Evaluation of environmental parameters in logistic regression models for landslide susceptibility mapping

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine how well the landslide susceptibility parameters, obtained by data-dependent statistical models, matched with the parameters used in the literature. In order to achieve this goal, 20 different environmental parameters were mapped in a well-studied landslide-prone area, the Asarsuyu catchment in northwest Turkey. A total of 4400 seed cells were generated from 47 different landslides and merged with different attributes of 20 different environmental causative variables into a database. In order to run a series of logistic regression models, different random landslide-free sample sets were produced and combined with seed cells. Different susceptibility maps were created with an average success rate of nearly 80%. The coherence among the models showed spatial correlations greater than 90%. Models converged in the parameter selection peculiarly, in that the same nine of 20 were chosen by different logistic regression models. Among these nine parameters, lithology, geological structure (distance/density), landcover-landuse, and slope angle were common parameters selected by both the regression models and literature. Accuracy assessment of the logistic models was assessed by absolute methods. All models were field checked with the landslides resulting from the 12 November 1999, Kayna?li Earthquake (Ms = 7.2).     

Optimizing artificial neural network-based indoor positioning system using genetic algorithm

Abstract

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is expected to play an integral role in the development of digital earth; however, the GPS cannot provide positioning information in regions where a majority of the population spends their time, that is, in urban and indoor environments. Hence, alternate positioning systems that work in indoor and urban environments should be developed to achieve the vision of digital earth. Wi-Fi-based positioning systems (WPS) stand out because of the near-ubiquitous presence of the associated infrastructure and signals in indoor environments. The WPS-based fingerprinting is the most widely adopted technique for position determination, but its accuracy is lower than that of techniques such as time of arrival and angle of arrival. Improving the accuracy is still a challenging task because of the complex nature of the propagation of Wi-Fi signals. Here, a novel server-based, genetic-algorithm-optimized, cascading artificial neural network-based positioning model is presented. The model is tested in 2D and 3D indoor environments under varying conditions. The model is thoroughly investigated on a real Wi-Fi network, and its accuracy is found to be better than that of other well-known techniques. A mean accuracy of 1.9 m is achieved with 87% of the distance error within the range of 0–3 m.     

自主导航星上快速星历拟合算法研究

针对北斗卫星导航系统地面监测站布设范围有限,系统抗打击能力不足等问题,我国已计划实现卫星自主导航。通过地面演示验证发现,星上自主定轨与时间同步软件同星上广播星历拟合软件耗费同等的机时。该文的研究目标为在保证精度的前提下,降低星上自主星历拟合的计算量。通过试验分析表明,采用直接降低星历参数个数的方法,会损失精度,效果不佳。利用自主导航自身特点,以长期预报星历为基础,通过参数固定,可在保证精度的基础上使矩阵求逆运算量降低近6倍。以长期预报星历为初值,可有效降低迭代次数,使计算量下降近5倍。     

GNSS three carrier ambiguity resolution using ionosphere-reduced virtual signals

This paper presents a general modeling strategy for ambiguity resolution (AR) and position estimation (PE) using three or more phase-based ranging signals from a global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The proposed strategy will identify three best “virtual” signals to allow for more reliable AR under certain observational conditions characterized by ionospheric and tropospheric delay variability, level of phase noise and orbit accuracy. The selected virtual signals suffer from minimal or relatively low ionospheric effects, and thus are known as ionosphere-reduced virtual signals. As a result, the ionospheric parameters in the geometry-based observational models can be eliminated for long baselines, typically those of length tens to hundreds of kilometres. The proposed modeling comprises three major steps. Step 1 is the geometry-free determination of the extra-widelane (EWL) formed between the two closest L-band carrier measurements, directly from the two corresponding code measurements. Step 2 forms the second EWL signal and resolves the integer ambiguity with a geometry-based estimator alone or together with the first EWL. This is followed by a procedure to correct for the first-order ionospheric delay using the two ambiguity-fixed widelane (WL) signals derived from the integer-fixed EWL signals. Step 3 finds an independent narrow-lane (NL) signal, which is used together with a refined WL to resolve NL ambiguity with geometry-based integer estimation and search algorithms. As a result, the above two AR processes performed with WL/NL and EWL/WL signals respectively, either in sequence or in parallel, can support real time kinematic (RTK) positioning over baselines of tens to hundreds of kilometres, thus enabling centimetre-to-decimentre positioning at the local, regional and even global scales in the future.     

