Analysis of mobility data – A focus on Mobile Mapping Systems

ABSTRACT

The increasing availability of devices to capture the position of moving objects (and other environmental information) leads to a very large amount and variety of mobility data. In order to obtain important information about the objects, their behavior or the environment of the objects, an automatic analysis is required. This article highlights current research questions in the context of the analysis of mobility data and presents them on the basis of work carried out at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics (ikg) at Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. A focus is put on the analysis and exploitation of information from Mobile Mapping vehicles.     

秋冬季节珠三角典型区域气溶胶浓度垂直分布的激光雷达反演

气溶胶与全球热辐射平衡、水循环、人类健康密不可分,其观测精度直接影响天气预测、气候建模以及对人类健康影响评估的精度,激光雷达能监测气溶胶的垂直分布,对污染气溶胶的扩散趋势、污染源反演、气候预测等均有重要意义。本文基于激光在大气中的辐射传输过程,根据米散射激光雷达的工作原理,使用雷达的多个系统参数计算雷达常数,建立激光雷达气溶胶质量浓度反演模型,从地面向上在晴空条件下进行了珠三角地区典型区域的秋冬季节气溶胶垂直观测的实验,计算气溶胶质量浓度的垂直廓线,反演气溶胶的垂直分布情况。验证与分析结果表明:(1)激光雷达反演结果显示,白天的反演结果中噪声大大减少,表明反演算法能够有效减弱太阳光的影响。(2)相比于传统方法,使用雷达常数而非边界值的反演结果波动较小,更符合实际,能够有效避免高空噪声的影响。(3)高层大气在晴朗静稳天气状况下较为干净,气溶胶基本分布在低空区域,质量浓度随高度基本呈负指数分布。     

A New Temperature Channel Selection Method Based on Singular Spectrum Analysis for Retrieving Atmospheric Temperature Profiles from FY-4A/GIIRS

Hyperspectral data have important research and application value in the fields of meteorology and remote sensing.With the goal of improving retrievals of atmospheric temperature profiles, this paper outlines a novel temperature channel selection method based on singular spectrum analysis(SSA) for the Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder(GIIRS), which is the first infrared sounder operating in geostationary orbit. The method possesses not only the simplicity and rapidity of the principal component analysis method, but also the interpretability of the conventional channel selection method. The novel SSA method is used to decompose the GIIRS observed infrared brightness temperature spectrum(700-1130 cm~(-1)), and the reconstructed grouped components can be obtained to reflect the energy variations in the temperature-sensitive waveband of the respective sequence. At 700-780 cm~(-1), the channels selected using our method perform better than IASI(Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) and Cr IS(Cross-track Infrared Sounder)temperature channels when used as inputs to the neural network retrieval model.     

Intercomparison campaign of vertical ozone profiles including electrochemical sondes of ECC and Brewer-Mast type and a ground based UV-differential absorption lidar

An intercomparison campaign was conducted at the Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP) in Southern France in September 1989 in order to compare the three instruments used for vertical tropospheric ozone profiling in the European TOR (Tropospheric Ozone Research Project) network: balloon borne ECC and Brewer-Mast sondes and a ground based UV-DIAL (DifferentialAbsorptionLidar). Additionally, a stratospheric lidar system and the Dobson spectrophotometer of the OHP were operated. Seven simultaneously measured vertical ozone profiles gave evidence for systematic differences of 15% between both types of electrochemical sondes in the troposphere, the Brewer-Mast sondes reading the smaller ozone values. These differences might be explained on the one hand by a possible contamination of the ozone sensor with reducing substances, causing a negative bias mainly for Brewer-Mast sondes and, on the other hand, by the evolution of the sonde background current during the flight, causing a positive bias for ECC sondes and a negative bias for Brewer-Mast sondes. The tropospheric lidar system, measuring the vertical ozone distribution between 6 and 12–15 km, showed ozone concentrations intermediate between the sonde results. This is in good agreement with its estimated systematic error of better than 7% in the upper troposphere. In the stratosphere, the differences between electrochemical sondes and the lidar are between 5 and 10% before the normalisation with the total ozone values measured by the Dobson spectrophotometer, and always below 5% after. While the Dobson normalisation thus corrects rather well the stratospheric part of the sonde profile, it only partially reduces errors occurring in the troposphere.     

