• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.87-95
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• 2019

Earth-work calculation is the important data for estimating the optimal construction cost at the construction site. Earth-work calculations require the accurate terrain data and precise soil volume calculations. Drone surveying technology provides accurate topography in a short time and economic advantages. In this paper, a drone surveying technique was used to derive a high precision soil volume calculation system. Field demonstration were performed to verify the accuracy of the volume measurement system. The results of earth-work calculation using drone survey were compared with those of GPS surveying. In addition, the developed earth-work volume calculation algorithm is compared with the existing aerial survey software (Pix4D) to verify the accuracy.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.143-161
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• 2010

In this study, EWS (Earth Work System), the earth-volume estimation program was developed in a way that could enhance efficiency of civil engineering construction through precise earth-volume modeling based on the 3D geospatial information. In this program, it is possible to estimate the precise earth-volume using LiDAR DEM and to establish the earth work plans based on the unit workload of the construction equipments. Also, EWS program can support the 3D visualization of the final results through Google Earth in order to understand intuitively or share the results of earth-volume estimation in the construction project. For verifying the possibility of appling EWS program to construction project, the construction site of Shin-Pochun substation in Shinbuk-myun, Pochon-City, Kunggi Province was selected as a study area and the results of earth-volume and earth work plans estimated from EWS program were compared with those of DAS program. As a result of comparison between EWS and DAS program, the more accurate earth-volume can be estimated by using 3D geospatial information and more reasonable earth work plan can also be established when use the EWS program was developed in this study. Thus, EWS program can enables improvement of productivity by establishing efficient construction plan in the construction site.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.277-283
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• 1995

In the study, an accuracy of earthwork volume is evaluated according to different methods of the calculation with different criteria. The criteria applied to this study are a interpolation method, a grid intavals and the method of earthwork evaluation. A numerical test has performed on two different terrain models with four different methods of calculation in the earthwork volume and two different grid intervals. The end area method, prismoidal formular, Simpson's formular, and middle area method are applied to the calculation of the earthwork volume. As a result of this study, it is showed that the moving average method with the first order term gives the most accurate result in interpolation, and that also the prismoidal formular and Simpson's formular gives more accurate result than average and area method and middle area method in the calculation of earthwork volume.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.19-24
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• 2002

항만공사같은 대규모의 매립공사에서 토공작업은 총공사비의 상당한 비중을 차지하므로 경제적인 시공을 위하여 절.성토량은 정확하게 계산되어야 한다. 따라서 본 연구는 주어진 3차원 표고데이터를 지나는 스플라인 곡면을 구하는 알고리즘을 제시함으로써 좀더 정확한 토공량 계산식의 결정을 목표로 한다. 스플라인에 대한 흥미로운 수학적 결과는 무척 많지만 본 연구에서는 스플라인 곡면을 기술하고 또, 그것을 이용하여 토공량 계산을 위한 알고리즘개발을 목표로 하기 때문에 알고리즘과 프로그래밍에 필요한 수학적 내용을 기술하며 그 수치적 계산결과는 Maple 프로그램을 이용하였다. 그리고 정확도를 비교하기 위하여 기존의 방법인 선형점고법, Chamber법, Chen과 Lin의 이론을 컴퓨터프로그램하여 본 연구에서 제시된 방법과 정확도를 비교, 분석한다. 아울러 각 이론식의 결과에 대한 보다 정확한 검사를 위하여 x, y 함수식을 이용한 실험지형을 인위적으로 만들었으며 그 때의 값을 기준값으로 하였다. 따라서 실험수치지형에 대한 기준값이 절대값에 가까우므로 각 토공량식들의 오차규명을 보다 명확하고 확실하게 비교할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.9 no.1 s.17
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• pp.39-47
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• 2001

