• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.45-53
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• 2007

This study investigated the effect of parked cars in the sunshine on the increase of air temperature on a sunny day. Air temperatures were determined both from inside of the parked cars and the top surface of the vehicle at which one car was parked under the sunshine and the other in the shade for the duration of 27 hours. The surface temperatures of asphalt and bare soil were simultaneously measured in both locations, sunshine and shade areas, along with a couple of meteorological factors. The sensible heat fluxes from the surfaces of asphalt, bare soil and two vehicles were estimated by utilizing those observed data. The results are as follows; 1) The surface temperatures of bare soil, asphalt and two vehicles increased with $30{\sim}37^{\circ}C,\;37{\sim}46^{\circ}C\;and\;42{\sim}49^{\circ}C$ respectively during the day. 2) The sensible heat fluxes were noticeably higher from the top surface of the parked vehicle in the sunshine than from the asphalt or bare soil. The differences of sensible heat fluxes between the vehicle's roof and the other two surfaces of asphalt and bare soil were 60 (asphalt) and 85 (bare soil) $W/m^2$ during the daytime.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.41-49
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• 2010

Web building of the spider is an investment behavior for prey foraging with genetic constraint. Individual's decision-making on the web construction depends on diverse environmental variables. This study investigated web structure of the wasp spider, Argiope bruennichi, to compare individual's behaviors in dry field and in wet field. We measured 35 web structures in dry field (Chunma-San, Incheon) showing relatively low humidity (46.4%) and luxuriant herbage, and 13 web structures in the wet rice field (73.9%; Taean-Gun, Chungnam). Comparing to the wet field the individuals in the dry field invested significantly more silk: $32.5{\pm}12.8$ number of silk spirals used in the dry field vs. $16.9{\pm}5.4$ in the wet field. The web area of the dry field was greater than that of the wet field: $976{\pm}643cm^2$ vs. $532{\pm}254cm^2$. The web height, distance between the ground and the center of the web, appeared higher in the dry field than in the wet field: $71.4{\pm}39.6cm$ vs. $49.6{\pm}31.2cm$. Also the web constructed in the dry field showed longer stabilimentum than the web of the wet field: $18.8{\pm}3.4cm$ vs. $3.9{\pm}3.2cm$. The perpendicular inclination and the inclination to East-West of the web showed no difference between the two fields. This study suggests that adult females of A. bruennichi could modulate its construction behavior depending on the micro-habitat factors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.175-180
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• 2006

본 연구는 연구대상지의 위성영상을 이용하여 물, 산림, 인공구조물, 나대지, 경작지, 초지의 6항목으로 토지피복 분류를 수행하였으며, 인공위성 영상에 나타난 시계열적인 도시피복의 변화 현상을 파악하였다. 이러한 각각의 결과를 통하여 종합적인 도시지역 내의 공간현상을 파악하고자 하였고, 시간의 경과에 따라 각각의 항목별 변화에 대한 통계량을 추출하기 위해 GIS의 GRID 연산을 수행하여 도시 내 공간적인 변화를 분석하였다. 연도별 위성영상을 분석한 결과 체계적인 도심의 모습으로 발전시키는데 중요한 기초자료로 이용될 수 있고, 도시계획 수립 및 개발을 위한 의사결정 자료로 이용할 수 있으며, 도시의 향후 발전 형태를 예측하고 과거자료들을 분석하여 주요지역에 필요한 제반시설물들의 위치를 결정하는데 유용하게 이용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.22-32
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to analyze soil erosion quantity of a basin by using DEM, soil map and landuse map and to find a soil erosion hazard zone in a basin based on this data. In this study, RUSLE was used to analyze soil loss quantity and the research area chosen is Mushim stream which branches off the Geum river. This study used a mean annual precipitation of Cheongju Meteorological Observation was used as a hydrological data and DEM, the detailed soil map(1/25,000), the landuse map collected respectively from Ministry of Environment, National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology and Ministry of Construction and Transportation. The subject map was drawn to analyze soil erosion hazard zone by using the above data and maps. According to the results of the analysis, a lot of soil loss shows in a bare area. In case of a forest, a slope has a lot of influence on soil loss. The integration and analysis of the above gave the result that $193,730.3m^2$corresponding to 8.5% of the places of which the slope is over 20 degree in a bare area was found to have a higher chance of soil erosion.

