Deep structures in the Maritime Territory-Sea of Japan continental margin from seismic data

This paper discusses the results of interpreting seismic profiles on the Earth’s crust of the Maritime Territory and Sea of Japan performed during the 20th century by the Sakhalin Integrated Research Institute and by the Schmidt Joint Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences. The seismic profiles confirmed the presence of structural features under the Maritime Territory and the Sea of Japan that were revealed previously from geological data, such as spreading zones, rifts, deep-seated faults, overthrusts, and subduction zones, suggesting an active type of continental margin in the Far East region. We assumed that a high occurrence of the asthenospheric layer enclosing magmatic chambers explains the high activity of tectonic processes in the Far Eastern continental margin. The identified system of rifts and spreading centers supports this assumption.     

The preservation potential of ash layers in the deep‐sea: the example of the 1991‐Pinatubo ash in the South China Sea

Following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo on 15 June 1991, volcanic ash was transported westward to the South China Sea in an atmospheric plume, falling out and settling to the sea floor within days and forming an up to 10 cm thick layer on an area >400 000 km². Immediately after deposition, surviving deep‐burrowing animals re‐opened their connection to the sea floor to obtain water for respiration and/or food take‐up. Later, small‐sized meiofauna and then macrofauna re‐colonized the sea floor, mixing newly deposited organic fluff with the underlying ash. Consequently, ash deposits thinner than 1 mm have not often been observed as a continuous layer when cored six years after the eruption, while ash about 2 mm thick is now patchily bioturbated. In areas covered by ash thicker than 5 mm, mixing by benthic animals is controlled mainly by the adaptation of the burrowing fauna to variations in grain‐size, the rate of background sedimentation, the availability of benthic food on and within the sediment and pore water oxygen levels. With respect to these factors, four provinces can be distinguished: (i) Along the Philippines margin run‐off from land fuels primary production that, in turn, leads to a high benthic food content. The benthic fauna is adapted to a variable grain‐size and rapid sedimentation. Therefore, mixing is intense and the preservation potential of the ash layer is low. (ii) In areas affected by deposition of hyperpycnites and turbidites, i.e. in canyons in front of river mouths and in the Manila Trench, the ash layer is preserved due to rapid burial. (iii) The area to the west to about 116° E receives low amounts of benthic food, benthic mixing is less intense and the preservation potential of the ash is high. (iv) The central South China Sea, where the ash is thinner than 3 cm, is affected by intense wind mixing and upwelling and the benthic food content is high; thus, the chance that the ash will be preserved as a sharp‐based layer is low. Consequently, the style of ash preservation has palaeo‐environmental significance. Older buried and burrowed event layers provide further information to elucidate the fate of the 1991 Pinatubo ash layer; in general their appearance fits with observations in the Recent.     

Long-range aircraft as an Arctic Oceanographic platform

Synoptic basin-wide measurements of Arctic Ocean temperature and salinity are now possible with the recent development of an expendable conductivity, temperature, and depth probe for deployment from aircraft (AXCTD). Both the P-3 Orion aircraft and the C-130 aircraft are capable of long-range, low-altitude flight and are ideal for Arctic research. Expendable profilers can be quickly deployed over vast regions from aircraft and in locations with limited ship access, but have the disadvantage of measuring only the top 1000 m and of being about an order of magnitude less accurate than a CTD cast, primarily because of noisy salinity measurements and depth-fall rate errors. We explore how to conduct an ACXTD measurement program in ice-covered seas and discuss a test of these methods conducted in the Arctic Ocean's Eurasian Basin. Long-range aircraft can significantly augment the present program of Arctic research by performing large-area surveys, continuing time series with repeat measurements, and by helping target locations for more detailed and accurate shipboard measurement.     

