642 results about "Dry land" patented technology

A new processing capability for dust enhancement over land or water using image data from the Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS) has been developed for Naval meteorology / oceanography (MetOc) operations support. The data are captured via direct broadcast high-resolution picture transmission (HRPT) at Navy Regional Centers in Rota, Bahrain, and Yokosuka, and processed at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey. The raw data are calibrated, corrected for missing lines and clutter, corrected for molecular scatter contamination, and enhanced through multispectral combination to yield value added products. The processing has been automated completely such that products, generated upon receipt of data, are hosted upon a password protected website typically 60 to 90 minutes from time of initial capture. This invention summarizes the SeaWiFS instrument capabilities, the protocol followed for automated near real-time processing, a physical basis for the NRL enhancements, and specific examples of the products with extension to over-land dust enhancement as enabled by MODIS. It closes with a glimpse of the potential utility of these products from the perspective of the warfighter.

The invention discloses a method for biologically remediating a water body and soil comprehensively utilizing resources. The method comprises the steps: (1), determining main pollutants in a selected land area or water body area; (2), selecting to plant and / or cultivate fast-growing herbaceous plants, fast-growing alga, trees, bushes, fungi or microorganisms with high remediation efficiency in the selected land area or water body area; (3), harvesting or collecting the fast-growing herbaceous plants and the fast-growing alga after growing to reach a suitable height or size; (4), concentratedly processing the harvested or collected fast-growing herbaceous plants and the fast-growing alga, and comprehensively utilizing to prevent the pollutants from dispersing; (5), remediating an eutrophic water body by adopting an artificial floating island; (6), remediating a heavy metal polluted water body by confining floating plants; (7), repairing cadmium and zinc polluted soil by mixed-cropping festuca arundinacea and bluegrass; (8), remediating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) polluted soil by mixed-cropping alfalfa and italian ryegrass; and (9), extracting and recovering silver from silver-containing wastewater remediation plants.

In mesic environments, erosion control measures usually employ the establishment of vegetative cover by vascular plants in order to hold the soil in place. The current art often includes the application of seeds, chemical fertilizers, tackifiers, and mulches to promote the growth of vascular plants. However, arid environments so not support dense vegetative cover, but are instead dominated by photosynthetic microorganisms, primarily cyanobacteria and lichens. The cyanobacteria not only hold the soil in place, but also are the primary source of fixed nitrogen in arid environments. Disclosed herein, is a description of an apparatus and methods for the production and preservation of a photobiofertilizer as a means for repairing disturbed arid soils.

The invention discloses an agricultural drought grade monitoring method based on a temperature vegetation drought index (TVDI). The method comprises the following steps of: 1, data preparation; 2, land surface temperature (LST) data reconstruction; 3, construction of crop plantation area normalized difference vegetation index-land surface temperature (NDVI-LST) feature space; 4, TVDI calculation; and 5, drought grade monitoring based on the TVDI. The invention brings forward an LST data reconstruction method based on multi-year background values and area fluctuation values, a cultivated land area multi-year NDVI-LST feature space is constructed for crops, the TVDI is calculated, a crop drought grade monitoring model based on a supervision classification idea is designed for drought grade remote sensing monitoring, the model can quite accurately reflect drought threat degrees of the crops under difference conditions in real time, and the method has great significance in monitoring, early warning and prevention of agricultural disasters.

Utilisation of geothermal energy in depths above 5 km could contribute considerably to resolving the global problems related to a lack of energy and to glasshouse gases from fossil fuels. The invention describes innovative equipment which makes deep holes in geological formations (rock) by disintegrating the soil into blocks carried to the land surface through the excavated hole filled with liquid, using transport modules yielded up by gas buoyancy interaction in the transport module utilising supercavitation. In an opposite direction—by help of negative buoyancy—the necessary energy carriers, materials and components, or entire devices required for rock excavation, are carried to the bottom. The opportunity to transport rock in entire blocks reduces energy consumption considerably, because the rock is disintegrated in the section volumes only. Some of the extracted rock and material carried from the surface is used to make a casing of the hole using a part of the equipment. The equipment also allows the generation of the necessary high pressure of liquid at the bottom of the hole, to increase permeability of adjacent rock. The equipment as a whole allows by its function that there is almost linear dependence between the price and depth (length) of the produced hole (borehole).

