Mitigating systematic error in topographic models derived from UAV and ground‐based image networks

High resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) are increasingly produced from photographs acquired with consumer cameras, both from the ground and from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, although such DEMs may achieve centimetric detail, they can also display systematic broad‐scale error that restricts their wider use. Such errors which, in typical UAV data are expressed as a vertical ‘doming’ of the surface, result from a combination of near‐parallel imaging directions and inaccurate correction of radial lens distortion. Using simulations of multi‐image networks with near‐parallel viewing directions, we show that enabling camera self‐calibration as part of the bundle adjustment process inherently leads to erroneous radial distortion estimates and associated DEM error. This effect is relevant whether a traditional photogrammetric or newer structure‐from‐motion (SfM) approach is used, but errors are expected to be more pronounced in SfM‐based DEMs, for which use of control and check point measurements are typically more limited. Systematic DEM error can be significantly reduced by the additional capture and inclusion of oblique images in the image network; we provide practical flight plan solutions for fixed wing or rotor‐based UAVs that, in the absence of control points, can reduce DEM error by up to two orders of magnitude. The magnitude of doming error shows a linear relationship with radial distortion and we show how characterization of this relationship allows an improved distortion estimate and, hence, existing datasets to be optimally reprocessed. Although focussed on UAV surveying, our results are also relevant to ground‐based image capture. © 2014 The Authors. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.     

中国分散元素富集与成矿研究新进展

本文重申了对分散元素种类的界定,将Cd、Ga、In、Tl、Ge、Se、Te和Re 8种元素作为分散元素既兼顾了传统习惯,也考虑到了地球化学性质的异同,同时也考虑了地质事实.近十年来,分散元素大规模的工业利用引发了对分散元素资源的进一步研究,新的研究成果主要包括：①分散元素可以成矿,可以形成独立和共生矿床,可以形成大型甚至超大型矿床,甚至可以形成分散元素矿集区或成矿域,这一新的进展打破了分散元素不能独立成矿的传统观念.在中国已经发现了许多分散元素独立矿床;②分散元素的富集成矿具有矿床类型和矿物类型的专属性,这意味着注意特定的矿床类型,会使找到相应的分散元素矿床的可能性增加;③发现和明确了分散元素的三种主要存在形式即独立矿物、类质同象和吸附,首次在国内矿床中发现了一系列分散元素矿物和新矿物;④Se、Tl、Cd的释放对环境的危害最主要的方式是通过污染饮用水进而影响到人类健康,其它分散元素对环境的作用目前还不十分清楚.     

抚顺西露天矿北帮变形有限元分析

本文应用有限单元法对抚顺西露天矿北帮边坡及地表变形进行分析.确定了在地下开采当时、露天开采当时及不同充填类型地下采场当构造地应力降低时边坡及地表的变形特征.给出了不同情况下的位移场、应力场及塑性区的分布.并对不同情况下的变形、应力分布及塑性区特征进行了对比研究.     

二维非均匀饱和土体的地震反应分析

将饱和土体视为由弹性骨架和不可压缩流体组成的两相孔隙介质,取固相位移,液相位移,孔隙水压力为场变量。从两相孔介质的动力耦合微分方程出发,利用伽辽金原理和Ｗｉｌｓｏｎ－θ法导出了三场有限元积分方法,该方法可进行二维非均匀饱和土体的地震反应分析,文中通过算例讨论了非均匀饱和土体地震反应的一些特征。     

Long‐term streamflow trends in Hawai'i and implications for native stream fauna

Climate change has fundamentally altered the water cycle in tropical islands, which is a critical driver of freshwater ecosystems. To examine how changes in streamflow regime have impacted habitat quality for native migratory aquatic species, we present a 50‐year (1967–2016) analysis of hydrologic records in 23 unregulated streams across the five largest Hawaiian Islands. For each stream, flow was separated into direct run‐off and baseflow and high‐ and low‐flow statistics (i.e., Q10 and Q90) with ecologically important hydrologic indices (e.g., frequency of flooding and low flow duration) derived. Using Mann–Kendall tests with a running trend analysis, we determined the persistence of streamflow trends through time. We analysed native stream fauna from ~400 sites, sampled from 1992 to 2007, to assess species richness among islands and streams. Declines in streamflow metrics indicated a general drying across the islands. In particular, significant declines in low flow conditions (baseflows), were experienced in 57% of streams, compared with a significant decline in storm flow conditions for 22% of streams. The running trend analysis indicated that many of the significant downward trends were not persistent through time but were only significant if recent decades (1987–2016) were included, with an average decline in baseflow and run‐off of 10.90% and 8.28% per decade, respectively. Streams that supported higher native species diversity were associated with moderate discharge and baseflow index, short duration of low flows, and negligible downward trends in flow. A significant decline in dry season flows (May–October) has led to an increase in the number of no‐flow days in drier areas, indicating that more streams may become intermittent, which has important implications for mauka to makai (mountain to ocean) hydrological connectivity and management of Hawai'i's native migratory freshwater fauna.     

