Backscattering of individual LiDAR pulses from forest canopies explained by photogrammetrically derived vegetation structure

In recent years, airborne LiDAR sensors have shown remarkable performance in the mapping of forest vegetation. This experimental study looks at LiDAR data at the scale of individual pulses to elucidate the sources behind interpulse variation in backscattering. Close-range photogrammetry was used for obtaining the canopy reference measurements at the ratio scale. The experiments illustrated different orientation techniques in the field, LiDAR acquisitions and photogrammetry in both leaf-on and leaf-off conditions, and two-waveform recording LiDAR sensors. The intrafootprint branch silhouettes in zenith-looking images, in which the camera, footprint, and LiDAR sensor were collinear, were extracted and contrasted with LiDAR backscattering. An enhanced planimetric match (refinement of strip matching) was achieved by shifting the pulses in a strip and searching for the maximal correlation between the silhouette and LiDAR intensity. The relative silhouette explained up to 80–90% of the interpulse variation. We tested whether accounting for the Gaussian spread of intrafootprint irradiance would improve the correlations, but the effect was blurred by small-scale geometric noise. Accounting for receiver gain variations in the Leica ALS60 sensor data strengthened the dependences. The size of the vegetation objects required for triggering a LiDAR observation was analyzed. We demonstrated the use of LiDAR pulses adjacent to canopy vegetation, which did not trigger a canopy echo, for canopy mapping. Pulses not triggering an echo constitute the complement to the actual canopy. We conclude that field photogrammetry is a useful tool for mapping forest canopies from below and that quantitative analysis is feasible even at the scale of single pulses for enhanced understanding of LiDAR observations from vegetation.     

基于高分辨率SAR图像成像机理的震害信息分析

与中低分辨率SAR图像相比,高分辨率SAR图像受目标复杂性和成像噪声等因素的干扰更为严重,致使应用高分辨率SAR图像检测震害目标变得更加困难.传统的适用于中低分辨率SAR图像的震害信息提取方法对于高分辨率SAR图像有一定的局限性.为了从高分辨率SAR图像中更加准确地提取震害信息,从SAR图像成像机理和目标的后向散射特征出发,对建筑物和道路、桥梁的震害特征进行了细致分析,为寻求合适的目标检测和提取方法提供了思路.     

基于暗原色的航空遥感影像薄雾去除与改进

本文对航空遥感影像的薄雾进行了研究,根据雾图像成像模型和基于暗原色先验知识,结合图像对比度的自适应调整,提出了一种对航空遥感影像薄雾去除的改进算法。采用数字航空相机DSS439获取的不同地物特征类型的应急遥感影像进行去雾实验,并对实验结果进行分析、比较与评价,验证了该方法的正确性和有效性。     

Spectral material mapping using hyperspectral imagery: a review of spectral matching and library search methods

Imaging spectroscopy is an emerging and versatile technique that finds applications in diverse fields concerned with remote identification, discrimination and mapping of materials. The large amount of spectral data produced by hyperspectral imaging necessitates the development of automated techniques that convert imagery directly into thematic maps. Spectral library search method, a method of choice for organic compound identification by the mass spectroscopy, has caught the attention of researchers as one of the appropriate methods for an efficient exploitation of high quality spectral data available from the hyperspectral imaging systems. Given the apparent increase in the number of papers appearing on the subject as well as the variety of methods proposed, it is reasonable to say that the field of automated interpretation of reflectance spectral data has passed its infancy now gaining important space in the scientific community. We present an overall view of the literature relevant to the development of library search method, the various search algorithms and systems available in the purview for developing an automated hyperspectral data analysis system for material identification.     