Slope surfaces of land can be eroded by rain and wind. It is necessary to vegetate a bared slope surface of land for the purpose of erosion control and environmental conservation. The present invention provides a vegetation base soil composition and a method of growing vegetation on a sloped surface for erosion control and vegetating on cut rock slope surface, such as weathered rock surface and barren soil surface. The vegetation base soil includes peat, bio-solids formed by the treatment of urban sewage, for example water treatment plant sediment, woodchip, bark, animal waste compost and clay or loam. The vegetation base soil with a microbes active material, a root activation fertilizer, an adhesive material and seeds are applied over a mesh that is secured over the sloped surface. Plants are grown in the layer of vegetation base soil.

A decoy adapter stand allows a floatable buoyant waterfowl decoy to be adapted for use on land. The decoy adapter stand includes an upper securing bracket, a base, and a vertical spacer joining the upper bracket to the base. The securing bracket is used to secure a floatable buoyant waterfowl decoy to the stand, and the base provides a stable support. In use, the vertical spacer distances the decoy from the surface of the ground, so that the decoy appears to be standing. A first, freestanding embodiment of the decoy adapter stand includes a footed base. A second embodiment of the decoy adapter stand includes a staked base, where portions of the base are insertable into the ground. A method of using the described apparatus to adapt a floatable buoyant decoy for land use is also described.

The invention provides a method through utilization of fast-growing herbaceous plants, of fast-growing alga, or lichen or moss to achieve carbon sequestration. The method includes a first step of planting and / or cultivating the fast-growing herbaceous plants, the fast-growing alga, the lichen or the moss in a selected land area or in a water area, a second step of carrying out harvesting or collecting when the fast-growing herbaceous plants, the fast-growing alga, the lichen or the moss grows to the appropriate height or the appropriate size after a period of time, a third step of carrying out drying on the harvested or collected plants, preferably, carrying out natural drying such as sun drying or air drying to obtain the dry plants, the dry alga, the dry lichen or the dry moss, a fourth step of transporting the dry plants, the dry alga, the dry lichen or the dry moss to a landfill and carrying out landfill, a fifth step of covering a layer of common soil on the final filled plants after the landfill is completed, and a sixth step of recovering vegetations in the landfill.

The invention pertains to the fertilizer field and relates to compound fertilizer special for sugar crane and a production method thereof. Alcohol waste solution and filtered mud, etc. are fermented as organic matters which are added with nitrogen, phosphor, kalium and trace or medium elements which are required for sugar crane growth to make compound fertilizer special for sugar crane. The fertilizer produced according to the invention meets the growth requirements of the sugar crane, thus improving 10-15 percent of the output in dry land and increasing 0.3-1.0 percent of crane sugar. The invention has simple process technique, good social and economic effects, and is environment friendly.

The present invention uses fresh water as farming environment, according to the basic requirement for growth of salmon the farming water source, water quality condition, stocking density and bait matching proportion are defined to make culture, at the same time the fish pond, subsider, filtering pool, refrigeration equipment, water pump and water collecting tank are formed into a semi-closed circulation farming system, and in the circulation the problems of discharging sewage, filtering and disinfection, temp. regulation, water supply and aeration also can be resolved.

A novel system, apparatus and method of operation for use in watercraft, terrestrially bound motor vehicles and fixed based land applications where water from a live well or bait tank is withdrawn, filtered, climactically controlled and conveyed through a water conditioning unit containing in part a heat exchanging unit with a generally serpentined contour water passageway, the water passageway formed and structured in a manner to allow water, or another fluid within the passageway to abut and surround a generally serpentine form tubular conduit containing a pressurized refrigerant with the water routed within the passageway maintaining continuous contact with the conduit then exiting the heat exchanging unit returned to the live well tank or bait tank.

The invention discloses a yield-increasing plantation method for a Chinese medicinal material scutellaria root. The method comprises: (1) a method for interplanting the scutellaria root among wide-row crops such as corn and the like; and (2) a method for interplanting the scutellaria root among narrow-row crops such as soybean and the like. By the yield-increasing plantation method for the Chinese medicinal material scutellaria root, the scutellaria root can be promoted to be planted in a large area in a standardized mode, and the method is a high economic benefit mode for planting the scutellaria root in dry land. For the scutellaria root planted by the method, various indexes meet the content requirements of Good Agricultural Practice (GAP), and the method has the advantages of low investment and high benefit. The plantation of the Chinese medicinal material scutellaria root is rapidly developed to meet the increasing social requirements, so that considerable social and economic benefits can be created and a good ecological environment benefit can be brought.

