The Progress of the Taiwan Oscillation Network Project

We describe the present status of the project of the Taiwan Oscillation Network (TON) and discuss a scientific result using the TON data. The TON is a ground-based network to measure solar intensity oscillations for the study of the solar interior. Four telescopes have been installed in appropriate longitudes around the world. The TON telescopes take K-line full-disk solar images of diameter 1000 pixels at a rate of one image per minute. The data has been collected since October of 1993. The TON high-spatial-resolution data are specially suitable for the study of local properties of the Sun. In 1997 we developed a new method, acoustic imaging, to construct the acoustic signals inside the Sun with the acoustic signals measured at the solar surface. From the constructed signals, we can form intensity map and phase-shift map of an active region at various depths. The direct link between these maps and the subsurface wave-speed perturbation suffers from the poor vertical resolution of acoustic imaging. Recently an inversion method has been developed to invert the measured phase travel time perturbation to estimate the distribution of wave-speed perturbation based on the ray approximation. This technique of acoustic imaging has been used to image the far-side of the Sun that could provides information on space weather prediction. The TON Team includes: Antonio Jimenez (Instituto Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain); Guoxiang Ai and Honqi Zhang (Huairou Solar Observing Station, P.R.C.); Philip Goode and William Marquette (Big Bear Solar Observatory, U.S.A.); Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev and Oleg Ladenkov (Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute, Uzbekistan) This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

扇面波导斜缝特性的矩量法分析

根据缝隙口面切向场的连续条件,采用解析数值法--矩量法,对扇面波导宽壁上窄的斜缝进行了计算,解得了磁流系数及其分布,并得到散射场、等效散射参量及等效阻抗等重要参数.假定波导中仅有TE-11主模传输,在X波段计算了散射参量和归一化等效串联阻抗,给出计算结果,为缝隙天线和缝隙阵列设计提供了依据.     

Relationships between soil properties of the abandoned fields and spectral data derived from the advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (ASTER)

The structural transformation of Polish agriculture after 1989 has been leading to significant changes in land use. As a result a large part of formerly ploughed fields lies abandoned and they occur across considerable variability in soil typological units. Accurate information about soil conditions within the abandoned fields facilitates proper management in the new socio-economic situation. Such information can be collected using satellite images since the structure and condition of the vegetation growing on the abandoned fields reflects soil properties. The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationships between physical and chemical attributes of soil within the abandoned fields and spectral reflectance patterns recorded by ASTER sensors onboard Terra Satellite. Soil samples were collected at five abandoned fields which have not been ploughed since 2000 and analyzed in the laboratory to determine their physical and chemical properties. Nine ASTER nearly cloud-free pictures were used for this study in order to derive the remote-sensing attributes of the abandoned fields. In order to evaluate the relationships between soil fertility and remotely sensed data, partial least-squares (PLS) and a multiple linear regression (MLR) analysis between these two datasets were carried out. In the regression analysis, only soil TEB (total exchangeable bases) stock in the whole profile displayed the highest correlation with remotely sensed data acquired in April and May and the best predictors were NDVI and LSWI vegetation indices.     

Neutral atmosphere and crustal magnetization as factors determining differences in plasma convection and magnetic fields distribution in the ionospheres of Mars and Venus

The pattern of the magnetic field/plasma convection can be, to some extent, recovered from the magnetic field measurements by employing either theoretical or numerical models. We use the MAG/ER day-time measurements of the magnetic field at the altitudes from 90 to 180 km during the elliptical orbits of MGS. Analysis of the altitude variation of the characteristics of the large-scale magnetic fields, which were measured some distance away from strong crustal magnetic anomalies, is summarized. The low density of the Martian atmosphere together with the crustal magnetization result in critical differences in plasma convection which are followed by remarkable differences of the magnetic field features within the ionosphere of Venus and Mars (even in its northern hemisphere where the crustal magnetization is, on the average, low) and distribution of currents.     

An approach to multi-temporal MODIS image analysis using image classification and segmentation

This paper discusses an approach for river mapping and flood evaluation based on multi-temporal time series analysis of satellite images utilizing pixel spectral information for image classification and region-based segmentation for extracting water-covered regions. Analysis of MODIS satellite images is applied in three stages: before flood, during flood and after flood. Water regions are extracted from the MODIS images using image classification (based on spectral information) and image segmentation (based on spatial information). Multi-temporal MODIS images from “normal” (non-flood) and flood time-periods are processed in two steps. In the first step, image classifiers such as Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) separate the image pixels into water and non-water groups based on their spectral features. The classified image is then segmented using spatial features of the water pixels to remove the misclassified water. From the results obtained, we evaluate the performance of the method and conclude that the use of image classification (SVM and ANN) and region-based image segmentation is an accurate and reliable approach for the extraction of water-covered regions.     

The hemispheric asynchrony of polar faculae during solar cycles 19–22

We investigate the north–south (N–S) asynchrony of the polar faculae and compare it with the hemispheric asynchrony of solar activity at low latitudes. We find that, (1) both the solar activity at high and low latitudes do not synchronously occur in the northern and southern hemispheres, there is phase shifts between the two hemispheres; (2) the N–S asynchrony of the polar faculae is a function of latitudes, implying that the asynchrony of the polar faculae between the two hemispheres is related to the hemispheric asymmetry and latitudinal distribution of the polar faculae.     

准远场天线测量修正方法研究

远场测量是获得天线辐射特性的一种常用方法。然而对于一维电尺寸大,另一维电尺寸小的天线,如基站天线,由于场地因素的限制,往往不能满足远场测量条件,用近场测量又费时费力。在这种准远场条件下,天线测量结果与远场情况下的测量结果有较大差异。本文基于柱面波展开,给出了一种由准远场距离上测得的方向图计算远场的理论计算方法,经过该算法补偿后的结果与理论计算结果吻合很好,从而验证了算法的正确性。     

带矢量喷管的一体化飞行/推进控制技术研究

本文对综合推力矢量飞行／推进控制系统的设计方法进行了研究,在充分考虑了推力矢量飞行、推进子系统之间的相互作用后,建立了带推力矢量综合飞行／推进控制系统的数学模型,结合推力矢量研究的特点,采用鲁棒伺服ＬＱＧ／ＬＴＲ设计法,进行控制系统的设计,通过仿真实验,证明设计达到了要求,方法可行     

全场观测技术概念,进程与展望

简要综述理想的流体力学观测手术的概念，近代全球观测技术（包括激光空间流动显示，定量化流动显示，全场测量技术等）及其应用发展的踪迹和趋向，同时介绍作者在此领域的若干研究工作。     

喷嘴间距对贫油熄火特性和流场结构的影响

为深入认识喷嘴间距对燃气轮机燃烧室贫油熄火和气动性能的影响,基于典型的双旋流扩散燃烧喷嘴设计了喷嘴位置连续变化可调的双头部模型燃烧室。实验测量了不同初始当量比条件下喷嘴间的最大传焰距离,分析了火焰传播的动态过程;此外还研究了喷嘴间距对贫油熄火当量比、反应流场和方均根速度场的影响。实验结果表明:当量比每增加0.1,无量纲最大联焰间距增大0.2左右,并且喷嘴间的联焰过程大致可分为四个阶段;单喷嘴的贫油熄火当量比大于任意喷嘴间距下双喷嘴的贫油熄火当量比;随着喷嘴间距的减小,贫油熄火当量比先减小后增大;另外,喷嘴间距减小导致射流合并,气流径向速度抵消变小,中心射流速度峰值增大以及回流区尺寸缩小;随着喷嘴彼此靠近,喷嘴间的方均根速度变大,分布区域变广。