• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.32 no.12
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• pp.1102-1110
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• 2010

Tidal mudflat is a reservoir for diverse microbial resources. Microbial diversity in tidal mudflat sediment can be easily influenced by various human activities. It is necessary to take representative samples to monitor microbial diversity in tidal mudflat sediments. In this study, we analyzed the microbial diversity and chemical characteristics of vegetation and non-vegetation tidal mudflat regions in the Kangwha tidal mudflat using geo-statistics and data-mining. According to the geo-statistical analysis, most correlation range values for the vegetation region were smaller than those for the non-vegetation region, which suggested that the shorter number and interval of sampling are required for the vegetation tidal mudflat environment due to its higher degree of chemical and biological complexity and heterogeneity. The data-mining analysis suggested that the organic content and nitrate were the major environmental factors influencing microbial diversity in the vegetation region while pH and sulfate were the major influencing factors in the non-vegetation region. Using the geo-statistical and data-mining integration approach, we proposed a guideline for determining the sampling interval and number to monitor microbial diversity in tidal mudflat.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.58-69
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• 2007

The vegetation area that occupies 76% in land surface of the earth can give a considerable impact on water resources, environment and ecological system by future climate change. The purpose of this study is to predict future vegetation cover information from NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) extracted from satellite images. Current vegetation information was prepared from monthly NDVI (March to November) extracted from NOAA AVHRR (1994 - 2004) and Terra MODIS (2000 - 2004) satellite images. The NDVI values of MODIS for 5 years were 20% higher than those of NOAA. The interrelation between NDVIs and monthly averaged climate factors (daily mean, maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall, sunshine hour, wind velocity, and relative humidity) for 5 river basins of South Korea showed that the monthly NDVIs had high relationship with monthly averaged temperature. By linear regression, the future NDVIs were estimated using the future mean temperature of CCCma CGCM2 A2 and B2 climate change scenario. The future vegetation information by NOAA NDVI showed little difference in peak value of NDVI, but the peak time was shifted from July to August and maintained high NDVIs to October while the present NDVI decrease from September. The future MODIS NDVIs showed about 5% increase comparing with the present NDVIs from July to August.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.59-73
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• 2012

The importance of rice paddy wetland has been raised since the 10th Ramsar Convention in 2010. However, there is shortage of study on the evaluation of rice paddy wetland and also of the study on the effect of organic agriculture on the vegetation characteristics. Accordingly, this study examined the vegetation characteristics of organic rice paddy for the basic resources of evaluating value of rice paddy wetland. 6 places of organic rice paddy and conventional rice paddy were chosen as research targets. It analyzed the function of 'Floral Diversity and Wildlife Habitat' among the revised RAM, an existing wetland evaluation system. As to the factor affecting the analysis result, simple land-use result was proved to determine the evaluation. As a result of vegetation investigation total 176 taxa, 53 families, 146 generics, 148 species, 26 varieties and 1 forma. When the difference of appearance of life form between organic area and conventional area was examined, organic paddy had higher appearance of life form in Therophyte and Megaphanerophyte. For the distribution of Naturalized plants, organic rice paddy had lower naturalized rate and urbanization index than conventional rice paddy. As to the Pearson correlation analysis between growing condition and vegetation characteristics, variety of rice paddy vegetation showed it was not heavily influenced by the land use. However, the organic rice paddy area had more variety in vegetation than conventional rice paddy. There was about 1% correlation with types of Cyperaceae, which means that the classification group of Cyperaceae can be utilized in evaluating rice paddy wetland later on. It is determined that the wetland evaluation has been widely influenced by soil environment, water environment and surrounding natural and artificial landscape as well as vegetation characteristics. Accordingly, further research seems to be required with minute investigation to an extensive area.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.514-521
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• 2012

In this paper, three general academic issues in Korean biogeographical studies were comprehensively reviewed: 1) relationship between environmental factors and plant distribution, 2) past vegetation and climate 3) interaction between humans and environment. Biogeography in Korea is poorly developed field and has been generally ignored by geographers in Korea. The future for biogeography in Korea however seems promising and Korean biogeographers have a great opportunity to develop their field. To attract more prospective graduate students into biogeography and train them would be very important for the gradual and persistent development of geographical biogeography in Korea.