A model for the three-dimensional evolution of continental rift basins,north-east Africa

Large areas of north-east Africa were dominated by regional extension in the Late Phanerozoic. Widespread rifting occurred in the Late Jurassic, with regional extension culminating in the Cretaceous and resulting in the greatest areal extent and degree of interconnection of the west, central and north African rift systems. Basin reactivation continued in the Paleocene and Eocene and new rifts probably formed in the Red Sea and western Kenya. In the Oligocene and Early Miocene, rifts in Kenya, Ethiopia and the Red Sea linked and expanded to form the new east African rift system.This complex history of rifting resulted in failed rift basins with low to high strain geometries, a range of associated volcanism and varying degrees of interaction with older structures. One system, the Red Sea rift, has partially attained active seafloor spreading. From a comparison of these basins, a general model of three-dimensional rift evolution is proposed. Asymmetrical crustal geometries dominated the early phases of these basins, accompanied by low angle normal faulting that has been observed at least locally in outcrop. As rifting progressed, the original fault and basin forms were modified to produce larger, more through-going structures. Some basins were abandoned, others experienced reversals in regional dip and, in general, extension and subsidence became focused along narrower zones near the rift axes. The final transition to oceanic spreading was accomplished in the Red Sea by a change to high angle, planar normal faulting and diffuse dike injection, followed by the organization of an axial magma chamber.     

东北林网地区廓线分布和湍流输送特征

本文根据在林网内和旷野对照点草地的温、湿、风廓线和湍流观测资料，就林网对廓线分布规律的影响和湍流输送特征进行了分析。结果表明：林网对近地面层风速的减弱，及增温增湿是明显的。林网地区近地面层存在空气动力学异常现象，其高度可达到或超过树高的３—４倍。林网对边界层的影响高度可达８—１０倍树高，并且对风廓线的影响要比对温度和水汽压廓线的影响更为明显。林网地区湍流宏观统计量σ_ｕ／ｕ、σ_ｖ／ｕ和σ_ω／ｕ比Ｐａｎｏｆｓｋｙ和Ｄｕｔｔｏｎ（１９８４）￣［１］著作中归纳的平原地区的结果系统偏低６—８％。σ_Ｔ／Ｔ的拟合系数旷野点比林网内大３０％左右。在相同稳定度参数ξ值时，林网内近地面层的感热通量明显比旷野对照点草地上大。     

Mathematical simulation of stable and equilibrium river bed profiles and slopes

Two approaches to the simulation of stable and equilibrium longitudinal profiles and slopes are considered. The first one deals with a solution to the equation of solid matter (sediment) continuity in the equilibrium case and the second approach deals with the application of variational principles. The approaches considered and results obtained can be used in hydroengineering construction for designing stable and equilibrium longitudinal profiles of water streams and slopes.     

Areal extent and vertical structure of radar weather echoes at Montreal

A large sample of radar data from the period May–August 1976 was analyzed to provide information on the total areal coverage of precipitation echoes at 1-km steps in altitude ranging from 2 km up to 10 km. A transformation based on known statistics of surface rainfall rate was employed to express this information in terms of the probability of certain reflectivities being exceeded at a randomly chosen point at a given altitude. The same data base was used to construct a family of average vertical profiles of precipitation reflectivity. The profiles were conditioned by the reflectivity value at the lowest level (2 km), thus providing a basis for estimating the reflectivity aloft, given the low level or surface rainfall rate. Analyses of this kind have been reported for other geographical locations and for a variety of applications, such as hydrology, rain effects on earth-space radio propagation, and precipitation modeling. Similarities in the results from these two quite different analysis procedures, possibly not hitherto recognized, were found in the present study.     

青藏高原东北部典型花粉类型埋藏特征及其与植被关系的研究

取自青藏高原东北部不同植被类型的 6个土壤剖面花粉与植被关系研究表明，表土花粉较好地代表当地植被的组成，区域外花粉百分比低于30％，但桦、杨花粉在植被中的代表性较差；土壤剖面典型花粉类型的埋藏特征表明：在土壤表层 8cm以下，花粉总浓度迅速降低。氧化作用对花粉的破坏性最大，花粉浓度随土壤的pH值升高呈指数形式递减，pH值 7．6以上，花粉浓度迅速降低，花粉在土壤中的运移作用不明显。