To understand the relationship between turbid water and coral damage caused by the heavy rain disaster at the end of October 2010 in Amami-Oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, turbid water and coral damage distributio...To understand the relationship between turbid water and coral damage caused by the heavy rain disaster at the end of October 2010 in Amami-Oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, turbid water and coral damage distribution monitoring was attempted using satellite imagery and a diving survey immediately after the disaster. ALOS AVNIR-2 images (spatial resolution: 10 m) on October 6 (before the disaster), October 24, October 30, and October 31 (after the disaster) were obtained as satellite data in 2010. The red-silt deposition index (RSI) map based on the method by Nadaoka and Tamura (1992) was also created. Moreover, a diving survey was conducted via the spot check method on December 18, 2010. As a result, comparison between the high turbidity (RSI) areas estimated using AVNIR-2 data and the coral damage areas judging from the field survey was considered relatively light. It is shown that satellite data such as AVNIR-2 can be a powerful tool to monitor damage distribution of coral reefs after heavy rain.展开更多
The potential of ALOS-2 SAR data for the estimation of tropical forest structural characteristics was assessed in Vietnam by collecting forest inventory data. The effect of polarization and seasonality of the SAR data...The potential of ALOS-2 SAR data for the estimation of tropical forest structural characteristics was assessed in Vietnam by collecting forest inventory data. The effect of polarization and seasonality of the SAR data on the estimation of forest biomass was analyzed. The combination of HH, HV, and HH/HV polarizations using multiple linear regression did not improve the estimation of biomass compared to using the HV channel independently, as the HH and HH/HV variables were not statistically significant. The dry season HV backscattering intensity was highly sensitive to the biomass compared to the rainy season backscattering intensity. The SAR data acquired in the rainy season with humid and wet canopies was not very sensitive to the biomass. The strong dependence of the biomass estimates with the season of SAR data acquisition confirmed that the choice of right season SAR data is very important for improving the satellite based estimates of the biomass. The validation results showed that the dry season HV polarization could explain 54% variation of the biomass.展开更多
Based on the continuation of our past study, the present analysis is conducted to examine recent effects of the urbanization process occurring over the entire district of Rome. Overlays of ALOS AVNIR-2 and SENTINEL-2A...Based on the continuation of our past study, the present analysis is conducted to examine recent effects of the urbanization process occurring over the entire district of Rome. Overlays of ALOS AVNIR-2 and SENTINEL-2A satellite images, collected over a 6 years period, were validated via Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques, in a particular procedure applied to urban land and agricultural transformations. The use of Copernicus SENTINEL-2A imagery has improved the previous results on urban processes, by reducing the uncertainty of the discrimination of land cover classes and facilitating the photo-interpretation. Statistical analysis was performed via the Urban Area Profile index in order to quantify the sprawl phenomenon, by defining several landscape metrics. This work, to be enriched in the future by means of complementary information available from Copernicus radar sensors, like the one onboard Sentinel-1, completes the series of observations on land use published by the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, which stopped back in 2008.展开更多
Flash floods are recurrent events around the Japan region almost every year. Torrential rain occurred around Kanto and Tohoku area due to typhoon No. 18 in September 2015. Overflowing of the Kinugawa River led to rive...Flash floods are recurrent events around the Japan region almost every year. Torrential rain occurred around Kanto and Tohoku area due to typhoon No. 18 in September 2015. Overflowing of the Kinugawa River led to river bank collapse. Thus, the flood extended into Joso City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 was the fastest satellite to record this flood disaster area. A quick method to extract the flood inundation area by utilizing the ALOS-2/ PALSAR-2 image as a rapid response to the flood disaster is required. This study evaluated three methods to extract the flood immediately after the flood occurring. This study compared the extraction approaches of flooded area by unsupervised classification, supervised classification and binary/threshold of backscattering value of flood. The results show that unsupervised classification and supervised classification are overestimated. This study recommends the binarization of the backscattering value to extract the extended flood area. This method is a straight forward approach and generates a similar distribution with the field survey by using the aerial photo with high accuracy (94% of kappa coefficient). We utilized slope map which derived from DEM data to eliminate the overestimated area due to shadowing effect in SAR images.展开更多
