• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.11-21
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• 2012

As a strategy to enhance traffic management, roundabouts come to the fore recently to decrease traffic accidents, streamline traffic flows, and expedite the realization of green transportation. As local governments introduced roundabouts, new road sign standards have to be established because the existing road sign regulations cannot be applied to roundabouts. Prior to trying to make suitable specification of sub-destination signs in roundabouts, regulations of other countries were examined and modified. The legend and location was calculated so that drivers could turn in time. Two specifications were determined by simulation experiments. As a result, drivers could read signs at right side better than at traffic island, and turn in time at 15cm legend size. Consequently, we proposed the minimum specifications and optimal locations of sub-destination signs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.79-80
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• 2022

항로표지의 핵심기능은 항행선박에게 위치, 방향, 장애물의 위치 등을 알려주는 항행보조시설로서 현장 중심의 신호체계이며, 고유의 핵심역할 수행을 위한 유지보수는 중요한 이슈이다. 최근 4차 산업혁명 관련 첨단기술의 발전으로 자율운항선박(MASS) 등 다양한 해양교통수단의 개발 및 도입에 따라 항행 보조시설인 항로표지에 대한 스마트 단계에 대한 연구를 진행하고 있다. 지금까지 다양한 산업에서의 스마트 및 자율화 단계에 대한 선행조사·분석을 통해 항로표지의 스마트 단계를 4개로 구분하고, 핵심역할 및 기능을 세분화하여 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.46-47
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• 2022

항로표지는 등광, 형상, 색채, 음향, 전파 등을 수단으로 선박의 위치, 방향 및 장애물의 위치 등을 알려주는 항해보조시설로 해상교통 환경의 중요한 인프라이다. 해상교통환경은 4차산업혁명에 따라 자율운항선박, 스마트항만 등의 기술개발과 더불어 급격하게 변화 중이다. 그러므로 해상교통환경 변화에 능동적으로 대응하고 해상안전을 확보하기 위해서는 기존의 항로표지 고도화 및 정보협력서비스 제공이 필요하다. 본 연구의 목적은 미래 해상교통 관리를 위한 항로표지의 새로운 서비스 실효성을 확보하기 위해 사용자 대상 요구사항을 평가하는 것이다. 본 연구의 결과를 통해 선박운항자 등 사용자 관점에서 미래 항로표지 서비스의 요구사항을 파악할 수 있는 기초자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.324-330
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• 2023

Aids to navigation, which provide information about a ship's position, direction, and the location of obstacles, are crucial for uninterrupted maritime services. This study aimed to analyze accidents involving aids to navigation that resulted in service disruptions and identify the key factors associated with these accidents. Aids to navigation accident data from 2000 to 2022 were utilized to achieve this. We categorized accidents by accident type, cause, region, season, and type of navigation aid and established a network through correlation analysis. Bayesian networks based on aids to navigation accidents were assigned prior probabilities, and the factors that increased the probability of accidents for different types of aids to navigation were identified. The findings can be used to infer the causes of unreported aids to navigation accidents and serve as foundational data for the prevention of such accidents.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.297-306
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• 2022

AtoN is an acronym for aids to navigation that indicate the position or direction of navigable areas and obstructions. AtoN should be arranged in consideration of unfamiliar navigator's convenience when it is indicated as the limits of navigable areas. Several narrow channels exist on the SW coast of Korea owing to the geographical effect, and the lateral or cardinal marks by the IALA maritime buoyage system are arranged along the narrow channels. This is an actual case study that analyzed the AtoN's role for safety navigation after changes in the maritime traffic environment owing to aquarfarm's development on narrow channels in the Korean SW coast. The analysis results of 5 narrow channels indicated that certain marks did not function properly as lateral or cardinal marks owing to the aquarfarm's location on navigable areas. Therefore, the following were suggested to improve AtoN on narrow channels: changing the position of marks, installing aquafarm's marks, and expressing the aquafarm's position on the nautical chart.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.43 no.6
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• pp.437-443
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• 2019

Aid to navigation is a navigational aid facility that informs a sailing vessel of its location and direction as well as a location of a specific obstacle by means of a light, shape, color, sound, radio wave, etc. It can be valuable in improving the safety of day and night vessel navigation at sea. For the safety of the tug boat, the minimum equipment requirements for each type of tug boat are arranged. Despite these preparations, the collision accidents between tug boats, barges, and light buoys can occur when the tug boat turns due to the length of the tow-line, tidal current, and the barge's momentum etc. The purpose of this study was to propose the basic system that analyzes the physical relationship between two vessels regarding the tug boat-barge-light buoy dynamics and propagate the corresponding data through the aid to navigation management & operation systems in use at each regional oceans and fisheries.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.15-17
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• 2015

