Models for Support and Information Effects: A Comparative Study

The recoverable reserves in an ore deposit depend on several factors, in particular the size of the selective mining units (support effect) and the misclassifications when sending these units to mill or dump according to their estimated grade (information effect). Both effects imply a loss of selectivity and have to be correctly forecasted. In this work, several models are reviewed and applied to a synthetic ore deposit characterized by a highly skewed grade histogram and a spatial connectivity of high grades. The affine correction, mosaic correction, and discrete Gaussian model are compared when assessing the global recoverable reserves, whereas local estimations are performed by indicator kriging with affine correction, bigaussian disjunctive kriging, and multigaussian conditional expectation. Despite their convenience and simplicity, distribution-free methods like affine correction or indicator kriging have a poorer accuracy than the other methods. In the global framework, the discrete Gaussian model is a better alternative and is based on mild assumptions. Local estimations are not accurate and may be improved by resorting to a more suitable parametric model or to conditional simulations.     

Simplified Method for Calculating Standing Wave Pressure on Vertical Breakwater

Through numerical modeling, a kind of simplified calculating method for standing wave pressure on vertical face breakwater have been put forward. Not only the formulas proposed in this paper are simple in form and very easy in use, but also they possess continuity on the full range of standing wave. And more, the precision requiremennts of calculation can be satisfied to a certain extent in engineering practice.     

Retrieval of chlorophyll-a concentration via linear combination of ADEOS-II Global Imager data

Top-of-atmosphere reflectance measured above the ocean in the visible and near infrared, after correction for molecular scattering, may be linearly combined to retrieve surface chlorophyll-a abundance directly, without explicit correction for aerosol scattering and absorption. The coefficients of the linear combination minimize the perturbing effects, which are modeled by a polynomial, and they do not depend on geometry. The technique has been developed for Global Imager (GLI) spectral bands centered at 443, 565, 667, and 866 nm, but it is applicable to other sets of spectral bands. Theoretical performance is evaluated from radiation-transfer simulations for a wide range of geophysical and angular conditions. Using a polynomial with exponents of −2, −1, and 0 to determine the coefficients, the residual influence of the atmosphere on the linear combination is within ±0.001 in most cases, allowing chlorophyll-a abundance to be retrieved with a root-mean-squared (RMS) error of 8.4% in the range 0.03–3 mgm⁻³. Application of the method to simulated GLI imagery shows that estimated and actual chlorophyll-a abundance are in agreement, with an average RMS difference of 32.1% and an average bias of −2.2% (slightly lower estimated values). The advantage of the method resides in its simplicity, flexibility, and rapidity of execution. Knowledge of aerosol amount and type is avoided. There is no need for look-up tables of aerosol optical properties. Accuracy is adequate, but depends on the polynomial representation of the perturbing effects and on the bio-optical model selected to relate the linear combination to chlorophyll-a abundance. The sensitivity of the linear combination to chlorophyll-a abundance can be optimized, and the method can be extended to the retrieval of other bio-optical variables.     

Jason-1 Altimeter Ground Processing Look-Up Correction Tables

Poseidon-2 is the dual frequency radar altimeter embarked on the CNES/NASA oceanographic satellite Jason-1 that was launched on 7 December 2001. The primary objective of the Jason-1 mission is to continue the high accuracy time series of altimeter measurements that began with TOPEX in 1992. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to improve each component of the ground processing continually. Among these components are the look-up correction tables that are used to correct the estimations (range, significant waveheight, and sigma naught) issued from the retracking algorithms (on-board and ground). Look-up tables were first computed taking into account the prelaunch characteristics of the altimeter. They have to be updated to take into account better all the in-flight characteristics of the altimeter and all the updated ground algorithms that can impact the estimation process. The aim of this article is to describe the radar altimeter simulator of performances that has been used to compute look-up tables, to display the freshly computed look-up tables, and to discuss the consequences of these new corrections on the products provided to the users. The updated look-up correction tables allow improvement of SWH estimation, in particular with respect to TOPEX SWH data. It is also shown that no range dependency on SWH has to be looked for in these tables, and that the on-board TOPEX and Poseidon-2 tracking systems may contain the differences explaining the relative sea state bias between both altimeters.     