This research has used the L-band radar from ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 and field work data for evaluation of seasonal effects of backscattering intensity on retrieval forest biomass in the tropics. The effects of seasonality an...This research has used the L-band radar from ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 and field work data for evaluation of seasonal effects of backscattering intensity on retrieval forest biomass in the tropics. The effects of seasonality and HH, and HV polarizations of the SAR data on the biomass were analyzed. The dry season HV polarization could explain 61% of the biomass in this study region. The dry season HV backscattering intensity was highly sensitive to the biomass compared to the rainy season backscattering intensity. The SAR data acquired in the rainy season with humid and wet canopies were not very sensitive to the in situ biomass. Strong dependence of the biomass estimates with season of SAR data acquisition confirmed that the choice of right season SAR data is very important for improving the satellite based estimates of the biomass. This research expects that the results obtained in this research will contribute to monitoring of the quantity and quality of forest biomass in Vietnam and other tropical countries.展开更多
Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) depict the configuration of the earth surface and are being applied in many areas in earth and environmental sciences. In this study, the accuracy of the Advanced Land Observing Satelli...Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) depict the configuration of the earth surface and are being applied in many areas in earth and environmental sciences. In this study, the accuracy of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite World 3D Digital Surface Model version 2.1 (ALOS W3D30), the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Digital Elevation Model version 3.0 (SRTM30) and the Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Global DEM version 2.0 (ASTER GDEM2) was statistically assessed using high accuracy GPS survey data. Root-Mean-Square errors of ~5.40 m, ~7.47 m and ~20.03 m were obtained for ALOS W3D30, SRTM30 and ASTER GDEM2 respectively. In further analyses, we discovered that ALOS W3D30 and SRTM30 were much more accurate in regions where the height intervals were within 201 m - 400 m and >801 m. ALOS W3D30 proved to be the most accurate DEM that best represents the topography of the earth’s surface and could be used for some earth and environmental applications in Nigeria. We recommend that this study should serve as a guide in the use of any of these DEMs for earth and environmental applications in Nigeria.展开更多
为了降低Ca Ti O3-(La,Nd)Al O3(简称CT-LNA)陶瓷的烧结温度和提高其介电性能,研究纳米Al2O3对Ca Ti O3-(La,Nd)Al O3陶瓷的烧结温度和介电性能的影响。固相法制备粉料,采用XRD和SEM分析其晶相和显微结构,用网络分析测试样品的介...为了降低Ca Ti O3-(La,Nd)Al O3(简称CT-LNA)陶瓷的烧结温度和提高其介电性能,研究纳米Al2O3对Ca Ti O3-(La,Nd)Al O3陶瓷的烧结温度和介电性能的影响。固相法制备粉料,采用XRD和SEM分析其晶相和显微结构,用网络分析测试样品的介电参数,结果表明,纳米Al2O3可促进陶瓷烧结,在1320~1400℃范围内可烧结成瓷,并具有较好的微波介电性能。当纳米Al2O3含量为50 wt%时,陶瓷在1340℃烧结可获得优良的微波介电性能:介电常数为42.6,Q×f值高达34,000GHz,频率温度系数为+4.8 ppm/℃。展开更多
Silver (I) was removed from aqueous environment by aloe vera shell ash supported Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles.The adsorbent was characterized by several methods including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning el...Silver (I) was removed from aqueous environment by aloe vera shell ash supported Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles.The adsorbent was characterized by several methods including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), BETisotherm, vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). To determine the absorptionof silver (I) by this adsorbent, different pH values (2?7), adsorbent dose (0.01?0.5 g), concentrations of Ag+ (50, 100, 200, 300, 500,700 and 1000 mg/L) and exposure time (5?100 min) were experimented. The highest removal efficiency of Ag+ was achieved underoptimum condition (30 min and pH=5). The optimum adsorbent dose was 0.20 g (in 50 mL of 100 mg/L Ag+ solution), whichachieved a removal efficiency of 98.3%. The maximum monolayer adsorption capacity based on the Langmuir isotherm is243.90 mg/g. Characterization results revealed that specific surface area and porous volume were 814.23 m2/g and 0.726 cm3/g,respectively. The experimental data were fitted well with the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models. Synthesized adsorbent has desired surface area and adsorptive capacity for silver (I) adsorption in aquatic environment.展开更多
