• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2008

Ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) positions are one of the key parameters in an OBS-airgun seismic survey for crustal structure study. To improve the quality of these parameters, we have developed a new method of determining OBS positions, using airgun shot data and bathymetric data in addition to available distance measurements by acoustic transponders. The traveltimes of direct water waves emitted by airgun shots and recorded by OBSs are used as important information for determining OBS locations, in cases where there are few acoustic transponder data (<3 sites). The new method consists of two steps. A global search is performed as the first step, to find nodes of the bathymetric grid that are the closest to explaining the observed direct water-wave traveltimes from airgun shots, and acoustic ranging using a transponder system. The use of precise 2D bathymetric data is most important if the bottom topography near the OBS is extremely rough. The locations of the nodes obtained by the first step are used as initial values for the second step, to avoid falling into local convergence minima. In the second step, a non-linear inverse method is executed. If the OBS internal clock shows large drift, a secondary correction for the OBS internal clock is obtained, as well as the OBS location, as final results by this method. We discuss the error and the influence of each measurement used in the determination of OBS location.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1832-1836
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• 2009

우리나라 수위관측소에 설치되어 있는 수위표는 야간 시인성 부족으로 야간이나 우천시 수위관측을 수행하는데 있어 많은 어려움이 있다. 특히 유량측정 전후 수위관측이 반드시 필요하지만 야간일 경우 눈으로 확인하는 것이 쉽지 않다. 야간 수위관측시 시인성을 높이기 위해 일부 관측소에서 야광도료를 이용하거나 빛의 반사효과를 높인 수위표를 설치하는 등의 노력을 하고 있으나 그 효과는 크지 않다. 이에 본 연구에서는 야간 수위관측시 수위 식별이 어려운 문제를 해결하기 위해 첨단 소자인 LED(Light Emitting Diode)를 이용한 수위표를 개발하고 동시에 전류식 수위센서를 이용하여 자동 수위측정이 가능한 수위표를 개발하였다. 이는 기존의 눈으로 확인하는 수위표와 로거에 저장되는 수위측정장치를 하나로 통합한 것이며 주야간을 가리지 않는 탁월한 시인성과 정확한 수위측정 및 수위자료의 저장이 특징이다. LED는 최근 각광받고 있는 첨단 소자로서 각종 전광판 등에 다양하게 활용되고 있으며 전력을 크게 소비하지 않는 것이 특징이다. 또한 전기장치를 수중에 설치하는 것이므로 방수를 위해 실리콘을 이용하여 완벽 방수구조를 갖추었으며 홍수시 하천 유하물에 의한 파손을 방지하기 위해 내구성을 갖춘 구조로 설계 제작하였다. LED를 이용한 수위표는 야간이나 홍수시 수위관측을 수행할 때 많은 장점이 있을 것으로 판단되며 저전력 구조로 상용전원을 이용할 수 없는 위치에서 태양열 전지판을 이용한 배터리 기반 시스템으로 구성할 수 있으므로 측정의 정확도, 활용도 측면뿐만 아니라 설치의 편리성 문제도 큰 장점을 가질 것으로 판단된다.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.529-537
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• 1992

Airlift pumps were tested to evaluate their pumping and aeration capacities. The pumps were 34.5 inch long made of 2, 3, 4 and 6 inch nominal diameter PVC pipes. An one hp air blower was used to supply the air. The air-flow rate was measured by an anemometer type air-flow meter and air pressure was level changes in a water tank from which water was pumped. Aeration by the pumps was tested by the standard aeration test method with the center of pump outlet positioned 3 inches above water surface. Oxygen concentrations in water were measured to determine aeration rate. As pumping head increased by water level draw-down in the tank water flow decreased while air flow increased. The reduction rate of water flow was higher with 4 and 6-inch pumps. Small pumps showed very minor changes in the reduction. Aeration rates were similar among 3, 4, and 6 inch pumps. With one hp air blower 6-inch pump at the minimum pumping head achieved the best performance in terms of water circulation.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.245-251
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• 2019

Sonar bearing accuracy is the correspondence between the target orientation predicted by sonar and actual target orientation, and is obtained from measurements. However, when measuring sonar bearing accuracy, many errors are included in the results because they are made at sea, where complex and diverse environmental factors are applied. In particular, parallax error caused by the difference between the position of the GPS receiver and the sonar sensor, and the time delay error generated between the speed of underwater sound waves and the speed of electromagnetic waves in the air have a great influence on the accuracy. Correcting these parallax errors and time delay errors without an automated tool is a laborious task. Therefore, in this study, we propose a sonar bearing accuracy measurement equipment with parallax error and time delay error correction. The tests were carried out through simulation data and real data. As a result of the test it was confirmed that the parallax error and time delay error were systematically corrected so that 51.7% for simulation data and more than 18.5% for real data. The proposed method is expected to improve the efficiency and accuracy of sonar system detection performance verification in the future.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.400-408
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• 2023

The tracking accuracy of buoy-based LBL(Long Base Line) systems can be significantly influenced by sea environmental conditions. Particularly, the position of buoys that may have drifted due to sea currents. Therefore it is necessary to predict and optimize the drifted-buoy positions in the deploying step. This research introduces a free-drift simulation model using ocean data from the European CMEMS. The simulation model's predictions are validated by comparing them to actual sea buoy drift tracks, showing a substantial match in averaged drift speed and direction. Using this drift model, we optimize the initial buoy layout and compare the tracking performance between the center hexagonal layout and close track layout. Our results verify that the optimized layout achieves lower tracking errors compared to the other two layout.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.251-257
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• 2021