基于源波场重建与波场分解的逆时偏移

逆时偏移以其高精度、适于强变速地质体和不受反射层倾角限制的特点,已经成为处理盐丘、高陡倾角反射层和推覆构造等复杂地质体的标准成像手段。然而,其成像条件需要具有同一时间上的源波场与检波点波场,这在大规模数据上会导致存储的不足与I /O 时间过长。这种成像条件也会在波场传播路径上产生假象。鉴于此,提出了一套可以有效解决这些问题的逆时偏移方案。对于存储与I / O 问题,用源波场重建技术来使源波场与检波点波场在时间上同步,即在源波场正演过程中,仅需存储成像区域边界的波场和最后两层时间的波场作为源波场重建的边界条件和初始条件,从而大幅度节约存储与I /O。对于假象问题,利用上下左右行波分解成像条件与Laplace 滤波技术结合,以达到去除假象的目的。经测试,该方案取得较好的成像效果。其意义在于改进了逆时偏移去假象的方案,使其可以有效地对复杂地质情况进行高质量的成像,并通过源波场重建技术来减少实现逆时偏移所需要的存储与I /O 时间。     

Oxidation state of lithospheric mantle along the northeastern margin of the North China Craton: implications for geodynamic processes

Quaternary volcanic rocks in the Kuandian (KD), Longgang (LG), Changbaishan (CBS), Wangqing (WQ), and Jilin (JL) volcanic centres in eastern Liaoning and southern Jilin provinces contain mantle xenoliths of spinel-facies lherzolites and minor harzburgites. Among the study sites, the KD, LG, and CBS volcanic fields are located on the northeastern margin of the North China Craton (NCC), whereas the WQ and JL fields lie on the southern margin of the Xing'an–Mongolia Orogenic Belt (XMOB). The (Fo) components of olivine (Ol) and Cr# (=Cr/(Cr + Al)) of spinel, together with trace element abundance of clinopyroxene, suggest that the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) in the study area has undergone a low degree (4–6%) of partial melting. The rocks do not show modal metasomatism, but clinopyroxene grains in selected samples show elevated large ion lithophile element compositions, suggesting that the mantle xenoliths underwent minor cryptic metasomatism by exchange with a silicate melt. Two-pyroxene thermometry yielded equilibration temperatures ranging from 740°C to 1210°C. The corresponding oxygen fugacity (fO₂) was calculated to range from FMQ –2.64 to +0.39 with an average of –0.59 (n?=?53). The oxidation state is comparable to that of abyssal peridotites and the asthenospheric mantle. We failed to discover differences in equilibration temperatures and oxidation state between lherzolites and harzburgites, suggesting that partial melting did not affect fO₂ values. In addition, similar fO₂ of non-metasomatized and metasomatized samples suggest that metasomatism in the region did not affect fO₂. Our data suggest that the present SCLM beneath the northeastern margin of the NCC and the southern margin of the XMOB are very similar and likely formed from a fertile asthenosphere after delamination of an old lithospheric keel below the NCC in response to the west-dipping subduction of the Pacific oceanic plate since early to middle Mesozoic time.     

Jurassic–Cretaceous tectonic evolution of Southeast China: geochronological and geochemical constraints of Yanshanian granitoids

We report results of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry-based dating, as well as the analysis of bulk-rock major and trace elements, and Sr–Nd isotopes to address the genesis and tectonic settings of the Yanshanian granitoids in neighbouring sections of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui provinces (the WZG region) within the Yangtze block. Geochronological results indicate that intense magmatic activity took place during Jurassic to Cretaceous time in the WZG region. Three episodes can be clearly distinguished by their bulk-rock geochemistry. (1) Early–Middle Jurassic granitoids (180–170 Ma) have high Sr and low Yb content, high ?_Nd(t) and low initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios, and weakly negative Eu anomalies. These granitoids are strongly enriched with LREE, Rb, K, and Th but are depleted of HREE, Nb, and Ta. (2) Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous granitoids (165–140 Ma) have relatively low Sr and low Yb contents, as well as low ?_Nd(t) and high initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios, with characteristics similar to those of the Early–Middle Jurassic granitoids in terms of the rare earth element and trace element patterns. (3) Early Cretaceous granitoids (140–120 Ma) have extremely low Sr and high Yb concentrations, as well as high SiO₂ but low MgO, CaO, and Al₂O₃ content, with strong negative anomalies in Eu, Ba, Sr, P, and Ti. These characteristics indicate that the WZG Jurassic granitoids were related to northwestward subduction of the Izanagi plate, whereas the Early Cretaceous granitoids formed in a within-plate extensional setting. The time of transition between the two tectonic environments can be constrained to ～140 Ma. This tectonic transition may be attributed to progressive slab roll-back of the Izanagi plate. The presence of two A-type granite belts in the WZG region probably reflects lithospheric thinning. The NE trend of the A-type granite belts indicates that this extension in Southeast China was controlled by underflow of the Izanagi plate.     