Cross-scale analysis of cluster correspondence using different operational neighborhoods

Cluster correspondence analysis examines the spatial autocorrelation of multi-location events at the local scale. This paper argues that patterns of cluster correspondence are highly sensitive to the definition of operational neighborhoods that form the spatial units of analysis. A subset of multi-location events is examined for cluster correspondence if they are associated with the same operational neighborhood. This paper discusses the construction of operational neighborhoods for cluster correspondence analysis based on the spatial properties of the underlying zoning system and the scales at which the zones are aggregated into neighborhoods. Impacts of this construction on the degree of cluster correspondence are also analyzed. Empirical analyses of cluster correspondence between paired vehicle theft and recovery locations are conducted on different zoning methods and across a series of geographic scales and the dynamics of cluster correspondence patterns are discussed.      

Modeling errors in upward continuation for INS gravity compensation

Accurate upward continuation of gravity anomalies supports future precision, free-inertial navigation systems, since the latter cannot by themselves sense the gravitational field and thus require appropriate gravity compensation. This compensation is in the form of horizontal gravity components. An analysis of the model errors in upward continuation using derivatives of the standard Pizzetti integral solution (spherical approximation) shows that discretization of the data and truncation of the integral are the major sources of error in the predicted horizontal components of the gravity disturbance. The irregular shape of the data boundary, even the relatively rough topography of a simulated mountainous region, has only secondary effect, except when the data resolution is very high (small discretization error). Other errors due to spherical approximation are even less important. The analysis excluded all measurement errors in the gravity anomaly data in order to quantify just the model errors. Based on a consistent gravity field/topographic surface simulation, upward continuation errors in the derivatives of the Pizzetti integral to mean altitudes of about 3,000 and 1,500 m above the mean surface ranged from less than 1 mGal (standard deviation) to less than 2 mGal (standard deviation), respectively, in the case of 2 arcmin data resolution. Least-squares collocation performs better than this, but may require significantly greater computational resources.     

X射线脉冲星导航中脉冲轮廓的频偏和时延算法

观测轮廓与标准轮廓的频率偏差和时间延迟是X射线脉冲星导航的两个观测量,讨论其计算方法并提出如下改进意见:①对探测器的最小分辨时间作进一步的时间细分,在每一个小的时间间隔内接收的光子数可以假设满足二项分布,再对观测轮廓叠加可以求得更高精度的频偏;②将实际观测轮廓分为理想轮廓及其偏差两部分,而TOA是指理想轮廓与标准轮廓的时延,Sala等人提出的用相关函数求TOA方法仅对理想轮廓成立;③如果实际轮廓在测量过程中形状不变,则偏差产生的TOA估计误差为一常数。在此基础上提出实际观测轮廓的TOA估计方法,其计算精度小于探测器的最小分辨率。     

UKF在基于地磁场的自主导航中的应用

本文研究了基于地磁场的自王导航,建立了以卫星轨道动力学方程为基础的系统状态方程,并详细推导了以地磁场矢量为观测量时的观测方程;为了解决系统的非线性问题把常用来解决非线性问题的UKF引入到基于地磁场的自主导航系统中;最后,用Matlab对基于地磁场的自主导航系统进行了仿真,仿真结果表明UKF有很好的收敛性和稳定性.     

导航卫星自主定轨中系统误差△Ω和△t的消除方法

为了消除利用星间距离或速度观测值进行自主定轨时可能存在的卫星星座整体旋转和卫星钟差整体漂移的误差，提出利用单点定位的方法来研究并消除上述两项误差。当导航卫星整体旋转△Ω角时，单点定位所求得的测站经度也会偏移△Ω角，据此就能用具有精确地面坐标的控制点来测定△Ω角。当各卫星钟中均舍有系统误差△t时，利用单点定位所求得的接收机钟差中也会出现同样的误差，通过与标准时间比对就能测定△t值。算倒结果表明，该方法是有效的，可行的。     

新工科理念下的实验课程教学改革与实践探索

近年来为适应创新人才的培养,"卓越计划"开启了全新教学模式。基于新工科理念,为了更好地进行实验课程教学,以"3ds Max软件三维建模"为例,笔者从课程内容安排、教学方式、考核机制等方面进行了教学探索和实践。本文以应用软件实验类课程项目教学的实践经验为基础,注重学生团队合作和交流能力、实践能力、创新能力培养,以及多渠道快速学习新事物的能力,通过与测绘新技术下多软件融合,使学生拥有知识整合能力,为提高实践教学提供参考和借鉴,以更好地适应新工科理念下的创新人才培养。