• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.98-109
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• 2002

The long term land-cover changes and the pattern of morphological changes in foredune ridges and unvegetated dunes were investigated for about 30 years through analysing aerial photographs in Shinduri coastal dunefield, Korea. As a result, forested dune area increased while unvegetated dune area decreased continuously since 1967. Foredune ridges retreated landward about 80m away from the former coast-line in the middle part while they advanced seaward after construction of dike in the northern part during last 3 decades. Unvegetated dunes in the middle part of the dunefield were eroded at seaward side and moved landward away. These facts mean not only coastal dune area has been affected by man-made effects such as afforestation and coastal developments but also shinduri coastal dune area has been stabilized by plants and has been negative sediment budget.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.317-324
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• 2000

주기적인 연관규칙은 타겟데이터베이스를 일정 단위시간으로 나누었을 때 연관규칙이 만족하는 구간이 일정한 주기마다 발생하는 패턴을 탐색하는 방법이다. 하지만, 이 방법은 엄격한 주기를 가지도록 하여 실제 데이터에 그대로 적용하기가 어려웠다. 예를 들이 편의점 데이터에서 매일 오전 7시-8시 사이에 주기적으로 발생하는 연관규칙을 발견할 때, 이러한 연관규칙을 주기적인 연관규칙이라고 한다. 하지만, 실제 데이터에서는 날씨와 같이 사람의 행동에 영향을 미치는 다른 요인 때문에 항상 일정한 주기를 가지는 연관규칙을 찾기는 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 주기가 일정하지 않은 연관규칙을 찾기 위해서 연관규칙의 주기성을 허용 오차를 포함하며 재정의하고, 오차를 허용하기 위한 탐색 알고리즘을 보완하였다. 반면에, 오차를 허용함으로써 오차를 허용하지 않는 경우보다 더 많은 주기성을 찾을 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 동일한 주기를 가지지만 오프셋이 다른 여러 개의 비슷한 주기가지 찾게 되어 사용자가 의미 있는 연관규칙을 찾는데 방해가 된다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위해서 오차를 허용하는 주기적 연관규칙의 오차의 정도를 측정하기 위한 단위로 집중도(intensity)와 경향성(tendency)을 제안한다. 주기적 연관규칙이 매 주기마다 정확한 세그먼트에 나타나는 정도를 나타내는 집중도와, 최소 평균오차를 의미하는 경향성을 이용하여 유사한 주기들 중에서 대표주기만을 찾을 수 있도록 한다. 또한, 오차를 허용하는 주기적 연관규칙에서 오차가 주로 발생하는 패턴을 분석함으로써 고객들의 수요 경향성을 더 잘 파악할 수 있다. 예를 들어, 평소에는 매일 오진 7시∼8시에 나타나던 연관성이 지각하는 사람들이 같은 월요일에는 1시간 늦은 8시∼9시에 나타난다는 오타 정보까지 파악할 수 있다. 이러한 월요일마다 1시간 늦게 나타나는 오차의 경향성을 나타내는 오차 주기(error cyc1e)를 이용함으로써 고객들의 수요의 경향성을 좀 더 세밀한 부분까지 파악할 수 있게 해 준다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.6_2
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• pp.1229-1238
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• 2018

We examined if a state of sea-ice in Bering Sea acts as a prelude of variation in that of Chukchi Sea by using satellites-based Arctic sea-ice concentration time series. Datasets consist of monthly values of sea-ice concentration during 36 years (1982-2017). Time series analysis armed with Transfer entropy is performed to describe how sea-ice data in Chukchi Sea is affected by that in Bering Sea, and to explain the relationship. The transfer entropy is a measure which identifies a nonlinear coupling between two random variables or signals and estimates causality using modification of time delay. We verified this measure checked a nonlinear coupling for simulated signals. With sea-ice concentration datasets, we found that sea-ice in Bering Sea is influenced by that in Chukchi Sea 3, 5, 6 months ago through the transfer entropy measure suitable for nonlinear system. Particularly, when a sea-ice concentration of Bering Sea has a local minimum, sea ice concentration around Chukchi Sea tends to decline 5 months later with about 70% chance. This finding is considered to be a process that inflow of Pacific water through Bering strait reduces sea-ice in Chukchi Sea after lowering the concentration of sea-ice in Bering Sea. This approach based on information theory will continue to investigate a timing and time scale of interesting patterns, and thus, a coupling inherent in sea-ice concentration of two remote areas will be verified by studying ocean-atmosphere patterns or events in the period.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.38 no.5_3
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• pp.863-872
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• 2022

