• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.205-213
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• 2013

Forest fires disturb communities of forest-dwelling insects by killing or dispersal. Species diversity, species composition, and functional guilds of ant communities will be changed following forest fires. A survey of ants was conducted to find changes in ant communities after a large fire occurred in Goseong within Gwangwon province in South Korea in 1996. In total, 1,308 ants representing 16 species were collected; 696 ants representing 15 species were collected at the burned site, and 612 ants representing 13 species were collected at the unburned site. Contrary to the general expectation which predicts a decrease of diversity and abundance after fire, abundance, species diversity, species composition, and functional guilds of ant communities did not differ between the burned site and the unburned site. Furthermore, estimated species richness was significantly higher at the burned site than at the unburned site. However, monthly occurrences of ants (abundant species and pooled) were different between the burned site and the unburned site. Ants were more abundant at the burned sites than the unburned site just after the fire (May 1996). However, they were more abundant at the unburned site than the burned site in autumn (September and October 1996). This phenomenon might be caused by environmental change (e.g., decrease of soil moisture). In conclusion, the fire did not significantly change ant fauna, as fire in spring cannot destroy ant colonies that are wintering in deep soils.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.71-79
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• 2008

To find out the effect of the vegetation recovery and the problems of forest land, the researches of the mortality in pine stand and vegetation recovery have been carried out from the burned site. In area which is damaged by fire scar on crown and stem, rate of dead is higher. Where stand growing stocks were totally damaged by crown forest fire, most of vegetation was recovered by sprouts and planted seeds. Vegetation recovery power were depending on the condition of soil depth condition. For the artificial recovery, the damage happened by insects in the planted birches plantation. Rate of growth was somewhat different between Pinus densiflora and Pinus thunbergii in the plantation, because of individual growth rate.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.144-147
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• 2011

동시다발적인 산불발생시 한정된 진화자원을 효과적으로 운영하여 산불피해를 최소화하기 위해서는 산불상황에 맞는 진화자원 투입과 배치가 이루어져야 한다. 이를 위해서는 진화자원 투입 및 운영 의사결정을 할 수 있도록 각 진화자원별 진화능력단위에 대한 평가가 이루어져야 한다. 하지만 아직 국내 외적으로 산불진화자원에 대한 진화능력단위 산정에 관한 연구가 이루어져 있지 않다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 우리나라 진화자원을 중심으로 진화능력단위 기준 설정과 함께 각 진화자원별 진화능력단위를 산정하였다. 우리나라 진화자원은 크게 지상진화자원과 공중진화자원으로 구분됨으로 지상진화에 투입되는 주요 진화자원인 등짐펌프 및 불갈퀴 등 손도구를 이용하는 진화인력과 산불진화차량, 이동식 동력살수장치와 산불진화헬기로 구성되는 공중진화자원에 대해 진화효과를 분석, 능력단위를 산정하는 방법을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.106-106
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• 2013

산불은 소중한 산림을 파괴 시키고 자연생태에 막대한 영향을 미치기도 하지만 인근 주택가에 이차적인 피해를 주기도 한다. 도시팽창으로 인해 산과 주택의 거리가 가까워지고 있는 상황과 사람들의 부주의로 인한 잦은 산불로 인해 그 피해는 더욱 심각해지고 있다. 그러나 산림 인근에 있는 주택들은 대부분 농가에 노인들이 거주하고 있기 때문에 화재에 대해 대비책이 필요한 상황이다. 산불로 인한 인근 주택화재피해의 원인을 조사해보면 대 부분 산림과 주택의 거리가 좁아 불길로 인한 직접적인 피해와 비화로 인한 피해로 압축되고 있다. 이러한 피해를 예방하기 위해서는 우선 입산자와 산림인근 거주자에 대한 적극적인 산불방지 홍보가 우선시 되어야 할 것이며 이차적으로 주거지역과 산림과의 적적한 이격거리 확보와 인접되는 나무의 수종을 인화성이 약한 활엽수로 대체하는 등의 예방을 우선시 하여야겠다. 산불은 대부분 실화로 인해 발생하는 경우가 대부분이지만 대상이 불분명하고 실화자를 찾더라도 그 피해액을 산정하여 보상을 청구하기에는 사실상 불가능하다. 이에 정부 및 지자체에는 산불로 인한 인근 주거지에 대해 보험 및 예비비를 통하여 만약의 경우를 대비하여 대비책을 마련해 놔야 할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.421-425
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• 2011

