2403 results about "Oceanography" patented technology

Apparatus and methods are described for remotely controlling position of marine seismic equipment. One apparatus comprises a source connected to a tow member; and an adjustment mechanism connected to the source and the tow member, the adjustment mechanism adapted to actively manipulate an angle of attack of the source. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).

The invention discloses a method for monitoring mountain landslide and debris flow in mountainous areas based on an unmanned aerial vehicle. The method is characterized in that photographing is carried out through directional cruising of the unmanned aerial vehicle and an imaging device and a positioning device which are carried by the unmanned aerial vehicle, and collected data is analyzed through computer software so as to work out an accurate rescue mode and a path method in allusion to mountain landslide and debris flow in the mountainous areas. The method disclosed by the invention can accurately judge the damage area of a region in which mountain landslide or debris flow occurs through applying unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing technologies to the field of mountainous area sudden accident rescue, and seamless searching is carried out by means of the unmanned aerial vehicle through computer modeling and planning, thereby monitoring damage conditions of the affected region quickly and comprehensively, transmitting information to a rescue command center timely, being convenient for rescue workers to plan an accurate rescue path timely, and greatly improving the rescue efficiency; and the method is applicable to detection work for affected mountainous areas under various complex conditions.

The invention relates to an ocean spilt oil film thickness hyperspectral remote sensing estimation method based on a parameter lookup table and belongs to the field of ocean environment monitoring research. The method includes the steps of obtaining and pre-processing standard oil film thickness continuous change hyperspectral data by designing a simulation experiment; obtaining and pre-processing ocean spilt oil satellite remote sensing data; resampling a standard oil film spectrum based on a satellite sensor performance index; normalizing spectral reflectivity; building an oil film thickness optical calculating model; building an attenuation parameter lookup table; normalizing the reflectivity of satellite data and conducting mask treatment; inquiring and building an optimal wave band of the satellite data and relevant parameters; and calculating the oil film thickness in the satellite data through the parameter lookup table and the optical model. Compared with a traditional observation means, by means of the ocean spilt oil film thickness hyperspectral remote sensing estimation method, field workload is less, the thickness of the spilt oil film can be quantized, the thickness of an oil film in a spilt oil area can be calculated without entering an ocean spilt oil pollution area, and requirements of ocean split oil emergency monitoring and evaluation can be met.

Energy generating system using sea waves characterised in that said floating body (1) is mounted on a structure (5), in that it includes at last one horizontal shaft (9) integral by its ends to said structure (5), and in that said means for converting the movement of said floating body (1) into mechanical energy include a moving housing (10) around which the connecting cable or chain (4) winds, with said housing (10) being mounted in rotating fashion in relation to said horizontal shaft (9), in such a way that it rotates under the action of said wound cable or chain (4). The system obtains energy in a very simple and effective way.

The invention relates to a water surface cleaning boat and a front cabin collecting device of the water surface cleaning boat. The front cabin collecting device comprises a front cabin frame, a conveyor belt, harvesting scissors, a collecting jaw and collecting arms. The conveyor belt is arranged on the front cabin frame and used for conveying collected objects, the harvesting scissors are located at the front end of the conveyor belt, the collecting jaw is located above the harvesting scissors and can vertically rise and fall, and the collecting arms are located on the two sides of the front cabin frame. Especially, the collecting arms on the two sides are rotationally arranged on the front cabin frame through vertically-arranged rotating shafts, the front cabin collecting device further comprises first hydraulic oil cylinders, cutting mechanisms and shrinkage mechanisms, wherein the first hydraulic oil cylinders are located on the two sides of the front cabin frame respectively, the two ends of each first hydraulic oil cylinder are connected to the front cabin frame and the corresponding collecting arm respectively, the cutting mechanisms are arranged at the front ends of the collecting arms on the two sides and can longitudinally cut aquatic plants, and the shrinkage mechanisms can shrink the harvesting scissors to the portion below the conveyor belt. The water surface cleaning boat can collect water surface floating objects such as waterweeds, water hyacinth and floating rubbish of different types, under the effect of the shrinkage mechanism, unloading of the front cabin collecting device is facilitated, the structure is simple, and implementation is convenient.

A system and method for state estimation of a surface of a platform at sea, includes receiving sensor signals indicative of LIDAR data for the platform; applying a Bayesian filter to the LIDAR data for a plurality of hypotheses; determining vertical planes representing azimuth and elevation angles for the LIDAR data; applying a robust linear estimation algorithm to the vertical planes; and determining candidate points in response to the applying of the robust linear estimation algorithm.

A method for estimating a portion of undesired particles in crop material includes taking a photograph of the crop material; identifying images of at least one type of undesired particle in the photograph that was taken; measuring the surface area covered by the image of every particle shown in the photograph; and determining the portion of undesired particles as a proportion of the surface area of the images, and may be used, in particular, in a harvesting machine on the crop material picked up in an on-going harvesting operation.