• Water for future
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.71-80
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• 1995

The purpose of this study is to estimate evapotranspiration and its spatial distribution using NOAA-AVHRR data. Evapotranspiration phenomena are exceedingly complex. But, factors which control evapotranspiration can be considered that these are reflected by conditions of the vegetation. To evaluate the vegetation condition as a fixed quantity, the NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) calculated from NOAA data is utilized. In this study, land cover classification of the Korean peninsula using property of NDVI is performed. Also, from the relationship between evapotranspiration and NDVI histograms, evapotranspiration and its distribution of the Han River basin are estimated.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.1276-1279
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• 2004

수문순환 과정에서 증발산은 물이 유역으로부터 제거되는 주요 기작으로서, 증발산에 중요한 역할을 하는 식물은 지구 육지 표면의 약 $70\%$ 정도를 점유하고 있으며, 생태계의 가장 중요한 구성인자로서, 식물의 종류 및 군집의 공간적 분포유형, 생육주기 및 형태적 변화 등과 같은 정보들은 그 지역의 기후, 토양, 지질, 지리적 특성을 밝히는데 중요한 역할을 한다. 식생관련 정보 중 엽면적 지수란 단위지표면적당 총 엽면적의 비를 나타내는 것으로 환경생태, 기상, 수문분야에서 다양하게 활용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 Landsat 위성영상과 DEM 등의 GIS 자료를 이용하여 지형적인 요소를 고려하여 유역의 증발산량을 분포형으론 산정하는 것을 목적으로 하고 있다. 연구대상유역은 한강의 제1지류인 경안천유역으로 하였고, 증발산량 산정에 필요한 기상자료는 월평균기온, 수평면일사량, 상대습도를 이용하였고, 일사량비와 일조시간비 계산을 위해 위도별에 따른 총일조시간과 월평균일사량을 계산하였다. 잠재증발산량 산정은 Penman-Monteith식을 이용하여 산정하였으며, 식생지수와 밀접한 관계가 있는 LAI를 고려하여 산정하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.517-517
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• 2017

본 연구는 저수지 주변 생태환경 서식적합도지수를 산정하여 댐 건설 전후의 생태환경을 정량적으로 평가하고자 하였다. 생태적 가치에 대한 평가 모델 고려 인자로는 고도, 경사 및 각과 같은 물리적 요인, 산림 지형, 식생 유형, 연령층, DBH 등급과 같은 초목 요인들, 그리고 생태 자연상태, 식생 보존 분류 및 야생 생물 출현 지점과 같은 서식지 요인을 이용하였다. 각 요소의 생태학적 기능을 고려한 평가기준을 정량화하여 개발된 모델은 한탄강 댐 저수지에 적용하였다. 그 결과 댐 건설 이전의 생태 가치가 100이라고 가정했을 때, 댐 건설 이후에 물리적 요소는 83.9, 초목요소는 92.4, 그리고 서식처 요소는 84.5로 저하되었다. 전반적인 생태 가치는 건설 후 86.9 %, 13.1 % 감소하였다. 또한, 평가 요소를 쌓은 방법을 통해 생태학적으로 건강한 지역을 선정하였다. 본 연구결과는 댐 저수지에 생태 복원 계획을 수립하는 데 유용할 것으로 판단된다.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.11-21
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to furnish basic information for forest community ecology and to accumulate vegetational datum related to hierarchy of forest community for the efficient management of forest vegetation in Mt. Mani. Samples were collected and analyzed by 32 releves from August to October in 2010 using phytosociological analysis methodology of Z-M school and importance value analysis. The results were summarized that the forest vegetation was classified into 5 units in total. Importance value at vegetation unit 1 indicated Pinus densiflora 54.31 (18.10%), Quercus mongolica 39.21 (13.07%), Carpinus coreana 37.29 (12.43%), at vegetation unit 2 Quercus mongolica 89.43 (22.23%), Rhododendron mucronulatum 57.75 (14.43%), Carpinus coreana 47.19(11.80%), at vegetation unit 3 Styrax japonica 53.97 (13.50%), Acer mono 33.60 (8.40%), Carpinus coreana 26.48 (6.62%), Quercus serrata 22.51 (5.64%), at vegetation unit 4 Carpinus coreana 47.70 (11.92%), Quercus acutissima 38.40 (9.60%) and at vegetation unit 5 Evodia daniellii 80.59 (20.14%), Robinia pseudoacacia 35.00 (8.74%), Pueraria thunbergiana 28.63 (7.15%), Quercus dentata 28.20 (7.05%) in the order, respectively.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.44 no.10
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• pp.797-807
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• 2011

