The construction of a pest detection algorithm is an important step to couple"ground-space"characteristics,which is also the basis for rapid and accurate monitoring and detection of pest damage.In four exper...The construction of a pest detection algorithm is an important step to couple"ground-space"characteristics,which is also the basis for rapid and accurate monitoring and detection of pest damage.In four experimental areas in Sanming City,Jiangle County,Sha County and Yanping District in Fujian Province,sample data on pest damage in 182 sets of Dendrolimus punctatus were collected.The data were randomly divided into a training set and testing set,and five duplicate tests and one eliminating-indicator test were done.Based on the characterization analysis of the host for D.punctatus damage,seven characteristic indicators of ground and remote sensing including leaf area index,standard error of leaf area index(SEL)of pine forest,normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI),wetness from tasseled cap transformation(WET),green band(B2),red band(B3),near-infrared band(B4)of remote sensing image are obtained to construct BP neural networks and random forest models of pest levels.The detection results of these two algorithms were comprehensively compared from the aspects of detection precision,kappa coefficient,receiver operating characteristic curve,and a paired t test.The results showed that the seven indicators all were responsive to pest damage,and NDVI was relatively weak;the average pest damage detection precision of six tests by BP neural networks was 77.29%,the kappa coefficient was 0.6869 and after the RF algorithm,the respective values were 79.30%and 0.7151,showing that the latter is more optimized,but there was no significant difference(p>0.05);the detection precision,kappa coefficient and AUC of the RF algorithm was higher than the BP neural networks for three pest levels(no damage,moderate damage and severe damage).The detection precision and AUC of BP neural networks were a little higher for mild damage,but the difference was not significant(p>0.05)except for the kappa coefficient for the no damage level(p<0.05).An"over-fitting"phenomenon tends to occur in BP neural networks,while RF method is more robust,providing a detection effect that is better than the BP neural networks.Thus,the application of the random forest algorithm for pest damage and multilevel dispersed variables is thus feasible and suggests that attention to the proportionality of sample data from various categories is needed when collecting data.展开更多
This paper investigated spatiotemporal dynamic pattern of vegetation,climate factor,and their complex relationships from seasonal to inter-annual scale in China during the period 1982–1998 through wavelet transform m...This paper investigated spatiotemporal dynamic pattern of vegetation,climate factor,and their complex relationships from seasonal to inter-annual scale in China during the period 1982–1998 through wavelet transform method based on GIMMS data-sets.First,most vegetation canopies demonstrated obvious seasonality,increasing with latitudinal gradient.Second,obvious dynamic trends were observed in both vegetation and climate change,especially the positive trends.Over 70%areas were observed with obvious vegetation greening up,with vegetation degradation principally in the Pearl River Delta,Yangtze River Delta,and desert.Overall warming trend was observed across the whole country(>98%area),stronger in Northern China.Although over half of area(58.2%)obtained increasing rainfall trend,around a quarter of area(24.5%),especially the Central China and most northern portion of China,exhibited significantly negative rainfall trend.Third,significantly positive normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI)–climate relationship was generally observed on the de-noised time series in most vegetated regions,corresponding to their synchronous stronger seasonal pattern.Finally,at inter-annual level,the NDVI–climate relationship differed with climatic regions and their long-term trends:in humid regions,positive coefficients were observed except in regions with vegetation degradation;in arid,semiarid,and semihumid regions,positive relationships would be examined on the condition that increasing rainfall could compensate the increasing water requirement along with increasing temperature.This study provided valuable insights into the long-term vegetation–climate relationship in China with consideration of their spatiotemporal variability and overall trend in the global change process.展开更多
Variogram has been utilized to exploring the spatial heterogeneity of remote sensing images,especially its association with spatial resolution.However,very few attentions have been drawn on evaluating the spatial hete...Variogram has been utilized to exploring the spatial heterogeneity of remote sensing images,especially its association with spatial resolution.However,very few attentions have been drawn on evaluating the spatial heterogeneity of multisensor airborne imagery and its relationship with spectral wavelength.Therefore,an investigation was carried out on multisensor airborne images to determine the relation between spatial heterogeneity and spectral wavelength for woodland,grass,and urban landscapes by applying variogram modeling.The airborne thematic mapper(ATM),compact airborne spectrographic imager(CASI),and Specim AISA Eagle airborne images at Harwood Forest,Monks