산불연료 조건에 따른 산불특성 분석을 위하여 산불피해의 조사지역은 2009년, 2010년 산불이 발생했던 강원도 고성지역과 양양지역, 강릉지역과 삼척지역을 조사 대상지역으로 선정하였으며, 고성군의 경우 활엽수림이 4개소, 칩엽수림 1개소, 양양군은 침엽수림이 3개소, 삼척시의 경우는 침엽수림이 2개소, 강릉시의 경우 침엽수림이 3개소 총 13개소를 각각 대상지로 선정하였다. 산불사례 현장조사를 통해 임목고사여부, 편면연소, 수간피해율, 수관피해율 등의 산불피해 특성을 분석한 결과 연료의 임상구조에 따른 편면연소율은 침엽수림은 67.4%, 활엽수림 47.9%로 침엽수림의 편면연소율이 활엽수림보다 19.5% 더 피해를 받는 것으로 나타났으며, 수관피해율은 침엽수림은 51.1%, 활엽수림 44.2%로 침엽수림의 수관피해율이 활엽수림보다 6.9% 더 피해를 받는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 임목고사율은 침엽수림은 44.0%, 활엽수림은 42.3%로 침엽수림의 임목고사율이 활엽수림보다 1.7% 더 피해를 받는 것으로 분석 되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2002

The forest fire occurrences and burned area are increasing every year since 1990 in Korea, of which 65% is covered by forest. This study attempts to analyze topographic characteristics of forest fire burned area using GIS, and we also applied the statistical analysis based on the fire characteristics such as weather, forest as fuels and topography in small and large forest fire burned areas. The result of the statistical analysis shows that the size of forest fire was related to the slope length, slope degree, wind speed, forest type, and forest continuity.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.99 no.3
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• pp.259-266
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• 2010

Forest fire occurrence in Korea is highly related to human activities and its spatial distribution shows a strong spatial dependency with cluster pattern. In this study, we analyzed spatial distribution pattern of forest fire with point pattern analysis considering spatial dependency. Distributional pattern was derived from Ripley's K-function according to causes and distances. Spatially clustered intensity was found out using Kernel intensity estimation. As a result, forest fires in Korea show clustered pattern, although the degrees of clustering for each cause are different. Furthermore, spatial clustering pattern can be classified into two groups in terms of degrees of clustering and distance. The first group shows the national-wide cluster pattern related to the human activity near forests, such as human-induced accidental fire in mountain and field incineration. Another group shows localized cluster pattern which is clustered within a short distance. It is associated with the smoker fire, arson, accidental by children. The range of localized clustering was 30 km. Beyond of this range, the patterns of forest fire became random distribution gradually. Kernel intensity analysis showed that the latter group, which have localized cluster pattern, was occurred in near Seoul with high densed population.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.123-127
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• 2020

In order to obtain the overall fire line information of medium and large forest fires at night, the ground control system was developed to determine whether forest fires occurred through real-time video clips and to calculate the location of the forest fires determined using the location of drones, angle information of video cameras, and altitude information on the map to reduce the time required for regular video matches obtained after the completion of the mission. To verify the reliability of the developed function, the error distance of the aiming position information of the flight altitude star and the image camera was measured, and the location information within the reliable range was displayed on the map. As the function developed in this paper allows real-time identification of multiple locations of forest fires, it is expected that overall fire line information for the establishment of forest fire extinguishing measures will be obtained more quickly.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.94 no.4 s.161
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• pp.226-235
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• 2005

The burned pine forest may change into the grassland with bushes. However, it is likely that forest insects immigrated from the adjacent forest may be temporally abundant in the burned forest. This study was conducted to observe the immigration of insects for a year since forest fire. Beetle fauna in burned forest was compared with that in unburned forest in Goseong in Gwangwon province where the big fire was occurred and burned 3,762 ha of forest in 1996. The 381 individuals of 60 beetle species was collected from the burned forest, whereas the 370 individuals of 63 beetle species from the unburned forest. There was no difference in abundance and species richness of beetle fauna between burned forest and unburned forest. Most of abundant beetle species were collected from burned forest as well as unburned forest. Seasonal occurrence of the insects in burned forest were similar to those in unburned forest. These indicate active immigration of insects in burned forest in early season after fire. The beetles dwelling on vegetation were more actively immigrated into burned forest compared with those foraging in ground.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.1581-1586
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a central disaster monitoring system of the forest fire. This system provides the safe-zone and detection to reduce the suppression efforts. In existing system, it has a few providing the predicting of wildfire spread model and speed through topography, weather, fuel factor. This paper focus on the forest fire diffusion model and predictions of the path identified to ensure the safe zone. Also we have considering the forest fire of moving direction and speed for fire suppression and monitering. The proposed algorithm could provide the technique to analyze the attribute information that temperature, wind, smoke measured over time. This proposed central observing monitoring system could provide the moving direction of spred out forecast wildfire. This observing and monitering system analyze and simulation for the moving speed and direction forest fire, it could be able to predict and training the forest fire fighters in a given environment.