9 Interim Measures of Protection/Emergency Arbitrator Procedures: (Article 23 and Appendix III)

This chapter addresses the subject of interim measures of protection, including emergency arbitrator procedures. Interim measures provide means to parties to preserve the status quo as between themselves pending the resolution of their dispute. Article 23 of the CIETAC Rules sets forth some general provisions on conservatory and interim measures in the context of CIETAC arbitration, covering such aspects as conservatory measures from PRC Court (Article 23.1), emergency reliefs from emergency arbitrator (Article 23.2), and interim measures from arbitral tribunal (Article 23.3). The interim measures available from the PRC court are limited to three types: evidence preservation; property preservation; and conduct preservation. Meanwhile, contained in Appendix III of the CIETAC Rules are detailed provisions relating to emergency arbitrator procedures.

DESPECKLING POLSAR IMAGES BASED ON RELATIVE TOTAL VARIATION MODEL

Relatively total variation (RTV) algorithm, which can effectively decompose structure information and texture in image, is employed in extracting main structures of the image. However, applying the RTV directly to polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) image filtering will not preserve polarimetric information. A new RTV approach based on the complex Wishart distribution is proposed considering the polarimetric properties of PolSAR. The proposed polarization RTV (PolRTV) algorithm can be used for PolSAR image filtering. The L-band Airborne SAR (AIRSAR) San Francisco data is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in speckle suppression, structural information preservation, and polarimetric property preservation.

Enriched geometric simplification of linear features

Polyline geometries are used to represent linear features, such as roads, rivers and pipelines on maps. The generalization process results in a polyline that represents the feature either at a different resolution or different scale from the original geometries. In addition, the simplification process may result in losing the geometric properties associated with the intermediate points on the original geometries. These intermediate points can contain attributes or characteristics depending on the application domain. For example, points on the road network can contain information about accumulated length of the road, positional velocity, speed limit or accumulated gas consumption. This paper involves implementing the SELF (Semantically Enriched Line simpliFication) data structure to preserve the length attributes associated with individual points on actual linear features [Stefanakis 2015]. The number of points to be stored in the SELF structure is optimized by applying alternative compression techniques. The data structure has been implemented in PostgreSQL 9.4 [2014] with PostGIS [2016] extension using PL/pgSQL to support static and non-functional polylines. Extended experimental work has been carried out to better understand the impact of simplification on both synthetic and real (natural and artificial) linear features such as rivers and pipelines. The efficiency of SELF structure with regard to geo metric property preservation has been tested at various levels of simplification.