DTM(Digital Terrain Model) can play a key rule in a great number of the fields of construction Engineering. One of the most important application fields is to determine volume in that the total construction expenses is usually calculated through this. It therefore is necessary to the study on improving the precise of the determination using DTM on account of saving time and cost. On this study, 1:5000 topographic maps issued by NGI in 15 districts involved in Pusan city was digitalized to generate DTM at first. After this step, not only was the determination of the volume as well as readjusted area and height done for the sake of estimating the changable topography caused by cut & fill volume in future but also provided the model to calculate it as results. In addition, comparison among the interpolations, such as Inverse Distance Method and Nearest Neighbor, was respectively done to look over the differences of the volume estimated from each interpolation and also to find the most suitable method. As a result, the former yielded the largest values of area and the volume while the latter gave the smallest ones. Moreover, the values estimated on this study were closely similar to ones obtained by the government of Pusan.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.5-12
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• 2010

It is very important to get the accurate calculation of pit-excavation volume in many civil engineering projects. There have been common drawbacks to earlier methods of ground profiling, such dealing with sharp corners or the grid points any two straight lines. There are several papers of using spline surfaces to obtain more accurate calculations of the earthwork. In this paper, we propose an algorithm of finding a spline surface without boundary conditions which interpolates the given data and an appropriate method to calculate the earthwork. We present some computational results showing that our proposed method provides good accuracy.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.85-92
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• 2002

The calculation of earthwork plays a major role in plan or design of many civil engineering projects, and thus it has become very important to advanced the accuracy of earthwork calculation. Current methods used for estimating the volume of pit excavation assumes that the ground profile between the grid points is linear(trapezoidal rule), or nonlinear(simpson's formulas). Generally speaking, the nonlinear profile formulas provide better accuracy than the linear profile formulas. However, all the formulas mentioned have a common drawback to ground profile, such as sharp corners or the grid points of any two straight lines. In this paper, we propose an algorithm of finding a spline surface which interpolates the given data and an appropriate method to calculate the earthwork. We present some computational results showing that our proposed method provides better accuracy than Chen and Lin's method.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.19-36
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• 1991

The purpose of this paper is to calculate the excavation volume of unequal interval grid using nonlinear boundary in earthwork volume determination. The formulas by unmerical annlysis in this paper is compared with linear and nonlinear spot level method of unequal interval grid. As a result algorithm of derived formula by numerical analysis should provide a better accuracy than the linear and unlinear spot level method currently in use. Practical application of each method is illustrated by three model test.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.265-272
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• 2002

By this time, many methods have been developed for computing the pit excavation volumes, ranging from a simple formula to more complicated numerical methods. Earlier the standard methods for pit excavation volume computation requires that the considered area be divided the boundary ranges of x and y directions into a rectangular grid. whereas these methods may not calculate the estimation of pit excavation volume that is often required in many surveying situation exactly. In Easa methods(1998), the rectangular grid is divided into the same linear in the range x and y directions respectively. This method employs a cubic Hermite polynomial for individual intervals in both directions of the grid. Because the height data over the same boundary of x and y interval ranges have to be exist, it is not possible to choose the governing points of the terrain boundary such as points of maximum and minimum height. In this study, a method of volume computation, that combines the advantages of Easa methods(1998) and avoids the drawbacks of it, is presented. The proposed method employs a cubic Hermite polynomial for individual intervals in both directions of the non-grid, the all over intervals of it may be unequal grid x in width and y in length y, partially. The new proposed method should produce better accuracy than the other conventional methods.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.83-90
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• 1985

According to development of the areial photogrammetry, it is uneconomical to acquire the terrain information and compute the earthwork volume of each building site by a field surveying which is used recently because it is acquired much money and time. The aim in the this thesis is to acquire the terrain information using the Digital Terrain Model (DTM) to gain in the aerial photograph and compute the rapid and economical earthwork carrying out digital test. Because of being little difference between the digital test and field (site) surveying in the earthwork volume, that result is fitter in preliminary planning than in practical planning to the extent.