Assessing the consequence of land use change on agricultural productivity in China

China's cultivated land has been undergoing dramatic changes along with its rapidly growing economy and population. The impacts of land use transformation on food production at the national scale, however, have been poorly understood due to the lack of detailed spatially explicit agricultural productivity information on cropland change and crop productivity. This study evaluates the effect of the cropland transformation on agricultural productivity by combining the land use data of China for the period of 1990-2000 from TM images and a satellite-based NPP (net primary production) model driven with NOAH/AVHRR data. The cropland area of China has a net increase of 2.79 Mha in the study period, which causes a slightly increased agricultural productivity (6.96 Mt C) at the national level. Although the newly cultivated lands compensated for the loss from urban expansion, but the contribution to production is insignificant because of the low productivity. The decrease in crop production resulting from urban expansion is about twice of that from abandonment of arable lands to forests and grasslands. The productivity of arable lands occupied by urban expansion was 80% higher than that of the newly cultivated lands in the regions with unfavorable natural conditions. Significance of cropland transformation impacts is spatially diverse with the differences in land use change intensity and land productivity across China. The increase in arable land area and yet decline in land quality may reduce the production potential and sustainability of China's agro-ecosystems. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Uncertainties in estimates of cropland area in China: a comparison between an AVHRR-derived dataset and a Landsat TM-derived dataset

The large uncertainties in estimates of cropland area in China may have significant implications for major cross-cutting themes of global environmental change-food production and trade, water resources, and the carbon and nitrogen cycles. Many earlier studies have indicated significant under-reporting of cropland area in China from official agricultural census statistics datasets. Space-borne remote sensing analyses provide an alternative and independent approach for estimating cropland area in China. In this study, we report estimates of cropland area from the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD-96) at the 1:100,000 scale, which was generated by a multi-year National Land Cover Project in China through visual interpretation and digitization of Landsat TM images acquired mostly in 1995 and 1996. We compared the NLCD-96 dataset to another land cover dataset at I-km spatial resolution (the IGBP DIScover dataset version 2.0), which was generated from monthly Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from April, 1992 to March, 1993. The data comparison highlighted the limitation and uncertainty of cropland area estimates from the DIScover dataset. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Equivalent-barotropic definition of tropospheric mean temperature

An equivalent-barotropic (EB) description of the tropospheric temperature field is derived from the geostrophic empirical mode (GEM) in the form of a scalar function Gamma(p, phi), where p is pressure and phi is 300-850-mb thickness. Baroclinic parameter phi plays the role of latitude at each longitudinal section. Compared with traditional Eulerian-mean methods, GEM defines a mean field in baroclinic streamfunction space with a time scale much longer than synoptic variability. It prompts an EB concept that is only based on a baroclinic field. Monthly GEM fields are diagnosed from NCEP-NCAR reanalysis data and account for more than 90% of the tropospheric thermal variance. The circumglobal composite of GEM fields exhibits seasonal, zonal, and hemispheric asymmetries, with larger rms errors occurring in winter and in the Northern Hemisphere (NH). Zonally asymmetric features and planetary deviation from EB are seen in the NH winter GEM. Reconstruction of synoptic sections and correlation analysis reveal that the tropospheric temperature field is EB at the leading order and has a 1-day phase lag behind barotropic variations in extratropical regions.

COASTAL SEA-LEVEL AND THE LARGE-SCALE CLIMATE STATE - A DOWNSCALING EXERCISE FOR THE JAPANESE ISLANDS

A major problem which is envisaged in the course of man-made climate change is sea-level rise. The global aspect of the thermal expansion of the sea water likely is reasonably well simulated by present day climate models; the variation of sea level, due to variations of the regional atmospheric forcing and of the large-scale oceanic circulation, is not adequately simulated by a global climate model because of insufficient spatial resolution. A method to infer the coastal aspects of sea level change is to use a statistical ''downscaling'' strategy: a linear statistical model is built upon a multi-year data set of local sea level data and of large-scale oceanic and/or atmospheric data such as sea-surface temperature or sea-level air-pressure. We apply this idea to sea level along the Japanese coast. The sea level is related to regional and North Pacific sea-surface temperature and sea-level air pressure. Two relevant processes are identified. One process is the local wind set-up of water due to regional low-frequency wind anomalies; the other is a planetary scale atmosphere-ocean interaction which takes place in the eastern North Pacific.

一种轮足复合式爬壁机器人机构建模与分析

基于行星轮系运动及双足真空吸附原理,提出了一种新型爬壁机器人机构,介绍了机构的构型及结构特点,推导了运动学方程,分析了沿直线行走、平面旋转和跨越交叉壁面三种运动模式.仿真结果表明该机构具有移动速度快、运动灵活、跨越交叉壁面能力强等特点.

轮式移动机器人与地形交互运动仿真研究

分析了轮式移动机器人(WMR)在不平坦的三维地形上运动的运动学模型.利用速度投影法,得到了WMR运动模型的一种新形式.基于虚拟现实技术,利用VC++OpenGL实现了WMR虚拟漫游系统.该系统具有较强的交互性和实时性,为星球探测机器人的虚拟导航、遥操作等提供了验证平台.

