基于布尔运算的复杂块体几何形态分析一般方法

提出采用布尔运算进行三维复杂块体形态分析的一般方法,并采用C++语言编写了相应的程序。块体布尔运算是将参与运算的主块体和客块体进行交、并或差运算,得到形态更加复杂的块体。为描述块体内部非贯通结构面,在块体数据结构中引入退化有向壳,允许块体中混合维度模型的存在。将主块体各面分别与客块体各面进行面-面求交线运算,通过环路分析得到各块体分割后的面。根据具体采用的布尔运算方法,确定有效面和无效面,并将有效面进行搜索得到新的壳和块体。选取3个算例和1个典型工程实例来验证该方法的可行性和应用性。计算结果表明,该方法可以生成形态更加复杂的块体,可以很方便地处理块体中的结构面,具有普遍性和适应性,并具有广泛的实际应用价值。     

基于变化映射的时空数据动态操作

在分析地理空间实体变化及其与信息空间对象标识状态变化间关系的基础上, 设计了一套将地理空间实体变化映射到其信息空间对象标识状态变化的时空数据动态操作(包括12个动态操作)。这些动态操作包括了以前TGIS学者针对单个实体(对象)设计的所有动态操作, 并且通过其组合能够表达涉及多个地理空间实体的各种演变操作。最后在Oracle Spatial平台上, 用VC++实现了这套动态操作, 并以一个应用实例说明了这套动态操作在空间数据更新中的使用方法。这套时空数据动态操作的提出与实现为时空数据库的更新与维护奠定了基础     

Flammability risk assessment for oil spill response operations

Immediately following a spill at sea, released oil—ranging from diesel to light crude and diluted bitumen, will initially weather through evaporation, resulting in an elevated concentration of light hydrocarbons in the air. As part of oil spill response operations, first responders use hand-held devices to monitor airborne concentrations when approaching a spill. The feasibility of using numerical modelling as an additional tool to assess potential flammability and plan response operations in the spill area was explored in this study. The Lower Explosive Limit(LEL) is defined as the minimum concentration of a gas in air, in this case a mixture of evaporated hydrocarbons, which can produce a flash fire in the presence of an ignition source. This ignition source could be triggered by the vessel itself or by spill response operations. A framework was put into place, utilizing a threedimensional hydrodynamic model(H3D), an oil spill model(SPILLCALC), and an air dispersion model(CALPUFF) to assess the risk of possible ignition of the hydrocarbon vapour in the event of a spill. The study looked at a hypothetical credible worst case tanker spill(16 500 m~3) of diluted bitumen(cold lake winter blend)occurring at Arachne Reef in Haro Strait, British Columbia, Canada. SPILLCALC provided one-minute averaged vapour fluxes from the water surface for each of 17 modelled pseudo-components which were used as inputs to CALPUFF. Using the predicted airborne concentrations of each pseudo-component, time-scaled to one-second averages, the flammability potential in the immediate spill area was determined at each grid point using Le Chatelier's mixing equation. The approach describe here was developed as a proof of concept, and could be established as a real-time system, bringing valuable information in addition to hand-held devices during a spill response, or during a response exercise. This modelling study was conducted as part of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project. There are a number of commercially available oil spill models but few if any are equipped with the ability to model air dispersion and forecast hazardous conditions as discussed in this paper.     

Harmful routines? Uncertainty in science and conflicting views on routine petroleum operations in Norway

Offshore petroleum activities are the focus of highly politicised debates globally. Typically, public debate is sparked by catastrophic events, such as the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and decision-making processes fuelled by the assessment of ‘worst-case scenarios’. However, everyday ‘routine’ petroleum operations also impact the marine ecosystems and adjoining socio-economic sectors, but the extent and severity of the impacts are uncertain. This paper takes as its point of departure routine operations and their surrounding uncertainties. Particularly, it focuses on the debates of whether to extend routine petroleum operations in vulnerable and valuable parts of Norway, such as the Lofoten area and the Sula Ridge. These conflicts draw on important and for some, epistemological uncertainties that surround the impacts of routine operations. The paper argues that it is necessary to first highlight these uncertainties, rather than marginalise them, and second, recognise that uncertainties are not simply a scientific challenge, but can be a powerful political tool. This paper unpacks and explores uncertainties associated with three phases of routine operations, that are used to steer political actions: (i) the impacts of seismic surveys on fish and marine mammals; (ii) the impacts of drilling mud and drill cuttings on benthic communities such as deep-sea coral reefs; and (iii) the impacts of produced water on the marine environment. The paper discusses the importance of transparency in addressing these uncertainties, and emphasises the need to implement the precautionary principle in a more participatory way. It thus proposes participatory exercises in order to allow the recognition of the epistemological nature of uncertainties.     

GIS空间数据拓扑运算在房产测绘中的应用及实现

房屋外半墙面积是房屋分摊面积的重要组成部分,其精度高低直接影响房产测绘成果数据的实用性。该文以自主开发的房产测绘软件平台作为依托,依据GIS空间数据拓扑运算对房产测绘中的相关数据进行处理,设计出一种仅由矢量数据参与空间数据拓扑运算的技术路线,巧妙地规避了房屋外半墙面积计算中的一般性及特殊性问题,提高了工作效率,节省了作业时间,更重要的是提高了面积测算精度,取得了良好的运算效果。     

一种空间分布模式驱动的空间索引

支持批量操作的空间索引中,空间数据的分解粒度、局部更新操作的整体影响处理是两个主要难点。本文基于空间分布模式分析,提出了一种空间索引——Pattern-tree。针对批量操作的粒度问题,设计了一种基于空间分布模式探测的空间划分方法,采用一种自上而下与自下而上相结合的索引树构建算法;针对局部插入操作对索引树的整体影响与索引树的调整问题,提出了一种基于空间分布模式变化检测的索引更新方法。试验表明,本文所提出的空间索引结构比STLT、GBI以及SCB等方法具有更高的构建与窗口查询效率。     

文本视图显示及信息拖动换行技术

在文本视窗领域,数据是实时变化、实时更新的,需要经常对外部设备采集到的数据进行查看、操作。本文采用了更好的文本视图显示方式,并且对信息拖动换行技术进行了研究;使文本视图在数据不断更新的情况下,使数据视图操作成为可能。基于最新的VC窗口显示机制,实现了数据的拖动换行等操作。使重要信息可以突出标识,文本数据观察变得简洁、醒目,可操作性强,在文本数据视图的显示方面,取得了良好的效果。     

陕焦化甲醇生产项目雷击风险评估

为了使人工增雨更有针对性,需要在作业方案制定阶段就对未来影响天气系统有一个明确的判断,需要总结出一套适合山西省进行人工增雨作业的天气概念模型。为此,普查了1991年-2000年欧亚范围高空及地面天气图,筛选出影响山西省并产生降水的天气系统,加以分析归纳,建立了4种有利于山西省人工增雨作业的天气概念模型,即西风槽型、东北冷涡型、切变线型及副高型,并分别给出了未来12h～24h影响山西省的警戒区及最佳人工增雨作业区。     

The Chandra X-ray Observatory: An Astronomical Facility Available to the World

The Chandra X-ray observatory, one of NASA’s “Great Observatories,” provides high angular and spectral resolution X-ray data which is freely available to all. In this review I describe the instruments on Chandra along with their current calibration, as well as the Chandra proposal system, the freely-available Chandra analysis software package CIAO, and the Chandra archive. As Chandra is in its 6th year of operation, the archive already contains calibrated observations of a large range of X-ray sources. The Chandra X-ray Center is committed to assisting astronomers from any country who wish to use data from the archive or propose for observations.