641 results about "Land use" patented technology

A method for efficiently and accurately inventorying image features such as timber, including steps of segmenting digital images into tree stands, segmenting tree stands into tree crowns, each tree crown having a tree crown area, classifying tree crowns based on species, and analyzing the tree crown classification to determine information about the individual tree crowns and aggregate tree stands. The tree crown area is used to determine physical information such as tree diameter breast height, tree stem volume and tree height. The tree crown area is also used to determine the value of timber in tree stands and parcels of land using tree stem volume and market price of timber per species.

The present invention comprises a method for forecasting future economic conditions, land utilization and transportation network utilization and performance of a metropolitan area having a plurality of economic zones, the method includes the steps of: a) receiving a set of calibration values from a first input device; b) calculating a set of calibration constants with a first arithmetic logic unit; c) receiving a set of initial values for a set of desired outputs from a second input device, wherein the set of desired outputs includes regional economic, land use and transportation outputs; d) calculating the regional economic and land use outputs with a second arithmetic logic unit, wherein the regional economic and land use outputs include a first group of variable travel demands; e) calculating an origin to destination matrix with a third arithmetic logic unit, wherein the origin to destination matrix includes two-way daily person trips between an origin economic zone and a destination economic zone; f) calculating the transportation outputs with a fourth arithmetic logic unit, wherein the transportation outputs include a second group of variable travel demands; h) repeating steps d) through f) until the first group of variable travel demands is substantially the same as the second group of variable travel demands; and, g) providing the set of desired outputs to an output device.

Systems and methods for disposing and supporting a solar panel array are disclosed. The embodiments comprise various combinations of cables, support columns, and pod constructions in which to support solar panels. The solar panels can incorporate single or dual tracking capabilities to enhance sunlight capture. The embodiments encourage dual land use in which installation of the systems minimizes disruption of the underlying ground. Supplemental power may be provided by vertical axis windmills integrated with the columns. Special installations of the system can include systems mounted over structures such as parking lots, roads and aqueducts.

Systems and methods for disposing and supporting a solar panel array are disclosed. The embodiments comprise various combinations of cables, support columns, and pod constructions in which to support solar panels. The solar panels can incorporate single or dual tracking capabilities to enhance sunlight capture. The embodiments encourage dual land use in which installation of the systems minimizes disruption of the underlying ground. Supplemental power may be provided by vertical axis windmills integrated with the columns. Special installations of the system can include systems mounted over structures such as parking lots, roads and aqueducts. Simplified support systems with a minimum number of structural elements can be used to create effective support for solar panel arrays of varying size and shapes. These simplified systems minimize material requirements and labor for installation of the systems.

The invention provides a method and apparatus for monitoring the use of land. More specifically, the invention monitors the use of land at a specified site, as well as at adjacent sites. The system continuously receives new land use data, The system identifies land use events at the specified site and filters these monitoring hits against alert criteria. The system then generates alerts to specified parties. Based on these alerts, proactive steps of intervention can be undertaken. The invention answers the question of how to manage risks relating to the use of land resulting from external activities and how to intervene proactively.

Methods are disclosed for the simplification and integration of data from a diverse set of sources for environmental costs and societal benefit data. The methods allow for the computation of five basic metrics: material use, water use, energy use, toxics emitted, land use and overall pollutants emitted. Further, they facilitate the computation of complementary metrics, as well as the estimation of net present value of costs of unrealized environmental impacts.

A transformational approach to water treatment is provided that incorporates membrane-free filtration with dynamic processing of the fluid to significantly reduce treatment times, chemical cost, land use, and operational overhead. This approach provides hybrid capabilities of filtration, together with chemical treatment, as the water is transported through various spiral stages.

