• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.195-201
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• 2000

This paper discusses methods for the stable bottom detection and the optimum bottom offset which enable to separate the fish echoes from the bottom echoes with echo integration of demersal fish. In preprocessing of the echo signal, the bottom detection has to be done stably against the fluctuation of echo level and the bottom offset has to be set to a minimum height such that near bottom fish echoes are included Two methods of bottom detection, namely echo level threshold method and maximum echo slope method were compared and analyzed. The echo level method works well if the ideal threshold level was given but it sometimes misses the bottom because of the fluctuation of the echo. Another method to detect the bottom which uses maximum echo slope indicates the simple and stable bottom detection. In addition, the bottom offset has to be set near to the bottom but not to include the bottom echo. Optimum bottom offset should be set a few samples before the detected bottom echo which relates the beginning of pulse shape and acoustic beam pattern to the bottom feature.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.16-23
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• 2010

Coal briquette use has dramatically increased because of high oil prices. Hence, it is necessary to develop an environment-friendly recycling technique of the coal briquette ash. The coal briquette ash contains a large amount of an unburned carbon content and a mullite with high thermal property, so it is considered to be used as raw materials of sintered eco-brick. This study aimed to investigate on how the unburned carbon affects properties of the sintered eco-brick. The eco-brick was mixed with the ratio of 50 wt% coal briquette ash having the unburned carbon 10.5 wt% and 50 wt% cullet, then being sintered at $950^{\circ}C$, which of the compressive strength was in line with the first class of the sintered clay brick standard(KS L 4201). In particular, the compressive strength of the sintered eco-brick was equal to the first class of the KS L 4201 despite the increase of mixing ratio for coal briquette ash with 1.0 wt% unburned carbon to 70 wt%.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.15-19
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• 2011

The transportation and logistics industries, the constructions of a green transport methods for logistics systems are presented. They aims the greenhouse gas emissions 37% savings compared to BAU(Business As Usual) for a green growth of national strategy by 2020. An eco-driving training for truck drivers is a typical way. However there are few studies such as the integrated data collection automatically and the diagnostic Assessments and monitoring methods of logistics network status to show the effects of the eco-driving. To solve this problem, this paper provides previous research on logistics network diagnostics assessments and monitoring service and eco-driving. Then this paper shows developments of the logistics network diagnostic assessments and monitoring service business flow to promote eco-driving behaviors for truck drivers based on a smart phone application. Also, it shows an efficiency through an application results in field test.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.191-199
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• 2006

This paper presents an efficient pre echo control scheme for MPEG Audio coders based on the psychoacoustic model II (PAM-II). Pre echo control is the final step for the calculation of masking threshold in the PAM II. It is to minimize the spread of quantization error over the processing frame. In the conventional encoders, pre echo is reduced by restricting the estimated masking threshold not to exceed the one obtained in the previous frame. The conventional method performs pre echo control not only for short blocks but also for long blocks, which lowers the masking threshold in long blocks and, in turn, increases the quantization noise level of corresponding blocks. This paper proposes an efficient pre echo control process. The test result shows a mean enhancement of more than 0.4 especially for complex signals on the ITU R 5 point audio impairment scale.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.1253-1260
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• 2013

Eco-town development projects have often prevailed throughout the World to initiate the new form of sustainable development plans. As a future development type, the eco-town project shares underlying notions with sustainable development, which has been recently revised into a wider definition; (i) energy efficiency, (ii) climate adaptation, and (iii) socio-economic development. There are four types of eco-town projects based on its characteristics and aims depending on project sites, regions, or countries. This paper tried to demonstrate the types of eco-town projects and summarizes its strategy plans from each type. Many eco-town cases can be placed in one of types, however there cannot be strictly discrete classification by its complicated and composite characteristics of them. In conclusion, the analyzed types can be a useful strategy plan for pursuing further eco-town projects in domestic as well as in international regions.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.963-970
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• 2016

This research deals with design and performance validation of eco-pedals that generate tactile pedal force to guide fuel saving driving behavior. For eco-pedal control logic, allowable fuel consumption at given driving speed is calculated based on pre-defined "allowable acceleration", and if the actual fuel consumption exceeds the allowable fuel consumption, then pedal force is activated. Pedal force should be recognizable to driver while not causing unpleasantness, and should not interfere with normal operation of pedal. Reaction forces that increase pedal stiffness abruptly, such as step and ramp shape, turn out to be not suitable due to pedal overshoot after release of reaction force. With this regards, vibration type reaction force is adopted, and its optimal frequency, magnitude and duration is determined through subjective evaluation with consideration to effect to fuel efficiency. Though highway and city driving test, it is demonstrated that fuel efficiency increase of 13% for highway and 15% for city is achieved.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.817-826
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• 2011

