• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.57-64
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• 2010

Kriging techniques have been used to estimate the spatial distribution of soil layers and soil properties in the geotechnical engineering area. Since the selected kriging technique may provide different values of estimation, the selection of method is important in the geotechnical estimation. In this paper, the spatial distribution of the thickness of consolidation layer of Songdo International City is estimated using simple, ordinary, and universal kriging techniques, and the reliability of estimated results is analyzed. It is shown that the consolidation layer thickness estimated by the simple kriging technique is larger than those by other kriging techniques when the location of estimation is far from the locations where the measured data exist. In this case, the reliability of the simple kriging technique is observed to be lower than those of other techniques. Universal kriging gives a negative value for thickness of consolidation layer in some locations away from the data. It is concluded that the ordinary kriging is the most optimized estimation technique because the reliability of ordinary kriging technique is higher than those of other ones and the consolidation layer thickness estimated by the ordinary kriging locates within the reasonable range.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.249-253
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• 2003

강서구를 제외한 부산 전지역에서 1998년도에 조사된 지하수 수질 중 6개 성분(pH, TS, KMnO$_4$, Cl, SO$_4$, NO$_3$-N)에 대한 일반통계분석 결과 pH 성분을 제외하고는 5개 성분의 중앙값이 평균보다 적은 값을 보이는 양성왜도를 보임으로써, 수질오염정도를 분석하기 위해 지시크리깅이라는 비모수적인 지구통계분석기법을 적용하였다. 6개 수질성분에 대해 음용수 기준치를 적용하여 음용가능은 “1”의 값이, 음용불가능은 “0”의 값이 주어졌다. 이렇게 변환된 자료를 이용하여 각 성분별로 실험적인 베리오그램 분석을 실시한 결과 pH, TS, SO$_4$ 성분은 선형모델이 선정되었으며, KMnO$_4$, Cl, NO$_3$-N 성분은 구상형모델이 선정되었다. 본 연구에서는 지시크리깅을 이용하여 6개 성분의 분포도를 작성하고 부산지역의 오염정도를 분석하였다. 지시크리깅기법은 연구지역 전체의 정량적인 분포를 나타내지는 못하지만, 오염의 유.무와 오염의 크기를 정확하게 파악할 수 있으며 또한, 이상치(outlier)가 크게 영향을 미칠 수 있는 통계학적인 오류를 보완할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.148-152
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 공단지역 내 토양층(지표면하 1 m 이내)에 존재하는 Cu, Pb 성분의 평균값보다 높은 지역과 중앙값보다 높은 지역을 확률적으로 추정하고자 하였다. 먼저, 연구지역의 Cu, Pb 성분의 농도 분포를 파악하기 위해 일반통계분석을 하였고, 공단지역 내 Cu, Pb 성분의 평균값과 중앙값을 제한값으로 하여 지시크리깅을 수행하여 평균값보다 높은 확률도와 중앙값보다 높은 확률도를 작성하였다 평균값과 중앙값에 의해 작성된 확률도를 비교하여, 지시크리깅의 제한값으로서의 적합성을 분석하였다.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.217-227
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• 2002

Geostatistical methods were used for the groundwater flow analysis on the ${\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}$ tunnel area. Linear regression analysis shows that the topographic elevation and ground water level of this area have very high correlation. Groundwater-level contour maps produced by ordinary kriging and cokriging have little differences in mountain areas. But, comparing two maps on the basis of an elevation contour map, a groundwater-level contour map using cokring is more accurate. Analyzing the groundwater flow on two groundwater-level contour maps, the groundwater of study area flows from the north-west mountain areas to near valleys, and from the peak of the mountain to outside areas. In the design steps, the groundwater-level distribution is reasonably considered in the tunnel construction area by cokriging approach. And, geostatistics will provide quantitative information in the unknown groundwatrer-level area.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.138-147
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• 2010

As inaccurate traffic volume prediction may result in inadequate transportation planning and design, traffic volume prediction based on traffic volume data is very important in spatial decision making processes such as transportation planning and operation. In order to improve the accuracy of traffic volume prediction, recent studies are using the geostatistical approach called kriging and according to their reports, the method shows high predictability compared to conventional methods. Thus, this study estimated traffic volume data for St. Louis in the State of Missouri, USA using the kriging method, and tested its accuracy by comparing the estimates with actual measurements. In addition, we suggested a new method for enhancing the accuracy of prediction by the kriging method. In the new method, we estimated traffic volume data: first, by applying anisotropy, which is a characteristic of traffic volume data appearing in determining variogram factors; and second, by performing co-kriging analysis using interstate highway, which is in a high spatial correlation with traffic volume data, as a secondary variable. According to the results of the analysis, the analysis applying anisotropy showed higher accuracy than the kriging method, and co-kriging performed on the application of anisotropy produced the most accurate estimates.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.233-240
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• 2004