Phenomenon of vegetation recruitment on the sand bar is drastically rising in the streams and rivers in Korea. In the 1960s prior to industrialization and urbanization, most of the streams were consisted of sands and gravels, what we call, 'White River'. Owing to dam construction, stream maintenance, etc. carried out since the '70s, the characteristic of flow duration and sediment transport have been disturbed resulting in the abundance of vegetation in the waterfront, that is, 'Green River' is under progress. This study purposed to identify the correlation among water level, water temperature, rainfall, soil moisture and soil texture out of the factors which give an effect on the vegetation recruitment on the sand bar of unregulated stream. To this purpose, this study selected the downstream of Naeseong Stream, one of sand rivers in Korea, as the river section for test and conducted the monitoring and analysis for 289 days. In addition, this study analyzed the aerial photos taken from 1970 to 2009 in order to identify the aged change in vegetation from the past to the present. The range of the tested river section was 361 m in transverse length and about 2 km in longitudinal length. According to the survey analysis, the tested river section in Naeseong Stream was a gaining river showing the higher underground-water level by 20~30 m compared to Stream water level. The difference in the underground water temperature was less than $5^{\circ}C$ by day and season and the Stream temperature did not fall to $10^{\circ}C$ and less from May when the vegetation germination begins in earnest. The impact factor on soil moisture was the underground water level in the lower layer and the rainfall in the upper layer and it was found that all the upper and lower layer were influenced by soil particle size. The soil from surface to 1 m-underground out of 6 soil moisture-measured points was sand with the $D_{50}$ size of 0.07~1.37 mm and it's assumed that the capillary height possible in the particle size would reach around 14~43 cm. On the other hand, according to the result of space analysis on the tested river section of unregulated stream for 40 years, it was found that the artificial disturbance and drought promoted the vegetation recruitment and the flooding resulted in the frequency extinction of vegetation communities. Even though the small and large scales of recruitment and extinction in vegetation have been repeated since 1970, the present vegetation area increased clearly compared to the past. It's found that the vegetation area is gradually increasing over time.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.90-90
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 증발산, 토양수분, 태양복사에너지, 식생 활동 등과 같은 수문기상인자들을 활용하여 새로운 가뭄 지수(Energy-based Water Deficit Index(EWDI)를 개발하였고 이는 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer(MODIS)에서 제공되는 산출물들을 활용하였다. EWDI는 물의 순환과 탄소 순환을 동시에 고려하여 기존에 활용되는 다른 가뭄지수들보다 다양한 측면에서 가뭄을 분석할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있으며 산정된 EWDI는 증발산 기반의 가뭄지수인 Stand-alone MODIS-based Evaporative Stress Index(stMOD_ESI)와 함께 시공간적인 변동성을 비교하여 전 세계적으로 가뭄 피해가 심각한 지역인 몽골, 호주, 한반도 지역에 대해 2000년에서 2010년까지 적용성을 파악하였다. 또한, 본 연구에서는 각 지수들 간의 상관관계를 파악하고 수문기상 인자들과 가뭄 현상 사이에 관계성을 파악하기 위해 Receiver Operating Characteristics(ROC) 분석을 수행하였다. 위에서 언급한 여러 분석 결과를 토대로, EWDI와 stMOD_ESI는 기존에 많이 쓰였던 가뭄 지수인 표준강수지수(Standardized Precipitation Index, SPI)에 비해 가뭄 상태를 더욱 잘 파악할 수 있는 것으로 나타났으며 EWDI와 stMOD_ESI가 광역적인 범위에서의 적용성이 높음을 파악하였다. 본 연구를 통해 수문기상학 및 수자원 분야에서의 인공위성을 활용한 가뭄 분석 연구의 기틀이 마련되길 기대해 볼 수 있다.