Concrete using eco-cement has a problem with long-term strength development. However, currently, a long-term strength development mechanism is not confirmed, resulting in a lack of application of eco-cement in construction fields. In this study, the curing humidity influence on development in long-term strength of concrete using eco-cement and the relationship between strength and pore structure were examined. The results showed that wet cured eco-cement with a high water/cement ratio showed serious long-term strength reduction due to non-reduction of pore volume (pore size over 10 nm) in mortar caste with eco-cement. Also, the study results on improvement of long-term strength of eco-cement by partial replacement with ordinary portland cement and finely-ground fly ash showed that both of these alternatives improved long-term strength of concrete caste with eco-cement due to gradual refinement of their micro-structure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.89-90
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• 2016

Anomalous propagation echo is a kind of abnormal radar signal occurred by irregularly refracted radar beam caused by temperature or humidity. The echo frequently appears in ground-based weather radar. In order to improve accuracy of weather forecasting, it is important to analyze radar data precisely. Therefore, there are several ongoing researches about identifying the anomalous propagation echo all over the world. This paper conducts researches about a classification method which can distinguish anomalous propagation echo in the radar data using naive Bayes classifier and unique attributes of the echo such as reflectivity, altitude, and so on. It is confirmed that the fine classification results are derived by verifying the suggested naive Bayes classifier using actual appearance cases of the echo.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.2A
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• pp.210-217
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• 2008

In this paper, the performance of equalization-based on-channel repeater for terrestrial DMB is analyzed. A primary concern in on-channel repeater is the performance degradation due to the echo and one of key component for on-channel repeater is the echo canceller, which usually employs LMS algorithm utilizing the repeater output as a reference for echo channel estimation and compensation. One problem using LMS algorithm is the tracking capability and there necessarily exists residual echo that has not been cancelled. To effectivelyremove the residual echo, we consider an equalization based on-channel repeater where the echo-cancellor is followed by an equalizer that performs channel estimation using pilot symbol and the channel inversion utilizing homomorphic decomposition. According to the simulation result, the performance degradation caused by the residual echo can be considerably alleviated by using the equalizer following the echo-canceller.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.19-19
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• 2016

오늘날, 보다 정밀한 대기기상 분석과 정확한 기상 예측을 위해 보편적으로 기상레이더를 활용하고 있다. 지표면과 가까운 저층에서 주로 발생하는 국지성 호우 및 돌발기상에 대한 대응을 위해서는 기상레이더 역시 저층 관측이 수반되어야 한다. 하지만, 국토 대부분이 산악지형으로 이루어진 우리나라에서는 산악지형에 의한 지형클러터와 빔 차폐의 영향을 피하여 원만한 기상관측을 위해 대부분의 기상레이더가 고지대에 설치, 운영되고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 낮은 고도각의 레이더 관측 자료에서는 여전히 지형 클러터 및 차폐에 따른 영향으로 인해 자료 품질의 신뢰성이 떨어질 수 밖에 없다. 현재 클러터나 차폐가 발생한 영역에 대해 상위 고도각의 자료를 이용하는 등의 방법으로 보정을 수행하고 있지만 각 고도각 관측 자료들의 시간적 차이가 발생함에 따라 부정확성이 발생할 수 있다는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 차폐 영역 보정에 대한 처리를 위해 단일 관측자료 만을 이용하는 방법을 적용함으로서 시간적 불일치성에 대한 문제를 해결하고, 초단기 강수예측을 위한 강수에코의 정확한 추적을 위해 레이더 영상에 적응적인 차폐, 클러터 보정 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 강수에코의 형태학적 구조에 기반한 차폐보정을 위해 영상 처리 기법의 한 종류인 모폴로지 기법을 적용함으로써 강수에코의 모양, 크기, 및 구조에 따라 침식 및 팽창 과정을 수행하여 클러터나 차폐로 인해 소실된 강수에코 영역을 보정한다. 실험결과 레이더 강수추정의 정확성 향상을 꾀할 수 있었으며, 강수 추적을 위한 강수에코의 형태학적 복원이 가능함을 확인하였다. 이로부터, 향후 저층관측 레이더 자료의 활용성 증대와 에코 형태에 기반한 강수 추적 알고리즘 개발 및 성능 향상에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.