Monitoring ship noise to assess the impact of coastal developments on marine mammals

The potential impacts of underwater noise on marine mammals are widely recognised, but uncertainty over variability in baseline noise levels often constrains efforts to manage these impacts. This paper characterises natural and anthropogenic contributors to underwater noise at two sites in the Moray Firth Special Area of Conservation, an important marine mammal habitat that may be exposed to increased shipping activity from proposed offshore energy developments. We aimed to establish a pre-development baseline, and to develop ship noise monitoring methods using Automatic Identification System (AIS) and time-lapse video to record trends in noise levels and shipping activity. Our results detail the noise levels currently experienced by a locally protected bottlenose dolphin population, explore the relationship between broadband sound exposure levels and the indicators proposed in response to the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive, and provide a ship noise assessment toolkit which can be applied in other coastal marine environments.     

Strong motion displacement waveforms using 10‐Hz precise point positioning GPS: an assessment based on free oscillation experiments

The recently developed precise point positioning (PPP) technique permits to compute instantaneous coordinates of a GPS station relatively to distant reference stations and waveforms of ground displacements during strong motions at the 1 Hz level. This is another application of GPS, different from the computation of static coseismic movements or of accurate monitoring of dynamic displacements of structures using a static receiver and a nearby moving receiver (DGPS). Recently, earthquake ground displacement waveforms using 10‐Hz GPS data have also been calculated, but no independent evidence to assess their quality exists. To overcome this problem, we evaluated the output of 10‐Hz PPP results on the basis of supervised learning experiments. Semistatic and dynamic displacements (damped harmonic oscillations) of known characteristics of the order of a few centimeter were produced and were recorded by GPS, an accelerometer, and a robotic total station. Time series of instantaneous displacements were analyzed using different PPP techniques and were compared with reference (true) values derived from DGPS and the other sensors. Our analysis revealed that the PPP‐derived coordinates are contaminated by long‐period noise but they can display the details of semistatic displacements, while their short‐period component describes well the pattern of waveforms and spectra (at least up to 4 Hz) of dynamic displacements, with up to 20 mm accuracy for isolated points. These results indicate that 10‐Hz PPP‐GPS is useful for earthquake engineering and can safely be used to reconstruct waveforms of deflections of the ground and of various points on structures during strong motions. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

用尾波干涉法监测介质波速变化研究进展

多次散射形成的尾波由于在介质内部重复采样、迭加和放大的作用,对介质的微小变化十分敏感。尾波干涉法利用尾波的这一特点检测介质的微小变化。近年来利用尾波干涉法高精度检测介质波速变化已经广泛应用到地震学领域和材料无损检测中。本文从尾波干涉法的原理和方法及研究进展两方面进行介绍,着重介绍了重复地震、噪声和人工源在研究介质速度变化中取得的成果。利用尾波干涉法,可以更精细地了解介质动态演化过程。     

基于核主成分分析的时间域航空电磁去噪方法

时间域航空电磁数据往往在测量过程中受到天然和人文噪声的干扰.如果不能很好滤除这些电磁噪声,那么将会降低资料质量、影响反演的精度,甚至获得错误的解释结果.本文提出了一种基于核主成分分析的去噪方法,通过核主成分分析提取叠加后衰减曲线的主成分,然后使用能量占比方法分离反映地下介质的有效信号和噪声,最后使用反映地下介质的特定成分进行重构.本文所推荐的去噪方法不仅能剔除天然噪声,例如天电产生的尖脉冲或者振荡,而且能有效地抑制人文噪声.分别使用基于核主成分分析的去噪方法,以及AeroTEM软件的处理方法对同样的吊舱式时间域直升机航空电磁勘查系统实测数据进行处理,并比较其结果.处理结果表明：所推荐的去噪方法要优于AeroTEM软件.     