Rare earth elements (REEs) have been used as one of power tracers for understanding geological and environmental changes due to their similar physico-chemical properties. In this study, we investigated the characteristics of rare earth elements in atmospheric particulates(PM_2.5) collected in Beijing and Gwangju during January 2018. The total concentrations of REEs in the Beijing samples were about 16X higher than those in Gwangju samples, and both samples are enriched in light REE than heavy REE, up to 8-10 times. The Post Archean Australian Shale (PAAS)-normalized pattern showed that both samples are enriched in Eu, Tb, and Er, and displayed positive Eu but negative Ce anomalies. The elemental correlations indicate that both samples originated from China desert and Loess plateau as well as cities surrounding Beijing. This study suggests that REEs in PM_2.5 can be used as a powerful proxy of revealing the difference between China and Korea, and provide basic information on the source and transport of PM_2.5.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.243-248
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• 2010

Two suspicious events, which were claimed as underground nuclear tests by North Korea, were detected in the northern Korean Peninsula on October 9, 2006 and May 25, 2009. The KIGAM and Korea-China Joint seismic stations are distributed uniformly along the boundaries between North Korea and adjacent countries. In this study, the data from broadband stations with the distance of 200 to 550 km from the test site are used to analyze and compare two nuclear tests of North Korea. By comparing the time differences of the Pn-wave arrival times of 1st and 2nd tests at multiple stations, the relative locations of two test sites could be calculated precisely. From the geometrical calculation with the velocity of Pn wave $V_{Pn}$ = 8 km/s, the 2nd test site is estimated to move in the WNW direction from 1st one with the distance of 2 km. Body wave magnitude, mb of the 2nd test, which was announced officially as the network average of 4.5, varies widely with the directional location of stations from 4.1 to 5.2. The magnitude obtained from Lg wave, $m_b$(Lg), shows less variation between 4.3 to 4.7 with the average of 4.6. The moving-window spectra of time traces of 1st and 2nd tests show very similar pattern with different scale level. In addition, the corner frequencies of P wave of 1st and 2nd tests at each station show no or negligible difference. This indicates the burial depths of two tests might be very similar. The relative yield amount of the 2nd test is estimated 8 times larger than that of the 1st from the weighted average of ground-velocity amplitude ratios.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.241-259
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• 2022

In general, the REE were produced by mining conventional deposits, such as the carbonatite or the clay-hosted REE deposits. However, because of the recent demand increase for REE in modern industries, unconventional REE deposits emerged as a necessary research topic. Among the unconventional REE recovery methods, the REE-bearing coal deposits are recently receiving attentions. R-types generally have detrital originations from the bauxite deposits, and show LREE enriched REE patterns. Tuffaceous-types are formed by syngenetic volcanic activities and following input of volcanic ash into the basin. This type shows specific occurrence of the detrital volcanic ash-driven minerals and the authigenic phosphorous minerals focused at narrow horizon between coal seams and tonstein layers. REE patterns of tuffaceous-types show flat shape in general. Hydrothermal-types can be formed by epigenetic inflow of REE originated from granitic intrusions. Occurrence of the authigenic halogen-bearing phosphorous minerals and the water-bearing minerals are the specific characteristics of this type. They generally show HREE enriched REE patterns. Each type of REE-bearing coal deposits may occur by independent genesis, but most of REE-bearing coal deposits with high REE concentrations have multiple genesis. For the case of the US, the rare earth oxides (REO) with high purity has been produced from REE-bearing coals and their byproducts in pilot plants from 2018. Their goal is to supply about 7% of national REE demand. For the coal deposits in Korea, lignite layers found in Gyungju-Yeongil coal fields shows coexistence of tuff layers and coal seams. They are also based in Tertiary basins, and low affection from compaction and coalification might resulted into high-REE tuffaceous-type coal deposits. Thus, detailed geologic researches and explorations for domestic coal deposits are required.