ponds selected for the study host populations of endangered large branchiopod crustaceans, thus the aim of the study was to find out the rules governing these ecosystems and infer the best ways to protect them. Precipitation during the first year of the study was close to the average for the region, whereas severe drought was recorded during the second year. The influence of water regime, morphological parameters, catchment characteristics and vegetation on the parameters of water (pH, conductivity, contents of O₂, N-NH₄, N-NO₂, N-NO₃, SRP and TP) separately for both years was tested using redundancy analyses (RDA). The results showed that the factors significantly explaining the variance in water chemistry differed between years of the study. In the year of average precipitation, the most important factors were related to the morphology of the pond and its catchment. In contrast, under drought conditions the factors connected with pond vegetation and water depth were significant. However, in general, hydroperiod length of the pond was the most important factor, significant in all the models created.     

The early impact of large wood introduction on the morphology and sediment characteristics of a lowland river

Habitat degradation in river ecosystems has considerably increased over the past decades, resulting in detrimental effects on aquatic and riparian communities. During the last two decades, the value of large wood as a resource for river restoration and recovery has been increasingly documented. However, post-project appraisal of the associations between restored large wood, morphological complexity and river ecology as a result of river restoration is extremely rare and thus scientific knowledge is essential. To investigate restored wood-induced morphological response and sediment complexity in an overwidened reach along a low gradient lowland river (River Bure, UK), two sub-reaches containing 12 jams initiated by wood emplacement in 2008 and 2010 and a sub-reach free of wood were studied. Wood surveys recording the dimensions and number of wood pieces in jams, geomorphological mapping of the reach illustrating the spatial distribution of features in and around the jams and in a section free of wood, and sediment sampling (analysed for particle size, organic content and plant propagule abundance) of five recurring patch types surrounding each jam (two wood-related patches and three representing the broader river environment) were performed. Wood jams partially spanned the river channel and contained large pieces of wood that created more open structures than naturally-formed wood jams. Where no wood was introduced, the channel remains wide and the gravel bed is buried by sand and finer sediment. In the restored reaches, fine sediment has accumulated in and around the wood jams and has been stabilised by vegetation colonisation, enhancing flow velocities in the narrowed channel sufficiently to mobilise fine sediment and expose the gravel bed. Sediment analysis reveals sediment fining with time since wood emplacement, largely achieved within the two wood-related patch types. Fine sediment retained around the wood shows a relatively higher plant propagule content than other patch types, suitable for sustaining plant succession as the vegetated side bars aggrade. Although channel narrowing and morphological adjustment has occurred surprisingly rapidly in this low energy, over-widened reach following wood introduction (2–4 years), sustaining the recovery in the longer term to suitably support flora and fauna communities depends on the continued delivery of wood by ensuring a natural supply of sufficiently large wood pieces from riparian trees both upstream and within the reach.     

Detection of macroalgae blooms by complex SAR imagery

Increased frequency and enhanced damage to the marine environment and to human society caused by green macroalgae blooms demand improved high-resolution early detection methods. Conventional satellite remote sensing methods via spectra radiometers do not work in cloud-covered areas, and therefore cannot meet these demands for operational applications. We present a methodology for green macroalgae bloom detection based on RADARSAT-2 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Green macroalgae patches exhibit different polarimetric characteristics compared to the open ocean surface, in both the amplitude and phase domains of SAR-measured complex radar backscatter returns. In this study, new index factors are defined which have opposite signs in green macroalgae-covered areas, compared to the open water surface. These index factors enable unsupervised detection from SAR images, providing a high-resolution new tool for detection of green macroalgae blooms, which can potentially contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms related to outbreaks of green macroalgae blooms in coastal areas throughout the world ocean.