On reproducing uniform flow exactly on general hexahedral cells using one degree of freedom per surface

The solution of second order elliptic partial differential equations typically arising for flow problems, e.g., in porous media, is frequently expressed as face fluxes of a flow field at hexahedral cells. In this letter, we show by example that the following properties are incompatible: (1) A local velocity reconstruction, (2) reproduction of uniform flow for general hexahedral cells, and (3) a flow field in H(div). This is in particular relevant to mixed finite element methods approximating H(div), and to other methods trying to reconstruct a flow field in a hexahedron using only local face fluxes, e.g., streamline tracing methods for reservoir simulation.     

新疆阿克苏地区早寒武世碳酸盐岩沉积环境:微量元素和碳同位素证据

对出露于塔里木盆地北缘阿克苏地区寒武系纽芬兰统玉尔吐斯组上部和寒武系第二统肖尔布拉克组下部海相沉积碳酸盐岩进行了氧化-还原敏感元素(Mo、V、Cd和U)及稳定C、O同位素的地球化学剖面研究,以探讨早寒武世沉积碳酸盐岩的沉积环境.研究揭示,尤尔美那克剖面肖尔布拉克组底部和下部含有两个δ13C负异常,谷值分别为-2.1‰和...     

常规定量CT鉴别尿路结石成分的研究

目的：探讨螺旋CT各参数鉴别尿路结石成分的价值。方法：收集2016年5月至2018年3月我院112例尿路结石患者的术前CT图像资料,测量尿路结石直径（d）、平均CT值（HUm）及CT值标准差（HUsd）,并计算平均CT值/直径的比值（HUd）,再以术后红外线光谱结果为参照标准,比较各类结石成分d、HUm、HUsd及HUd的差异,并运用受试者工作特征曲线（ROC曲线）评价其鉴别结石成分的效能。结果：尿酸结石21例、一水草酸钙结石49例、碳酸磷灰石10例和混合结石27例,尿酸结石的HUm、HUsd及HUd值均明显低于其他类型结石;尿酸结石与非尿酸结石（一水草酸钙结石、碳酸磷灰石、混合结石）之间的HUm、HUsd及HUd值差异均有统计学意义（P<0.05）;非尿酸结石之间的HUm、HUsd及HUd值差异均无统计学意义（P>0.05）;各类结石的d值差异均无统计学意义（P>0.05）;d、HUm、HUsd及HUd鉴别尿酸结石的ROC曲线下面积（AUC）为0.444、0.915、0.972及0.858。结论：螺旋CT的HUm、HUsd及HUd值均能鉴别尿酸结石和非尿酸结石,其中以HUsd的鉴别效能最佳,但不能区分各类型非尿酸结石。     

Simultaneous Determination of Fluorine,Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine in Six Geochemical Reference Materials Using Pyrohydrolysis,Ion Chromatography and Inductively Coupled Plasma‐Mass Spectrometry

Concentrations of halogens (fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine) were determined in six geochemical reference materials (BHVO‐2, GS‐N, JG‐1, JR‐1, JB‐1b, JB‐2). Halogens were first extracted from powdered samples using a pyrohydrolysis technique, then hydrolysis solutions were analysed by ion chromatography for F and Cl and inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry for Br and I. The detection limits in solutions were 100 μg l^?1 for both F and Cl and 10 ng l^?1 for Br and I. Considering the extraction procedure, performed on a maximum of 500 mg of sample and producing 100 ml of pyrohydrolysis solution, detection limits in rock samples were 20 mg kg^?1 for F and Cl and 2 μg kg^?1 for Br and I. The mean analytical errors on the studied composition ranges were estimated at 10 mg kg^?1 for F and Cl, 100 μg kg^?1 for Br and 25 μg kg^?1 for I. The concentration values, based on repeated (generally > 10) sample analysis, were in good agreement generally with published values and narrowed the mean dispersion around mean values. Large dispersions are discussed in terms of samples heterogeneity and contaminations during sample preparation. Basaltic RMs were found to be more suitable for studies of halogen compositions than differentiated rock material, especially granites – the powders of which were heterogeneous in halogens at the 500 mg level.     

Modelling surface runoff to evaluate the effects of wildfires in multiple semi‐arid,shrubland‐dominated catchments

Wildfires change the infiltration properties of soil, reduce the amount of interception and result in increased runoff. A wildfire at Northeast Attica, Central Greece, in August 2009, destroyed approximately one third of a study area consisting of a mixture of shrublands, pastures and pines. The present study simultaneously models multiple semi‐arid, shrubland‐dominated Mediterranean catchments and assesses the hydrological response (mean annual and monthly runoff and runoff coefficients) during the first few years following wildfires. A physically based, hydrological model (MIKE SHE) was chosen. Calibration and validation results of mean monthly discharge presented very good agreement with the observed data for the pre‐wildfire and post‐wildfire period for two subcatchments (Nash–Sutcliffe Efficiency coefficient of 79.7%). The model was then used to assess the pre‐wildfire and post‐wildfire runoff responses for each of seven catchments in the study area. Mean annual surface runoff increased for the first year and after the second year following the wildfires increased by 112% and 166%, respectively. These values are within the range observed in similar cases of monitored sites. This modelling approach may provide a way of prioritizing catchment selection with respect to post‐fire remediation activities. Additionally, this modelling assessment methodology would be valuable to other semi‐arid areas because it provides an important means for comprehensively assessing post‐wildfire response over large regions and therefore attempts to address some of the scaled issues in the specific literature field of research. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.