The Role of Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Rural Development in the Karakorum, Hindu Kush ＆ Himalayan Region： Examples from the Northern Mountainous Belt of Pakistan

Pakistan is predominantly a mountainous country where rural development activities are characterised by inconsistency, politically motivated short-term projects without proper feedback. Since the inception of the country, the top-down approach has been followed, and the same development plans that were formulated for the plain areas have been extended to the mountains without any modification. In doing so, neither the participation of the local communities was cared for, nor the mountain specificities were considered in the planning process. Moreover, the representation of the local inhabitants was improper and contradictory to the facts. This biased approach has been one of the main causes for the failure of development projects carried out by different agencies of the Government. Contrary to the perception of the state authorities, the mountain communities proved to be more open to accept new approaches and demonstrated the capacity and capability of being a dependable development partner. In this paper, a detailed account of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme （AKRSP） has been presented to assess and evaluate the approach followed by this non-governmental organisation （NGO）, and the response of the local inhabitants as collaborators in the development process. The achievements of the AKRSP from project planning, implementation and monitoring can be adopted as a model for rural development not only in the plains, but also in the mountainous areas of the developing countries in the world.     

Spatial Variability of Rock Depth in Bangalore Using Geostatistical, Neural Network and Support Vector Machine Models

Geospatial technology is increasing in demand for many applications in geosciences. Spatial variability of the bed/hard rock is vital for many applications in geotechnical and earthquake engineering problems such as design of deep foundations, site amplification, ground response studies, liquefaction, microzonation etc. In this paper, reduced level of rock at Bangalore, India is arrived from the 652 boreholes data in the area covering 220 km². In the context of prediction of reduced level of rock in the subsurface of Bangalore and to study the spatial variability of the rock depth, Geostatistical model based on Ordinary Kriging technique, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) models have been developed. In Ordinary Kriging, the knowledge of the semi-variogram of the reduced level of rock from 652 points in Bangalore is used to predict the reduced level of rock at any point in the subsurface of the Bangalore, where field measurements are not available. A new type of cross-validation analysis developed proves the robustness of the Ordinary Kriging model. ANN model based on multi layer perceptrons (MLPs) that are trained with Levenberg–Marquardt backpropagation algorithm has been adopted to train the model with 90% of the data available. The SVM is a novel type of learning machine based on statistical learning theory, uses regression technique by introducing loss function has been used to predict the reduced level of rock from a large set of data. In this study, a comparative study of three numerical models to predict reduced level of rock has been presented and discussed.     

便携式电子地图设计中需解决的几个问题

软性显示器和投影技术超微型化的发展,使得电子地图有足够的空间满足便携式电子地图的设计需求,本文通过介绍几种便携式材质的特性,提出便携式电子地图设计中需解决的几个硬件技术问题。     

网络导航中基于SVG的地理空间数据组织与传输

介绍网络导航服务系统,通过对MapX Mobile、ArcPad和SVG的地理空间数据组织的比较,得出基于Mobile SVG的地理空间数据组织方式优于其它两种组织方式。它不但适合网络导航服务系统的数据交互操作,而且同一图幅的数据量也明显少于MapX Mobile、ArcPad两种格式的数据。然后利用gzip软件包对数据进行压缩,减少数据传输所需的时间。     

Automated Kerogen Classification in Microscope Images of Dispersed Kerogen Preparation

We develop the classification part of a system that analyses transmitted light microscope images of dispersed kerogen preparation. The system automatically extracts kerogen pieces from the image and labels each piece as either inertinite or vitrinite. The image pre-processing analysis consists of background removal, identification of kerogen material, object segmentation, object extraction (individual images of pieces of kerogen) and feature calculation for each object. An expert palynologist was asked to label the objects into categories inertinite and vitrinite, which provided the ground truth for the classification experiment. Ten state-of-the-art classifiers and classifier ensembles were compared: Naïve Bayes, decision tree, nearest neighbour, the logistic classifier, multilayered perceptron (MLP), support vector machines (SVM), AdaBoost, Bagging, LogitBoost and Random Forest. The logistic classifier was singled out as the most accurate classifier, with an accuracy greater than 90. Using a 10 times 10-fold cross-validation provided within the Weka software, we found that the logistic classifier was significantly better than five classifiers (p<0.05) and indistinguishable from the other four classifiers. The initial set of 32 features was subsequently reduced to 6 features without compromising the classification accuracy. A further evaluation of the system alerted us to the possible sensitivity of the classification to the ground truth that might vary from one human expert to another. The analysis also revealed that the logistic classifier made most of the correct classifications with a high certainty.     

电子地图的数据交换(CNSDTF)实现

电子地图是传统地图的矢量数据格式，由于采用不同的软件平台和不同的数据格式，因此在进行数据交换和数据共享时经常需要进行数据格式的转换。中国《地球空间数据交换格式》标准中给出了矢量数据交换的标准格式，对于GIS应用中的矢量数据交换基本已满足要求，但对于电子地图的交换尚有不足。本文在认真研究了电子地图的一般特征后，提出了电子地图所具备的图形表现属性不同于非图形属性的概念，在不违背标准的基本原则下扩充了现有标准的格式，大大方便了电子地图数据的交换，并且给出了程序实现的简要流程。     

西南岩溶石山地区石漠化信息自动提取技术研究

介绍了以TM数据为信息源,基于GIS系统平台的矢量化石漠化信息计算机自动提取原理、方法、步骤及提取效果。     

巷道围岩松动圈的地质雷达探测及应用

在简述地质雷达探测原理的基础上, 分析了巷道围岩松动圈雷达探测的可行性。结合华丰矿巷道围岩松动圈探测实例, 提出了松动圈雷达探测方法、图像分析及探测结果应用。结果表明, 采用地质雷达探测巷道围岩松动圈是可行的, 可以用于指导巷道围岩的锚杆支护设计。     

基于MATLAB的关联规则空间数据挖掘探讨——以济南市平阴县安城乡为例

空间数据挖掘的方法很多,怎样能快速对空间数据进行操作,是一个值的探讨的问题。Matlab有万能的演算纸之称。借助其强大的矩阵计算功能,进行数据挖掘,具有一定优势。本文根据关联规则挖掘方法,在Matlab中编写程序,对土地利用现状数据库进行数据挖掘。计算了不同用地类型与坡度之间的支持度和置信度,得出关联规则。本文平阴县安城乡的实证,取得了较好的结果。     

灰霾天气变化特征及垂直交换系数的预报应用

利用1998—2008年广东省广州、东莞和增城的常规气象资料及2004年6月10日—2008年12月30日Micaps 3.0的K指数、沙氏指数和L指数资料,重点分析了这三个地方10—12月的灰霾天气变化特征。研究结果表明,增城的能见度比例主要集中在大于10 km的范围内,空气质量最好,东莞的空气质量最差。广州和东莞10—12月的能见度等级百分比分布形态类似,轻微灰霾天气所占频率较大,其中10月占的比例最高。并提出垂直交换系数试图对污染物的垂直输送能力进行评估,进而尝试对灰霾天气进行预报。结果表明当垂直交换系数小于15 000时,城市容易出现灰霾天气,反之则说明该地的空气质量较为良好。