wood,Cambridge,and River Frome areas,UK,were utilized.Results revealed that(1)the red band contained greater spatial variability than near-infrared wavelengths and other visible wavebands;(2)there was a steep gradient at the red edge in reference to its spatial variability of multisensor airborne images;(3)only for natural landscape such as woodland and grass,near-infrared waveband contains greater within-scene variations than the blue and green bands;(4)compared with the discrepancy of spatial resolution introduced by multisensor images(ATM,CASI,and Eagle),the specific landscape and spectral bands were more important in determining heterogeneity by means of original visible,near-infrared bands,and normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI).These findings remained us to be caution when combining and interpreting spatial variability and spatial structures derived from airborne images with different spatial resolution and spectral wavelength.Additionally,the outcomes of this study also have considerable implications in terms of designing and choosing suitable images for different applications.展开更多
It is of great significance for disaster prevention and mitigation to carry out disaster simulations for dam failure accidents in advance,but at present,there are few professional systems for disaster simulations of t...It is of great significance for disaster prevention and mitigation to carry out disaster simulations for dam failure accidents in advance,but at present,there are few professional systems for disaster simulations of tailings dams.In this paper,we focused on the construction of a virtual geographic environment(VGE)system that provides an effective tool for visualizing the dam-break process of a tailings pond.The dam-break numerical model of the tailings dam based on computational fluid dynamics(CFD)was integrated into the VGE system.The infrastructure of the VGE was supported by a 3-D geographic information system(GIS)with a user-friendly interface for the initiation,visualization,and analysis of the dynamic process of tailings dam failure.Key technologies,including the integration of numerical models,rendering of large-scale scenes,and optimizations of disaster simulation and visualization,were discussed in detail.In the prototype system,information on the run-out path,travel distance,etc.can be obtained to visually describe the flow motion released by two dam failure cases.The simulation results showed that the VGE can be used for the multidimensional,dynamic and interactive visualization of dam-break disasters,and can also be useful for assessing the risk associated with tailings dams.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41501361,41401385,30871965)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2018M630728)+2 种基金the Open Fund of Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Resources and Environment Monitoring&Sustainable Management and Utilization(No.ZD1403)the Open Fund of Fujian Mine Ecological Restoration Engineering Technology Research Center(No.KS2018005)the Scientific Research Foundation of Fuzhou University(No.XRC1345)
文摘The construction of a pest detection algorithm is an important step to couple"ground-space"characteristics,which is also the basis for rapid and accurate monitoring and detection of pest damage.In four experimental areas in Sanming City,Jiangle County,Sha County and Yanping District in Fujian Province,sample data on pest damage in 182 sets of Dendrolimus punctatus were collected.The data were randomly divided into a training set and testing set,and five duplicate tests and one eliminating-indicator test were done.Based on the characterization analysis of the host for D.punctatus damage,seven characteristic indicators of ground and remote sensing including leaf area index,standard error of leaf area index(SEL)of pine forest,normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI),wetness from tasseled cap transformation(WET),green band(B2),red band(B3),near-infrared band(B4)of remote sensing image are obtained to construct BP neural networks and random forest models of pest levels.The detection results of these two algorithms were comprehensively compared from the aspects of detection precision,kappa coefficient,receiver operating characteristic curve,and a paired t test.The results showed that the seven indicators all were responsive to pest damage,and NDVI was relatively weak;the average pest damage detection precision of six tests by BP neural networks was 77.29%,the kappa coefficient was 0.6869 and after the RF algorithm,the respective values were 79.30%and 0.7151,showing that the latter is more optimized,but there was no significant difference(p>0.05);the detection precision,kappa coefficient and AUC of the RF algorithm was higher than the BP neural networks for three pest levels(no damage,moderate damage and severe damage).The detection precision and AUC of BP neural networks were a little higher for mild damage,but the difference was not significant(p>0.05)except for the kappa coefficient for the no damage level(p<0.05).An"over-fitting"phenomenon tends to occur in BP neural networks,while RF method is more robust,providing a detection effect that is better than the BP neural networks.Thus,the application of the random forest algorithm for pest damage and multilevel dispersed variables is thus feasible and suggests that attention to the proportionality of sample data from various categories is needed when collecting data.
