Ground motion spatial variability effects on seismic response control of cable-stayed bridges

The spatial variability of input ground motion at supporting foundations plays a key role in the structural response of cable-stayed bridges （CSBs）; therefore, spatial variation effects should be included in the analysis and design of effective vibration control systems. The control of CSBs represents a challenging and unique problem, with many complexities in modeling, control design and implementation, since the control system should be designed not only to mitigate the dynamic component of the structural response but also to counteract the effects of the pseudo-static component of the response. The spatial variability effects on the feasibility and efficiency of seismic control systems for the vibration control of CSBs are investigated in this paper. The assumption of uniform earthquake motion along the entire bridge may result in quantitative and qualitative differences in seismic response as compared with those produced by uniform motion at all supports. A systematic comparison of passive and active system performance in reducing the structural responses is performed, focusing on the effect of the spatially varying earthquake ground motion on the seismic response of a benchmark CSB model with different control strategies, and demonstrates the importance of accounting for the spatial variability of excitations.

Population and housing grid spatialization in Yunnan Province based on grid sampling and application of rapid earthquake loss assessment:the Jinggu Ms6. 6 earthquake

Population and housing grid data spatialization hased on 340 grid samples （ 1 kmx 1 kin） is used in- stead of regional statistical data to simulate the population and housing distribution data of Yunnan Province （ 1 km×1 kin） for rapid loss assessment ibr the Jinggu Ms6.6 earthquake. The resuhs indicate that the method reflects the actual population and housing distribution and that the assessment results are eredihle. The method can be used to quickly provide spatial orientation disaster information after an earthquake.

Spatial Data Sharing on Grid

The Internet technology has already changed the Information Society in profound ways, and will continue to do so. Nowadays many people foresee that there is a similar trajectory for the next generation of Internet - Grid Technology. As an emerging computational and networking infrastructure, Grid Computing is designed to provide pervasive, uniform and reliable access to data, computational and human resources distributed in a dynamic, heterogeneous environment. On the other hand, the development of Geographic Information System （GIS） has been highly influenced by the evolution of information technology such as the Internet, telecommunications, software and various types of computing technology. In particular, in the distributed GIS domain, the development However, due to the closed and centralized has made significant impact in the past decade. legacy of the architecture and the lack of interoperability, modularity, and flexibility, current distributed GIS still cannot fully accommodate the distributed, dynamic, heterogeneous and speedy development in network and computing environments. Hence, the development of a high performance distributed GIS system is still a challenging task. So, the development of Grid computing technology undoubtedly provides a unique opportunity for distributed GIS, and a Grid Computing based GIS paradigm becomes inevitable. This paper proposes a new computing platform based distributed GIS framework - the Grid Geographic Information System （G^2IS）.

Evaluation of Moving Grid Adjustment (MGA) Method in Field Variation Control

Spatial variation is often encountered when large scale field trials are conducted which can result in biased estimation or prediction of treatment (i.e. genotype) values. An effective removal of spatial variation is needed to ensure unbiased estimation or prediction and thus increase the accuracy of field data evaluation. A moving grid adjustment (MGA) method, which was proposed by Technow, was evaluated through Monte Carlo simulation for its statistical properties regarding field spatial variation control. Our simulation results showed that the MGA method can effectively account for field spatial variation if it does exist;however, this method will not change phenotype results if field spatial variation does not exist. The MGA method was applied to a large-scale cotton field trial data set with two representative agronomic traits: lint yield (strong field spatial pattern) and lint percentage (no field spatial pattern). The results suggested that the MGA method was able to effectively separate the spatial variation including blocking effects from random error variation for lint yield while the adjusted data remained almost identical to the original phenotypic data. With application of the MGA method, the estimated variance for residuals was significantly reduced (62.2% decrease) for lint yield while more genetic variation (29.7% increase) was detected compared to the original data analysis subject to the conventional randomized complete block design analysis. On the other hand, the results were almost identical for lint percentage with and without the application of the MGA method. Therefore, the MGA method can be a useful addition to enhance data analysis when field spatial pattern exists.

