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The Present Situation and Prospects of Chinese National Mechanism on Space Debris Mitigation

  • Li, Shouping
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.239-258
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    • 2011
  • Space debris mitigation has become an international custom for international space activities. IADC and COPUOS adopted a Guideline on Space Debris Mitigation. Two Guidelines provided that member states or international organization shall establish a national mechanism to mitigate space debris. China has made progress in legislation on space debris mitigation and management system. It establised a fundamental framework on the legislative mechanism on space debris mitigation and managemental mechanism on space debris mitigation. In order to further improve the national mechanism on space debris mitigation, it is essential for China to strenghen legislation on space activities and specify the duties of management administrates.

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The Current States of Debris Flow Hazards and Suggestion of Damage Mitigation Methods in Korea (국내 토석류 재해 현황 및 피해저감 방안)

  • Chae, Byung-Gon;Cho, Yong-Chan;Song, Young-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.302-311
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    • 2008
  • There have been repetitive landslides and debris flows on natural terrain induced by intensive rainfalls which have never been experienced during the last a few decades in Korea. Frequencies and magnitudes of landslides and debris flows are steeply increased after 2000 resulting in huge damages of human beings and facilities. According to a statistical data from NEMA, the human deaths induced by landslides and slope hazards occupies 22.3% of the total human deaths by all the natural hazards in Korea during the last 30 years. Among the human deaths by landslides and slope hazards, 85% of the damages were caused by landslides and debris flows on natural hazards. Therefore, this paper summarizes important events of landslides and debris flows, their characteristics, and suggests some methods of damage mitigation.

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Strategies for Response and Mitigation of Marine Environmental Damage Caused by Plastic Debris

  • Lee, Jungsub
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.439-446
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    • 2021
  • Environmental damage caused by marine plastic debris occurs and has become a major contributor to marine pollution. This study analyzed the current state of marine plastic debris pollution and proposed essential strategies to reduce damage. To assess the current state of pollution arising from marine plastic debris, this study investigated the properties of plastic debris, reviewed case studies of ecological impacts, and examined the inflow and distribution of marine plastic debris. The results of this study indicate that the major deleterious effects of marine plastics are entanglement and ingestion. In addition, the amount of plastic waste entering the sea was estimated to be 230 Mt in 2015 and may increase to 554 Mt in 2050. In this study, three key strategies were proposed to reduce damage and preserve the ecosystem, including: 1) removing plastic debris in the marine environment, 2) limiting the release of plastic debris to the marine environment, and 3) preventing damage to humans and marine life from plastic debris. To minimize the environmental damage caused by marine plastic debris, the proposed response strategies should be implemented in parallel.

Development of GIS-based Debris Flow Simulation Program (GIS 기반의 토석류 시뮬레이션 프로그램 개발)

  • Wie, Gwang-Jae;Lee, Young-Kyun;Lee, Dong-Ha;Suh, Yong-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2010
  • This study describes a development of GIS-based program called Debris Flow Analyzer for simulating the hazard extent of debris flow on the assumption that is uniform continuous, incompressible, unsteady. The Debris Flow Analyzer was designed to process debris flow numerical simulation with Finite Difference Formulation; smoothed DEM, slope, debris flow directions, extract valley, debris volume, water volume, debris flow moving speed, effective viscosity, dynamic friction coefficient. Also, it is expected that we can be improved the inform of debris flow hazard map by Google Earth.

Recent Status on Active Space Debris Removal Technologies (우주파편 능동제거 기술 연구개발 동향 분석)

  • Kim, Hae-Dong;Kim, Min-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.43 no.9
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    • pp.845-857
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    • 2015
  • Recently, deterioration of space environment due to space debris is getting a lot of international attention and advanced countries in space technology are willing to comply with their space debris mitigation guidelines. With these efforts to reduce the number of space debris, active space debris removal technology means to try and to get rid of space debris directly. In this paper, the background and recent status on active space debris removal technologies of overseas agencies are presented. Also, cases of technology development and patents are introduced. Thus, this paper can be usefully referred to by the colleagues who are willing to start the research and development of active space debris removal technologies.