Air-sea CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> flux by eddy covariance technique in the equatorial Indian Ocean

Direct measurements of the air-sea CO₂ flux by the eddy covariance technique were carried out in the equatorial Indian Ocean. The turbulent flux observation system was installed at the top of the foremast of the R/V MIRAI, thus minimizing dynamical and thermal effects of the ship body. During the turbulent flux runs around the two stations, the vessel was steered into the wind at constant speed. The power spectra of the temperature or water vapor density fluctuations followed the Kolmogorov −5/3 power law, although that of the CO₂ density fluctuation showed white noise in the high frequency range. However, the cospectrum of the vertical wind velocity and CO₂ density was well matched with those of the vertical velocity and temperature or water vapor density in this frequency range, and the CO₂ white noise did not influence the CO₂ flux. The raw CO₂ fluxes due to the turbulent transport showed a sink from the air to the ocean, and had almost the same value as the source CO₂ fluxes due to the mean vertical flow, corrected by the sensible and latent heat fluxes (called the Webb correction). The total CO₂ fluxes including the Webb correction terms showed a source from the ocean to the air, and were larger than the bulk CO₂ fluxes estimated using the gas transfer velocity by mass balance techniques.     

综合伪距相位观测的北斗导航系统广域差分模型

我国区域北斗卫星导航系统为用户提供开放服务和授权服务两种服务方式,其中授权服务主要提供一维等效钟差改正数和完好性信息,实现更高精度的服务性能。北斗卫星导航系统提供的实时差分信息是基于CNMC平滑后的伪距观测数据计算,其精度受到残余伪距噪声的限制。为提升系统广域差分服务性能,本文提出了一种广域差分新模型。该模型综合了伪距及相位观测数据,并新增了轨道改正数。模型中经相位平滑的伪距观测值用于定义钟差改正数和轨道改正数的基准,而相位历元间差分观测值用于计算约束差分改正数的高精度相对变化。论文分析了数据采样率、测站个数等因素对新模型的影响,并采用中国区域内的观测站数据对新模型进行精度验证。试验结果表明:(1)基于新广域差分模型的GEO卫星UDRE指标相对原有模型提升了27%,IGSO卫星指标提升了35%,MEO卫星指标提升了24%;(2)基于新的广域差分模型,用户在南北、东西、高程方向的伪距定位精度分别提升了23%、32%和52%,实现了北斗系统用户导航定位三维定位精度优于1m的指标。     

利用差分GNSS获取高精度无人机影像外方位线元素

目前,微小型无人机遥感系统定位精度低,需要布设大量地面控制点,才能满足空三和测图精度要求,为提高无人机遥感系统影像的后期处理效率,文中研究利用差分GNSS模块,结合后差分算法提高POS数据精度,并通过位置标定、相机时间延迟改正等关键技术方法开展研究,最终获得高精度相机曝光时刻的位置信息,以此为基础,集成一套基于差分GNSS的无人机遥感系统。通过实验,最终实现以少量地面控制点获取高精度无人机影像外方位线元素,提高无人机影像后期处理效率,具有一定工程应用价值。     

基于MEMS的室内定位误差修正方法研究

根据室内惯性定位存在误差累积的特点,建立广义似然比检测的方法进行零速度检测,利用Kalman滤波对检测到的"零速度"时刻进行零速修正(zero velocity update,ZUPT),从而有效降低系统累积误差。但行人行走过程中存在的无效振动,导致测得的加速度和角速度数据中出现明显的噪声,这对长时间定位精度产生较大的影响。文中提出在利用Kalman滤波进行误差校正之前首先采用Butterworth低通滤波滤除加速度和角速度数据中由无效振动引起的高频部分,即噪声部分,从而消除行人运动过程中的无效振动对定位精度的影响。     

包络线去除的丘陵地区遥感影像阴影信息重建

中国西南丘陵常态山和喀斯特山交错分布,遥感影像普遍存在山体阴影,分布零散且无规律,基于DEM的地形校正模型(C校正等)虽然算法成熟、易于操作,但在复杂地形区存在误差。引入基于相似像元包络线的阴影校正方法(CR校正),按照阴影提取、包络线去除、相似像元寻找和阴影亮度重建的步骤,采用西南丘陵地区Landsat 8 OLI影像进行验证实验。结果表明:CR校正后,阴影区的视觉特征与邻近非阴影区趋于一致,阴影像元亮度有明显提升;校正后影像主要波段标准差减小,与非阴影区参考光谱的相对均方根误差在2.919%以内,最低仅为0.516%;自动分类精度从43.59%提高到61.57%,CR校正有效提高了有阴影的丘陵地区遥感影像质量。     

重力梯度之地形改正方法与研究

简要介绍地形起伏对地面点重力梯度的影响,推导棱柱法计算重力梯度改正的严格积分公式并和积分核累加法对比验证了其正确性;将积分区域划分为中央区和远区,中央区采用严格的棱柱法进行计算,远区采用线性积分的方式逼近真实值,简化了积分过程;根据重力梯度应用的要求针对不同类型地形设定了中央区划分准则。实验表明:根据文中提出的方法和分区准则,相比于传统的积分法和棱柱法,计算速度得到提高,且精度要求相比于积分核累加法优于0.01E。