Development of new methods for estimating biophysical parameters can be considered one of the most important targets for the improvement of grassland parameters estimation at full canopy cover. In fact, accurate assessment methods of biophysical characteristics of vegetation are needed in order to avoid the uncertainties of carbon terrestrial sinks.
Remote sensing is a valid tool for scaling up ecosystem measurements towards landscape levels serving a wide range of applications, many of them being related to carbon-cycle models. The aim of this study was to test the suitability of satellite platform sensors in estimating grassland biophysical parameters such as LAI, biomass, phytomass, and Green herbage ratio (GR). Also, we wanted to compare some of the most common NIR and red/green-based vegetation indices with ones that also make use of the MIR band, in relation to their ability to predict grassland biophysical parameters.
Ground-truth measurements were taken on July 2003 and 2004 on the Monte Bondone plateau (Italian Alps, Trento district) in grasslands varying in land use and management intensities. From satellite platforms, an IRS-1C-LISS III image (18/07/2003; 25 m resolution in the visible-NIR and 70 m resolution in the MIR) and a SPOT 5 image (27/07/2004, 10 m resolution in the visible-NIR and MIR) were used.
LAI, biomass, and phytomass measurements showed logarithmic relationships with the investigated NIR and red/green-based indices. GreenNDVI showed the highest R2 values (0.59, IRS 2003; 0.60, SPOT 2004). Index saturation occurred above approximately 100–150 g m−2 of biomass (LAI 1.5–2). On the other hand, GR relationships were shown to be linear. MIR-based indices performed better than NIR and red/green-based ones in estimating biophysical variables, with no saturation effect. Biomass showed a linear regression with Canopy Index (MIR/green ratio) and with the Normalised Canopy Index (NCI) calculated as a normalised difference between MIR and green bands (IRS: R2 = 0.91 and 0.90, respectively. SPOT: R2 = 0.63 and 0.64). Similar correlations could also be found for LAI and phytomass, and GR predictability was shown to be higher than NDVI and GreenNDVI. According to these results obtained in the investigated areas, phytomass, biomass, LAI, and GR are linearly correlated with the investigated MIR band indices and as a result, these parameters could be estimated from the adopted satellite platforms with limited saturation problems. 相似文献
Using low power electronic devices for space applications to reduce the mass and energy consumption has lead to electromagnetic interference (EMI) problem. Electronic enclosures are used to shield electronic devices against EMI. In the past, electromagnetic shielding has been mainly the only criteria considered in electronic enclosure design. However, there are several structural and thermal requirements for selection of shielding materials which should also be taken into account. In this research work, three quantitative materials selection methods, i.e. Digital Logic (DL), Modified Digital Logic (MDL), and Z-transformation, are employed to select the best material from among a list of candidate materials. Composite and metallic electronic enclosures are explored and the best material is selected. Z-transformation method is applicable to both of the considered case studies while DL and MDL can only be used for solving one of them. Z-transformation method ranks aluminum as the first choice among various metallic materials. The wide range of Z-transformation application and its practical results confirm the superiority of Z-transformation method over DL and MDL methods. 相似文献
Coronal mass ejections and post-shock streams driven by them are the most efficient drivers of strong magnetospheric activity,
magnetic storms. For this reason there is considerable interest in trying to make reliable forecasts for the effects of CMEs
as much in advance as possible. To succeed this requires understanding of all aspects related to CMEs, starting from their
emergence on the Sun to their propagation to the vicinity of the Earth and to effects within the magnetosphere. In this article
we discuss some recent results on the geoeffectivity of different types of CME/shock structures. A particularly intriguing
observation is that smoothly rotating magnetic fields within CMEs are most efficient in driving storm activity seen in the
inner magnetosphere due to enhanced ring current, whereas the sheath regions between the shock and the ejecta tend to favour
high-latitude activity. 相似文献
In response to the challenges of aerospace defense caused by the rapid development of hypersonic targets in recent years, the research on the unsupervised classification of flight states for hypersonic targets is carried out in this paper, which is based on the Hyperspectral Features (HFs) of hypersonic targets covered with plasma sheath during high-speed flight. First, a new concept of the super node is defined to improve classification accuracy by alleviating the intraclass variability of HFs. Then, the frequency domain information of the curve of HFs is utilized to reduce the feature redundancy according to the prior theoretical knowledge that the fluctuation characteristics of HFs of the same flight states are similar. Finally, an unsupervised classification method based on the Density Peak Clustering (DPC) for HFs is designed to class flight states after eliminating the impact of intraclass variability and feature dimension redundancy. The proposal is compared with the traditional classification algorithms on simulated hyperspectral data sets of typical flight states of the hypersonic vehicle and an actual-observation hyperspectral data set. The results indicate that the performance of our proposal has competitive advantages in terms of Overall Accuracy (OA), Average Accuracy (AA) and Kappa coefficient. 相似文献