87 results about "Observatory" patented technology

Heating is a significant factor in residential gas-energy usage. Saving energy on heating is receiving increasing attention with rising energy prices and the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Energy awareness and energy efficiency hereby become important qualifications for human behavior and residential building codes, and become a factor in the evolution of the global climate. Here, we describe a novel measurement and validation system for domestic gas-energy usage in combination with primary weather data. We disclose a gas-energy observatory which visualizes human behavior in gas-energy consumption associated with domestic facilities, and measures home energy efficiency by calorimetry. Weather-sensitivity analysis quantifies energy-usage as a function of small variations in room temperature and home energy efficiency. Weather-sensitivity data can be used to calculate changes in room-temperature settings or improvements in home insulation for a desired reduction in CO₂-output. By public dissemination of its primary weather data, it creates in dual-use at no additional cost a novel in-situ climate observational systems with unprecedented wide-area coverage and spatial resolution.

Biological data obtained through observation devices and job titles are recorded on a data recording device in association with time data that are generated at regular intervals. A data processing computer produces a graph from the data read out from the data recording device. The observation devices, the data recording device and the data processing computer are connected to a network, so that a required graph may be produced by processing data at a place remote from the observatory.

Triangulated shells can be free-formed but are uneconomical compared to translational shells that can only be flat. Scale-trans shells are limited in terms of number and arrangement of the openings. The present invention provides a free-formed, custom-tailored shell surface and a regularly shaped, mass-produced shell surface that can be assembled fairly evenly from advantageously quadrangular mesh elements having coplanar node points. The flexibility of a triangle net of shell pieces in a large scale is combined with the evenness of a quad net for meshes in a small scale, whereby triangular meshes at the shared side of adjoining square nets are combined in pairs to give irregular quadrangular meshes having coplanar vertices. The inventive shell is especially suitable for use as an energy-saving building such as a weekend home, emergency shelter, cupola of an observatory, roof of a building or an inner courtyard, as the shell of a large multi-story building or as a sports hall or factory building. It is also suitable as a part of a vault, and as a complex shell consisting of a single continuous surface for exhibition or station buildings. Parts of a Bohemian dome, cushion-roof, Isler shell or blob can be combined within any individual shell.

The invention discloses a glacial lake burst early-warning method. Aiming at the defects that the adopted index is not reasonable, modification on observation data is over-simple in the existing glacial lake burst early-warning method, the invention provides the glacial lake burst early-warning method comprehensively considering the affects from an atmospheric temperature and the rainfall condition. According to the method, long-term observation data of temperature and rainfall in an observatory station is obtained and analyzed by a control center, a cumulative positive temperature daily increasing speed value TV in early days of a forecast date and a rainfall daily increasing speed value RV in early 30 days of the forecast date are calculated, and the TV value and the RV value are simultaneously subjected to double-index comparison with a burst warning curve RV=2.7214TV<-0.956> to judge the burst risks of the glacial lake, and an alarming system is started by the control center if necessary. According to the method, the corresponding relationship between two specific indexes of the cumulated temperature daily increasing speed value and the rainfall daily increasing speed value in early 30 days which are selected from numerous temperature and rainfall indexes and the glacial lake burst danger is determined, and the burst early-warning curve is determined. The forecast is carried out according to a more comprehensive and reasonable climate index, so the early-warning effectiveness is increased.

The invention discloses a synthetic aperture type high-resolution imaging telescope device based on a bright source. The synthetic aperture type high-resolution imaging telescope device is composed of a receiving pupil whose diameter d is matched with the current observatory address seeing, a synthetic aperture type optical imaging system and a telescope imaging system having a main mirror diameter of D. A sparse aperture array and delay line compensators are arranged in the synthetic aperture type optical imaging system. The sparse aperture array includes a plurality of sub-mirrors having an aperture of d which are distributed in a plurality of multistage two-dimensional spaces. The sub-mirrors comprise a spectroscope, a transmitting mirror and a plane mirror. The delay line compensators are arranged on the output optical path of each sub-mirror separately. The plurality of sub-mirrors are used to acquire nearly-complete real-time UV plane coverage on a focal plane through the multistage spectral arrangement according to the energy ratio. The delay line compensators are used to compensate the optical path difference of each aperture to acquire the outgoing diffraction limit wavefront on the sparse aperture array longest baseline D and output the outgoing diffraction limit wavefront to the telescope imaging system having a main mirror diameter of D. According to the invention, advantages of low cost and simple system can be realized, and high time and space resolution diffraction limit imaging can be obtained on a real-time basis.

