Use of Multispectral Data Extracting Information of Gold Ore Bearing Rocks by MPH Technique in Hatu Gold Occurrence Area in Western China

This paper describes the use of the Chinese Gaofen-1 (GF-1) satellite imagery to automatically extract tertiary Linear Archaeological Traces of Tuntian Irrigation Canals (LATTICs) located in the Miran site. The site is adjacent to the ancient Loulan Kingdom at the eastern margin of the Taklimakan Desert in western China. GF-1 data was processed following atmospheric and geometric correction, and spectral analyses were carried out for multispectral data. The low values produced by SSI indicate that it is difficult to distinguish buried tertiary LATTICs from similar backgrounds using spectral signatures. Thus, based on the textual characteristics of high-resolutionGF-1 panchromatic data, this paper proposes an automatic approach that combines joint morphological bottom and hat transformation with a Canny edge operator. The operator was improved by adding stages of geometric filtering and gradient vector direction analysis. Finally, the detected edges of tertiary LATTICs were extracted using the GIS-based draw tool and converted into shapefiles for archaeological mapping within a GIS environment. The proposed automatic approach was verified with an average accuracy of 95.76% for 754 tertiary LATTICs in the entire Miran site and compared with previous manual interpretation results. The results indicate that GF-1 VHR PAN imagery can successfully uncover the ancient tuntian agricultural landscape. Moreover, the proposed method can be generalized and applied to extract linear archaeological traces such as soil and crop marks in other geographic locations.

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A Naturalist in Western China with Vasculum, Camera and Gun

10.1017/cbo9781139004527 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Ernest Henry Wilson

Keyword(s):

Western China

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Decision letter for "Recovery of the Cretaceous palaeo‐uplifts and its implications for hydrocarbon systems in the Kuqa Depression, Tarim Basin, western China"

10.1002/gj.3905/v1/decision1 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Tarim Basin ◽

Western China ◽

Kuqa Depression

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Decision letter for "Shallow‐marine Cretaceous oceanic red beds from the southern Tethyan Himalaya, Tibet, western China: Biostratigraphy, microfacies analysis, and global correlations"

10.1002/gj.4004/v2/decision1 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Western China ◽

Microfacies Analysis ◽

Red Beds ◽

Shallow Marine ◽

Tethyan Himalaya

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Decision letter for "Shallow‐marine Cretaceous oceanic red beds from the southern Tethyan Himalaya, Tibet, western China: Biostratigraphy, microfacies analysis, and global correlations"

10.1002/gj.4004/v1/decision1 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Western China ◽

Microfacies Analysis ◽

Red Beds ◽

Shallow Marine ◽

Tethyan Himalaya

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TBE in China

Tick-borne encephalitis - The Book ◽

10.33442/26613980_12b6-3 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Western China ◽

Ixodes Persulcatus ◽

West China ◽

North West ◽

Haemaphysalis Concinna ◽

Viral Subtype ◽

Japanese Military ◽

Natural Foci ◽

Far Eastern ◽

The Brain

The first TBE patients in China were reported in 1943, and the TBEV was isolated from the brain tissues of 2 patients in 1944 by Japanese military scientists,1 and from patients and ticks (Ixodes persulcatus and Haemaphysalis concinna) in 1952 by Chinese researchers.2 The Far Eastern viral subtype (TBEV-FE) is the endemic subtype that has been isolated from all 3 known natural foci (northeastern China, western China, and southwestern China).14 Recently a new “Himalayan subtype” of the TBEV (TBEV-HIM) was isolated from wild rodent Marmoata himalayana in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau15. The main vector of the TBEV in China is I. persulcatus.3 One recent report suggests that the TBEV-SIB is prevalent in the Uygur region (North West China)13 but epidemiological modelling indicates that the TBEV may occur even widely all over China (Figure 3).4 Likely, the disease is often missed by clinicians due to a lack of the availability of specific diagnostic assays16.

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Prince Henri d'Orleans (1867–1901): geographical and botanical exploration between inner Asia and southwest China

Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History ◽

10.3366/jsbnh.1978.8.4.399 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 399-399

Author(s):

WILLIAM GARDENER

Keyword(s):

Southwest China ◽

Western China ◽

Left Bank ◽

Inner Asia ◽

Botanical Exploration ◽

Western Yunnan ◽

Westerly Direction ◽

Chinese Province ◽

The Right ◽

North Western

Prince Henri d'Orleans, precluded by French law from serving his country in the profession of arms, had his attention turned early towards exploration. In 1889, accompanied by the experienced traveller Gabriel Bonvalet, he set out from Paris to reach Indo-China overland by way of Central Asia, Tibet and western and south western China. The journey made contributions in the problems of the whereabouts of Lap Nor and the configuration of the then unexplored northern plateau of Tibet; and in botany it produced some species new to science. The party reached Indo-China in 1890. In 1895, having organised an expedition better equipped for topographical survey and for investigations in the fields of natural history and ethnography, Prince Henri set out from Hanoi with the intention of exploring the Mekong through the Chinese province of Yunnan. After proceeding up the left bank of the Salween for a brief part of its course and then alternating between the right and left banks of the Mekong as far up as Tzeku, the party found it advisable to enter Tibet in a north westerly direction through the province of Chamdo and instead crossed the south eastern extremity of the country, the Zayul, by a difficult track which led them to the country of the Hkamti Shans in present day Upper Burma, and thence to India completing a journey of 2000 miles, "1500 of which had been previously untrodden" (Prince Henri). West of the Mekong, the journey established that the Salween, which some geographers had claimed took its rise in or near north western Yunnan, in fact rose well north in Tibet, and that, contrary to previous opinions, the principal headwater of the Irrawaddy rose no further north than latitude 28°30'. Botanical collections were confined to Yunnan, where the tracks permitted mule transport, and they produced a number of species new to science and extended the range of distribution of species already known.

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