“数字农业”与我国农业空间信息网格(Grid)技术的发展

本文在简要解释了“数字农业”的基本概念、理论体系以及相关技术的基础上 ,阐释了农业空间信息是“数字农业”的关键 ,并且进一步表明农业空间信息已经成为我国农业发展的重要资源。然而 ,我国现有的农业信息基础设施面临巨大的挑战 ,因此如何在国家空间信息网格 (SIG)的框架下探索我国农业信息资源的组织和管理技术是未来“数字农业”发展的重要研究内容。

thGridJob:面向空间信息网格的SOA结构任务框架(英文)

文章提出了一种基于SOA结构的任务框架来支持空间信息网格(SIG)中的长时间处理服务并将其命名为thGridJob。thGridJob采用三层结构,为用户和任务开发者提供了不同的编程接口。用户可以通过一系列的Web服务操作来提交和控制任务实例,任务开发者可以使用Java语言、脚本语言和工作流描述语言来开发任务实例。文章还采用Java语言开发设计和实现了一个thGridJob实现以及一个基于Web的用户界面,为SIG用户和任务开发者服务。

Spatial Interpolation of Daily Precipitation in China:1951-2005

Climate research relies heavily on good quality instrumental data; for modeling efforts gridded data are needed. So far, relatively little effort has been made to create gridded climate data for China. This is especially true for high-resolution daily data. This work, focuses on identifying an accurate method to produce gridded daily precipitation in China based on the observed data at 753 stations for the period 1951-2005. Five interpolation methods, including ordinary nearest neighbor, local polynomial, radial basis function, inverse distance weighting, and ordinary kriging, have been used and compared. Cross-validation shows that the ordinary kriging based on seasonal semi-variograms gives the best performance, closely followed by the inverse distance weighting with a power of 2. Finally the ordinary kriging is chosen to interpolate the station data to a 18 km× 18 km grid system covering the whole country. Precipitation for each 0.5°×0.5° latitude-longitude block is then obtained by averaging the values at the grid nodes within the block. Owing to the higher station density in the eastern part of the country, the interpolation errors are much smaller than those in the west （west of 100°E）. Excluding 145 stations in the western region, the daily, monthly, and annual relative mean absolute errors of the interpolation for the remaining 608 stations are 74%, 29%, and 16%, respectively. The interpolated daily precipitation has been made available on the internet for the scientific community.

基于SoilGrids的栅格新安江模型参数空间分布估算

为实现中小流域降雨径流过程精细化模拟,合理估算水文模型参数的空间分布具有重要意义。基于新版全球数字土壤制图系统(SoilGrids)构建栅格新安江模型(GXM)参数化方案,对陕西省陈河流域2003—2012年16场洪水进行模拟,与新安江模型计算结果进行对比,开展基于洪水过程划分的自由水蓄水容量敏感性及空间分布特征量化分析。结果表明:GXM模拟的峰现时间误差水平降低约0.31 h,洪峰和洪量模拟精度较高,模型能够对土壤水饱和度等水文要素的动态空间分布进行较合理的模拟;自由水蓄水容量参数对洪峰和涨洪过程的确定性系数以及涨洪段的洪量相对误差影响较大,对退水过程影响小;自由水蓄水容量在陈河流域河谷和山脊附近较大,坡段中部较小。

Calculation of watershed flow concentration based on the grid drop concept

The grid drop concept is introduced and used to develop a micromechanism-based methodology for calculating watershed flow concentration. The flow path and distance traveled by a grid drop to the outlet of the watershed are obtained using a digital elevation model （DEM）. Regarding the slope as an uneven carpet through which the grid drop passes, a formula for overland flow velocity differing from Manning＇s formula for stream flow as welt as Darcy＇s formula for pore flow is proposed. Compared with the commonly used unit hydrograph and isochronal methods, this new methodology has outstanding advantages in that it considers the influences of the slope velocity field and the heterogeneity of spatial distribution of rainfall on the flow concentration process, and includes only one parameter that needs to be calibrated. This method can also be effectively applied to the prediction of hydrologic processes in un-gauged basins.