The invention discloses a sea clutter simulation method based on a sea wave spectrum model and mainly solves the problem that it is difficult to reflect wave height details on a sea surface in the prior art. The realization scheme is characterized by 1) establishing the sea surface based on the sea wave spectrum model; 2) determining sea surface range under irradiation of a radar main wave beam; 3) selecting a rectangular frame in the sea surface range, and carrying out discretization on the sea wave in the frame to form a complex surface formed by splicing a plurality of equal-area triangle scattering units; 4) calculating attribute parameters and echo power of each triangle scattering unit; 5) establishing an echo model of the triangle scattering units according to the echo power; and 6) generating echo waves of the triangle scattering units of the sea surface in the rectangular frame according to the echo model, judging radar visibility of the triangle scattering units, calculating and superposing the echo waves of all visible triangle scattering units and generating sea clutter simulation data and analyzing the data. The method improves sea clutter simulation reliability and practicality, and can be used for target detection.

The invention discloses a sea clutter suppression method for a marine radar. Most of the existing marine radars can not process the nearby sea clutter, and the existing sea clutter suppression methods usually suppress the sea clutter according to a fixed template, which can result in the great attenuation in the amplitude of a nearby target signal or even result in miss detection. The sea clutter suppression method provided for overcoming the above disadvantages comprises the following steps: initializing parameters and data, estimating parameters, suppressing the sea clutter and updating an estimation sample. The method can estimate the sea clutter according to different sea clutter distributions selected according to different sea conditions, and determine whether the sample data need to be updated for re-estimation according to the suppression effect, thereby maximally reducing the influence to the target while suppressing the sea clutter as much as possible, and obviating the great attenuation in the amplitude of the nearby target signal.

The invention belongs to the field of wave remote sensing technology, and particularly relates to a method for conducting X wave band navigation radar wave parameter inversion through a band-pass filter based on a novel wave dispersion relation, wherein sea clutter images are obtained through navigation radar so that wave parameter inversion can be conducted. The method comprises the steps that radar image data are collected; radar images are preprocessed; Fourier transform is conducted on an image sequence under a Cartesian coordinate system, so that a three-dimensional wave number frequency image spectrum of the radar images is obtained; wave spectrum information is extracted; wave information inversion is achieved. Influence on the dispersion relation by the ship speed is kept by the filter, the problem that the band pass of a traditional broadband-pass filter is increased along with increase of the movement speed is effectively solved, and therefore filtering can be conducted under the condition that a radar platform is moved along with movement of a ship. In band pass boundary derivation of the novel filter, an approximate value of any quantity is avoided, calculation errors are reduced, influence on the band pass boundary is avoided, band width calculation is more accurate, and wave inversion accuracy is improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of constructional steel for ships and ocean engineering and in particular relates to steel plates for a 355MPa-level easy-to-weld ocean platform and a production process of the steel plates. Two steel plates of which the thickness specifications are [6-40]mm and [40-60]mm are comprised, wherein the steel plate with the thickness specification of [6-40]mm comprises the following chemical components in percentage by mass: 0.10-0.15 percent of C, 0.20-0.50 percent of Si, 1.20-1.50 percent of Mn, not more than 0.015 percent of P, not more than 0.005 percent of S, 0.020-0.050 percent of Nb, 0.010-0.050 percent of V, 0.008-0.020 percent of Ti, 0.015-0.055 percent of Als, not more than 0.43 percent of Ceq, not more than 0.23 percent of Pcm and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; and the steel plate with the thickness specification of [40-60]mm comprises the following chemical components in percentage by mass: 0.10-0.15 percent of C, 0.20-0.50 percent of Si, 1.30-1.60 percent of Mn, not more than 0.015 percent of P, not more than 0.005 percent of S, 0.030-0.060 percent of Nb, 0.020-0.060 percent of V, 0.008-0.020 percent of Ti, 0.015-0.055 percent of Als, not more than 0.12 percent of Nb+V+Ti, not more than 0.43 percent of Ceq, not more than 0.23 percent of Pcm and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. According to the production method, the steel plates for the easy-to-weld ocean platform are produced by adopting low Ceq, low Pcm, Nb as well as V and Ti microalloy components and a normalizing heat treatment process and are lower in production cost, even in mechanical property and favorable in welding property.

The invention discloses a shallow sea water depth inversion method based on high-spectrum data of a blue-yellow wave band. Currently, models which perform depth inversion on clean water body through an optical remote sensing facility are mostly established for aiming at multiple-spectrum data. The algorithm is restricted by wide spectrum data wave band and little spectrum information. The inversion precision is largely affected by type of water body sediment. The invention provides a novel method for inversing shallow sea water depth of the clean water body through utilizing the high-spectrum data of the blue-yellow wave band (450-610 nanometers) according to a water body optical attenuation mechanism based on the high-spectrum data. The method can accurately extract shallow sea water depth distribution information within 30 meters. Furthermore one algorithm coefficient calibration is required for one remote sensor, thereby remarkably improving universality of the algorithm.