An apparatus for preventing the contamination of a fresh water source by grey water to be land applied, the apparatus comprising a source of grey water, a source of fresh water, a mixing tank having inlets for fresh and grey water as well as outlets for mixed fresh / grey water, and a safety overflow to prevent contamination of the fresh water source by grey water. There is a total disconnect between fresh water and grey water. Also provided is a means for preparing a desired mixture of fresh and grey water to be land applied, having desired characteristics of concentration of nitrogen, phosphorous, and other nutrients. A means for automatically transferring grey water from a lagoon or holding pond to an additional tank when the level of the grey water in the lagoon or holding pond exceeds a desired level is provided. Finally, the invention allows injection of additional nutrients, herbicides, pesticides and the like into the mixture to produce a desired composition for land application.

The invention relates to an acidic soil improving agent and an application method thereof. The acidic soil improving agent is prepared by fully and uniformly mixing the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 80-90% of dry carbide slag, 5-15% of plant ash, 1-5% of polyacrylamide and 0.1-0.5% of chitosan, wherein the pH value of a mixture is 12-12.6. The main raw material of the acidic soil improving agent provided by the invention selects the dry carbide slag, thereby realizing comprehensive utilization of industrial solid wastes, having good benefits, turning the wastes into treasures and being in line with national environment-friendly and cyclic economy policies. When the acidic soil improving agent is applied during soil tillage, a soil top application way is adopted in a paddy field and a soil blending application way is adopted in a dry land. The pH value of soil to which the acidic soil improving agent provided by the invention is applied achieves 6-7, the absorption of soil available nutrients by crops is reinforced, the activity of heavy metal ions in the soil can be also inhibited, a soil environment is improved and growth and development of plants are promoted.

The present invention discloses a wet land species diversity habitat system construction method which comprises the steps of: deep water area construction; shallow water area construction, wherein the area with the water depth being less than 50 cm is 30%-50% of the total water area, and abundant flow state environment is built; sandy beach construction; swamp area construction including the steps of planting pieces of emerged plants having developed subterraneous stems in a low-lying swamp area which is waterlogged all year round, or appropriately accompanying plants such as softstem bulrush, cattail, water horsetail and marsh marigold and the like, or alternately planting sedge; and aquatic vegetation zone construction including the steps of coastwise arranging emerged plant zones and floating-leaved plant zones in a land and water interface hydro-fluctuation belt zone so as to form an isolating barrier, the depth into the water being at least 10 meters. According to the method, the biology habitat function of a wet land can be newly built or recovered, a good growth and propagation place is provided for wet land biology, and an appropriate ecological environment is provided for birds, amphibians, fishes and periphyton.

The invention discloses a method for storing moisture and preventing drought in a dry farming spring corn area. According to the method, after autumn crops are harvested, fertilizer applying, deep tillage, rake grinding and applying of chemical herbicide are performed in the late autumn and early winter according to the requirements for sowing plastic-film corn in spring of the next year, a plastic film is timely covered, hole sowing is directly performed on the film during sowing in spring of the next year, and harvest is performed in autumn. The method has the benefits as follows: by means of the provided method for storing moisture and preventing drought in the dry farming spring corn area, the water and moisture storing capacity can be enhanced, the soil moisture environment is improved, sowing in the optimum period and full stand of corn are guaranteed, the stress resistance of corn is enhanced, and the corn yield and the water use efficiency are improved. With the application of the method, the capacity of dry farming spring corn in the north of China in adapting to drying and warming of climate is improved, and the method has a very important significance in stable increase production and high yield of the corn in the dry land.

A method and apparatus of increasing the amounts of raining in the desert, which is to settle a water-pumping station on the beach, said water-pumping station is connected with a plurality of water-storage region in the desert with the water delivery pipeline, by means of the water-pumping station to pump the seawater and transports it to each water storage region in the desert to make the seawater in the water storage region arise by the evaporation of the seawater by the sunshine, and to settle to salt land to generate more water and salts, next to utilize the glasshouse design which makes the seawater being transformed into the fresh water to acquire the fresh water, by means of such method and apparatus to increase the water contents of the air in the desert and to lessen the temperature in the desert, whereas the steam could be transformed onto the clouds after arising, thus further increase the chance of raining in the desert.

The invention discloses a ridge film-mulching soil moisture preservation and rainwater collection ditch water collection method based on a dry land fruit tree root system soil hydrothermal environment. Ridges are inwardly made in the vertical projections of crowns, rainwater collection ditches are outwardly dug in the vertical projections of the crowns, fertilization ditches are inwardly dug close to the rainwater collection ditches, black mulching films are spread at the beginning of thawing, and roots are exposed within a range between 3cm and 5cm around the roots of tree bodies; mulching films are spread on the sloped ridge surfaces, and are fixed by longitudinal batten-shaped earth; the films are removed in time in the rainy season in order to keep a good soil environment. The method is based on the rainfall characteristics of local regions, a fruit tree moisture utilization principle and the keeping of a good root zone environment. The technique is easy to operate, the cost is low, and the method has the technical effects of water preservation, water storage, evaporation resistance, centralized moisture utilization, water-promoted fertilization and keeping of the good root zone environment. The method is suitable for apple trees, peach trees, pear trees, grapevines and other fruit trees of different ages in arid regions, and can promote the activity of the root systems of fruit trees and accelerate the growth of saplings and the formation of tree shapes, ensure the stable and increased yield of grown fruit trees and increase the quality of fruits.