基金国家自然科学基金项目“青藏高原露天煤矿排土场地形-土壤-植被响应机理及地貌重塑研究”(编号:41977415)中国地质调查局项目“全球冰川及荒漠化遥感地质调查”(编号:DD20190515)+1 种基金中欧科技合作“龙计划”五期项目“Integration of multi-source Remote Sensing Data to detect and monitoring large and rapid landslides and use of Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage preservation”(编号:56796)JAXA EO-RA2项目“Application of Radar Remote Sensing Technology in Resource Environment Monitoring”(编号:P3073002)共同资助。
文摘To understand the relationship between turbid water and coral damage caused by the heavy rain disaster at the end of October 2010 in Amami-Oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, turbid water and coral damage distribution monitoring was attempted using satellite imagery and a diving survey immediately after the disaster. ALOS AVNIR-2 images (spatial resolution: 10 m) on October 6 (before the disaster), October 24, October 30, and October 31 (after the disaster) were obtained as satellite data in 2010. The red-silt deposition index (RSI) map based on the method by Nadaoka and Tamura (1992) was also created. Moreover, a diving survey was conducted via the spot check method on December 18, 2010. As a result, comparison between the high turbidity (RSI) areas estimated using AVNIR-2 data and the coral damage areas judging from the field survey was considered relatively light. It is shown that satellite data such as AVNIR-2 can be a powerful tool to monitor damage distribution of coral reefs after heavy rain.
文摘The potential of ALOS-2 SAR data for the estimation of tropical forest structural characteristics was assessed in Vietnam by collecting forest inventory data. The effect of polarization and seasonality of the SAR data on the estimation of forest biomass was analyzed. The combination of HH, HV, and HH/HV polarizations using multiple linear regression did not improve the estimation of biomass compared to using the HV channel independently, as the HH and HH/HV variables were not statistically significant. The dry season HV backscattering intensity was highly sensitive to the biomass compared to the rainy season backscattering intensity. The SAR data acquired in the rainy season with humid and wet canopies was not very sensitive to the biomass. The strong dependence of the biomass estimates with the season of SAR data acquisition confirmed that the choice of right season SAR data is very important for improving the satellite based estimates of the biomass. The validation results showed that the dry season HV polarization could explain 54% variation of the biomass.
文摘Based on the continuation of our past study, the present analysis is conducted to examine recent effects of the urbanization process occurring over the entire district of Rome. Overlays of ALOS AVNIR-2 and SENTINEL-2A satellite images, collected over a 6 years period, were validated via Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques, in a particular procedure applied to urban land and agricultural transformations. The use of Copernicus SENTINEL-2A imagery has improved the previous results on urban processes, by reducing the uncertainty of the discrimination of land cover classes and facilitating the photo-interpretation. Statistical analysis was performed via the Urban Area Profile index in order to quantify the sprawl phenomenon, by defining several landscape metrics. This work, to be enriched in the future by means of complementary information available from Copernicus radar sensors, like the one onboard Sentinel-1, completes the series of observations on land use published by the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, which stopped back in 2008.
文摘Flash floods are recurrent events around the Japan region almost every year. Torrential rain occurred around Kanto and Tohoku area due to typhoon No. 18 in September 2015. Overflowing of the Kinugawa River led to river bank collapse. Thus, the flood extended into Joso City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 was the fastest satellite to record this flood disaster area. A quick method to extract the flood inundation area by utilizing the ALOS-2/ PALSAR-2 image as a rapid response to the flood disaster is required. This study evaluated three methods to extract the flood immediately after the flood occurring. This study compared the extraction approaches of flooded area by unsupervised classification, supervised classification and binary/threshold of backscattering value of flood. The results show that unsupervised classification and supervised classification are overestimated. This study recommends the binarization of the backscattering value to extract the extended flood area. This method is a straight forward approach and generates a similar distribution with the field survey by using the aerial photo with high accuracy (94% of kappa coefficient). We utilized slope map which derived from DEM data to eliminate the overestimated area due to shadowing effect in SAR images.