The invention relates to a construction method for enhancing the extraction effect of a ground coal bed gas, comprising the following steps of: (1) constructing a vertical cave well, forging caves on coal beds with coal bed gases needed to extract, and placing fiberglass casings into the caves; (2) constructing a vertical well section and a lower branched main horizontal well hole of a horizontal well, respectively forwards constructing the lower branched main horizontal well hole and a horizontal branched well hole positioned in front of a lower branched cave after butting with the vertical cave well, returning to a position nearby the rear end of the vertical cave well and then constructing a horizontal branched well hole positioned at the rear of the lower branched cave; (3) after a lower branched well hole is constructed, carrying out side drilling to construct an upper branched well hole; (4) after an uppermost branched well hole is constructed, plugging inclined well sections of main horizontal well holes inside the horizontal well from a side drilling windowing point to a coal seeing point by using cementing cement; (5) drilling and flushing the vertical cave well, installing discharge and extraction equipment, and extracting the coal bed gas by discharging water and reducing pressure on the ground. The invention can shorten the construction period, reduce the construction and production cost, decrease the lands used for construction and extraction and enhance the extraction effect of the ground coal bed gas.

Systems and methods for disposing and supporting a solar panel array are disclosed. The embodiments comprise various combinations of cables, support columns, and pod constructions in which to support solar panels. The solar panels can incorporate single or dual tracking capabilities to enhance sunlight capture. The embodiments encourage dual land use in which installation of the systems minimizes disruption of the underlying ground. Supplemental power may be provided by vertical axis windmills integrated with the columns. Special installations of the system can include systems mounted over structures such as parking lots, roads and aqueducts.

A decoy adapter stand allows a floatable buoyant waterfowl decoy to be adapted for use on land. The decoy adapter stand includes an upper securing bracket, a base, and a vertical spacer joining the upper bracket to the base. The securing bracket is used to secure a floatable buoyant waterfowl decoy to the stand, and the base provides a stable support. In use, the vertical spacer distances the decoy from the surface of the ground, so that the decoy appears to be standing. A first, freestanding embodiment of the decoy adapter stand includes a footed base. A second embodiment of the decoy adapter stand includes a staked base, where portions of the base are insertable into the ground. A method of using the described apparatus to adapt a floatable buoyant decoy for land use is also described.

The invention discloses a method for classifying multi-spectral remote sensing data land use based on semi-supervisor manifold learning, relating to a land use classification method. The method comprises the following steps of: taking the multi-spectral remote sensing data as a sample data set according to a wave band generator matrix of the data; selecting a part of sample data from the sample data set, marking sample class labels according to priori knowledge, and randomly selecting a part of sample data as unmarked data from the sample data set; establishing a similarity graph and a difference graph to measure the similarity and the difference of data points, and calculating a weight matrix; calculating according to an optimal target function to obtain a projection matrix; projecting the whole multi-spectral remote sensing data; and executing the land use classification by using a K-adjacent classification algorithm. The invention adds the randomly selected unmarked sample data by utilizing a semi-supervisor manifold learning method, calculates the projection matrix by the optimal target function so as to increase the precision of the land use classification and effectively saves the cost of marking the training sample classes at the same time.

The invention discloses a data mining-based drought monitoring method. The method comprises the following steps: 1, data reconstruction is carried out on an MODIS vegetation index product, a land surface temperature product and an evapotranspiration product; 2, according to the vegetation index obtained in the first step and DEM data, downscaling is carried out on a TRMM rainfall product; 3, a vegetation anomaly index, a temperature anomaly index, an evapotranspiration anomaly index and a rainfall anomaly index are extracted again; and 4, a classification and regression tree model is used for building a statistical regression rule and a linear fitting model to obtain a drought monitoring model. Compared with the prior art, the method of the invention comprehensively considers multi-source remote sensing spatial information, such as the rainfall, the evapotranspiration, the vegetation growth state, the land using type, the altitude and other factors, in the case of drought monitoring, spatial data mining is adopted, the drought monitoring model is built, and the drought monitoring precision is improved.

The invention relates to a dynamic prediction method of landuse change. The basic idea of GeoCA-Landuse model simulating landuse change can introduce the life character of the land element and simulate the dynamic evolvement of the type of the landuse. Beginning with the superimposition analysis and the transfer analysis of the two phase landuse thematic map, combining with the measurement model of landuse change, analyzing the the landuse change character. According to the model controlling factors of river system and road map analysis, constructing the layer of the controlling factors, determining the reasonable neighbors and transfer rules in light of the historical land-use change process, with the combination of adjusting the model parameters of the social economic data. Setting a powerful spatial data processing of GIS, the land use trend is simulated and predicted. The invention can simulate the dynamic trend of the landuse change and provide a scientific basis for decision-making.