The invention discloses a non-tillage, drought-resisting and cold-resisting planting method of winter rapes in dry land. The method includes the following steps: in spring, according to requirements of non-tillage direct sowing of the winter rapes in next season, timely performing spring sowing of corn after fertilizing, deep ploughing, raking and grinding and mulch covering, and not uncovering mulches in the whole growing period of the corn; after harvesting of the corn in autumn, cleaning cornstalks, keeping the mulches, and performing no-tillage hole sowing of the winter rapes on the mulches directly; not uncovering the mulches in the whole growing period of the winter rapes, and harvesting the winter rapes in next summer. The method specifically includes (1), cleaning the cornstalks, (2), sowing, and (3), performing field management. By the method, farming time can be saved, timely sowing of the winter rapes can be realized, soil water content and land temperature after the corn is harvested and the winter rapes are sowed are improved, seedlings are orderly and uniform and grow robustly, processes are reduced, and cost is lowered.

The invention discloses a method for restraining the discharge of nitrous oxide in a farmland, and the method is applicable to a paddy field and a dry land. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) production of biologic black charcoal by thermally cracking straws: collecting the straws of farm crops, atmospherically drying or airing the straws so that the moisture content of the straws is lower than 20%, thermally cracking and carbonizing the straws to obtain the biologic black charcoal, then grinding the biologic black charcoal, sieving the ground biologic black charcoal, and mixing and homogenizing the sieved biologic black charcoal to obtain the biologic black charcoal with particle diameters being smaller than 0.25 mm; and 2) soil treatment by virtue of the biologic black charcoal: after the preceding crops are harvested, uniformly spreading the biologic black charcoal on the surface of soil, plowing and harrowing the soil so that the biologic black charcoal is uniformly mixed in the soil of a plough layer, for the paddy field, after the soil treatment, irrigating and flooding water for 2-5 cm, transplanting paddies after 3-5 days, directly planting the crops in the dry land, and in the management measures of the farmland, keeping irrigation, fertilization and plant protection consistent with the management of a local farmland. By virtue of field observation in the growth period of the crops, the discharge of the N2O (nitrous oxide) in the soil in the paddy fields in the Taihu plain and the dry lands in the Huang-Huai-Hai plain for the crops such as the paddies, corns and the like can be respectively reduced by 31%-58% and 11%-42%.

A vivarium and assembly for maintaining an aquatic area, wetlands, and dry land. The assembly is an enclosure for adhering to a transparent sidewall of an aquarium tank to provide sidewalls, a dry wall and a dividing wall positioned between the dry wall and the aquarium tank wall to define an aquatic area by the aquarium tank wall and a wetlands area by the dry wall. The enclosure can be surrounded by dry land area. A filtering system includes a water passage between the aquatic area and the wetland area; a water pump connected for pumping water out of the wetland area and back into the aquatic area; a particulate filter between the wetland area and the pump; and an organic filter in the wetland area, the organic filter being a living wetland plant rooted in a growing medium.

The method and apparatus for shoreline land mass reclamation which includes replacement of at least one groyne section along a shoreline wherein the section includes a pair of spaced stanchions which are connected by at least one linkage member which supports vertically extending baffle elements and wherein the at least one linkage member is piovtably connected such that the spaced stanchions may be vertically adjustable relative to one another.

A highly buoyant, lightweight and portable utility table for use in any body of water, such as oceans, lakes, fresh water ponds, containment ponds, water towers and pools, as well as on land as a work bench, or for recreational activities such as camping, picnicking, tailgating and table games. The utility table possesses excellent buoyancy with rigidity and resilience for durability, as well as nautical and aerodynamic stability without external support, and is prominently visible for ease of location and safety. The utility table may have a hollow interior, with molded plastic wall construction. The utility table may alternately be of a single component plastic foam or wood construction. The utility table may also possess legs for use on land. The utility table possesses a predominantly flat work surface on one side, with the opposite side possessing multiple-sized containment cavities, without effecting the table's buoyancy or stability.