Accuracy Comparison of Gridded Historical Cultivated Land Data in Jiangsu and Anhui Provinces

The spatial resolution of source data, the impact factor selection on the grid model and the size of the grid might be the main limitations of global land datasets applied on a regional scale. Quantitative studies of the impacts of rasterization on data accuracy can help improve data resolution and regional data accuracy. Through a case study of cropland data for Jiangsu and Anhui provinces in China, this research compared data accuracy with different data sources, rasterization methods, and grid sizes. First, we investigated the influence of different data sources on gridded data accuracy. The temporal trends of the History Database of the Global Environment （HYDE）, Chinese Historical Cropland Data （CHCD）, and Suwan Cropland Data （SWCD） datasets were more similar. However, differ- ent spatial resolutions of cropland source data in the CHCD and SWCD datasets revealed an average difference of 16.61% when provin- cial and county data were downscaled to a 10 x 10 km2 grid for comparison. Second, the influence of selection of the potential arable land reclamation rate and temperature factors, as well as the different processing methods for water factors, on accuracy of gridded datasets was investigated. Applying the reclamation rate of potential cropland to grid-processing increased the diversity of spatial distri- bution but resulted in only a slightly greater standard deviation, which increased by 4.05. Temperature factors only produced relative disparities within 10% and absolute disparities within 2 km2 over more than 90% of grid cells. For the different processing methods for water factors, the HYDE dataset distributed 70% more cropland in grid cells along riverbanks, at the abandoned Yellow River Estuary （located in Binhai County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province）, and around Hongze Lake, than did the SWCD dataset. Finally, we ex- plored the influence of different grid sizes. Absolute accuracy disparities by unit area for the year 2000 were within 0.1 km2 at a 1 km2 grid size, a 25% improvement over the 10 km2 grid size. Compared to the outcomes of other similar studies, this demonstrates that some model hypotheses and grid-processing methods in international land datasets are truly incongruent with actual land reclamation proc- esses, at least in China. Combining the model-based methods with historical empirical data may be a better way to improve the accuracy of regional scale datasets. Exploring methods for the above aspects improved the accuracy of historical crop/and gridded datasets for finer regional scales.

Analysis of Reflection Characteristics for Foam Filled Grid Structure

The reflection characteristics of gird structures are calculated by the spatial network method in the case of normal incidence plane electromagnetic wave. The numerical result shows that the grid panels without electromagnetic wave absorbing foams are not ideal. However, the absorbing ability can be achieved as low as -25 dBsm from 8 GHz to 12 GHz when the grid cells are filled with foam absorbers. Also it is noted from computation that the foam filled grid structures with larger cell size, higher and thinner ribs will improve the absorbing abilities, which illustrates that they can be used as the effective light-weight stealth structures for aeronautical application.

Visualization Techniques in Smart Grid

Visualization is an established methodology in scientific computing. It has been used in many fields because of its strong capability in large data management and information display. However, its applications in power systems, especially in Smart Grid are still in infancy stage. Besides, while there were a lot of researches working on visualizing data in transmission power system, the study on displaying distribution power system data was limited. Therefore, in this paper, author proposed some techniques to visualize the Smart Grid data at distribution. They are classified in three categories, which are low dimensional techniques, multivariate high dimensional techniques and Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques.

“Digital Region” in the Context of the “Grid Computing”

This paper is to construct a “digital local, regional, region” information framework based on the technology of “SIG” and its significance and application to the regional sustainable development evaluation system. First, the concept of the “grid computing” and “SIG” is interpreted and discussed, then the relationship between the “grid computing” and “digital region” is analyzed, and the framework of the “digital region” is put forward. Finally, the significance and application of “grid computing” to the “region sustainable development evaluation system” are discussed.