The invention relates to a calibrating device of a field calibration rainfall sensor. The calibrating device comprises an outer casing and a combined funnel, a counter and two water outlet pipes arranged inside the outer casing, wherein the top surface of the outer casing is provided with a great/small rain intensity water injection hole capable of simulating rain water flow speed, a reset button inlaid with a counter liquid crystal display screen and the counter as well as a conducting wire plug jack; the upper opening edge of the combined funnel is fixedly connected with the inner side circumference of the top surface of the outer casing; the inside of the combined funnel is provided with a middle clapboard; the upper end of the middle clapboard is propped on the inner side of the top surface of the outer casing, while the lower end is positioned on the bottom of the combined funnel; the middle clapboard and the combined funnel are formed into an integrated structure; and the bottom of the combined funnel is respectively provided with two water outlet pipes simulating great/small rain intensity flow speed, and the two water outlet pipes simulating the rain intensity flow speed and the combined funnel are formed into an integrated structure. The calibrating device has the advantages that the device has scientific design, compact structure and stable and reliable technical performance and can carry out field calibration of an ombrometer. Therefore, the calibrating device can be widely used in nation-wide observatories, hydrological stations, armies and scientific research institutions to carry out the field calibration of the rainfall sensors.

The invention relates to a real-time acquiring method for sea fog thickness and cloud base height of low clouds. The method fully utilizes data from L wave band secondary wind-detecting radar and digital dropsonde data of an observatory, orderly analyzes distribution characteristics of the temperature and moisture of sea fog and the low clouds in the vertical direction, calculates stability degree conditions and turbulent flow conditions of lower atmosphere when the sea fog and the low clouds exist, makes statistical analysis and concludes the conditions to separate the sea fog and the low clouds, calculates the sea fog thickness and the low clouds height, and acquires the sea fog thickness and the low clouds height. The formed computer software automatically displays the result. The invention provides an effective method for monitoring in real time, namely simultaneously establishing an objective and feasible method for automatically extracting the cloud base height of the low clouds and monitoring the sea fog thickness in real time, has strong implementation, high reliability, and provides effective meteorological data for flight safety above the sea surface, maritime traffic transportation, as well as operations on harbors and costal airports.

The invention discloses a floating seabed building and a construction method thereof, pertaining to the technical field of buildings sunk in the sea. The invention comprises a seabed building and a seabed fixing pile, wherein, the seabed building is wholly enclosed for water resistance and connected with the seabed fixing pile by a grasp; the mass of the seabed building is less than that of seawater discharged by the building under the full load. The floating seabed building of the invention has simple construction and low cost and is mainly used for seabed hotels, restaurants, bases, sightseeing and entertainment, and marine life observatories, etc.

A personal observatory structure including a base having an open top, and a hemispherical dome having a center point, the dome being shaped to be mounted on the base and to selectively enclose the open top. The hemispherical dome includes a first dome segment and a second dome segment pivotally connected to the first dome segment. The second dome segment has an outer radius smaller than the inner radius of the first dome segment. The first dome segment at second dome segment are connected together by pivotal connectors for movement about a pivot axis. One of the domes can be pivoted from a lowered position, in which the dome segments together enclose the open top of the base, to a raised position which exposes the interior and nests one dome segment within the other. The pivot axis may be a horizontal pivot axis that extends through the center point, and the dome segments may be shaped generally in the form of a quarter sphere.

The invention relates to a method for automatically recognizing macula based on a Huairou full-disk single-color image, and aims at solving the problems of extremely low efficiency caused by manually recognizing the profile of macula on disk and that mass data cannot be met in the solar physics in the domestic astronomy field. The method comprises the steps of extracting gradient information of the disk by the morphology bot-hat transformation according to the full-disk single-color image of the Huairou solar observing station of National Astronomical Observatories of China; removing the influence of inherent limb darkening rule of the disk by the fragmentation threshold method, so as to automatically recognize macula. Compared with other algorithms for recognizing the macula based on high-quality solar space data, the method has the characteristic that the macula of the ground images with relatively low quality and suffering from the interference of instrument noise can be precisely recognized. The method is applicable to automatic recognition of macula in the single-color images or white light images at other wave bands and can provide directly service to the fields of generator theory, solar action predication and space environment monitoring.

This invention encompasses near-real-time processing of astronomical images for viewing on a computer. This image processing method is preferably integrated with the control of an astronomical observatory. The subject invention thus includes an Internet-based system that provides a virtual experience of an astronomical observatory. The subject invention preferably uses an unmanned astronomical observatory to observe galaxies, nebulae, stars, etc. The observatory produces color images suitable for viewing on a computer monitor. These images are delivered to users across the Internet using web browser-based software.

The invention discloses an astronomical data information processing method and device. The method comprises the following steps of: obtaining astronomical data information acquired by a radio telescope according to a query request of a user terminal; encoding the astronomical data information according to a first preset algorithm so as to obtain target data; and sending the target data to the user terminal to ensure that the user terminal decodes the target data according to a second preset algorithm so as to obtain corresponding astronomical data information. According to the method and device, a data processing center of an observatory encodes the astronomical data information acquired by the radio telescope according to the query request of the user terminal and then sends the encoded astronomical data information to the user terminal, so that the user terminal can decode and display the astronomical data information, and users can observe the astronomical dynamics anytime and anywhere, thereby enabling the functions of the user terminal to be more diversified and satisfying the user experience to a certain extent.

