Gross Error Compensation for Gravity Field Analysis Based on Kinematic Orbit Data

This paper aims at a comparative study of several measures to compensate for gross errors in kinematic orbit data. It starts with a simulation study on the influence of a single outlier in the orbit data on the gravity field solution. It is shown that even a single outlier can degrade the resulting gravity field solution considerably. To compensate for outliers, two different strategies are investigated: wavelet filters, which detect and eliminate gross errors, and robust estimators, which due to an iterative downweighting gradually ignore those observations that lead to large residuals. Both methods are applied in the scope of the analysis of a 2-year kinematic CHAMP (challenging minisatellite payload) orbit data set. In various real data studies, robust estimators outperform wavelet filters in terms of resolution of the derived gravity field solution. This superior performance is at the cost of computational load, as robust estimators are implemented iteratively and require the solution of large sets of linear equations several times.     

Comparing DGPS corrections prediction using neural network, fuzzy neural network, and Kalman filter

Position information obtained from standard global positioning system (GPS) receivers has time variant errors. For effective use of GPS information in a navigation system, it is essential to model these errors. A new approach is presented for improving positioning accuracy using neural network (NN), fuzzy neural network (FNN), and Kalman filter (KF). These methods predict the position components’ errors that are used as differential GPS (DGPS) corrections in real-time positioning. Method validity is verified with experimental data from an actual data collection, before and after selective availability (SA) error. The result is a highly effective estimation technique for accurate positioning, so that positioning accuracy is drastically improved to less than 0.40 m, independent of SA error. The experimental test results with real data emphasize that the total performance of NN is better than FNN and KF considering the trade-off between accuracy and speed for DGPS corrections prediction.     

基于小波包分析的地震资料联合去噪方法研究

在地震记录中,随机噪声严重影响了有效信号的提取,为此必须进行消噪处理。这里首先使用小波包变换对不同频段的信号进行精细分离,有效信号和噪声经小波包分解后,其小波包系数将表现出不同特性,然后根据这种不同特性进行去噪处理,对小波包分析法处理后的剩余地震信号再进行KL(Karhunen-Loeve)变换,提取相关有效信号,最后对提取的有效信号进行中值滤波处理,进一步去除剩余噪声。经合成地震剖面和实际地震剖面处理实验证明,小波包分析、KL变换和中值滤波联合去噪方法,能有效地消除较强的随机噪声,提高地震剖面信噪比和分辨率。     

承压含水层非完整反滤回灌井的稳定流计算

反滤回灌井是地下水库中一种有效的回灌设施,它由回灌井和井口反滤层组成。非完整反滤回灌井井流运动由砂反滤层的竖向流和非完整回灌井井流组合而成。文中提出了承压含水层非完整反滤回灌井稳定流的计算方法,分析了反滤层、井损和回灌堵塞等因素对回灌量的影响,并结合实例证明了反滤回灌井回灌量大大低于普通回灌井的回灌量。     

Geography of asbestos contamination near the World Trade Center site

Despite the dust cleanup and indoor air testing program led by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and offered to all residents of Lower Manhattan (south of Canal Street), concern remains about local chemical residues from the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings. Data on post-cleanup indoor airborne asbestos concentration, available from EPA Region 2, were analyzed to assess the possibility that the WTC site is the source of geographically concentrated rare post-cleanup exceedances of the health-based standard for asbestos. Recognizing that these rare exceedances may be attributable to sources other than the WTC disaster, and that these sources are very likely to exhibit geographic patterns, the data were analyzed using a spatial filter specification of the auto-Poisson probability model. Our analysis shows that ignoring geographic patterns latent in these exceedances affects the empirical probability of exceeding the health-based standards for airborne asbestos. We did not find any statistically-significant geographic pattern in the exceedance events that would indicate the WTC site as the source of the post-cleanup exceedances. Apparent geographic patterns may be due to the geographic variability in sampling intensity. Our analysis indicates the Residential Dust Cleanup Program lead by EPA Region 2 has been effective at reducing the concentration of air-borne asbestos in indoor air to below the health-based benchmark.     

数字滤波器在高台地震台地震记录日常分析中的应用

简要介绍了滤波器的一般原理与Butterworth低通滤波器、高通滤波器和带通滤波器在高台地震台日常工作中的应用。     

Fast ensemble smoothing

Smoothing is essential to many oceanographic, meteorological, and hydrological applications. There are two predominant classes of smoothing problems. The first is fixed-interval smoothing, where the objective is to estimate model states within a time interval using all available observations in the interval. The second is fixed-lag smoothing, where the objective is to sequentially estimate model states over a fixed or indefinitely growing interval by restricting the influence of observations within a fixed window of time ahead of the evolving estimation time. In this paper, we use an ensemble-based approach to fixed-interval and fixed-lag smoothing, and synthesize two algorithms. The first algorithm is a fixed-interval smoother whose computation time is linear in the interval. The second algorithm is a fixed-lag smoother whose computation time is independent of the lag length. The complexity of these algorithms is presented, shown to improve upon existing implementations and verified with identical-twin experiments conducted with the Lorenz-95 system. Results suggest that ensemble methods yield efficient fixed-interval and fixed-lag smoothing solutions in the sense that the additional increment for smoothing is a small fraction of either filtering or model propagation costs in a practical ensemble application. We also show that fixed-interval smoothing can perform as fast as fixed-lag smoothing, and it may not be necessary to use a fixed-lag approximation for computational savings alone.     

岩土力学参数空间变异性的集合卡尔曼滤波佶值

岩土参数具有结构性和随机性的空间变异特征，该特征导致岩土参数具有不确定性。以地质统计学作为岩土参数空间变异性分析的理论基础，将分布于研究区的岩土参数视为区域化变量，变异函数既描述了岩土参数整体的空间结构性变化，又描述了其局部的随机性变化，用变异函数理论模型作为描述岩土参数空间变异规律的数学模型。引入集合卡尔曼滤波（EnKF）分析方法，利用时空分布的观测数据，对岩土参数空间变异性进行估值。数值算例表明，EnKF能够有效地融合观测数据，较好地提供岩土参数空间变异性的估值。     

有色噪声作用下的抗差卡尔曼滤波

根据用GPS载波相位三差观测量进行动态定位或精密导航的需求,推导了动态噪声、观测噪声为有色噪声的抗差卡尔曼滤波公式。白噪声的抗差卡尔曼滤波是有色噪声的抗差卡尔曼滤波的特例,有色噪声的抗差卡尔曼滤波为白噪声的抗差卡尔曼滤波的推广。     

GPS结构振动监测数据滤波方法及其性能实验研究

使用GPS监测结构振动的目的在于提取振动信号特征,但GPS观测量受多种误差源的影响,因此,选用合理的数据处理方法有效地分离各误差项,对于提高GPS的监测精度具有重要意义。将Vondrak滤波、小波滤波、自适应FIR滤波和卡尔曼滤波等四种方法应用于资料序列中振动信号的分离,通过对模拟振动实验观测资料的分析表明:运用滤波法可提高GPS测量微小动态变形和变频振动信号的检测能力;4种滤波法均能有效地提高GPS监测结构振动的精度,其中,Vondrak滤波和小波滤波的性能相当,且优于自适应FIR和卡尔曼滤波。同时,在对各滤波法参数选择的优缺点进行分析的基础上,提出不同情况下选择滤波器的建议。