基于状态构形矢量和状态构形矩阵的可重构模块星球机器人构形水

可重构模块星球机器人系统由母体和多个子机器人模块组成,单个模块可以独立运动和操作,多个模块可以重构组合成不同构形,模块采用非对称式轮手一体机构,具有姿态方位性和运动方向性,重构目的是组成在某种环境下更好地完成有向性运动的构形。基于此,提出矢量构形概念,将运动趋势方向和方位性融合到构形拓扑结构中。在模块矢量分析模型基础上,提出并构建状态构形矢量(State configuration vector,SCV)和状态构形矩阵(State configuration matrix,SCM),对非对称式单模块和整体构形的状态信息进行描述,同时支持预定义的数学变换操作,可以表达并触发模块的基础动作、构形重构。提出离散模块组合重构成目标构形的优化分析算法,通过实例仿真计算获得优化分析的选择结果。

一种星球探测系统多机器人通信机制研究

分析了一种可重构星球探测系统中多机器人通信的特点.根据多机器人系统的功能要求,在TDMA(时分多址)分时共享信道原理和击鼓传花机制的启发下,提出了一种新颖的多机器人无线通信机制.详细介绍了该通信机制和通信协议.仿真和通信实验同时验证了该机制的可行性和实用性.

可重构机器人体系结构及模块化控制系统的实现

本文提出了一种适用于新型可重构星球机器人的模块化控制系统,根据机构和运动特性,基于CAN总线和分布式控制器技术,将系统结构和功能分解成不同模块由各自的控制器独立执行,建立具有任务层和运动层的分层次控制结构,实现了组合式规划、分布式控制的混合式控制方法。本文设计了两种不同的控制器,并采用PPG脉冲宽度调节方法实现了对在机器人上使用的R/C电机的标定和控制。通过在子机器人原理样机上进行实验,验证了这套控制系统和控制体系结构的可行性。

可重构星球探测机器人控制系统的设计与实现

介绍了一种新型可重构星球探测机器人系统.基于这种机器人功能和结构的分解特点,设计了模块化控制系统,使用CAN总线技术作为模块间主要通讯方式.提出了控制原理和集中式控制算法,有效地实现了一台子机器人在不同模式状态下自主运动和操作的控制,并通过原理样机实验验证了这套控制系统的可行性.

可重构星球探测机器人的机构设计

基于可重构思想设计了一种可重构星球探测机器人系统。系统由一个母体和几个子机器人组成,其中子机 器人包括车轮和手臂两部分,可以作为独立作业的机器人,具有移动状态和工作状态两种模式。子机器人具有在 一个驱动力作用下处于不同约束环境中时,表现为不同形式输出的特点,容易实现两种模式下的灵活运动。并深 入研究了机构参数对子机器人运动的影响,用试验和仿真进行了验证,这为机器人的参数化设计及运动中的参数 化调整提供了重要的理论依据。

可重构星球探测机器人的运动学建模及轨迹规划

提出了可重构星球探测机器人的概念,对系统中子机器人的研究进行了重点论述.通过设计恰当的子机器人连杆坐标系,利用Denavit Hartenberg方法完成了子机器人的运动学建模,并直接给出了子机器人的运动学正解模型.由于使用单一的求解算法不能求出工作空间的封闭解,因此综合利用代数法、几何法原理及空间投影关系,结合子机器人的结构特殊性推导出了运动学逆解,从而得到了工作空间内的所有解.在此基础上,考虑结构间的约束关系,给出了子机器人的工作空间及轨迹规划方法.最后,使用OpenGL对设计的子机器人系统进行了运动学仿真实验,实验以末端操作器的直线运动为例,充分考虑空间几何的关系,其结果有效地证明了建模及轨迹规划的正确性.

可重构星球探测机器人的OpenGL仿真实验平台研究

采用基于Visual C++和OpenGL的建模和运动仿真方法,对可重构星球探测机器人系统的三维运动仿真实验平台进行了研究,建立了一个多机器人系统的仿真实验平台。开发的实验平台可用于探索和验证机器人系统的工作原理、工作空间、多机器人协调算法、重构方法、系统集成技术等。在该平台上进行了机器人的运动学仿真和协调运动研究,验证了该仿真平台的有效性和机器人系统体系结构的合理性。

可重构星球探测机器人的空间对接研究

提出了以改装后的位置敏感传感器来引导机器人完成自动对接的方法,分析了具体工作原理。对可重构星球探测机器人在运动模式下完成对接的两种姿态进行了比较,分别用一般方法和改进后的规划方法计算出了对接工作空间,比较结果说明,机器人在运动模式下三角边着地有利于完成自动对接。对工作模式机器人在工作空间内的运动进行了静力学分析,分析结果表明,机器人在工作空间内可以自由运动。用VC和OpenGL搭建的平台对空间对接进行了仿真试验,试验结果验证了对接工作空间计算的正确性和完成空间自动对接的可能性。

地幔压力下CaSiO3 Perovskite状态方程和弹性常数的第一性原理研究

In the past decade density functional theory (DFT) has made its way from a peripheral position in quantum chemistry to center. Of course the often excellent accuracy of the DFT based methods has provided the primary driving force of this development. This dissertation is devoted to the study of physical and chemical properties of planetary materials by first-principle calculation. The concerned properties include the geometry, elastic constants and anisotropy. In the first chapter, we give a systematic introduction to theoretical background and review its progress. Development of quantum chemistry promotes the establishment of DFT. Theorem of Hohenberg-Kohn is the fundament of DFT and is developed to Kohn-Sham equation, which can be used to perform real calculations. Now, new corrections and extensions, together with developed exchange-correlation, have made DFT more accurate and suitable for larger systems. In the second chapter, we focus on the calculational methods and technical aspects of DFT. Although it is important to develop methods and program, external package are still often used. At the end of this chapter, we briefly some widely used simulation package and the application of DFT. In the third chapter, we begin to focus on properties of real materials by first principles calculation. We study a kind of minerals named Ca perovskite, investigate its possible structure and anisotropy at Earth’s mental condition. By understanding and predicting geo-physically important materials properties at extreme conditions, we can get the most accurate information to interpret seismic data in the context of likely geophysical processes.