Decision support for adaptive action – assessing the potential of geographic visualization

This study explores the role of geographic visualization for supporting the implementation of climate change adaptation. Interviews and group discussions with planners and decision makers indicate that geographic visualization bears primary potential for communicative purposes. In order to respond to analytical needs a high level of interactivity including the exploration of background data and the ability to link the tools with own databases were some of the key requirements made by the participants. The study concludes that more than better climate predictions, awareness and involvement may be precisely what is needed to narrow the implementation gap in climate change adaptation.     

Development and case study of a science-based software platform to support policy making on air quality

This article describes the development and implementations of a novel software platform that supports real-time, science-based policy making on air quality through a user-friendly interface. The software, RSM-VAT, uses a response surface modeling (RSM) methodology and serves as a visualization and analysis tool (VAT) for three-dimensional air quality data obtained by atmospheric models. The software features a number of powerful and intuitive data visualization functions for illustrating the complex nonlinear relationship between emission reductions and air quality benefits. The case study of contiguous U.S. demonstrates that the enhanced RSM-VAT is capable of reproducing the air quality model results with Normalized Mean Bias < 2% and assisting in air quality policy making in near real time.     

空气质量预测数据的三维雾化展示技术

在国家＂863＂项目＂重点城市群大气复合污染综合防治技术与集成示范项目＂的研究中,通过利用DirectX3D编程技术将体积雾与体纹理技术进行创造性结合,实现了空气质量预测数据的三维雾化展示。本文主要阐述了此研究的背景、研究过程、技术要点及研究成果。     

飞行数据可视化技术研究

针对航空器事故调查和不安全事件分析的结果及改进的需要,研究基于FDR/QAR/DAR/CVR的数据可视化技术。提出基于飞行仪表布局语言(FILL)的仪表模型构建与驱动的技术方案,解决FDR/QAR/DAR记录数据的导入与修正处理、不同分辨率三维地形的生成与显示以及飞行数据与驾驶舱话音同步播放等问题。实践证明,利用数据可视化技术所构建的包括飞机、航迹、仪表、地形、跑道、航图等元素的三维图形飞行环境集成再现了飞行过程,为事故调查和事件分析提供了科学有效的辅助分析工具。     

基于可视化理论的重气泄漏扩散研究

可视化技术是一个新的技术领域,应用可视化技术结合模拟实验平台开展了重质气体泄漏扩散实验。对泄漏源不同间距和泄漏区障碍物工况下多泄漏源同时泄漏时的泄漏扩散过程进行了可视化研究,得到了罐区重气泄漏扩散过程的可视化影像。结果表明:可视化研究较好地展现了罐区重质气体泄漏扩散的全过程;多源泄漏的间距越大,扩散越快,范围越广;泄漏源靠的越近,其中间区域越容易形成重气高浓度区,危害越大;重质气体泄漏扩散至障碍物时,扩散行为会发生变化,在障碍物前后会形成高浓度区,并沿着障碍物壁面慢慢上升直至稀释成中性气体,危险性减小。     

NEGOTIATING SCIENCE AND VALUES WITH STAKEHOLDERS IN THE ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN1

ABSTRACT: Current research in the Illinois River Basin is designed to develop and test a policy formulation protocol that will foster watershed management policy that is fully legitimated (i.e., policy that is technically effective, economically efficient, administratively implementable, politically feasible, and socially acceptable). This paper describes the results of the initial baseline impact assessment that includes physical, biological, economic, legal, and social systems as well as the development of a watershed management decision support system that is used to integrate technical information and analyses, and to facilitate policy maker and stakeholder negotiation workshops. Numerically modeled and visually simulated environmental impacts serve as the basis for developing alternative policy maker scenarios for prospective watershed management policies. These scenarios, which will be subjected to stakeholder review and negotiation, will undergo iterative review and amendment by policy makers and stakeholder groups to produce a recommended watershed management policy that satisfies all five substantive legitimation criteria. Preliminary results from the baseline social impact assessment indicate that fully legitimated policy is indeed obtainable.     

GIS模型在火灾过程模拟中的应用研究

基于地理信息系统（GIS,Geograhical Information System)，探讨了火灾过程GIS模型化的方法，并给出GIS-FP（GIS-Fire Process)系统的模型整体结构和基本功能模块，包括：数据采集，数据编辑，预处理，内嵌人工智能处理，模型运算，还有结果可视化表示。最后还给出了若干实例图示。     

信息可视化在化工企业大气环境影响评价中的研究及应用

运用data system.exe技术,提出大气环境影响评价信息可视化软件的设计方法,建立了大气环境污染因子数据信息可视化模型,应用该成果对某石油化工企业大气环境进行初步风险评价,结果表明:通过输入大气环境污染因子监测值,系统可自动判定大气环境的污染程度,并把对应环境质量的级别、环境的安全程度以及污染对人体与生物的影响程度在图中显示出来,能有效地提高环境影响评价的可靠度。该软件能在识别污染因子数据信息的同时生成与之相匹配的直观的模拟环境图像,有助于管理者进行及时分析与决策,建立的环境污染因子数据信息可视化软件具有很强的适用性。同时对政府部门制定环保工作决策具有重要的参考价值。     

Development of fire risk visualization tool based on heat map

At present, relatively few tools are able to visualize regional fire risks both dynamically and efficiently. As a general method of density clustering and visualization, heat maps can be used to analyze the spatial distribution characteristics of fire risks. In this study, based on combining a transformed sigmoid function with a heat map method, a transformed sigmoid risk model (TSRM) was proposed. A numerical mapping method between fire risk values and colors was established based on an RGB color model. By using HTML 5 and JavaScript, a fire risk visualization tool (FRVT) was developed based on the TSRM. Baidu Map was used as the geographic information system engine for the FRVT by calling its JavaScript application program interface. To validate the TSRM and FRVT with case studies, 16,448 historical fires from 2013 to 2017 in Changsha, China, were gathered and visualized. The visualization results indicated that the high-risk areas were mainly distributed in urban areas, and that the medium-risk and low-risk areas were primarily distributed in rural areas. The FRVT can also be applied to visualize and analyze process-related fire risks from a regional perspective. In further research, it will be important to update the FRVT, e.g., to visualize the fire risks posed by the transportation of hazardous materials.     

Quantification of turbulence in cryogenic liquid using high speed flow visualization

A high speed flow visualization experiment was conducted to characterize the boiling induced turbulence when a cryogenic liquid is released on water. The advective transport of turbulent structures traversing through the liquid was captured and reconstructed using image processing software to obtain information on velocity components. The numerical results obtained from image processing were used to determine turbulence parameters like turbulent intensity, turbulent kinetic energy and eddy dissipation rate. An interesting aspect of the study was the formation of wavy structures called ‘thermals’ which were characteristic of turbulent convection. The thermals were found to act as a catalyst in increasing heat transfer and turbulence between water and cryogenic pool. The turbulent intensity was influenced by the turbulent velocity and had direct effects on the vaporization flux. Among the turbulence parameters, increase in turbulent kinetic energy resulted in faster vaporization of cryogenic liquid through enhanced mixing, whereas variations in the eddy dissipation rate had weak dependence on vaporization. Additionally, the initial height of cryogenic liquid was also found to strongly affect the vaporization mass flux.