Melt–peridotite interaction in the shallow lithospheric mantle of the North China Craton: evidence from melt inclusions in the quartz-bearing orthopyroxene-rich websterite from Hannuoba

To better understand the origin, migration, and evolution of melts in the lithospheric mantle and their roles on the destruction of the North China Craton (NCC), we conducted a petrological and geochemical study on a quartz-bearing orthopyroxene-rich websterite xenolith from Hannuoba, the NCC, and its hosted melt and fluid inclusions. Both clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene in the xenolith contain lots of primary and secondary inclusions. High-temperature microthermometry of melt inclusions combined with Raman spectroscopy analyses of coexisting fluid inclusions shows that the entrapment temperature of the densest inclusions was ~1215°C and the pressure ~11.47 kbar, corresponding to a depth of ~38 km, i.e. within the stability of the spinel lherzolite. Intermediate pressure inclusions probably reflect progressive fluid entrapment over a range of depths during ascent, whereas the low-pressure inclusions (P < 2 kbar) may represent decrepitated primary inclusions. In situ laser-ablation ICP-MS analyses of major and trace elements on individual melt inclusions show that the compositions of these silicate melt inclusions in clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene are rich in SiO₂, Al₂O₃, and alkalis but poor in TiO₂ and strongly enriched in light rare earth elements (LREEs) and large ion lithophile elements (LILEs), with negative anomalies of high-field strength elements (HFSEs). These characteristics suggest that the silica-rich melts could be derived from the partial melting of subducted oceanic slab. Therefore, this kind of quartz-bearing orthopyroxene-rich websterite may be produced by interaction between the slab-derived melts with the mantle peridotite. This study provides direct evidence for the origin, migration, and evolution of melts in the lithospheric mantle, which may play an important role in the destruction of the NCC.     

EH4电磁系统在云南红河地区地下水勘查中的应用

本文介绍了EH4电磁成像系统的基本原理、技术特点和适用范围,结合该系统在云南红河地区不同类型地下水勘查中的应用实例,证明该系统能够查清厚覆盖层下的地质构造、地下河形态及含水岩溶带。利用该系统确定的井位已成功地打出地下水,有效地解决了当地的供水问题。     

基于聚类算法的钻孔瞬变电磁视电阻率立体成像方法

煤矿井下地球物理水害超前探测要求探测点20 m范围内不得有积水和金属物体,传统电磁法超前探测技术已不能满足要求,钻孔瞬变电磁法通过将收发装置送入掘进工作面前方的钻孔中进行探测,既远离了巷道中的各种干扰,又提高了隐蔽致灾水体的探测精度。为解决该方法对钻孔径向异常体的准确定位解释难题,通过三维正演总结了其水平分量异常响应特征,提出了异常体象限确定准则,研究了根据水平分量幅值和异常象限综合求取异常体工具面角的计算方法。将由垂直分量计算得到的每一个视电阻率视为独立异常体,基于K-means聚类算法对相应的水平分量异常曲线特征值进行二分类,实现了全数据集的视电阻率象限自动划分,结合异常工具面角算法研究得出钻孔瞬变电磁视电阻率立体成像方法。最后计算了三维数值模型的立体成像结果,对钻孔径向的小规模低阻异常体取得了良好效果。结果表明:基于K-means聚类算法的钻孔瞬变电磁视电阻率立体成像方法是地球物理与机器学习的有机结合,该方法能够为井下掘进工作面隐伏水害超前探测精细解释提供技术支撑。