Handbook of applied spatial analysis: software tools,methods and applications,edited by M.M. Fischer and A. Getis

With the rising oil prices, climate change, and the ever increasing burden of nutrition-related disease, food security is of growing research interest in academic disciplines spanning agronomy to epidemiology to urban planning. Some governments have developed progressive policies encouraging individuals to consume locally produced foods in order to support local economies, improve agricultural sustainability and community access to food, and to plan and prepare for adverse environmental impacts on food security. However, fundamental methods are lacking for conducting research on food security across these various disciplines. In this article, we first present a method to measure agricultural self-sufficiency, which we refer to as our self-sufficiency index (SSI) for the province of British Columbia, Canada. We then present a Bayesian autoregressive framework utilizing readily available agricultural data to develop predictive smoothing models for the SSI. We find that regional capital investment in agriculture and cropland acreage is the strong predictor of SSI. To accommodate spatial variability, we compare linear regression models with spatially correlated errors to less traditional spatially varying coefficient models, and find that the former class results in better model fit. The smoothed maps suggest that relatively strong self-sufficiency exists only in subset clusters in the Okanagan, Peace River, and lower mainland regions. In spite of policy to promote local food, the existing local agricultural system is insufficient to support a large-scale shift to local diets. Our approach to estimating neighborhood-based self-sufficiency with a predictive model can be extended for use in other regions where limited data are available to directly assess local agriculture and benefit from explicit consideration of spatial structure in the local food system.     

Time-series analysis of monthly rainfall data for the Mahanadi River Basin, India

Time series analysis has two goals, modeling random mechanisms and predicting future series using historical data. In the present work, a uni-variate time series autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model has been developed for (a) simulating and forecasting mean rainfall, obtained using Theissen weights; over the Mahanadi River Basin in India, and (b) simulating and forecasting mean rainfall at 38 rain-gauge stations in district towns across the basin. For the analysis, monthly rainfall data of each district town for the years 1901-2002 (102 years) were used. Theissen weights were obtained over the basin and mean monthly rainfall was estimated. The trend and seasonality observed in ACF and PACF plots of rainfall data were removed using power transformation (α=0.5) and first order seasonal differencing prior to the development of the ARIMA model. Interestingly, the ARIMA model (1,0,0)(0,1,1) 12 developed here was found to be most suitable for simulating and forecasting mean rainfall over the Mahanadi River Basin and for all 38 district town rain-gauge stations, separately. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), goodness of fit (Chi-square), R 2 (coefficient of determination), MSE (mean square error) and MAE (mea absolute error) were used to test the validity and applicability of the developed ARIMA model at different stages. This model is considered appropriate to forecast the monthly rainfall for the upcoming 12 years in each district town to assist decision makers and policy makers establish priorities for water demand, storage, distribution, and disaster management.     

3种指数函数模型的比较与分析

讨论了3种模型（灰色模型、指数函数模型和自回归模型）对具有指数函数特征的时间序列的建模过程,比较与分析了其特点。通过3个数例对3种模型的长期预测结果进行计算与分析,结果表明：3种模型都可以用于具有指数函数特征的序列建模,并可以相互验证。     

Comparison of four updating models for real-time river flow forecasting

Abstract

Four different error-forecast updating models are investigated in terms of their capability of providing real-time river flow forecast accuracy superior to that of rainfall-runoff models applied in the simulation (nonupdating) mode. The first and most widely used is the single autoregressive (AR) model, the second being an elaboration of that model, namely the autoregressive-threshold (AR-TS) updating model. A fuzzy autoregressive-threshold (FU-AR-TS) updating model is proposed as the third form of model, the fourth and final error-forecast updating model applied being the artificial neural network (ANN) model. In the application of these four updating models, the lumped soil moisture accounting and routing (SMAR) conceptual model has been selected to simulate the observed discharge series on 11 selected test catchments. As expected, it is found that all of these four updating models are very successful in improving the flow forecast accuracy, when operating in real-time forecasting mode. A less expected, but nonetheless welcome, result is that the three updating models having the most parameters, i.e. AR-TS, FU-AR-TS, and ANN, do not show any considerable advantages in improving the real-time flow forecast efficiency over that of the simple standard AR model. Thus it is recommended that, in the context of real-time river flow forecasting based on error-forecast updating, modellers should continue to use the AR model.     

Annual streamflow modelling with asymmetric distribution function

Classical autoregressive models (AR) have been used for forecasting streamflow data in spite of restrictive assumptions, such as the normality assumption for innovations. The main reason for making this assumption is the difficulties faced in finding model parameters for non‐normal distribution functions. However, the modified maximum likelihood (MML) procedure used for estimating autoregressive model parameters assumes a non‐normally distributed residual series. The aim in this study is to compare the performance of the AR(1) model with asymmetric innovations with that of the classical autoregressive model for hydrological annual data. The models considered are applied to annual streamflow data obtained from two streamflow gauging stations in K?z?l?rmak Basin, Turkey. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Estimation of semivariograms by the maximum entropy method

A wide variety of semivariograms may be represented in terms of a first- or second-order autoregressive (AR) process, and the nugget effect may be included by use of a moving average (MA) process. The weighting parameters for these models have a simple functional dependence on the value of the sill and the semivariance at the first and second lag. These may be estimated either graphically from the semivariogram or directly from the computed values. Improved spectral estimates of geophysical data have been obtained by the use of the maximum entropy method, and the necessary equations were adapted here for the estimation of the weighting parameters of the AR and the MA processes. Comparison among the semivariograms obtained for the ideal case, the observed case, and the estimated case for artificial series show excellent correspondence between the ideal and estimated while the observed semivariogram may show marked divergence.     

基于Bayes融合法的多源遥感影像分类

提出了顾及各数据源成像模型、上下文关系模型和可靠性的基于Ｂａｙｅｓ融合分类的方法，并采用该方法对ＬａｎｄｓａｔＴＭ和航空ＳＡＲ影像进行土地利用分类试验。结果表明：同单独ＳＡＲ影像分类结果相比，融合分类法将分类精度提高了２０％。     

近期华北地震大形势的统计分析

文章在３－５年较长时间尺度概率估计的前提下，力争对未来较短时期（１－２年）各区，带地震活动趋势进行定量分析，特别着重于地震总活动水平的比较及年量大震级的预测。     

气温和降水时变影响参数的多步预测模型

本文提出了一种气温和降水时变影响参数的多步预测建模新方案。该方案用时间序列均生函数外延矩阵生成的主分量作基函数对序变量建模，同时考虑变量前期数据对后期数据的影响，在模型中引入一个时变影响参数Ｋ１。并用方差分析法求出Ｋ１的显著周期和未来时刻的Ｋ１＋１值，从而建立气温和降水序列的时变影响参数的多步预测模型。该模型用于四川省２０个地、市的气温和降水预报数值试验，其历史拟合率和试报结果与实况值的比较表明，     

中国西部及西部边缘Ms≥7．0级地震关系研究

本文研究了中国西部及西部边缘地区Ｍｓ≥７．０级地震在共同应力场源作用下的活动特点和相互关系，指出了两区地震活动具有可类比性。同时，分析了西部区域地震活动，建立了地震活动的动态规律：门限自回归模型，所得结论对评估西部地区的地震形势具有一定价值的指导意义。