基金The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support received for this work from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 41071267)the Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Scholars,Ministry of Education of China(grant number[2012]940)the Science Foundation of Fujian Province(grant numbers 2012I0005 and 2012J01167)。
文摘This paper investigated spatiotemporal dynamic pattern of vegetation,climate factor,and their complex relationships from seasonal to inter-annual scale in China during the period 1982–1998 through wavelet transform method based on GIMMS data-sets.First,most vegetation canopies demonstrated obvious seasonality,increasing with latitudinal gradient.Second,obvious dynamic trends were observed in both vegetation and climate change,especially the positive trends.Over 70%areas were observed with obvious vegetation greening up,with vegetation degradation principally in the Pearl River Delta,Yangtze River Delta,and desert.Overall warming trend was observed across the whole country(>98%area),stronger in Northern China.Although over half of area(58.2%)obtained increasing rainfall trend,around a quarter of area(24.5%),especially the Central China and most northern portion of China,exhibited significantly negative rainfall trend.Third,significantly positive normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI)–climate relationship was generally observed on the de-noised time series in most vegetated regions,corresponding to their synchronous stronger seasonal pattern.Finally,at inter-annual level,the NDVI–climate relationship differed with climatic regions and their long-term trends:in humid regions,positive coefficients were observed except in regions with vegetation degradation;in arid,semiarid,and semihumid regions,positive relationships would be examined on the condition that increasing rainfall could compensate the increasing water requirement along with increasing temperature.This study provided valuable insights into the long-term vegetation–climate relationship in China with consideration of their spatiotemporal variability and overall trend in the global change process.
基金The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support received for this work from the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 41471362 and 41071267]the Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Scholars,Ministry of Education of China(LXKQ201202)+1 种基金the Science and Technology Department of Fujian Province of China[grant numbers 2012I0005 and 2012J01167]The authors would like to thank the Natural Environment Research Council of UK for the provision of the airborne remote sensing data,and Ben Taylor and Gabriel Amable who kindly offered help in processing these data.
文摘Variogram has been utilized to exploring the spatial heterogeneity of remote sensing images,especially its association with spatial resolution.However,very few attentions have been drawn on evaluating the spatial heterogeneity of multisensor airborne imagery and its relationship with spectral wavelength.Therefore,an investigation was carried out on multisensor airborne images to determine the relation between spatial heterogeneity and spectral wavelength for woodland,grass,and urban landscapes by applying variogram modeling.The airborne thematic mapper(ATM),compact airborne spectrographic imager(CASI),and Specim AISA Eagle airborne images at Harwood Forest,Monks wood,Cambridge,and River Frome areas,UK,were utilized.Results revealed that(1)the red band contained greater spatial variability than near-infrared wavelengths and other visible wavebands;(2)there was a steep gradient at the red edge in reference to its spatial variability of multisensor airborne images;(3)only for natural landscape such as woodland and grass,near-infrared waveband contains greater within-scene variations than the blue and green bands;(4)compared with the discrepancy of spatial resolution introduced by multisensor images(ATM,CASI,and Eagle),the specific landscape and spectral bands were more important in determining heterogeneity by means of original visible,near-infrared bands,and normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI).These findings remained us to be caution when combining and interpreting spatial variability and spatial structures derived from airborne images with different spatial resolution and spectral wavelength.Additionally,the outcomes of this study also have considerable implications in terms of designing and choosing suitable images for different applications.
基金supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China[grant number 2017YFB0504203].
文摘It is of great significance for disaster prevention and mitigation to carry out disaster simulations for dam failure accidents in advance,but at present,there are few professional systems for disaster simulations of tailings dams.In this paper,we focused on the construction of a virtual geographic environment(VGE)system that provides an effective tool for visualizing the dam-break process of a tailings pond.The dam-break numerical model of the tailings dam based on computational fluid dynamics(CFD)was integrated into the VGE system.The infrastructure of the VGE was supported by a 3-D geographic information system(GIS)with a user-friendly interface for the initiation,visualization,and analysis of the dynamic process of tailings dam failure.Key technologies,including the integration of numerical models,rendering of large-scale scenes,and optimizations of disaster simulation and visualization,were discussed in detail.In the prototype system,information on the run-out path,travel distance,etc.can be obtained to visually describe the flow motion released by two dam failure cases.The simulation results showed that the VGE can be used for the multidimensional,dynamic and interactive visualization of dam-break disasters,and can also be useful for assessing the risk associated with tailings dams.