• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.78-88
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• 2021

Owing to the abnormal weather conditions due to global warming, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has attracted global attention as a countermeasure to reduce CO₂ emissions. In the Pohang CCS demonstration project in South Korea, 100 tons of CO₂ were successfully injected into the subsurface CO₂ storage in early 2017. However, after the 2017 Pohang earthquake, the Pohang CCS demonstration project was suspended due to an increase in social concerns about the safety of the CCS project. In this study, to reconfirm the structural suitability of the CO₂ storage site in the Pohang Basin, we employed seismic imaging based on reverse-time migration (RTM) to analyze small-scale ocean-bottom seismic data, which have not been utilized in previous studies. Compared with seismic images using marine streamer data, the continuity of subsurface layers in the RTM image using the ocean-bottom seismic data is improved. Based on the obtained subsurface image, we discuss the structural suitability of the Pohang CO₂ storage site.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.199-206
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• 2017

Field data obtained from marine exploration are influenced by various environmental factors such as wind, waves, tidal current and flow velocity of a background medium. Most environmental factors except for the flow velocity are properly corrected in the data processing stage. In this study, the wave equation modeling considering flow velocity is used to generate observation data, and numerical experiments using the observation data were conducted to analyze the effect of flow velocity on waveform inversion. The numerical examples include the results with unrealistic flow velocities. In addition, an algorithm is suggested to numerically extract flow velocity for waveform inversion. The proposed algorithm was applied to the modified Marmousi2 model to obtain the results depending on the flow velocity. The effect of flow velocity on updated physical properties was verified by comparing the inversion results without considering flow velocity and those obtained from the proposed algorithm.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.191-202
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• 2011

Reserve-time migration (RTM) using a two-way wave equation is one of the most accurate migration techniques. RTM has been conducted by assuming that subsurface media are isotropic. However, anisotropic media are commonly encountered in reality. Conventional isotropic RTM may yield inaccurate results for anisotropic media. In this paper, we develop RTM algorithms for vertical transversely isotropic media (VTI) and tilted transversely isotropic media (TTI). For this, the pseudo-acoustic wave equations are used. The modeling algorithms are based on the high-order finite-difference method (FDM). The RTM algorithms are composed using the cross-correlation imaging condition or the imaging condition using virtual sources. By applying the developed RTM algorithms to the Hess VTI and BP TTI models, we could obtain better images than those obtained by the conventional isotropic RTM.

• Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.63-71
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• 2002

The integral equation method is a powerful tool for electromagnetic numerical modeling. But the difficulty of this technique is the size of their linear equations, which demands excessive memory and calculation time to invert. This limitation of the integral equation method becomes critical in inverse problem. To overcome this limitation, a lot of approximation and series methods, such as conventional Born, modifed Born and extended Born, were developed. But all the methods need volume integration of Green tensor, which is very time consuming. In electromagnetic theory, Green tensor rapidly decreases as the distance between source and field cell increases. Therefore, the source cell which are far away from the field cell does not make an effect on the electric field of the field cell. Consequently, by ignoring the effect of Green tensor due to far away source cells, computing time for electromagnetic numerical modeling can be reduced dramatically. Comparisons of this new method against a full integral equation, extended Born approximation and series code show that the method is accurate enough much less time consuming.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.109-120
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• 2012

In marine site surveys, drilling boreholes are restrictively conducted, while geophysical surveys are used with ease. To overcome the limitations of marine site survey, various site survey data should be collected and analysed by adopting complementary pros and cons. In this study, the integration assessment was established to digitize 2D geo-layer based on the overlapping of a few borehole data to seismic refraction tomography and to determine 3D geo-information based on the kriging for the design of offshore-foundation. And the overlapping method was proposed considering spatial variability of the tomography and separation distance from borehole position to determine the 2D geo-layer. Finally, the integration assessment was applied to offshore wind-turbine site in Jeju-do, and its applicability was verified based on the cross-validation.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.553-563
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• 2019

In order to survey archaeological sites, drilling and excavation are carried out at the final stage. However, at the preliminary stage, non-excavation geophysical prospection is used for assessing underground archaeological ruins. Among the geophysical prospecting techniques, Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) prospection has effectively been applied to historical sites due to its high resolution at shallow depths. In this study, the GPR prospection was conducted to find underground ruins near Suseong-Dang, the place of ancient rituals in Buan area, Korea. First, the GPR prospection was conducted at three sites (Site-1, 2, and 3), and subsequently, the GPR prospection was carried out at Site-3 in more detail. As a result of the prospection, the underground layered structure of the survey area consists of three layers, which are soil layer, weathered rock, and sound rock from the surface. And the GPR anomaly to the archaeological structure was clearly identified at around 100-cm depth showing est-west direction that is parallel to the long-axis array. This GPR anomaly of irregular geomorphological features and intermittent distribution may be related to the ritual remains found in Suseong Dang. The GPR prospection could be effectively used to detect archaeological sites or remains buried in the ground.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.131-135
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• 2006

