A robust object-based shadow detection method for cloud-free high resolution satellite images over urban areas and water bodies

Unwanted contrast in high resolution satellite images such as shadow areas directly affects the result of further processing in urban remote sensing images. Detecting and finding the precise position of shadows is critical in different remote sensing processing chains such as change detection, image classification and digital elevation model generation from stereo images. The spectral similarity between shadow areas, water bodies, and some dark asphalt roads makes the development of robust shadow detection algorithms challenging. In addition, most of the existing methods work on pixel-level and neglect the contextual information contained in neighboring pixels. In this paper, a new object-based shadow detection framework is introduced. In the proposed method a pixel-level shadow mask is built by extending established thresholding methods with a new C₄ index which enables to solve the ambiguity of shadow and water bodies. Then the pixel-based results are further processed in an object-based majority analysis to detect the final shadow objects. Four different high resolution satellite images are used to validate this new approach. The result shows the superiority of the proposed method over some state-of-the-art shadow detection method with an average of 96% in F-measure.     

Estimation of sea surface temperature, wind speed and water vapor with microwave radiometer data based on simulated annealing

A method for estimation of sea surface temperature, ocean wind speed and water vapor with microwave radiometer data based on simulated annealing is proposed. The proposed method shows about 60% improvement of sea surface temperature estimation accuracy in comparison to the existing method using Newton’s iterative algorithm.     

相似理论在层板式喷注器试验研究中的应用

将相似理论应用于层板式喷注器的试验研究，利用自行设计的溅板式喷嘴进行了冷流试验，通过试验证明该喷嘴的原形件与模型件在满足几何相似且进入第二自模区的条件下，流动特性相似。最后阐述了此结论的重要意义。     

Effect of Counterface Material on Friction and Wear Behavior of Ni-Cr-W-Al-Ti-MoS_2 Composites

Ni-Cr-W-Al-Ti-MoS2 self-lubricating composites were prepared through the powder metallurgy (P/M) method. Their friction properties were investigated by a pin-on-disk tribometer in the range from the room temperature to 600 ℃. Alumina, silicon nitride and nickel-iron-sulfide alloys were selected as the counterface materials. Results indicate that the lowest friction coefficients under 0.22 can be obtained at 600 ℃ when rubbed against alumina. When rubbed against nickel-iron-sulfide alloys, are presented the lowest wear rates in the magnitude of 10-6 mm3/N·m, one order of magnitude lower than those when rubbed against ceramics. In the case of three rubbing pairs, the wear rates of the composite containing MoS2 present themselves inversely proportional to friction coefficients. With alumina ceramics used as a counterface, transfer films and glaze layers will form on the contact surface playing a main role in lubrication at high temperatures. However, when silicon nitride and nickel-iron-sulfide alloy are used, the lubricating transfer films appear not to be promi-nent.     

Ti2AlNb基合金的ISM熔炼研究

讨论了Ti2AlNb基合金的熔炼特点,概括介绍了真空水冷铜坩埚感应凝壳熔炼的设备结构原理和工艺技术,结合Ti2AlNb基合金的熔炼实践,研究了合金元素的加入形式、熔炼室真空度对合金铸锭的均匀性以及合金中Al挥发烧损的影响规律。结果表明:采用水冷铜坩埚真空感应凝壳熔炼Ti2AlNb基合金,合金铸锭成分均匀性很好,随着熔炼工艺的不同,Al挥发烧损在5％～10％（质量分数）之间。     

高性能涡轮发动机润滑系统设计

简述了润滑剂对发动机设计的影响。阐明了使用酯类润滑油的设计问题及润滑系统通用的设计要求。     

基于超纯水电解加工的水解离机理研究

介绍了一种以超纯水为电解液的电解加工工艺方法,即超纯水电解加工技术.研究了阳离子交换膜在超纯水中的水解离机理及工作特性,分析其在超纯水电解加工过程中的作用机理,并进行了水解离试验研究.结果表明：电流密度达到了3.7 A/cm^2,电场强度约为2 MV/m,已进入微细电解加工去除材料要求范围,为超纯水微细电解加工的应用奠定了基础.     

Present-Day Sea Level Change: Observations and Causes

We investigate climate-related processes causing variations of the global mean sea level on interannual to decadal time scale. We focus on thermal expansion of the oceans and continental water mass balance. We show that during the 1990s where global mean sea level change has been measured by Topex/Poseidon satellite altimetry, thermal expansion is the dominant contribution to the observed 2.5 mm/yr sea level rise. For the past decades, exchange of water between continental reservoirs and oceans had a small, but not totally negligible contribution (about 0.2 mm/yr) to sea level rise. For the last four decades, thermal contribution is estimated to about 0.5 mm/yr, with a possible accelerated rate of thermosteric rise during the 1990s. Topex/Poseidon shows an increase in mean sea level of 2.5 mm/yr over the last decade, a value about two times larger than reported by historical tide gauges. This would suggest that there has been significant acceleration of sea level rise in the recent past, possibly related to ocean warming. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

金属水反应水冲压发动机系统性能估算

使用金属／水反应燃料是推进水下超高速航行器的最佳途径，分析了单次注水和二次注水的铝／水反应燃料水冲压发动机系统，得出了燃料质量配比、燃烧室温度、燃烧室压强、系统有效推力、效率等关键技术性能指标。指出了二次注水系统的优越性并提出了一种二次注水系统的实施方案。分析结论与实际系统性能指标相吻合，证明了分析的正确性，可以为系统研究提供参考。     

Numerical simulations of water spray on flame deflector during the four-engine rocket launching

This paper aims to study on the cooling effect with two types of water spray nozzle on the flame deflector during the four-engine launch vehicle take-off. To accurately simulate the two-phase flow of the rocket gas with multispecies and the water spray, the three-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations, discrete ordinates methods and realizable k-Ɛ turbulence model are used to establish the rocket supersonic plumes impact model. The Eulerian dispersed phase (EDP) model was used to simulate the water spray into the exhaust gas. The accuracy and effectiveness of the gas-liquid flow model are verified by a good agreement between simulation results and experimental data. On this basis, a series of numerical simulation studies under different water injection position are performed. The results show that the high temperature regions, along the axis of engines on the deflector plate, have no significant temperature decreasing effect by water spray from the nozzles mounted on the apex of the deflector, and the high temperature converts a large quantity of water into vapor near the plume boundary, which would decrease the flow conductivity. With the cooling spray nozzle fixed directly to the deflector plate, the temperature decrease effect is obvious and the effect of thermal shock on deflector plate induced by exhaust plume is reduced, so that it can prevent the flame deflector from thermal ablation. The study results provide indepth information and engineering guidance for designing the water spray systems and increasing the safety of the launch process.