The Geographic Information Grid System Based on Mobile Agent

We analyze the deficiencies of current application systems, and discuss the key requirements of distributed Geographie Information serviee （GIS）, We construct the distributed GIS on grid platform. Considering the flexibility and efficiency, we integrate the mobile agent technology into the system. We propose a new prototype system, the Geographic Information Grid System （GIGS） based on mobile agent. This system has flexible services and high performance, and improves the sharing of distributed resources. The service strategy of the system and the examples are also presented.

Efficient Sparse-Grid Implementation of a Fifth-Order Multi-resolution WENO Scheme for Hyperbolic Equations

High-order accurate weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO)schemes are a class of broadly applied numerical methods for solving hyperbolic partial differential equations(PDEs).Due to highly nonlinear property of the WENO algorithm,large amount of computational costs are required for solving multidimensional problems.In our previous work(Lu et al.in Pure Appl Math Q 14:57–86,2018;Zhu and Zhang in J Sci Comput 87:44,2021),sparse-grid techniques were applied to the classical finite difference WENO schemes in solving multidimensional hyperbolic equations,and it was shown that significant CPU times were saved,while both accuracy and stability of the classical WENO schemes were maintained for computations on sparse grids.In this technical note,we apply the approach to recently developed finite difference multi-resolution WENO scheme specifically the fifth-order scheme,which has very interesting properties such as its simplicity in linear weights’construction over a classical WENO scheme.Numerical experiments on solving high dimensional hyperbolic equations including Vlasov based kinetic problems are performed to demonstrate that the sparse-grid computations achieve large savings of CPU times,and at the same time preserve comparable accuracy and resolution with those on corresponding regular single grids.

Evaluation of CHIRPS Satellite Gridded Dataset as an Alternative Rainfall Estimate for Localized Modelling over Uganda

The Ugandan economy is largely dependent on rural-based and rain-fed agriculture. This creates a critical need to understand the rainfall dynamics at the local scale. However, the country has a sternly sparse and unreliable rain gauge network. This research, therefore, sets out to evaluate the use of the CHIRPS satellite gridded dataset as an alternative rainfall estimate for local modelling of rainfall in Uganda. Complete, continuous and reliable in situ station observations for the period between 2012 and 2020 were used for the comparison with CHIRPS satellite data models in the same epoch. Rainfall values within the minimum 5 km and maximum 20 km radii from the in situ stations were extracted at a 5 km interval from the interpolated in situ station surface and the CHIRPS satellite data model for comparison. Results of the 5 km radius were adopted for the evaluation as it’s closer to the optimal rain gauge coverage of 25 km2. They show the R2 = 0.91, NSE = 0.88, PBias = -0.24 and RSR = 0.35. This attests that the CHIRPS satellite gridded datasets provide a good approximation and simulation of in situ station data with high collinearity and minimum deviation. This tallies with related studies in other regions that have found CHIRPS datasets superior to interpolation surfaces and sparse rain gauge data in the comprehensive estimation of rainfall. With a 0.05° * 0.05° (Latitude, longitude) spatial resolution, CHIRPS satellite gridded rainfall estimates are therefore able to provide a comprehensive rainfall estimation at a local scale. Essentially these results reward research science in regions like Uganda that have sparse rain gauges networks characterized by incomplete, inconsistent and unreliable data with an empirically researched alternative source of rainfall estimation data. It further provides a platform to scientifically interrogate the rainfall dynamics at a local scale in order to infuse local policy with evidence-based formulation and application.