입출항 선박의 증가와 선박의 대형화로 인하여 두 선박간의 항법규정을 기본으로 하는 해상충돌예방규칙 등 기존의 규정만으로는 연안해역과 항만의 출입항로에서 안전하고 원활한 해상교통을 기대하기 어렵게 되었다. 낚시 유어선과 항내운항선박 등 혼잡요인이 많은 항만의 항로환경을 해상교통공학적인 방법으로 연구하여 출입항 선박들의 혼잡을 감소하고 어선 및 어장의 간섭을 줄일 수 있는 시스템을 마련하여야 한다. 항로와 정박지, 교통안전특정해역, 항행보조시설 등 하드웨어 개선뿐만 아니라 소프트웨어라고 할 수 있는 도선사 승하선 구간의 해도표시, 출입항 선박간의 방향별 집단관리로 등으로 혼잡을 정리하는 개선이 필요하다. 항로의 혼잡과 위해요소의 감소 및 어민 등 항로주변 수역 이해관계의 조율에 기여할 수 있는 이러한 연구가 현실에 부합하기 위해서는 현장에서 항로를 이용하는 전문가의 축적된 경험을 바탕으로 연구함이 효과적이다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.25-32
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• 2021

In line with future changes in the marine environment, Aids to Navigation has been used in various fields and their use is increasing. The term "Aids to Navigation" means an aid to navigation prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries which shows navigating ships the position and direction of the ships, position of obstacles, etc. through lights, shapes, colors, sound, radio waves, etc. Also now the use of Aids to Navigation is transforming into a means of identifying and recording the marine weather environment by mounting various sensors and cameras. However, Aids to Navigation are mainly lost due to collisions with ships, and in particular, safety accidents occur because of poor observation visibility due to sea fog. The inflow of sea fog poses risks to ports and sea transportation, and it is not easy to predict sea fog because of the large difference in the possibility of occurrence depending on time and region. In addition, it is difficult to manage individually due to the features of Aids to Navigation distributed throughout the sea. To solve this problem, this paper aims to identify the marine weather environment by estimating sea fog level approximately with images taken by cameras mounted on Aids to Navigation and to resolve safety accidents caused by weather. Instead of optical and temperature sensors that are difficult to install and expensive to measure sea fog level, sea fog level is measured through the use of general images of cameras mounted on Aids to Navigation. Furthermore, as a prior study for real-time sea fog level estimation in various seas, the sea fog level criteria are presented using the Haze Model and Dark Channel Prior. A specific threshold value is set in the image through Dark Channel Prior(DCP), and based on this, the number of pixels without sea fog is found in the entire image to estimate the sea fog level. Experimental results demonstrate the possibility of estimating the sea fog level using synthetic haze image dataset and real haze image dataset.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.485-492
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• 2012

Today, a digital airborne imaging sensor plays an important role in construction of the numerous National Spatial Data Infrastructure. However, an appropriate quality assesment procedure for the acquired digital images should be preceded to make them useful data with high precision and reliability. A lot of studies therefore have been conducted in attempt to assess quality of digital images at home and abroad. In this regard, many test fields have been already established and operated to calibrate digital photogrammetric airborne imaging systems in Europe and America. These test fields contain not only GCPs(Ground Control Points) to test geometric performance of a digital camera but also various types of targets to evaluate its spatial and radiometric resolution. The purpose of this paper is to present a method to verify the spatial resolution of the Intergraph DMC digital camera and its results based on an experimental field testing. In field test, a simple bar target to be easily identified in image is used to check the spatial resolution. Images, theoretically designed to 12cm GSD(Ground Sample Distance), were used to calculate the actual resolution for all sub-images and virtual images in flight direction as well as in cross flight direction. The results showed that the actual image resolution was about 0.6cm worse than theoretically expected resolution. In addition, the greatest difference of 1.5cm between them was found in the image of block edge.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.643-664
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• 2004

This study aims to review what geographers have contributed to GIS industries and national needs. To-be-geographers and geographers are expected to meet the gap between what we have teamed in school and what we have to do after graduation. The characteristics of GIS industry in the 1990 are summarized with approximate evaluation of the contribution of geographers in each stage. Author introduced the requirement for the licenses of geomatics and geospatial engineering experts and the other licenses, which are important to get a job in GIS industry from 2003 to 2004. A set of questionnaire on the user's requirements was given to GIS people in private companies and public GIS research centers and analyzed. Author found that they put an emphasis on hands-on experiences and programming skills. no advantages or geography such as capability or integration and inter-disciplinary collaboration were not appreciated. The prospects for the GIS tend to be positive but the reflectance of the prospect was not accompanied by at the same degree of preference for geography. Most government strategies for the next ten years' GIS focus on new-growth leading industries. SWOT(strength, weakness, opportunity, threat) analysis of geography for GIS industry will give some directions such as telematics, regional marketing strategies with web-based GIS technology, location based service. That means intra-disciplinary study in geography will evoke the potentiality of GIS, compared with interdisciplinary studies.