偶极声源在裸眼井及套管井外的横波辐射特征

偶极横波远探测技术作为近年来发展起来的一门地球物理测井技术,一个重要应用前景就是在裸眼井和套管井测井时寻找井外地层中的油气构造.本文从井中偶极声场积分表达式的远场渐近解出发,对裸眼井及套管井中偶极声源的辐射场进行了对比分析,首次得到了偶极声源在不同声源频率和不同地层类型下的辐射特征.并深入研究了套管井中偶极声源的SH横波远场辐射特性,给出了不同耦合情况下的SH横波远场辐射特性的变化规律,对比了套前套后SH横波远场辐射的异同.结果表明：井中偶极声源的远场辐射特性受声源频率和地层类型影响较大;在套管井中,偶极声源辐射到地层中的横波能量也可以进行远探测,尽管与裸眼井情况相比,辐射能量会有所降低.本文的结果为偶极横波远探测技术的应用提供了理论支持.     

多震源地震数据偏移成像方法

多震源地震技术是一种高效的地震数据采集方法技术,得到的地震记录是来自多个震源的混合地震数据.本文在多震源波场传播理论和地震波场满足线性叠加原理的基础上,提出了两种多震源地震数据的偏移成像方法.第一种方法是首先对多震源地震数据进行分离,得到各个单震源的地震数据,然后再利用常规的偏移成像方法进行处理;第二种方法是多震源地震数据的直接偏移成像.把本文提出的多震源偏移成像方法应用于数值模拟的多震源地震数据,验证了本文方法的正确性和有效性,直接偏移成像方法较分离后再偏移方法具有更高的计算效率.     

包头数字地震遥测台网子台选址研究

阐述包头数字地震遥测台网空间布局、子台台址的选取原则和台基地质条件,对选取的子台进行背景噪声测试,对拟建台网的地震监控能力和合理性进行评估,为包头数字地震遥测台网建设提供科学、经济的规划方案,以期对国内其他地区地震遥测台网建设、改扩建提供参考。     

嘉峪关地震台地震定位方位偏差研究

对嘉峪关地震台记录的500个地震逐一分析定位,将本台和中国地震台网中心的定位结果对比,统计平均偏差率。详细计算本台及3个子台的四象限定位结果偏差率,对发生方位偏差的震中位置进行归类研究,寻找规律。研究发现,远震定位结果受台基噪声影响大,近震定位结果受地质构造中断层影响大。应用方位角法定位地震可以最大限度地增加定位准确度,近地震速报时注意肃南区域方位异常的偏差角度,可提供较为准确的地震参数。     

睾丸精原细胞瘤的CT和MRI表现

目的：探讨睾丸精原细胞瘤的CT、MRI特点,以提高对本病的认识。方法：回顾性分析有完整CT或MRI平扫及增强资料、经手术及病理证实的13例睾丸精原细胞瘤的影像表现。3例患者行CT检查,10例行MRI检查。结果：13例中有3例为未降睾丸并发精原细胞瘤。睾丸精原细胞瘤CT主要表现为中等均匀密度,增强扫描轻度到中度强化;MRI主要表现为结节状,信号较均匀,T2WI呈稍低信号,可见低信号线状纤维血管分隔,增强时分隔强化,肿瘤实质轻度强化。未降睾丸并精原细胞瘤位于正常睾丸下降路径,可发生于腹膜后、盆腔等部位,病灶体积较大,密度或信号不均,增强扫描明显强化。结论：睾丸精原细胞瘤的CT、MRI表现具有一定的特征性,具有较高的诊断和鉴别价值。     

磁共振弥散加权成像在直肠癌淋巴结转移评估中的价值综述

随着生活水平的提高,直肠癌在我国的发病率明显提高[1],随之而来的是对诊疗水平要求的提升。据国内外多项研究表明,直肠癌患者是否伴淋巴结转移,是否进行术前辅助放化疗、手术方式及范围的选择,是否进行术后放疗,局部复发率以及远端转移率等密切相关,是一项重要的影响预后的因素[2]。而常规的成像方式对淋巴结状态的评估差强人意[3]。目前磁共振成像在直肠癌的淋巴结状态判断方面日益受到重视。本文就其在直肠癌淋巴结转移中应用及展望进行综述。