VTI介质改进声学近似qP波交错网格正演模拟

Alkhalifah提出的声学假设近似令沿TI介质对称轴的qSV波速度近似为0,建立了相应的qP波波动方程并进行了数值模拟,但存在两个不足:一是方程中存在退化的qSV波解,不是纯qP波波动方程;二是方程不适用于ε<δ(ε和δ为Thomsen参数)的介质。为此,在Liang等的工作基础上,将改进声学近似方法的思想引入qP波频散关系和一阶波动方程推导。令qSV波的精确频散关系中的圆频率为0,同时结合椭圆分解,推导了VTI介质纯qP波解耦频散关系,利用改进标量算子的空间域渐近近似建立了VTI介质改进声学近似qP波一阶速度—应力波动方程,采用交错网格有限差分算法实现了基于改进声学近似的VTI介质纯qP波正演模拟。频散关系分析和数值示例表明,基于改进声学近似的qP波一阶波动方程不包含退化qSV波,是纯qP波方程,与弹性波波动方程模拟结果吻合较好,具有较高精度,并且该方程在ε≥δ和ε<δ的VTI介质中均是稳定的,同时也适用于复杂VTI介质。

Using Cellular Automata for Grid-Based Fishery Management

This report introduced new concept and technics for a grid-based fishery management system. The fishing ground was first divided into small grid of equal area, each with predefined longitudes and latitudes (both 0.033 degrees or approximately 2 × 2 nautical miles in this study). All grids were laid and formatted into a Microsoft-Excel spreadsheet system, as defined by the coastline. Individual sheets were also constructed to represent different ecological characters, serving as supporting data of the main grid-map. Including individual fishing record, water depth, wind & current vector, benthic character, etc. Cellular automata (CA) mathematics was applied for simulation studies. They were programmed on the built-in Visual BASIC langrage in EXCEL. In a three-year research project, the author was able to accomplish the following major results: 1) An EXCEL-based spreadsheet system for storage of fishing effort in each grid. Provided that data of fishing yield is also available for each grid, research model for fishery management can be constructed, leading toward solutions for total allowable catch (TAC) as well as maximum economic yield (MEY). 2) A multi-layered, 2-dimentional spread-sheet system demonstrating the distribution of relative intensity for individual grids. The system can be decked up with different ecological data for more advanced studies. 3) Estimation of the nearest distance between two special grids as well as fishing harbors. This would help in more efficient navigation management and allocation of fishing rights for the fishing vessels.

基于地理网格的中国传统村落空间分布及影响因素

以6批8 171个中国传统村落为研究对象,基于地理网格分析传统村落空间分布特征及影响因素。研究结论如下:(1)中国传统村落的空间分布形态为集聚型,传统村落密集分布的省际边界现象显著,表现为冀鲁豫交界、皖浙赣交界、黔桂湘交界3大集聚区;(2)传统村落空间分布的空间自相关性明显,存在“高-高”“低-高”“低-低”空间聚集,长江以南的山地丘陵地区是中国传统村落分布的密集区,东北和西北边陲地区是传统村落分布的稀疏区;(3)交通、经济因素对传统村落空间分布影响不显著,地形、气温、生态、人口因素对传统村落空间分布有着正向影响,降水因素对传统村落空间分布有着较小的负向影响,人口、城镇、生态因素对传统村落空间分布的影响具有较强的空间异质性。

基于误差幅空特性分析的空间负荷预测误差评价方法

对空间负荷预测误差进行有效评价是客观认识预测结果,指导预测结果合理应用的前提。然而,现有空间负荷预测误差评价的研究存在对误差的空间分布不考虑或考虑不充分导致评价不准确的问题。为此,提出一种基于误差幅空特性分析的空间负荷预测误差评价方法。首先,从空间负荷预测误差幅值大小和空间分布对电网规划影响的角度出发,对误差的幅空特性进行详细分析;其次,利用运输问题的数学模型来表征正负误差的幅空抵消特性,使用各空间邻近度–幅值误差值曲线与x轴围成面积之和来表征剩余未抵消误差的幅空叠加特性;然后,分别通过伏格尔法和各梯形面积累加公式来计算正负误差的幅空抵消影响值和剩余未抵消误差的幅空叠加影响值,并在此基础上构建空间负荷预测误差评价指标;最后,基于误差对电网规划的实际影响给出对误差评价指标性能的检验方法。算例分析表明,与传统方法相比,该文所提误差评价方法从幅值和空间两个维度实现了对空间负荷预测误差更为全面的评估,与误差对电网规划影响的实际情况贴近度更高。