An automated method for glacial lake mapping in High Mountain Asia using Landsat 8 imagery

Glacial lakes in the High Mountain Asia(HMA)are sensitive to global warming and can result in much more severe flood disasters than some largesized lakes.An accurate and robust method for the extraction of glacial lakes is critical to effective management of these natural water resources.Conventional methods often have limitations in terms of low spectral contrast and heterogeneous backgrounds in an image.This study presents a robust and automated method for the yearly mapping of glacial lake over a large scale,which took advantage of the complementarity between the modified normalized difference water index(MNDWI)and the nonlocal active contour model,required only local homogeneity in reflectance features of lake.The cloud computing approach with the Google Earth Engine(GEE)platform was used to process the intensive amount of Landsat 8 images from 2015 (344 path/rows and approximately 7504 scenes).The experimental results were validated by very high resolution images from Chinese GaoFen-1 (GF-1) panchromatic multi-spectral(PMS)and appeared a general good agreement.This is the first time that information regarding the spatial distribution of glacial lakes over the HMA has been derived automatically within quite a short period of time.By integrating it with the relevant indices,it can also be applied to detect other land cover types such as snow or vegetation with improved accuracy.

Stretch Bending of Z-section Stainless Steel Profile

The stretch bending properties of a new Z-section stainless steel profile were investigated by simulation.The causes of the forming defects,such as section distortions and poor contour precision,were analyzed,and the corresponding controlling methods were proposed.The results show that the main forming defects for the stretch bending of the Z-section profile were the flange sagging,the sidewall obliquing inward,the bottom surface upwarping,and the bad contour accuracy;the cross-section distortions were mainly induced by the shrinkage of the sidewall,which could be eliminated by increasing the sidewall height of the profile reasonably;the poor contour precision was mainly due to springback,which could be controlled by modifying the die surface based on the springback amount;for the investigated bending beam,the proper sidewall height compensation was 2mm,and the suitable die surface modification amount was 1.2times of the springback amount,when the elongation was 10% of the initial profile length.Stretch bending tests were conducted on a new type of die with adjustable bending surfaces,and high quality components were achieved,which verified the effectiveness of the defect controlling measures.