差分GPS水下立体定位系统

差分GPS水下立体定位系统包括GPS差分基准站、GPS浮标、水下收发机、船基控制中心四部分。差分基准站提供GPS差分改正,实现浮标内置GPS高精度实时定位。GPS浮标完成水上和水下的集成,检测水下收发机发射的定位信号并测量信号到达的时间,同时将各种数据发送到船基控制中心。船基控制中心接收各个浮标的数据后实时解算水下收发机的位置,同时将结果发送给水下收发机。本文首先对系统的总体构成和各个部分的功能进行了介绍,然后详细推导了系统定位算法,最后结合系统试验情况给出了系统试验精度统计结果。     

金伯利岩中“熔离小球”的特征及其成因

在金伯利岩人工重砂中发现的“熔离小球”,直径多数<1 mm,除个别出现微晶外,均为非晶质,属于熔体淬火冷却产物。提供了29个小球的主元素分析和3件微量元素分析结果。“熔离小球”按成分可分为3种类型:(1)高铁钛小球;(2)硫铁镍小球;(3)浅色硅铝质小球。其中高铁小球w(FeO)高达99.39%,高钛小球w(TiO2)达45.90%,它们含MnO也偏高,最高达23.75%。Fe、Mn、Ti都属于高负电性元素,在熔体中与氧结合的键强度大,容易发生熔离。硫铁镍小球的w(SO3)变化于38.27%~51.95%,w(FeO)为0.31%~23.10%,w(NiO)为25.24%~61.05%。浅色小球w(SiO2)变化范围为24.01%~52.64%,Al2O3、CaO含量高但变化范围大,总体成分接近基性—超基性硅酸盐熔浆。主元素、微量元素特征以及硫铁镍小球中发现了高镁(Fo=0.95)橄榄石捕虏晶表明,小球形成于金伯利岩岩浆的介质环境。此外高铁及硅铝质两种成分呈交生结构的两相小球的发现,暗示二者为熔离作用成因。小球的熔离作用可以应用SiO2-FeS-FeO的液态不混溶相图做出解释。认为小球形成于岩浆结晶的晚期阶段,相对富含CO2、SO3、FeO、MnO、TiO,在岩浆快速上升、快速降温、降压、熔体中出现了多种局部有序区的条件下发生的。     

基于PPP技术的GPS浮标海啸预警模拟研究

提出了利用精密单点定位（precise point positioning,PPP）技术进行海啸预警的方法,并利用TriP软件对实测浮标数据进行了处理,将得出的海面高数据和海啸波模型叠加进行了模拟分析。仿真结果表明,利用精密单点定位技术进行海啸预警,能够监测判断海啸的发生,并获得海啸波到达海岸的波高和时间,提供一定的预警信息。     

Image Sources for Informal Settlement Management

Informal settlements are a common feature of developing countries. In South Africa the improvement of living conditions in these settlements and the upgrading to formal housing types are regarded as being of central importance to the nation's development. Effective settlement improvement and upgrading activities, which we here term "management", require adequate spatial data. To date, the acquisition of spatial models of informal settlements has been based on conventional mapping techniques, and mostly on photogrammetry. Data are compiled using analogue or analytical methods. These are manual and hence require both considerable expertise and expensive equipment. Moreover, these methods are uneconomical over the often relatively small, densely populated areas covered by informal settlements and are also too expensive to employ with a regularity required to support such tasks as change detection. Alternative imaging sources and mapping techniques are therefore needed.
In this article we examine the problem of spatial information acquisition for informal settlement management from three perspectives: spatial information requirements, the role which imagery can play in satisfying these spatial information requirements, and effective imaging options. We focus on the potential of high resolution satellite imaging, small format digital aerial imagery and digital multispectral video systems for rapid mapping. We also discuss the example of automated shack extraction from aerial imagery.     