The invention relates to a dry land farmland water potential soft measuring method based on microenvironment information and a soft measuring network. The method comprises the following steps of: selecting and determining auxiliary variable of farmland water potential soft measurement; setting a corresponding sensor according to the auxiliary variable; processing the collected data and generating input data; constructing a farmland water potential soft measurement model, training and checking the soft measurement model by using the sample data obtained in a test; and sending the preprocessed data to the farmland water potential soft measurement model to obtain the farmland water potential estimation value. The soft measuring network comprises a plurality of subnetworks and an accurate irrigation decision centre which performs data communication with the plurality of subnetworks through GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) / GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), wherein the subnetwork consists of a farmland water potential soft measurement station and a plurality of network nodes. The invention can realize automatic and continuous monitoring of the farmland water potential, timely and accurately reflect the moisture stress state in the growing process of dry crops and realize automatic and continuous monitoring of parameters of various agricultural microclimates.

The invention discloses a rice dry land pit type seedling culture method, which sequentially comprises seven operation steps of seedling bed selection, soil preparation and compartment forming, seedling bed fertilization and sterilization, seed treatment, seeding, weeding and film covering, and seedling bed management. In the soil preparation and compartment forming step, the compartment opening is carried out according to the compartment length being 1.8m and the compartment width being 1.2 to 1.3m, the width of a passage is 0.5 to 0.6m, the passage is 6 to 10cm higher than the compartment surface, and a water pumping mode can be adopted for irrigating the seedling bed. Compared with a compartment furrow type seedling culture method that the seedling bed can be irrigated only through the manual water carrying, the rice dry land pit type seedling culture method has the advantages that the work intensity of farmers is greatly reduced, meanwhile, the seedling culture method of firstly seeding and then watering is adopted during the seedling, the moisture preservation effect is good, and the sufficient saturation of the seedling bed soil moisture content can be realized through the water pumping irrigation, so the rice seeds sufficiently absorb moisture, the moisture requirement of the rice seeds after the seeding is ensured, the early and fast seedling emerging of the seeds is promoted, and the seedling emerging rate and the seedling emerging regularity of the rice seedlings are improved.

A network of modules is provided that maximizes agricultural land usage. Each module includes a water collection structure supported above agricultural land. The water collection structure may include a mechanism for distributing photonic energy to plants growing on the agricultural land; and a water distribution system for distributing collected water from said water collection structure to plants growing on the agricultural land and / or the soil in which said plants are planted. Plural modules are networked together with plumbing that serves to both provide water transport to and from the modules and structural support to the network of modules. Such a configuration is particularly useful to increase land usage efficiencies on sloped land.

The invention discloses a method for association rule mining of ocean-land climate events with combination of a climate subdivision thought. A Delaunay triangulation network of space data is established and an overall and local long-side constraint is exerted on the space data, so that a reasonable and stable space adjacent relation network is obtained, the similarity of a time series of space adjacent entities is measured, hierarchical clustering is conducted to obtain a hierarchical cluster result, and a good climate subdivision result is obtained on the basis of false-T statistical magnitude analysis; a prior knowledge constraint of a related field is brought in and interested climate events are extracted from ocean climate indexes and land climate zones respectively, so that effective association rules among the ocean-land climate events are mined through exertion of a time window width constraint, a time delay constraint and a sufficiency and necessity constraint. The multi-scale effect can be effectively considered in the mining process so that an effective climate zone can be obtained and high efficiency, pertinence and practicability can be achieved through multiple constraints when the association rules are mined.

The invention relates to a method and a device for measuring indoor resistivity of a soil sample. The method is characterized by comprising the steps of 1) preparing a sample placing device (2) and a direct-current resistivity measuring instrument (5) according to measurement requirements, fixing the soil sample (1) on the sample placing device (2), and connecting the sample placing device (2) with the direct-current resistivity measuring instrument (5) by a four-electrode method; 2) starting the device and setting parameters according to operation procedures of the direct-current resistivity measuring instrument; 3) beginning to acquire and record voltage, current and resistivity values Rho 1 after parameter setting is finished; 4) re-measuring the voltage, the current and the resistivity values Rho 1 after previous measurement is finished and two receiving electrodes are swapped, and recording measured voltage, current and resistivity values Rho 2; 5) further reducing a polarization effect by using a superposition averaging method, expressing superposition averaging by an expression of resistivity Rho=(Rho 1-Rho 2) / 2, and obtaining the indoor resistivity Rho=(Rho 1-Rho 2) / 2 of the measured soil sample. The method and the device for measuring the indoor resistivity of the soil sample have the advantages of accuracy in measurement and simple measurement method, and are applicable to measuring the indoor resistivity of marine soil samples, land soil samples or manufactured sample soil.