The impact of misregistration on SRTM and DEM image differences

Image differences between Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data and other Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are often performed for either accuracy assessment or for estimating vegetation height across the landscape. It has been widely assumed that the effect of sub-pixel misregistration between the two models on resultant image differences is negligible, yet this has not previously been tested in detail. The aim of this study was to determine the impact that various levels of misregistration have on image differences between SRTM and DEMs. First, very accurate image co-registration was performed at two study sites between higher resolution DEMs and SRTM data, and then image differences (SRTM–DEM) were performed after various levels of misregistration were systematically introduced into the SRTM data. It was found that: (1) misregistration caused an erroneous and dominant correlation between elevation difference and aspect across the landscape; (2) the direction of the misregistration defined the direction of this erroneous and systematic elevation difference; (3) for sub-pixel misregistration the error due solely to misregistration was greater than, or equal to the true difference between the two models for substantial proportions of the landscape (e.g., greater than 33% of the area for a half-pixel misregistration); and (4) the strength of the erroneous relationship with aspect was enhanced by steeper terrain. Spatial comparisons of DEMs were found to be sensitive to even sub-pixel misregistration between the two models, which resulted in a strong erroneous correlation with aspect. This misregistration induced correlation with aspect is not likely specific to SRTM data only; we expect it to be a generic relationship present in any DEM image difference analysis.     

珠三角地区咸潮入侵预警预报信息系统的总体设计

珠江口由于淡水径流量小、河口较宽,潮水比较容易进入,每年都会发生不同程度的咸潮现象,咸潮对珠三角城市群构成整体威胁。本文提出预警预报系统设计思想,旨在从计算机软件层面通过预警系统加以模拟实现咸潮发生、发展的整个侵入过程,从而更加科学合理地制定珠三角咸潮的应对措施,为咸潮入侵应急预案提供决策依据。     

Metric concepts and implications in describing compositional changes for world river's water chemistry

The paper is designed to give the reader an outline that is useful for understanding the importance of distance, as a metric concept, and its implications when compositional (geochemical) data are managed from a statistical point of view in a given sample space. Application examples are shown by considering the construction of confidence regions and mixing models. The analyzed data are related to the chemistry of the most important rivers of the world as referring to the GEMS/WATER Global Register of River Inputs when each sample (river) is represented as a composition. A compositional vector of d parts, x=[x₁,x₂,…,x_d], is defined as a vector in which the only relevant information is contained in the ratios between its components. All the components of the vector are assumed positive and are called parts (variables), while the whole compositional vector, with the sum of the parts equal to a constant, represents the composition. In this case data are not represented by variables free to vary from −∞ to +∞ within a Euclidean space but occupy a restricted part of it called the simplex. The d-part simplex, S^d, is a subset of a d-dimensional real space. In this context the metric of the R space, with the definition of basic algebraic operations and of inner product, norm and distance, thus giving an Euclidean vector space structure, cannot be applied since the scale is relative and not absolute.     

2010世博会:上海城市发展的重要契机——法国巴黎八届世博会的借鉴

2010年上海世博会主办权的取得,具有相当重要的历史性意义,中国开启了向世界展示其独特魅力的崭新舞台。本文通过对八届巴黎世博会的解读,分析巴黎世博会的举办对城市发展的意义,探讨在2010年上海世博会的背景下,推动上海城市未来发展的思路,希望对上海城市的未来发展在理念上能够有所裨益。     

论溪落渡水电站的战略地位

溪落渡水电站是金沙江上最大的一座巨型电站,装机容量1200~1500万kW,除发电外兼有防洪、拦沙、改善下游航运等综合利用效益。通过对金沙江水电基地在我国经济建设中的地位和作用;溪落渡水电站在金沙江水电基地开发中的地位和作用、在“西电东送(包括南送)”中的地位和作用以及在长江上游水电基地中的地位和作用等论述,希望引起有关领导和决策部门的重视,加快溪落水电站前期工作的进程和促进金沙江水电基地的开发。     

