• Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.311-320
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• 2006

Digital filters designed using wavelet theory are applied to bathymetry data acquired from KR5 area of Korea Deepsea Mining Area. The filters used in this study are the linear B-spline wavelet filter and derivative of a Cubic B-spline filter. With proper tuning of the digital filters, we can identify the location and orientation of the abyssal hill and abyssal trough in bathymetry. These features obtained from the digital filters are well correlated with bathymetric image. This quantitative information, which can be used to understand the underlying geophysical processes, can be further processed to obtain the spacing, orientation and distribution of the abyssal hill. This wavelet analysis of bathymetry provides good data to select the mining site.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.21-30
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• 2013

Recently, interest of submarine mineral resources has been increasing from the depletion of land resources around the world and many countries are involving in submarine mineral resource exploration work. South Korea is also in progress of mineral exploration and relevant study to ensure the submarine mineral resources from around the Korean Peninsula. As a result, the submarine mineral resource exploration data have been increasing annually. A database and 2D GIS-based system have been constructed for the management of the data. However, submarine mineral resource exploration data is explored and created on the sea-bed. Consequently, the visual confirmation of the water levels and marine landform is important for high dimension analysis. Therefore, the major aims of this study are to collect marine landform data from around the Korean Peninsula and to develop 3 dimension GIS based system that is linked to the submarine mineral resource exploration data. In detail, marine landform data were acquired for the Korean Peninsula and they were interpolated into raster file format. The raster file was then processed to be easily used and was entered into an Oracle database. Based on this database, 3D expression and overlap function between marine landform data and submarine mineral resource exploration data were designed using ArcScene offered by the ESRI. After design, 3D GIS based expression system was developed. Confirmations of locations and changes in the submarine mineral resource exploration data based on 3D GIS are enabled to support the efficient application of the proposed system. It is expected that this system will be highly useful for estimating the reserves of mineral resources and for providing valuable information for economic evaluations.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.479-490
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• 2016

Seabed drilling system has recently been used to drill seafloor mineral resources. This case report highlights the procedure and result of sea-trial of seabed drilling system at off-shore of Japan on March, 2016 as well as briefs an international-technical trend of seabed drilling system. In case of having less than 100 m drill depth, seabed drilling system is favorable for seafloor mineral deposits which are mostly distributed within a narrow district and situated between 1000~3000 m water depth, compared with vessel-mounted drilling system. The system is featured by the remotely-operated drill gear, which has top drives, drill strings and mud system on it. The core samples are generally recovered to ship with seabed driller after a dive. In this sea-trail, recovery rate of core samples averagely shows about 55% and the recovered rocks mostly correspond to fresh and/or weak-altered basalt. In case of drilling hydrothermal ore deposit, the recovery rate would be lower than 55% because of the fragile nature of ores. Alternatively it is used to collect cutting chips through riser or bins in order to increase the recovery rates. Recently a reverse circulation method is taken considered to acquire the better cutting-chips. Three-leg type outrigger system and four-leg type leveling system are the competing landing-instruments of seabed drill system. However the landing efficiency using these gears has to be further monitored due to lack of case reports.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.5 no.1 s.33
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• pp.22-22
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• 1972

• Resources Recycling
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.73-80
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• 2013

Marine mineral resources are classified into submarine and seawater mineral resources. In seawater, huge amounts of useful minerals, such as uranium, lithium, magnesium, aluminum, zinc, iron, silver, copper, vanadium, nickel, titanium and cobalt are present. If the rare metals recovery technology from seawater is developed, the commercialization of the precess will be possible. For the 21st century, countries rich in resoures tend to weaponize the resources, according to the depletion of reserves and quality degradation of metal resources in the land. Therefore, Korea that relies on imports for most of the metal resources, should focus on the research and development of the rare metals recovery technology from seawater by using the geographical characteristics of the country that is on three sea-sides.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.55 no.5
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• pp.465-475
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• 2022

The seafloor massive sulfide deposits are important mineral resources for base and precious metals, and their ore genesis and metal contents are mainly controlled by wall-rock leaching process and/or magmatic volatile input from the underlying magma chamber. However, the contribution of two different metal sources to the seafloor hydrothermal mineralization significantly varies in diverse geological settings and thus still remains controversial. In this review, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of SMS deposits from mid-ocean ridges (MORs) and volcanic arcs were investigated to understand the contribution from different metal sources and to suggest future challenges that need to be addressed. As a result, the genetic occurrences of enargite and cubanite, galena and barite indicate the effects of magmatic input and water-rock interaction, respectively. Also, the distributional behaviors of Co, As, and Hg in pyrite and FeS content of sphalerite could be useful empirical indicators to discriminate the significant roles of different metal sources between MOR and Arc settings. To date, as most studies have focused on sulfide samples recovered from the seabed, further studies on magmatic sulfides and sulfate minerals are required to fully understand the genetic history of SMS deposits.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.1 no.4 s.4
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• pp.16-22
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• 1968

• The Science & Technology
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• v.2 no.4 s.8
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• pp.43-43
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• 1969

• Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.69-82
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• 1969

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.105-109
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• 2010

전 세계적으로 육상자원의 고갈로 해양광물을 개발하고 이를 경제적으로 활용하려는 움직임이 점점 증가하고 있다. 이에 우리나라도 한반도 주변 해역의 해양광물자원을 확보하기 위한 탐사와 연구가 진행 중에 있다. 특히 우리나라는 삼면이 바다로 둘러싸인 지형학적 특정으로 주변국과의 자원경쟁이 불가피하여 전략적 체계적 탐사자료의 관리와 이를 활용하기 위한 방안이 필요하다. 하지만 탐사 분야가 다양하고 그에 따른 데이터가 상이하여 관리에 어려움이 있다. 현재 국내에서 해양자원에 대한 정밀탐사가 이루어지고 과학적인 정보제공이 요구됨에 따라 해양광물자원정보시스템이 구축 운영되고 있지만 몇 가지 제약점이 존재한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이를 보완하기 위해 특히 시추 퇴적물 탐사 분야에 있어 GIS기반의 표출 가능한 대상항목을 분류하였고, 데이터베이스 구축을 위한 모델링을 진행하였다. 이는 위치기반의 분석결과 자료를 제시할 수 있도록 하였다 본 연구는 해저 퇴적층에 분야의 과학적 정보 제공을 위한 기반을 마련하였다는데 의의가 있다. 또한, 한반도 주변에 해양광물자원의 부존 가능 지역을 파악하는데 있어 과학적 정보를 지원하고 나아가 광물자원의 매장량 추정이나 경제성 평가를 위한 정보제공의 기반이 될 것으로 사료된다. 향후 연구에서는 시추퇴적물의 깊이에 따른 데이터베이스 관리 방안과 더불어 3차원 정보 제공에 대한 연구와 모델링 결과를 통해 실제 데이터에이스 구축이 진행되어야 할 것이다.