El Niño and decadal effects on sea‐level variability in northern New Zealand: A wavelet analysis

Sea‐level data from two sites in northern New Zealand, along with the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), are analysed for interannual and decadal variability using wavelets. The analysis shows, using statistically significant wavelet power, there is a significant relationship between mean sea level (MSL) and SOI. However, the relationship is highly variable, both in magnitude and in the range of time‐scales over which it occurs. This non‐stationarity necessitates the use of techniques such as wavelets for analysis. An interdecadal response in MSL around northern New Zealand has been isolated, with shifts occurring in 1950 and the late 1970s. This behaviour in MSL appears to coincide with shifts in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, thought previously to be largely centred in the North Pacific. A strong correlation between SOI and sea surface temperature (SST) is also demonstrated. This relationship appears to be stable in magnitude (a large change in SOI produces a large change in SST) and to occur over the same range of time‐scales. More SST and MSL data are required for other parts of New Zealand to determine whether these findings apply elsewhere.     

多尺度字典学习的高光谱图像压缩算法

结合小波变换及字典学习提出了一种针对高光谱图像的压缩算法。该算法首先通过小波变换构建多尺度样本集,在小波域使用K-均值奇异值分解(K-SVD)方法学习得到原子尺寸不同的多尺度字典,然后在稀疏表示的过程中,定义一个原子使用频次筛选因子,通过统计局部最优波段稀疏表示时原子使用情况,结合筛选因子对字典原子进行优化筛选,使用精简后的字典对其余波段进行稀疏求解,最后针对不同尺度的表示系数采用自适应的量化编码。实验结果表明,与目前常用的3D-SPIHT和其他的多尺度字典学习算法相比,本文算法在中低比特率下,具有更好的重建性能。     

Multiscale Gravitational Field Recovery from GPS-Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking

The purpose of GPS-satellite-to-satellite tracking (GPS-SST) is to determine the gravitational potential at the earth's surface from measured ranges (geometrical distances) between a low-flying satellite and the high-flying satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS). In this paper, GPS-satellite-to-satellite tracking is reformulated as the problem of determining the gravitational potential of the earth from given gradients at satellite altitude. The uniqueness and stability of the solution are investigated. The essential tool is to split the gradient field into a normal part (i.e. the first-order radial derivative) and a tangential part (i.e. the surface gradient). Uniqueness is proved for polar, circular orbits corresponding to both types of data (first radial derivative and/or surface gradient). In both cases gravity recovery based on satellite-to-satellite tracking turns out to be an exponentially ill-posed problem. Regularization in terms of spherical wavelets is proposed as an appropriate solution method, based on the knowledge of the singular system. Finally, the extension of this method is generalized to a nonspherical earth and a non-spherical orbital surface, based on combined terrestrial and satellite data.     

A wavelet method for detecting S‐waves in seismic data

Seismic signals consist of several typically short energy bursts, called phases, exhibiting several patterns in terms of dominant frequency, amplitude and polarisation. We present a fast algorithm to detect the so‐called S‐phase in a three‐component seismic signal. This new approach combines traditional S‐phase detection methods and the discrete wavelet transform. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

地震地面运动能量分析的新方法--小波变换

从小波变换的基本原理出发,利用小波能量特性及正交特性,根据加速度记录推导出小波变换下的地震地面运动的能量时程公式,通过小波变换后求得的能量同时包括了地震动时域和频域内的能量,而且这种方法从理论上是可行,从方法实现上也是比较简单的。     

Microsporidan parasite Thelohania contejeani Henneguy from New Zealand freshwater crayfish

The sporozoan Thelohania contejeani Henneguy (Microsporida: Nosematidae) is recorded from Paranephrops zealandicus (White) for the first time. It is an intracellular parasite invading musculature throughout the crayfish, causing a gradual decrease in locomotor activity, and it may eventually cause the death of the host. Infected crayfish were found in the northern part of Leith Stream, Dunedin, where the infection rate reached a maximum of 20%. This parasite has formerly been recorded only from Northern Europe.     

