Monitoring vegetation dynamics in East Rennell Island World Heritage Site using multi-sensor and multi-temporal remote sensing data

ABSTRACT

East Rennell of Solomon Island is the first natural site under customary law to be inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Potential threats due to logging, mining and agriculture led to the site being declared a World Heritage in Danger in 2013. For East Rennell World Heritage Site (ERWHS) to ‘shed’ its ‘Danger’ status the management must monitor forest cover both within and outside of ERWHS. We used satellite data from multiple sources to track forest cover changes for the entire East Rennell island since 1998. 95% of the island is still covered by undisturbed forests; annual average normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for the whole island was above 0.91 in 2015. However, vegetation cover in the island has been slowly decreasing, at a rate of –0.0011 NDVI per year between 2000 and 2015. This decrease less pronounced inside ERWHS compared to areas outside. While potential threats due to forest clearing outside ERWHS remain the forest cover change from 2000 to 2015 has been below 15%. We suggest ways in which the Government of Solomon Islands could use our data as well as unmanned air vehicles and field surveys to monitor forest cover change and ensure the future conservation of ERWHS.     

在垃圾焚烧厂规划中地理信息系统的应用

德国萨克森-安哈特州（Sachsen-Anhalt）州府玛葛得堡市（Magdeburg）计划在其北部2县4880km²的地域内建立一个垃圾焚烧厂,焚烧厂厂址规划要符合《环境质量影响评价法》.理想的厂址应该是一片包含环境质量影响评价要素最少的“空地”;为垃圾运输方便,厂址与主要交通干线的距离不应超过5km.由于规划区内土地利用覆盖复杂,常规的实地勘察和资料研究难以把各方面的评价要素信息考虑周全,因此利用地理信息系统（PC ARC/INFO）帮助解决问题,比如专题图件比例尺不统一的问题、信息叠加程度过高的问题等.通过多种比例尺机助制图、比较研究,共找出6个潜在的厂址,可以考虑建厂.编辑了6幅“潜在厂址”专题图,本文以其中1幅举例描述.     

社交网络时空大数据聚类挖掘有效选择分析

来自社交网络的时空大数据具有海量和高动态的特性,有效选择时空数据进行聚焦挖掘分析至关重要。以微博位置签到数据为例,首先,对时空大数据空间聚类挖掘的有效选择问题进行了研究,针对社交网络时空数据不确定性问题,提出了时空大数据针对聚类挖掘的有效选择方法。聚类挖掘有效选择方法提出从空间、时间或属性等维度对时空大数据进行分割。然后,对分割得到的数据集进行空间探索分析(exploratory spatial data analysis,ESDA),得到具有聚类挖掘潜力的数据集。最后,以武汉市微博位置签到数据进行商圈热点探测为例,对提出的社交网络时空大数据聚类挖掘有效选择方法进行验证。结果表明,有效选择方法可以得到挖掘效率和精准性更高的时空数据集。     

地图册设计中几个问题的探讨

对地图册设计中常见的十个方面的问题进行了探讨,在总结经验的同时,详细阐述了地图册的设计思路。     

Geoenvironmental protocol for site and waste characterization of former manufactured gas plants; worldwide remediation challenge in semi-volatile organic wastes

The most common and difficult of all hazardous waste sites are those that historically produced artificial (manufactured) gas; for gas-making was international in scope and at the very core of the industrial revolution. With former manufactured gas plants (FMGPs), virtually no geologic region in the industrialized or urbanized world or its trade centers and ports escaped the gas industry. These plants applied pyrolysis of organic matter (roasting to drive off volatiles in the form of useful gases) to illuminate the world and to fuel all manner of progress.

Gas was and is the universal fuel. Its prominence stemmed from the omnipresence of organic matter and the universal process for the extraction of its volatile contents to manufacture useful gas. Furthermore, for most of the century and a half-long history of manufactured gas, natural gas was unavailable to slow or daunt the production of man-made gas and the universal creation of its toxic tar residues and other harmful waste residuals.

Today we face the presence of toxic organic gas manufacturing residuals as a unique threat to both the health and welfare of contemporary society, as well as being a long-term threat to the environment that is dominantly geologic in character. Most of these tar residuals are highly resistant to natural degradation or attenuation in the environment and their lives, therefore, they are measured in geologic time. Given its environmental persistence, potential problems associated with tar may exist centuries to thousands of years.

Engineering geologists and geological engineers are, by training and experience, particularly well equipped to plan, manage and conduct site and waste characterization efforts for FMGPs and related coal-tar sites.     

福建数字地震台网永春台测定地震震级分析及其台基校正值计算

本文对 1 998年至 2 0 0 2年福建数字台网中心测定的台湾南投地震、台湾花莲地震、福建本省部分地震的观测结果永春台震级与台网平均震级进行分析。并计算出永春台的台基校正值     

永登县药水沟—红门寺地热资源综合勘查评价

药水沟—红门寺地热田位于兰州—民和盆地西缘 ,由药水沟、龙王沟温泉和红门寺地热孔组成。利用物化探指标对该地热勘查靶区筛选 ,对地热条件较好的药水沟进行地、物、化和水文综合勘查 ,查明了控制地热的地质构造背景和热水通道 ,提出下步开发建议     

东南亚华人企业集团对华直接投资的区位选择与产业特征

开展东南亚华人企业集团对华直接投资研究，对于进一步吸引东南亚华人资本，正确引导华人资本的流向，加强中国与东南亚国家之间的经贸合作，具有重要的理论和现实意义。本文通过定性与定量分析的方法，在探讨东南亚华人企业集团对华直接投资的空间分布与转移规律的基础上，构建了其区位选择模型，进而深入剖析东南亚华人企业集团对华直接投资的产业特征。     

我国高放废物深地质处置战略规划探讨

本文探讨我国高放废物地质处置的战略规划，提出我国高放废物处置库的开发可参考采用“三步曲”式的技术路线，即处置库选址和场址评价一特定场址地下实验室研究一处置库建设。处置库的选址和场址评价工作可与地下实验室研究的相关工作结合。以2040年前后建成处置库为目标，把工作划分为4个阶段，即选址和场址评价阶段、场址确认和地下实验室建设阶段、现场实验和示范处置阶段及处置库建设阶段，规划出各阶段的工作目标和工作内容。论证各项工作内容之间的逻辑关系，指出选址和场址评价是基础、基础研究和地下实验室研究是支撑、性能评价是“指挥棒”、设计并建造出符合标准的处置库是目标。将选址工作划分为预选地段对比、预选场址对比和场址确认3个阶段。按此规划设想，我国将在2015年以前确定处置库和地下实验室的场址，并开始建造地下实验室。2025年左右建成地下实验室，2040年建成处置库。     

Performance-based landfill design: development of a design component selection matrix using GIS and system simulation models

Designing environmentally safe and economically feasible landfills can be a challenging task due to complex interactions that need to be taken into account between landfill size, waste and site characteristics. The main focus of this study is, by interfacing the geographic information systems (GIS) with system simulation models (SSM), to develop a methodology and a landfill design component selection matrix that can enable the determination of landfill design components providing the desired performance with minimal design details. In this paper, the conceptual framework and applications of the developed methodology demonstrating the selection of landfill design components that are suitable for the existing site conditions are presented. The conceptual model defines design variables, performance criteria and design components of a landfill. GIS and SSM are used to handle the site-specific data and to evaluate the landfill performance, respectively. Results indicate that the landfills having the same design characteristics show different performance under different site conditions; therefore, a landfill design that is technically and economically feasible should be selected on the basis of performance.