Most of hydrological analyses in the field of water resources are launched by gathering and analyzing rainfall data. Several methods have been developed to estimate areal rainfall from point rainfall data and to fill missing or ungaged data. Thiessen and Reciprocal Distance Squared(RDS) methods whose parameters are only dependent on inter-station distance are classical work in hydrology, but these techniques do not provide a continuous representation of the hydrologic process involved. In this study, kriging technique was applied to rainfall analysis in Nakdong river basin in order to complement the defects of these classical methods and to reflect spatial characteristics of regional rainfall. After spatial correlation and semi-variogram analyses were performed to perceive regional rainfall property, kriging analysis was performed to interpolate rainfall data for each grid Thus, these procedures were enable to estimate average rainfall of subbasins. In addition, poor region of rainfall observation was analyzed by spatial interpolation error for each grid and mean error for each subbasin.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.147-159
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• 1999

Geostatistical methods were used for the groundwater flow analysis in a heterogeneous anisotropic aquifer. This study area is located at Sonbul-myeon in Hampyong-gun of Cheonnam Province which is a hydrogeological project area of KORES(Korea Resources Cooperation). Linear regression analysis shows that the topographic elevation and groundwater level of this area have very high correlation. Groundwater-level contour maps produced by ordinary kriging and cokringing have large differences in mountain areas, but small differences in hill and plain areas near the West Sea. Comparing two maps on the basis of an elevation contour map, a groundwater-level contour map using cokriging is more accurate. Analyzing the groundwater flow on two groundwater-level contour maps, the groundwater of study area flows from the high mountain areas to the plain areas near the West Sea. To verify the enffectiveness of geostatistical methods for the groundwater flow analysis in a heterogeneous anisotropic aquifer, the flow directions of groundwater were measured at two groundwater boreholes by a groundwater flowmeter system(model 200 $GeoFlo^{R}$). The measured flow directions of groundwater almost accord with those estimated on two groundwater-level contour maps produced by geostatistical methods.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.55-63
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• 2015

The need for estimating the real transaction price of land is increasing in order to build foundation for transparent land transaction and fair taxation. This study looked into the applicability of cokriging combining real transaction price of land, altitude and gradient for effective price estimation on the points where the real transaction does not take place in the course of using the real transaction price of land. The real transaction price of land have been estimated using the real transaction materials of Yeongcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do from January 2012 to June 2014, and the results have been compared with the estimation results of ordinary kriging. As a result of analyzing the mean error and root mean square error (RMSE) of the estimated price and 2,575 verification points, it was found that compared to ordinary kriging, cokriging results were more effective in terms of the real transaction price estimation and actualization. The reason that cokriging is more effective in the real transaction price estimation is because it takes account of altitude and gradient which are the forces influencing the land value.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.14 no.1 s.36
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• pp.29-41
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• 2006

Geostatistical data are obtained only at selected sites even though they are potentially available at any location In a continuous surface. Therefore it is necessary to estimate the unknown values at unsampled locations based on observations. In this study we compared the accuracy of 5 spatial interpolation methods: local trend surface, IDW, RBF, ordinary kriging, universal kriging. These interpolation methods were applied to annual rainfall data. As the results of validation tests, universal kriging with gaussian variogram model showed the best accuracy in comparison with other interpolation methods. In the case of kriging, the predicted values were more accurate and within a more narrow range than other methods. In contrast with kriging, local trend surface analysis, IDW and RBF showed the wide range of predicted values and abrupt changes between neighbors.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.380-388
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• 2014

Annual average daily traffic(AADT) serves as important basic data in the transportation sector. AADT is used as design traffic which is the basic traffic volume in transportation planning. Despite of its importance, at most locations, AADT is estimated using short term traffic counts. An accurate AADT is calculated through permanent traffic counts at limited locations. This study dealt with estimating AADT using various models considering both the spatial correlation and time series data. Kriging models which are commonly used spatial statistics methods were applied and compared with each model. Additionally the External Universal kriging model, which includes explanatory variables, was used to assure accuracy of AADT estimation. For evaluation of various kriging methods, AADT estimation error, proposed using national highway permanent traffic count data, was analyzed and their performances were compared. The result shows the accuracy enhancement of the AADT estimation.