IEU-Net高分辨率遥感影像房屋建筑物提取

房屋建筑物作为人类活动的主要场所,快速准确地将其从高分辨率遥感影像中提取出来,对促进遥感信息在防灾减灾、城镇管理等方面的应用具有重要意义。本文基于深度学习,提出了高分辨率遥感影像房屋建筑物像素级精确提取方法。首先,针对样本图像边缘像素特征不足现象,以U-Net模型为基础提出IEU-Net模型,设计了全新的忽略边缘交叉熵函数IELoss并将其作为损失函数,另外添加Dropout和BN层在避免过拟合的同时提高模型训练速度和鲁棒性。其次,为解决模型特征丰富度有限的问题,引入形态学建筑物指数MBI,与遥感影像RGB波段一同参与到模型的分类过程。最后,在模型预测时与IELoss相对应采用忽略边缘预测策略从而获得最佳建筑物提取结果。实验对比分析表明：本文方法能有效克服样本边缘像素特征不足问题并抑制道路、建筑物阴影对结果的影响,提升高分辨率遥感影像中房屋建筑物的提取精度。     

深度学习遥感图像标注系统研究

随着深度学习的发展,遥感影像处理技术也从传统机器学习算法向深度学习转变,然而,用于遥感图像的训练数据集却十分稀少,且数据标注困难。本文将GIS技术与图像标注技术相结合,基于Flask Web框架设计一个可用于海量遥感数据的标注系统。该系统可用于海量遥感数据的数据框标注、数据类别标注,以及目标关键点标注,同时能将标注数据导出为深度学习训练最常用的COCO数据集和VOC2007两种格式。     

Estimating economic losses of midrise reinforced concrete shear wall buildings in sedimentary basins by combining empirical and simulated seismic hazard characterizations

Studies of recorded ground motions and simulations have shown that deep sedimentary basins can greatly increase the intensity of earthquake ground motions within a period range of approximately 1–4 s, but the economic impacts of basin effects are uncertain. This paper estimates key economic indicators of seismic performance, expressed in terms of earthquake‐induced repair costs, using empirical and simulated seismic hazard characterizations that account for the effects of basins. The methodology used is general, but the estimates are made for a series of eight‐ to 24‐story residential reinforced concrete shear wall archetype buildings in Seattle, WA, whose design neglects basin effects. All buildings are designed to comply with code‐minimum requirements (i.e., reference archetypes), as well as a series of design enhancements, which include (a) increasing design forces, (b) decreasing drift limits, and (c) a combination of these strategies. As an additional reference point, a performance‐based design is also assessed. The performance of the archetype buildings is evaluated for the seismic hazard level in Seattle according to the 2018 National Seismic Hazard Model (2018 NSHM), which explicitly considers basin effects. Inclusion of basin effects results in an average threefold increase in annualized losses for all archetypes. Incorporating physics‐based ground motion simulations to represent the large‐magnitude Cascadia subduction interface earthquake contribution to the hazard results in a further increase of 22% relative to the 2018 NSHM. The most effective of the design strategies considered combines a 25% increase in strength with a reduction in drift limits to 1.5%.     

不同跨高比对多层钢框架内填混凝土深梁结构抗震性能影响

为了研究不同跨高比多层钢框架内填混凝土深梁结构的抗震性能,在钢框架内填混凝土深梁滞回性能试验的基础上,利用ABAQUS对六层纯钢框架（结构一）、钢框架内填跨高比为2混凝土深梁结构（结构二）和钢框架内填跨高比为0.75混凝土深梁结构（结构三）进行弹塑性时程分析。结果表明:内填混凝土深梁使结构整体刚度明显增大;在地震波的作用下,结构二的最大顶点位移降低可达58.3%,结构三的最大顶点位移降低可达89.3%,内填混凝土深梁,结构的抗侧移性能得到了极大改善,且随着深梁跨高比的减小而大幅度提升;结构二滞回曲线饱满,呈现纺锤形,混凝土深梁充分起到了第一道防线作用。经济合理的钢框架内填混凝土深梁结构具有一定的工程应用价值。