Hans A.Panofsky’s Integral Similarity Function—At Fifty

Fifty years ago, Hans A. Panofsky published a paper entitled Determination of stress from wind and temperature measurements. In his famous paper, he presented a new profile function for the mean horizontal wind speed under the condition of diabatic stratification that includes his integral similarity function. With his integral similarity function, he opened the door for Monin-Obukhov scaling in a wide range of micrometeorological and microclimatological applications. In a historic survey ranging from the sixties of the past century down to the present days, we present integral similarity functions for momentum, sensible heat, and water vapor for both unstable and stable stratification, where on the one hand free convection condition and on the other hand strongly stable stratification are addressed.

A combined image matching method for Chinese optical satellite imagery

Image matching is one of the key technologies for digital Earth.This paper presents a combined image matching method for Chinese satellite images.This method includes the following four steps:(1)a modified Wallis-type filter is proposed to determine parameters adaptively while avoiding over-enhancement;(2)a mismatch detection procedure based on a global-local strategy is introduced to remove outliers generated by the Scale-invariant feature transform algorithm,and geometric orientation with bundle block adjustment is employed to compensate for the systematic errors of the position and attitude observations;(3)we design a novel similarity measure(distance,angle and the Normalized Cross-Correlation similarities,DANCC)which considers geometric similarity and textural similarity;and(4)we introduce a hierarchical matching strategy to refine the matching result level by level.Four typical image pairs acquired from Mapping Satellite-1,ZY-102C,ZY-3 and GeoEye-1,respectively,are used for experimental analysis.A comparison with the two current main matching algorithms for satellite imagery confirms that the proposed method is capable of producing reliable and accurate matching results on different terrains from not only Chinese satellite images,but also foreign satellite images.

A Class of Bidimensional FMRA Wavelet Frames

This paper addresses the construction of wavelet frame from a frame multiresolution analysis （FMRA） associated with a dilation matrix of determinant ±2. The dilation matrices of determinant ±2 can be classified as six classes according to integral similarity. In this paper, for four classes of them, the construction of wavelet frame from an FMRA is obtained, and, as examples, Shannon type wavelet frames are constructed, which have an independent value for their optimality in some sense.

Study on Integral Dissolution Model Based on Biological Potency for Compound Chinese Materia Medica

Objective To investigate the integral dissolution model based on biological potency in order to evaluate the dissolution of Compound Chinese materia medica（CCMM） in vitro. Methods The contents of paeoniflorin, phillyrin, ginsenoside Rg1, and adenosine of ten batches of Compound Biejia Ruangan Tablet（CBRT） were determined at different times. The self-defined weighting coefficient based on the contents has been created to establish the integral dissolution model. In addition, the biological potency of CBRT was measured by MTT assay. Then, the f2 similar factor was used to evaluate the similarity of the batches. Results Compared with batch a, some batches’ f2 values of paeoniflorin and adenosine were less than 50, while f2 values of ginsenoside Rg1, phillyrin, and integral component were more than 50. Likewise, ginsenoside Rg1, phillyrin, and integral component were all in good correlation with biological dissolution. Conclusion The results of the integral dissolution based on biological test of CBRT demonstrate that the bioassay method may be a promising supplement for its quality evaluation.