The invention belongs to the field of video image enhancement, and particularly relates to a video image sea fog removal and clearing method which integrates frame difference method background estimation with the rapid single-frame sea fog removal algorithm based on edge detection and is used for an offshore aircraft rapid video image sea fog removal and clearing system. The video image sea fog removal and clearing method includes the steps of obtaining a sea fog video image, conducting sea fog removal and clearing on a single-frame sea fog image, and conducting sea fog removal and clearing on the video image. The video image sea fog removal and clearing method is suitable for all offshore aircrafts, and performance of visual systems of the offshore aircrafts in sea fog can be greatly improved. The operating speed is high, and sea fog removal and clearing can be conducted on the video image in real time in the sea surface scene. Compared with other algorithms, the rapid single-frame sea fog removal algorithm has a good edge keeping effect. The method has the advantages of being remarkable in fog removal effect and good in image restoration effect. The detecting performance, the tracking performance and the recognizing performance of targets in the later period can be effectively improved with sea fog removal and clearing as earlier stage processing on the visual systems.

The invention belongs to the field of sea surface wind direction inversion through a remote sensing means, and particularly relates to a navigation radar image sea surface wind direction inversion method based on a wave number energy spectrum. The method comprises the steps of preprocessing a radar image, extracting sea surface static characteristics and inverting sea surface wind direction information. According to the navigation radar image sea surface wind direction inversion method based on the wave number energy spectrum, a space domain does not need to be reduced, the space domain can automatically adapt to wind stripes of different scales, the wind direction can be measured under different sea conditions, an error result is stable, and engineering availability is high. According to the navigation radar image sea surface wind direction inversion method based on the wave number energy spectrum, only the wind stripe energy spectrum is extracted through wave number energy spectrum wave number scale separation, the wind direction inversion precision is improved, and the interference of the noise of other scales is reduced.

The invention discloses an extraction method of a multi-scale characteristic and a fluctuation parameter of a sea wave based on EMD (Empirical Mode Decomposition). The method comprises the steps of reading in a sea wave time sequence measured at a fixed point or a simulated sea wave sequence, determining and analyzing the sea wave scale according to the demand of data analysis, decomposing the sea wave time sequence by an EMD method to obtain a plurality of IMF (Intrinsic Mode Function) sequences, computing a fractal characteristic of an IMF component by a q-order correlation integral and differential box counting method, computing a statistical characteristic of the IMF component by a moment estimation method, and computing the fluctuation parameter of the IMF component by a spectrum method. The fractal characteristic, statistical characteristic and fluctuation parameter of the IMF component can disclose an internal structure and an external representation characteristic of the sea wave. The method can be used for modeling, analyzing and predicting the sea wave.

The invention provides a self-starting funneling wind concentration wind power generation system, relates to important comprehensive core technologies such as wind concentration structure, wind tunnel characteristics, fluid transition, the funneling effect, infrastructure material, aerodynamics, structural mechanics, turbine effect, electric energy conversion and belongs to the technical field of funneling wind concentration wind power generation systems. The system consists of a bowler hat type wind concentration device assembly, a strong storm avoidance deflection closing device assembly, a multi-level gradual-expansion air turbine generator device assembly, a funneling type working medium speeder assembly, a reinforced rib anti-seismic component device assembly, an intelligent control man-machine integrated assembly and accessories. The assembled bowler hat type wind concentration device assembly, the strong storm avoidance deflection closing device assembly, the multi-level gradual-expansion air turbine generator device assembly, the funneling type working medium speeder assembly and the reinforced rib anti-seismic component device assembly are sequentially arranged in place, and an intelligent control system and an accessory part are respectively positioned and arranged in place, thereby forming a set of complete self-starting funneling wind concentration wind power generation system.

The invention discloses a novel floater type tide and sea wave power generation device which comprises a cylinder, wherein the inner wall of the cylinder is embedded with a power generation coil, the outer wall of the cylinder is provided with blades, the center of the cylinder is embedded with a magnetic pole of a permanent magnet, the cylinder is sealed by adopting a sealing ring, two ends of the cylinder are provided with ladder-shaped wave flow collection plates which can generate induced currents by using wave flow in a horizontal direction and wave vibration, the generated induced currents are used for charging a battery after rectified, and a stable DC (direct current) is output, and then is converted into a power frequency AC (alternating current) through current transformation.

The invention discloses a physical simulation visualization experimental device and a forming method thereof. The experimental device comprises a cubic box body, a water injection well and a horizontal production well, wherein in the top of the box body is provided with a top cover, and the box body is filled with porous media; one end of the water injection well is arranged in the box body, the other end of the water injection well extends out of the box body to be exposed; the horizontal production well is horizontally arranged and comprises a main shaft, the tail end of the main shaft is connected with a connecting shaft, the side edge of the main shaft is provided with at least one branch shaft located on a horizontal plane of the main shaft, both the main shaft and the branch shaft are located in the box body, the connecting shaft is located on the outside of the box body, and the main shaft and the branch shaft are both evenly provided with a plurality of ejecting holes. The physical simulation visualization experimental device and the forming method of the physical simulation visualization experimental device can simultaneously simulate the horizontal production well and the water injection well in a three-dimensional simulation mode and can approximately simulate production trend of oil deposit.