Near‐fault effects on residual displacements of RC structures

Residual displacements of single‐degree‐of‐freedom systems due to ground motions with velocity pulses or fling step displacements are presented as a function of period T and of its ratio to the pulse period T_p. Four hysteretic behaviors are considered: bilinear elastoplastic, stiffness‐degrading with cycling, stiffness‐cum‐strength degrading, with or without pinching. When expressed in terms of T/T_p, peak inelastic and residual displacements due to motions with a pulse or fling appear similar to those due to far‐fault motions, if the response to far‐field records are expressed in terms of the ratio of T to the record's characteristic period. However, as the latter is usually much shorter than the pulse period of motions with fling, the range of periods of interest for common structures becomes a short‐period range under fling motions and exhibits very large amplification of residual and peak inelastic displacements. Similar, but less acute, are the effects of motions with a velocity pulse. Wavelets of different complexity are studied as approximations to near‐fault records. Simple two‐parameter wavelets for fling motions overestimate peak inelastic displacements; those for pulse‐type motions overestimate residual displacements. A more complex four‐parameter wavelet for motions with a velocity pulse predicts overall well residual and peak displacements due to either pulse‐ or fling‐type motions; a hard‐to‐identify parameter of the wavelet impacts little computed residual displacements; another significantly affects them and should be carefully estimated from the record. Even this most successful of wavelets overpredicts residual displacements for the periods of engineering interest. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

信号的瞬时参数与正交小波基

对于可表成ｕ（ｔ）＝ａ（ｔ）ｃｏｓθ（ｔ）的信号,称ａ（ｔ）为其瞬时振幅,θ（ｔ）为瞬时位相,为瞬时频率．在许多实际问题中,瞬时振幅、位相、频率等瞬时参数的提取有重要意义．但已知的一些瞬时参数计算方法均各有其局限性．本文构造了一种频谱支集紧且有解析表达式的小波,利用它得到一种计算信号瞬时参数的能抗噪声干扰的快速、局部算法．理论分析和数值模拟的结果表明,该方法是实用而有效的,可望能满足许多实际问题的需要．     

探地雷达时域多分辨法(MRTD)三维正演模拟

应用小波伽略金方法,对Maxwell方程进行离散化,导出了DB2-MRTD算法的探地雷达3D差分公式、数值稳定性条件.在此基础上,开发了探地雷达MRTD(multi-resolution time domain)法正演模拟程序,该程序极大地提高了运算速度,改善了三维探地雷达正演方法,并利用该自制程序,对三角形金属体模型进行了正演模拟,得到了其相应的正演合成三维剖视图及切片图,通过对这些模拟结果进行分析,可以加深对三维雷达反射特征的认识,提高探地雷达探测的可靠性、准确度,同时也说明时域多分辨率法在探地雷达三维正演模拟中的有效性.     

一种基于相位一致的高分辨率遥感图像特征检测方法

精确检测图像边缘特征是进行高分辨率遥感图像分割和识别的关键。空域特征检测算子以解决阶跃形边缘为主,得到的边缘特征对图像的亮度和对比度敏感。本文引入了一种基于频域相位一致的图像特征检测方法,该方法对遥感图像亮度和对比度具有不变性,同时适用于多种边缘特征的检测。使用Log Gabor小波计算IKONOS Pan图像的相位一致多尺度梯度,对农田、道路和厂房等典型地物进行特征检测的结果表明,相位一致算法对图像局部亮度和对比度不敏感;并且对线形物体产生单线响应,不似空域检测算子产生双线响应。最后考察滤波器尺度和方向参数变化及添加高斯噪声对检测结果的影响,发现相位一致算法无需先使用低通滤波去除噪声,因而具有更稳定的特征定位精度;并且抗噪声干扰的能力强,检测结果不会因为噪声而出现波动。基于相位一致的遥感图像不变特征提取,为高分辨率遥感图像的分割和对象识别提供了基础。