文摘This research has used the L-band radar from ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 and field work data for evaluation of seasonal effects of backscattering intensity on retrieval forest biomass in the tropics. The effects of seasonality and HH, and HV polarizations of the SAR data on the biomass were analyzed. The dry season HV polarization could explain 61% of the biomass in this study region. The dry season HV backscattering intensity was highly sensitive to the biomass compared to the rainy season backscattering intensity. The SAR data acquired in the rainy season with humid and wet canopies were not very sensitive to the in situ biomass. Strong dependence of the biomass estimates with season of SAR data acquisition confirmed that the choice of right season SAR data is very important for improving the satellite based estimates of the biomass. This research expects that the results obtained in this research will contribute to monitoring of the quantity and quality of forest biomass in Vietnam and other tropical countries.
文摘Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) depict the configuration of the earth surface and are being applied in many areas in earth and environmental sciences. In this study, the accuracy of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite World 3D Digital Surface Model version 2.1 (ALOS W3D30), the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Digital Elevation Model version 3.0 (SRTM30) and the Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Global DEM version 2.0 (ASTER GDEM2) was statistically assessed using high accuracy GPS survey data. Root-Mean-Square errors of ~5.40 m, ~7.47 m and ~20.03 m were obtained for ALOS W3D30, SRTM30 and ASTER GDEM2 respectively. In further analyses, we discovered that ALOS W3D30 and SRTM30 were much more accurate in regions where the height intervals were within 201 m - 400 m and >801 m. ALOS W3D30 proved to be the most accurate DEM that best represents the topography of the earth’s surface and could be used for some earth and environmental applications in Nigeria. We recommend that this study should serve as a guide in the use of any of these DEMs for earth and environmental applications in Nigeria.
文摘为了降低Ca Ti O3-(La,Nd)Al O3(简称CT-LNA)陶瓷的烧结温度和提高其介电性能,研究纳米Al2O3对Ca Ti O3-(La,Nd)Al O3陶瓷的烧结温度和介电性能的影响。固相法制备粉料,采用XRD和SEM分析其晶相和显微结构,用网络分析测试样品的介电参数,结果表明,纳米Al2O3可促进陶瓷烧结,在1320~1400℃范围内可烧结成瓷,并具有较好的微波介电性能。当纳米Al2O3含量为50 wt%时,陶瓷在1340℃烧结可获得优良的微波介电性能:介电常数为42.6,Q×f值高达34,000GHz,频率温度系数为+4.8 ppm/℃。
基金the Islamic Azad University-Bandar Abbas Branch for financial support
文摘Silver (I) was removed from aqueous environment by aloe vera shell ash supported Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles.The adsorbent was characterized by several methods including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), BETisotherm, vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). To determine the absorptionof silver (I) by this adsorbent, different pH values (2?7), adsorbent dose (0.01?0.5 g), concentrations of Ag+ (50, 100, 200, 300, 500,700 and 1000 mg/L) and exposure time (5?100 min) were experimented. The highest removal efficiency of Ag+ was achieved underoptimum condition (30 min and pH=5). The optimum adsorbent dose was 0.20 g (in 50 mL of 100 mg/L Ag+ solution), whichachieved a removal efficiency of 98.3%. The maximum monolayer adsorption capacity based on the Langmuir isotherm is243.90 mg/g. Characterization results revealed that specific surface area and porous volume were 814.23 m2/g and 0.726 cm3/g,respectively. The experimental data were fitted well with the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models. Synthesized adsorbent has desired surface area and adsorptive capacity for silver (I) adsorption in aquatic environment.