A method for position measurement of a portable electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first satellite, first satellite information and state information of the first satellite information, receiving other state information of the first satellite information from a server that receives the other state information of the first satellite information from a terrestrial observatory, and using the first satellite information for the position measurement of the portable electronic device when the state information of the first satellite information received from the first satellite is unhealthy and the other state information of the first satellite information received from the server is healthy, wherein healthy state information indicates that satellite information may be used for the position measurement of the portable electronic device and unhealthy state information indicates that the satellite information may not be used for the position measurement of the portable electronic device.

The invention belongs to the solar physics of the field of astronomy in China and provides an automatic extraction method for the sun outline. The method comprises the following steps: aiming at the full-disk monochromatic image of the Huairou Solar Observing Station of the National Astronomical Observatories of China, obtaining the gray scale information of the solar limb by using morphological close operation and erosion operation; then, extracting a limb coordinate by using a self-adaptive threshold method; finally, fitting the limb coordinate by combining a least square fitting method, and thus obtaining a connected solar limb binary image. Compared with other international algorithms, the method can process lower-quality solar observation data with instrument noise and fills the blank of domestic related fields. The method has important significance and practical value on determining the solar disk radius and the earth-sun distance, calculating the position of solar activity in the solar disk and researching the evolution law of the sun outline.

The invention discloses a port gantry crane for building a watchtower, which comprises a crane body, fixed stands are installed at both ends of the crane body, a crossbeam bridge is installed between the top ends of the fixed stand, and the bottom end of the crossbeam bridge slides An electric hoist device is connected, and a pedestal is arranged in the center of the upper end of the beam bridge. A watchtower is installed on the upper end of the pedestal. The lower end of the watchtower is provided with a main platform. There is a cone-shaped observation platform, and a cruise light device is installed on the outer top of the cone-shaped observation platform. The upper end frame of the beam bridge is also equipped with a wind monitor, a rainfall monitor and a temperature monitor. There is also a drone device. Through the above method, the present invention can not only be used as a gantry crane to carry out hoisting work in the port, but also can build a watchtower on the crane body for maritime monitoring.

The current invention describes in vivo and vitro (cultured) sampling technologies that allow direct temporal and spatial sampling from living ecosystems such as those associated with marine ecology. The optional use of parallel sampling methods, observatory design, provides for the ability to measure the response of individual organisms to a variety of both biotic and abiotic stresses. Sampling in small volumes and close proximity to living organisms has allowed direct measurement of various invertebrate and other aquatic species in marine ecosystems. These sampling techniques are intended to apply to any liquid based ecosystem in an attempt to minimize sampling as a dependent variable in measuring the chemical and biological behavior of the ecosystem. If is intended that this sampling technology be used to directly measure the chemical behavior of a wide variety of organisms; including, plants, animals, and micro-organisms (e.g. algae, plankton). These probes facilitate the direct measurement of metabolism, decomposition, pollution, and stress or stimuli from the local environment. A variety of sampling tips and probes have been developed for discrete and continuous sampling. A variety of sampling probe geometries, sizes, and sampling capabilities are disclosed that enable both contact and non-contact sampling of the chemical environment. The liquid sampling has been optimized for chemical analysis with liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. Fatty acid and lipid profiling have been demonstrated on a number of species from a cultured aquatic using these techniques.

The invention discloses a tower crane provided with a disc observatory. The tower crane comprises a crane body. A fixed frame is arranged at the lower end of the crane body. A workbench is installed at the upper end of the fixed frame. A tower crane movable arm is arranged at one end of the workbench. The disc observatory is further arranged at the top end of the fixed frame. A rotary mechanism is installed at the bottom end of the disc observatory. A plurality of monitoring windows are further arranged at the outer side end of the disc observatory. Monitoring devices are installed in the monitoring windows. An illuminating lamp is further arranged at the bottom end of the disc observatory. In this way, according to the disc observatory, the outside of a construction site can be monitored in real time through the rotary disc observatory at the top end of the crane body, and the disc observatory can serve as a tool for keeping out wind and rain to protect the workbench on the tower crane.

An autonomous magnetic observatory is provided that includes a scalar magnetometer for measuring the modulus of the local magnetic field vector F; an angular magnetometer for measuring the vertical direction, the direction of geographic North, and the direction of the local magnetic field vector F; a variometer for measuring three variations in the local magnetic field vector F; a clock; and a controller. In which observatory, the controller is configured to control and manage the orientation of sensors, to acquire the measurements of the variometer, of the scalar magnetometer, of the angular magnetometer and of the variometer, and to process the acquired measurements in order to obtain automatically, the local magnetic field vector F and the errors in the measurements associated with each instrument.