滇西地区小地震群特征

根据滇西地区（23°．8－28°N;97°．0－101°．5E）1966年1月－1996年7月89个ML≤4．7的小地震震群资料分别总结出滇西地区H,K,U,η,b,△M参数的判别指标和地区特征。着重讨论了小地震震群与云南及邻区中强震关系,以及综合利用上述参数尝试预报未来中强震。     

浅表地质现象对工程建设的影响及其勘探技术

查明浅表部地层地质条件,对多层及高层建筑均至关重要。针对目前上海地区,在运用小螺纹钻孔进行浅表部工程勘察中存在的一些问题,就其如何合理使用,作了若干方面的探讨。     

Combined use of spot samples and continuous integrated sampling in a study of storm runoff from a lowland catchment in the south of England

We have used two different sampling techniques to study the geochemical response of a small lowland rural catchment to episodic storm runoff. The first method involves traditional daily spot sampling and has been used to develop a standard end‐member mixing analysis (EMMA) of the relative contributions of ground water flow and surface runoff to the total stream flow. The second method utilizes a continuous sampling device, powered by an osmotic pump, to produce an integrated 24‐h sample of the stream flow. When combined with the EMMA results from the spot samples, analyses of the integrated samples reveal the presence of a third component that makes a significant contribution to the dissolved NO₃, Ca and K export from the catchment during the rising limb of the hydrographic profile of a storm event following a prolonged dry period. The storm occurred in the middle of the night, so that the response of the stream chemistry was not captured by the daily samples. We hypothesize that this third component is derived from the flushing of stored soil water that contains the geochemical signature of decaying vegetation. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the motion around the centre of mass of a viscously elastic sphere in the restricted elliptic three-body problem

In the restricted three-body problem we consider the motion of a viscously elastic sphere (planet) with its centre of mass moving in a conditionally-periodic orbit. The approximate equations describing the rotational motion of the sphere in terms of the Andoyer variables are obtained by the method of the separation of motion and averaging; the evolution of the motion is also analysed.     

Comparison of Near Coastal Significant Wave Height Measurements from SARAL/AltiKa with Wave Rider Buoys in the Indian Region

Significant Wave Height (SWH) measurement data from the AltiKa Radar Altimeter (RA) for the first 13 cycles of satellite coverage are compared with the SWH from Wave Rider Buoys (WRB) located at nine stations along the Indian coast to assess the performance of the altimeter over the coastal region. AltiKa SWH observations within a 30-minute interval and 50 km distance from WRBs are found to be over estimated by 6%, the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) is 0.36 m, the Scatter Index (SI) is 26%, and the correlation coefficient (r) is 0.91. Relaxing the distance criteria by 50 km leads to increase in RMSE and deterioration of r to 0.89. There is a marked difference in the statistics on the comparison pairs pooled separately for the buoys near west and east coasts, with the latter showing RMSE error 26% more than the former. The method of Cressman weights adopted to correct for the errors arising out of the temporal and spatial differences in altimeter and buoy data comparison pairs resulted in reduction of RMSE by 5% and 25%, respectively, for the 30-minute and 50 km criteria and 4% and 56% for the 30-minute and 100 km criteria.     

Factors influencing the distribution of coastal lichens Hydropunctaria maura and Wahlenbergiella mucosa

Responses to abiotic and biotic stresses that potentially drive the vertical zonation of the intertidal lichens Hydropunctaria maura, an upper littoral lichen, and Wahlenbergiella mucosa, a lower littoral lichen, were investigated in field and laboratory experiments. When transplanted, both lichens exhibited an inability to survive outside their normal vertical distribution range. W. mucosa appeared to be unable to tolerate prolonged periods of desiccation following translocation from lower to upper littoral regions, whereas H. maura was unable to survive in lower littoral zones possibly owing to increased grazing pressure. The effect of desiccation in both lichens was compared using pulse amplitude modulated chlorophyll fluorescence and infra‐red gas analysis; results indicated a more hydration‐dependent nature of W. mucosa. Photosynthetic (algal) pigments and phenolic compounds were determined in both lichen thalli, and a range of additional coastal lichens occupying a natural gradient from upper to lower shore levels. Pigment composition and concentration in both lichen thalli were similar whereas levels of phenolic compounds were up to three times higher in W. mucosa than H. maura. Pigment and phenolic concentration and composition exhibited some seasonality across 13 different lichens originating from different shore levels. Phenolic concentration increased towards the lower shore, suggesting a potential anti‐herbivory function. This marks the first study of pigments and phenolics in coastal lichen communities, and prompts further investigations on the particular physiological features of marine and maritime lichens that enable them to thrive in this extreme environment.