• Journal of The Geomorphological Association of Korea
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.41-56
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• 2011

This study analyzes the change in land-cover based on satellite imagery to draw up land-cover map in the future, and estimates the change in land category using statistical data of the land category. To estimate land category, this study applied the double exponentially smoothing method. The result of the land cover classification according to year using satellite imagery showed that the type with the largest increase in area of land cover change in the cities of Cheonan and Asan was artificial structure, followed by water, grass field and bare land. However forest, paddy, marsh and dry field were reduced. Further, the result of the time-series analysis of the land category was found to be similar to the result of the land cover classification using satellite imagery. Especially, the result of the estimation of the land category change using the double exponentially smoothing method showed that paddy, dry field, forest and marsh are anticipated to consistently decrease in area from 2010 to 2100, whereas artificial structure, water, bare land and grass field are anticipated to consistently increase. Such results can be utilized as basic data to estimate the change in land cover according to climate change in order to prepare climate change response strategies.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.1547-1556
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a flame detection method using region expansions and on-line variances in outdoor infrared video sequences. To segment flame candidates' regions in infrared images, we first, extract initial regions by high threshold values in infrared images and then the segmented regions are expanded to their neighbors with similar high intensity values. The segmented regions could be non-flame areas like bare-grounds and buildings. Therefore, to detect flame regions in the segmented regions, the segmented regions which have high intensity values in infrared image, are tracked using bounding regions in frame sequences. Variances in the tracked regions are calculated effectively by on-line updates to measure intensity variations on the tracked regions. Experiments show that the proposed method, which is based on region expansions and the average of on-line variances in the regions, is efficient to detect flames in infrared image.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.03a
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• pp.49-54
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• 2007

고분해능복사계(AVHRR) 자료로부터 산출한 아시아지역 지면피복 분류자료들 (United States Geological Survey: USGS, International Geosphere Biosphere Programme: IGBP, University of Maryland: UMd)의 분류특성을 분석하였으며 이를 근거로 하여 이 지역에 대한 지면피복의 분류를 시도하였다. 서로 다른 지면피복 분류 자료들의 비교를 위하여 지도 투영법을 일치시켰으며 지면피복 정의가 유사한 유형들만 비교하였다. 세 지면피복 자료에서 분류가 모두 일치하는 비율은 33.57%이고 3 자료 중 두 자료에서 분류가 일치하는 비율은 49.69%로 나타났다. 전체적으로 나대지(사막)， 도시 및 혼합림과 같이 식생의 생물리적 특성이 뚜렷한 유형들에서는 분류의 일치율이 높게 나타났다. 반면에 농지， 낙엽활엽수림， 및 낙엽침엽수렴과 같이 식생의 생물리적 특성이 유사한 유형에서는 일치율이 낮게 나타났다. 분류에 사용된 기본 입력자료수， 지면피복 유형수，분류기법 및 입력 자료의 전처리 수준 등이 지면피복 분류 결과에 차이를 유발한 것으로 판단된다. 지면피복 자료들의 비교결과와 각 유형별 식생지수의 평균 계절변동 특성을 이용하여 이 지역에 대한 지면피복 분류자료를 보완하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.263-275
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• 2008

This Study deals with the comparative analysis on the estimation of surface soil erosion volume between South and North Korea using RUSLE model in Imjin River basin located on DMZ of Central Korea. Comparatively North Korea areas have been more eroded three times as much as South Korea parts. Because of cropland development such as com Held in the hillslope, in North Korea, more surface soil erosion and transportation to the river bed has given rise to frequent flood hazards. It seems that the study can dedicate to mitigation of environmental problems such as soil erosion and flooding in unaccessible Imjin River basin located on DMZ.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.835-848
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• 2003

This study deals with the spatio-temporal change of land cover and vegetation distribution between 1988 and 2001 using remote sensing images and CIS techniques in west area of Pyeongbuk Province, northwest Korea. Landsat TM and ETM images are geometrically and radiometrically corrected for the analysis of land cover and NDVI. Forested areas are decreased during 13 year from 1988 to 2001 in study area including Sakju, Daegwan, Guseong and Euiju of Pyeongbuk Province, because wasteland are increased by human impact and denuded land by landslide and flooding. DEM analysis presents that settlement and cropland are developed toward higher and steeper mountain slope, together with decrease NDIV values. these changes have resulted from unplanned increase of cropland without consideration of geomorphic condition. Therefore, more researches and reasonable policies are required to protect forest and cropland and stable food supply against natural hazard like landslide.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.345-350
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• 2000

The objectives of this study were to find out distribution of heavy metal contents in the soils of Hanam city and to provide base-line data towards development of an eco-city Hanam. One hundred surface soil (0-20 cm) samples were collected from rice paddy field, cultivated upland, forest, riverside and other areas. The samples were air-dried, sieved to pass through 2 mm sieves, followed by analyses for As, Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn by the standard method set by the ministry of environment. All the average heavy metal contents were close to background level and were much lower than concern level of the Soil Environment Conservation Act of Korea. However, some individual heavy metal contents were higher than the action level. Since natural environment including soil environment of Hanam city is being destroyed rapidly and the number of the sampling points allocated to Hanam city based on the soil contamination monitoring network of the ministry of environment is only 6, an in-depth soil survey for contamination of Hanam city is highly recommended.