Measuring the economic benefits of the Youngsan River Restoration Project in Kwangju,Korea, using contingent valuation

This study examines the economic benefits of a river restoration project in the Youngsan River, Kwangju, Korea, using a contingent valuation method. It employs a spike model to address the high proportion of zero responses. The results indicate that a household's annual mean willingness to pay is KRW3410 in Kwangju and KRW1744 in other regions. The resulting benefit-cost ratio is 2.29, indicating that the project would be socially profitable, and that households appear willing to support it financially.     

Institutional factors affecting fish passage in the Columbia River Treaty renegotiation

ABSTRACT

The United States and Canada have begun renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty, which is an international model for transboundary water governance. This paper identifies six institutional factors that will affect negotiations pertaining to fish passage during the renegotiation of the treaty: geographical advantage, issue linkage, a basin commission, the duration of agreements, negotiating autonomy and side payments. These factors and the methods used to determine them can be applied to other transboundary river basins where basin states have a history of transboundary resource governance. This analysis also serves as a policy-relevant resource for Columbia River Treaty negotiators and stakeholders.     

中型山区河流水电站下游的鱼类生态需水量计算

为更好地对河流水电开发后的鱼类进行保护,探讨中型山区河流水电站下游的鱼类生态需水量计算.参照大型河流鱼类水力生境参数标准,根据中型山区河流的特点,得到中型山区河流鱼类水力生境参数的参考标准.选取有代表性的四川中型山区河流杂谷脑河进行鱼类生境原型观测,原型观测结果证实了该参考标准能够满足杂谷脑河鱼类对生境的实际需求.基于所得到的参考标准,应用生态水力学法对杂谷脑河红叶二级、理县以及甘堡3座电站减水河段的鱼类生态需水量进行计算分析,得到3座电站的生态需水量推荐值.通过分析可知,所得到的生态需水量推荐值占年均天然流量以及设计引用流量的比例都不高,在3座电站的运行实践中,具有可操作性.     

黄河上中游流域泥沙优化配置研究

针对流域水土流失的灾害性、泥沙利用现状及泥沙优化配置的必要性,基于大系统分解-协调思想的流域泥沙优化配置原理与流域各子系统的泥沙多目标优化配置方法,构建了流域泥沙优化配置理论框架。进而建立了黄河上中游流域泥沙优化配置数学模型,该模型包括相互联系的各子系统、各分区和大系统三级泥沙优化配置数学模型,开展了不同水沙条件的黄河上中游流域泥沙优化配置方案计算,对计算结果进行了评价并提出了建议方案,为黄河上中游流域泥沙的科学治理提供了参考依据。     

Maximum speedup ratio curve (MSC) in parallel computing of the binary-tree-based drainage network

Restricted computational capacity has become a key factor in limiting the development of a majority of distributed basin models. Parallel computing is one of the most effective methods for solving this problem. Although many parallel-computing methods have been employed in basin models, few studies have carried out theoretical research on parallel characteristics of river basins. In this paper, the drainage network of river basins is treated as a binary-tree structure. Using the binary-tree theory, we find that there exists a maximum speedup curve (MSC) for an arbitrary drainage network. The x-coordinate of the MSC represents the number of processors used during the computing, while the y-coordinate corresponds to the maximum speedup ratio (MSR) that can be obtained. Under several essential assumptions, the theoretical function of MSC is established. The function indicates that the MSC consists of an ascending section and a horizontal section. A parallel algorithm capable of acquiring the MSC is proposed as well. Using this algorithm, the MSC is tested at two different-resolution drainage networks of the Lhasa River Basin. A 2-year rainfall-runoff process is simulated. The results prove the existence of MSC. However, primarily influenced by the load imbalance of subbasins, the simulation values of MSR are usually smaller than the theoretical ones.