A seismic waveform inversion for prestack seismic data based on the Gauss-Newton method is presented. The Gauss-Newton method for seismic waveform inversion was proposed in the 80s but has rarely been studied. Extensive computational and memory requirements have been principal difficulties. To overcome this, we used different sizes of grids in the inversion stage from those of grids in the wave propagation simulation, temporal windowing of the simulation and approximation of virtual sources for calculating partial derivatives, and implemented this algorithm on parallel supercomputers. We show that the Gauss-Newton method has high resolving power and convergence rate, and demonstrate potential applications to real seismic data.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.277-280
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• 2006

Many industrial fields were constructed on the reclaimed land which was used to be a tidal land. Because the industrial fields stand on weak basement, they are likely to be influenced by surface subsidence. Therefore, the surface subsidence monitoring is required for civil protection. In this study, a novel method to monitor land displacement, PSInSAR technique, was applied to monitor the land subsidence of Incheon Port, which happened a decade ago. Although the land was reclaimed more than 20 years ago, quite a bit of deformation was observed during six years. The maximum subsidence rate reached to 30 mm/year. JERS-1 data was exploited in this study.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.155-156
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• 2010

포텐셜 자료의 해석을 위해서는 상하향 연속을 이용하는 경우가 많다. 빠른 계산과 다양한 적용성 때문에 FFT(Fast Fourier Transform)을 이용한 상하향 연속을 주로 사용하는데, FFT를 적용하기 위해서는 격자망 형태로 얻어진 자료가 필요하다. 현장 중자력 자료는 보통 산발적(scattered)으로 얻어지기 때문에 FFT를 수행하기 위하여 격자망 자료로 변환하는 격자화(gridding) 과정에서 계산적인 오차가 발생한다. 반면 등가샘(equivalent source) 방법은 주어진 자료에 맞는 가상의 샘(source)들의 조합을 생성하고, 구해진 샘들의 조합으로부터 임의의 영역에서 필드값을 구하므로 격자화 과정이 필요없다. 이 연구의 목적은 등가샘 방법의 필요성을 보이고 여러 가지 등가샘 알고리즘을 비교분석하고 현장 자료에 사용하기 적합한 등가샘 방법들을 보여주는데 있다. 그림 1에서 보듯이 FFT를 사용한 상향 연속은 FFT 이론상 전 영역에 대한 적분이 필요하나 현장에서는 일부분의 자료만을 획득할 수 있으므로 상향 연속에서 정확한 자력값으로 연속을 수행하는 것은 불가능하다. 그러나 주어진 값들로 등가샘을 구성하여 상향 연속을수행한 결과는 상대적으로 보다 정확한 해에 도달한다. 또한 등가샘 방법을 이용한 연속의 장점은 그림 2와 같이 얻어진 자료의 높이가 서로 다른 자료를 주어진 높이로 연속을수행할 수 있다는 점이다. 또한 한번 등가샘들을 구성하면 이를 이용하여 격자화, 필터링 등을 해석을 위한 기초 자료처리에 적용할 수 있다.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.55-55
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• 2010

북한 지난 2006년 2009년에 두차례 핵실험을 실시하였다. 이 핵실험은 한국, 일본, 중국에 위치한 지진관측소에 높은 신호대 잡음비를 보이며 관측이 되었다. 북한 핵실험의 지진파형 자료를 분석하여 북한 핵실험 특성 파악을 수행한다. 또한 지역지진파의 전파 경로별 변화 특성을 살펴본다. 한반도의 경우, 동해의 지각구조가 급격하게 변화하므로 동해를 가로지는 경로상에 급격한 지역지진파 변화가 관측된다. 이러한 지역지진파의 경로별 변화로 인해 관측소별 판정에 있어 어려움을 야기한다. 여러 관측소 자료를 종합 분석하는 핵실험 탐지 방법을 제시하며, 이를 북한 핵실험에 적용한다. 과거 구소련과 미국의 핵실험 자료와의 차이점을 살펴보고, 북한 핵실험의 탐지의 효율성을 위해 고려해야 할 사항에 대하여 토론한다. 과거 두 번의 북한 핵실험의 특징인 스펙트럼상의 모서리주파수 부근 에너지 강화 현상이 강하게 관측되며, P파의 상대적 강화 현상이 관측된다. 또한 2010년 천안함 침몰사건에 대하여 지진학적 기법을 활용하여 천암한 침몰 원인에 대하여 추정한다. 침몰 사건시간대에 기록된 지진파형 기록을 수집하여 분석한다. 3개의 관측소 지진파형 자료가 분석에 활용된다. 지진파의 분석을 통해 진앙위치를 추정하며, 지진파형에 드러난 특성을 통해 천암함 침몰과의 연관성을 유추한다. 또한, 지진파 진폭과 주파수 특성을 통해 진원 특성과 침몰 원인등을 추정한다.