The invention discloses a safety assessment system for a river water environment of a plain river network, and belongs to the field of water environment safety assessment. By taking a DPSIR model as a theoretical basis, water environment safety assessment indexes are divided into five aspects of social and economic driving force, a pollution source and water resource development pressure, a water environment health present condition, a river service function and an environment supervision capability, and twenty assessment indexes including permanent population density, GDP per capita, a building land use proportion and the like are established. The water environment safety assessment process comprises the specific steps of obtaining a survey value for assessing an index of each layer of a river; determining an assessment standard value of the index; performing standardization processing of the survey value of the index; calculating an index score of a river water environment safety assessment index layer; calculating an index score of a river water environment safety assessment criterion layer; and calculating and assessing a river water environment safety index. According to the system, a scientific assessment method is established for the plain river network, and the water environment safety condition and problem of the plain river network can be quickly and effectively identified.

The invention discloses an automatic building identification method based on a Fourier descriptor. The method is used for automatically identifying illegal buildings of illegal land use. The method comprises the following steps: an original building RGB color image is converted into a gray edge image through filtering, enhancement and edge detection; all the contour of the gray edge image is extracted according to a Fourier descriptor method; the contour points are written in the plural form, discrete Fourier transform is carried out, and then modulus operation is performed on the value after transformation to obtain a normalized Fourier descriptor; the extracted contour data is simplified according to a DP algorithm; a building shape standard template library is established according to the simplified building contour; the Euclidean distance with the standard template library is calculated, and the Euclidean distance is used to represent the similarity of two Fourier descriptors; and finally, whether the extracted contour is a typical building shape feature is judged. Therefore, the purpose of automatically identifying an illegal building in a video image is achieved.

Real estate data and municipal codes and zoning rules are transformed and translated into useable data for non-land use experts. Rating systems for zoning desirability and zoning flexibility are presented with user driven weight and priority systems. Disperse data sets related to real estate are marshaled into a coherent database structure for efficient searching and organization.

A system and method for outage prediction for electrical distribution utilities using high-resolution weather forecasts, geographic data (e.g., land use and vegetation around overhead-lines) and utility infrastructure data (e.g., transformer fuses, etc.) to predict distributed outage occurrences (e.g., number of outages over a 2-km gridded map) in advance of a storm.

The invention provides a ground PM2.5 inversion method and system based on satellite remote sensing. The method includes: resampling AOD data, ground PM2.5 data, meteorological data and land use data of a to-be-inverted area respectively into a created grid to conduct data matching; according to the matched ground PM2.5 data, AOD data and meteorological data in the grid, and constructing a linear mixed effect model reflecting time variation to estimate an initial concentration value of ground PM2.5 in the to-be-inverted area; according to the geographical coordinates and land use data of the to-be-inverted area, constructing a generalized addition model reflecting spatial variability to acquire a PM2.5 residual error of the linear mixed effect model; subjecting the PM2.5 residual error and the initial concentration value to addition, and estimating a final concentration value of ground PM2.5 at the to-be-inverted area. The method and the system provided by the invention can effectively improve the estimation precision of ground PM2.5 concentration.

A technology based on the household garbage of the biology pretreatment, belongs to the environmental protection technical field, which is characterized by including a garbage manual presorting, the biology pretreatment, the garbage compost and the refuse burning technology. After the household garbage is sorted manually, the garbage is divided into four kinds: the tile stone component is used for roadbuilding or filling the pit, the recoverable component is reclaimed to use; the hazardous waste is sent to the hazardous waste disposal work for centralized disposition; after the residual garbage processes the biology pretreatment, and is sorted into the biodegradable component and the combustible constituent by the machine, while the biodegradable component processes the land use after composting, and the combustible constituent is fired for process. The effect and the benefit of the invention are to make the domestic garbage for a rational utilization after sorting, without processing the percolate and setting the sanitary landfill field. The invention realizes the 'innocuity, decrement, resource', reduces the cost of investment and the operating cost, which accords with the situation of China, and a reliable and effective household garbage comprehensive approach.