An underwater platform operating a passive sonar needs to acquire the target position to perform its mission. In an environment where sea-floor reflections exist, the position of a target can be estimated using the difference in the arrival time between the signals received through multipaths. In this paper, a method of localization for passive sonar is introduced, based on the EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) using the multipath time difference of arrival in underwater environments. TMA (Target Motion Analysis) requires accumulated measurements for long periods and has limitations on own-ship movement, allowing it to be used only in certain situations. The proposed method uses an EKF, which takes measurements of the time differences of the signal arrival in multipath environments. The method allows for target localization without restrictions on own-ship movement or the need for an observation time. To analyze the performance of the proposed method, simulation according to the distance and depth of the target was performed repeatedly, and the localization error according to the distance and water depth were analyzed. In addition, the correlation with the estimated position error was assessed by analyzing the arrival time difference according to the water depth.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.409-417
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• 2005

This study is aimed to develop a remote control robot-ship system using wireless communication and DGPS, which it is an automatic system for measuring exact depth and bed topography of reservoir or dam. Robot-ship is equipped with GPS and echosounder, and it is controled remotely using wireless internet. Robot-ship is consist of frame, each module and control board. Control segment is consisted of a processing system for positioning data and remote control system. A wireless communication system is developed which can communicate interactively between robot-ship and control segment, and it is developed in two channel system of RF modem and wireless internet. The robot-ship could be used acquire economically and exactly the water depth and bed topography of reservoirs, dams, rivers and so on.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.1577-1582
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• 2013

In this paper, we have analyzed the performance of MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) underwater acoustic communication by using the acquired data via the experiments in water tank. First of all, in the pursuit of this aim, we have measured the channel transfer characteristics at several transceiver locations. The transmitted signal was modulated by QPSK(Quadrature Phase Shit Keying) and the received signal was recovered through the detector that contains the zero forcing equalizer. A maximum 30~40 ms delay was appeared because of physically closed water tank environment that has the harsh multi-path transmission conditions. In result of experiment, even though the bit error rate showed comparatively large when $2{\times}2$ MIMO system with two transmitters and receivers was considered. However, we confirmed it has approximately 15% enhanced performance compared with SISO (Single-Input Single-Output) system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.8
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• pp.441-446
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• 2005

This paper presents the changes of acoustic scattering pattern from a single cylinder and two identical cylinders in both theoretical calculations and experimental measurements. Bi-static scattering pattern by single cylinder and two parallel cylinders (length 2m, radius 30mm) was measured in $5m\times5m\times5m$ water tank using high frequency projector (120 kHz) and hydrophone. The results show similar agreement between experiment and theory. In case of single cylinder scattering. omni-directional pattern was observed in backward but there are fluctuations or target strength in forward. Interference between each cylinder's scattering fields produce fluctuations of target strength in all directions of two cylinders.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.195-195
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• 2023

유기물오염은 호수와 하천에서 가장 흔히 나타나는 오염의 형태이다. 개발도상국에서는 하수처리시설이나 생활용수처리시설에서 유기물이 처리되지 않아 수중의 유기물함량이 증가하여 피해가 나타난다. 물환경보전법에 따라 유기물질을 측정하는 지표에는 BOD, COD, TOC가 있다. 그 중 BOD, COD 측정은 절차가 복잡하고 오래 걸리며, 생물분해가 불가능하거나 유독물질이 존재하는 유기물질인 경우에는 낮은 결과 또는 측정이 불가능하다. 이러한 이유로 환경부에서는 TOC중심관리로 전환되고 있다. 대부분의 수질항목 측정의 경우 현장시료를 채취하여 실험실에서 분석하는 수분석을 이용한다. 하지만 수분석의 경우 인력이 많이 투입되고 분석수가 한정적이며, 정교한 과학 장치를 갖춘 전문 실험실을 필요로 한다. 반면에 TOC는 짧은 시간 내에 측정이 가능하고, 안정적인 산화로 유기물질 총량을 정확하게 측정이 가능하다. 또한 위해성 물질을 발생시키지 않는 친환경적 방법이라 환경오염 감시에 많이 활용된다. 본 연구에서 분광측정기 중 하나인 S-CAN을 통해 하천의 TOC분석을 진행하였다. 대상지는 안동에 위치한 하천실험센터와 금호강 진천천으로 S-CAN측정과 채취한 시료의 수분석 결과를 비교하였다. 이를 통해 TOC측정 및 기기에 대한 정확도분석을 실시하였다. 본 연구를 통해 S-CAN을 활용한 TOC중심의 수질모니터링하여 수질의 특성을 탐구하고, TOC기초연구를 통한 유기물오염도 지표로서 해석할 수 있다. 수분석 자료를 활용한 정확도 비교를 통해 하천 TOC센서 측정 적용에 대한 기초자료 제공과 측정기기의 현장적용성을 판단 할 수 있다. TOC측정 및 분석을 통해 유기물질량을 실시간으로 정확하게 측정하게 되면 수질관리 효율성이 높아지고, 하천에 유입되는 유기물질량과 농도를 정확하게 파악하여 실효성 있는 정책 수립 및 효율적인 수질관리를 할 수 있다.