The Zoige wetland is the biggest alpine wetland in the world,and an important water resource of the Yellow River.Due to natural and human factors,the Zoige wetland has been seriously degraded.Existing studies on the Z...The Zoige wetland is the biggest alpine wetland in the world,and an important water resource of the Yellow River.Due to natural and human factors,the Zoige wetland has been seriously degraded.Existing studies on the Zoige wetland mainly focus on the macro features of the wetland,while the influence of the surrounding faults on the Zoige wetland degradation is rarely studied.This study uses terrain data to analyze the cover change and the water loss caused by the Wqie-Seji fault based on the distributed hydrological model.The simulated water loss demonstrates that the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index(NDVI) is the most important factor for inducing water loss.The fault is also a factor that cannot be neglected,which has caused 33% of the wetland water loss.Therefore,it is of importance to study the influence of the fault on the wetland degradation.展开更多
vegetation continuous The scale-location specific control on distribution was investigated through wavelet transforms approaches in subtropical mountain-hill region, Fujian, China. The Normalized Difference Vegetatio...vegetation continuous The scale-location specific control on distribution was investigated through wavelet transforms approaches in subtropical mountain-hill region, Fujian, China. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index （NDVI） was calculated as an indicator of vegetation greenness using Chinese Environmental Disaster Reduction Satellite images along latitudinal and longitudinal transects. Four scales of variations were identified from the local wavelet spectrum of NDVI, with much stronger wavelet variances observed at larger scales. The characteristic scale of vegetation distribution within mountainous and hilly regions in Southeast China was around 20 km. Significantly strong wavelet coherency was generally examined in regions with very diverse topography, typically characterized as small mountains and hills fractured by rivers and residents. The continuous wavelet based approaches provided valuable insight on the hierarchical structure and its corresponding characteristic scales of ecosystems, which might be applied in defining proper levels in multilevel models and optimal bandwidths in Geographically Weighted Regression.展开更多
This paper retrieves the bidirectional polarization distribution functions (BPDFs) of the distinct urban cover in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region employing the high spatial resolution of multi-angle polarized measu...This paper retrieves the bidirectional polarization distribution functions (BPDFs) of the distinct urban cover in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region employing the high spatial resolution of multi-angle polarized measurements made by the Directional Polarimetric Camera (DPC).The BPDF operational products of MICROPOL and POLDER measurements were used to validate the BPDF products of the DPC,with the results demonstrating that the BPDF product of the DPC measurements accurately expresses the surface polarized reflectance.The polarized reflectance of distinct surface types in the PRD region was studied using the DPC measurements.The results demonstrate that the polarized reflectances of different surface types differ and decrease as the normalized difference vegetation index increases.The polarized reflectance of a distinct surface type in the PRD region decreases with increasing scattering angle.The basic theory of investigating surface properties using multi-angle polarized measurements is proposed.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Project of Scientific and Technical Supporting Programs of the Ministry of Science&Technology of China(Grant No.2007BAC18B01)the Project of Ministry of Environmental Protection of China(Grant No.200809086),the Project of Ministry of Environmental Protection of China(Grant No.200909060)the Project of Scientific Research and Technological Development of Guangxi(Grant NO.GKG1140002-2-4)
文摘The Zoige wetland is the biggest alpine wetland in the world,and an important water resource of the Yellow River.Due to natural and human factors,the Zoige wetland has been seriously degraded.Existing studies on the Zoige wetland mainly focus on the macro features of the wetland,while the influence of the surrounding faults on the Zoige wetland degradation is rarely studied.This study uses terrain data to analyze the cover change and the water loss caused by the Wqie-Seji fault based on the distributed hydrological model.The simulated water loss demonstrates that the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index(NDVI) is the most important factor for inducing water loss.The fault is also a factor that cannot be neglected,which has caused 33% of the wetland water loss.Therefore,it is of importance to study the influence of the fault on the wetland degradation.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Grant No.41071267)Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Scholars,Ministry of Education of China(Grant No.[2012]940)the Science & Technology Department of Fujian Province,China(Grant Nos.2012I0005,2012J01167)
文摘vegetation continuous The scale-location specific control on distribution was investigated through wavelet transforms approaches in subtropical mountain-hill region, Fujian, China. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index （NDVI） was calculated as an indicator of vegetation greenness using Chinese Environmental Disaster Reduction Satellite images along latitudinal and longitudinal transects. Four scales of variations were identified from the local wavelet spectrum of NDVI, with much stronger wavelet variances observed at larger scales. The characteristic scale of vegetation distribution within mountainous and hilly regions in Southeast China was around 20 km. Significantly strong wavelet coherency was generally examined in regions with very diverse topography, typically characterized as small mountains and hills fractured by rivers and residents. The continuous wavelet based approaches provided valuable insight on the hierarchical structure and its corresponding characteristic scales of ecosystems, which might be applied in defining proper levels in multilevel models and optimal bandwidths in Geographically Weighted Regression.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2010CB950800)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41001207)the Funds of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for Key Topics in Innovation Engineering(Grant No.KZCX2-EW-QN311)
文摘This paper retrieves the bidirectional polarization distribution functions (BPDFs) of the distinct urban cover in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region employing the high spatial resolution of multi-angle polarized measurements made by the Directional Polarimetric Camera (DPC).The BPDF operational products of MICROPOL and POLDER measurements were used to validate the BPDF products of the DPC,with the results demonstrating that the BPDF product of the DPC measurements accurately expresses the surface polarized reflectance.The polarized reflectance of distinct surface types in the PRD region was studied using the DPC measurements.The results demonstrate that the polarized reflectances of different surface types differ and decrease as the normalized difference vegetation index increases.The polarized reflectance of a distinct surface type in the PRD region decreases with increasing scattering angle.The basic theory of investigating surface properties using multi-angle polarized measurements is proposed.