Smart monitoring system with multi-criteria decision using a feature based computer vision technique

  • Lin, Chih-Wei;Hsu, Wen-Ko;Chiou, Dung-Jiang;Chen, Cheng-Wu;Chiang, Wei-Ling
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.1583-1600
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    • 2015
  • When natural disasters occur, including earthquakes, tsunamis, and debris flows, they are often accompanied by various types of damages such as the collapse of buildings, broken bridges and roads, and the destruction of natural scenery. Natural disaster detection and warning is an important issue which could help to reduce the incidence of serious damage to life and property as well as provide information for search and rescue afterwards. In this study, we propose a novel computer vision technique for debris flow detection which is feature-based that can be used to construct a debris flow event warning system. The landscape is composed of various elements, including trees, rocks, and buildings which are characterized by their features, shapes, positions, and colors. Unlike the traditional methods, our analysis relies on changes in the natural scenery which influence changes to the features. The "background module" and "monitoring module" procedures are designed and used to detect debris flows and construct an event warning system. The multi-criteria decision-making method used to construct an event warring system includes gradient information and the percentage of variation of the features. To prove the feasibility of the proposed method for detecting debris flows, some real cases of debris flows are analyzed. The natural environment is simulated and an event warning system is constructed to warn of debris flows. Debris flows are successfully detected using these two procedures, by analyzing the variation in the detected features and the matched feature. The feasibility of the event warning system is proven using the simulation method. Therefore, the feature based method is found to be useful for detecting debris flows and the event warning system is triggered when debris flows occur.

A Study on Movement Characteristics Analysis of Debris Accumulation at Flood (홍수시 유송잡물 이동 특성 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Chae-Yeon;Jun, Kye-Won;Yoon, Young-Ho
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.707-710
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    • 2008
  • Recently, a rivers' bridge that locate on among the mountains area is destroyed by debris accumulation and debris flow, because of frequent occurrence of typhoon and a localized torrential downpour. therefore a river make a part of dam's effect. Actually, this situation gives damages like inundation of a bridge upper stream area's. Generally, It the main cause of the occurrence route of the debris accumulation is that outbreaks of driftwood and debris flow because of landslide, that occurred by severe rain storm. Also, a lot of debris are occurred when big flood come up during long period at this time, this kind of debris accumulation remove to other place, in several, and specially, debris accumlation move to the place where the depth of water is deep and velocity is fast river center. According to these kind of fact, this research put in effect and analyze that movement characteristic's numerical simulations of debris accumulation at flood according to a domestic outside literature investigation, on-site monitoring survey and parameter scenario which comes out through the hydraulic modeling analysis.

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A basic study for Decision of Debris Barrier Model it is suitable to Mountains among the Kangwon (강원산간지형에 적합한 사방댐 모델결정을 위한 기초적 연구)

  • Hwang, Suk-Min;Lee, Seung-Ho;Moon, Jung-Shik;Kim, Yu-Tae
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.530-533
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    • 2007
  • Our country occurs yearly damage, because of every year in the summer season characteristic localized torrential downpour. Therefor, we will research damage instance and natural calamity reduction effective plan through research against a landslide relation Debris Barrier, And the Debris Barrier decide suitability of Mountains among the Kangwon.

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Hazard Prevention using Multi-Level Debris Flow Barriers (다단식(다단식) 토석류 방호책을 이용한 재해방지 시스템)

  • Lee, Sung-Uk;Choi, Seung-Il;Choi, Yu-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.815-829
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    • 2008
  • Debris flows are a natural hazard which looks like a combination of flood, land and rock slide. Large rainfall in July 2006 produced several large scale debris flows and many small debris flows that resulted in loss of life and considerable property and railway damage, as was widely reported in the national media. The hazard "debris flow" is still insufficiently researched. Furthermore debris flows are very hard to predict. Flexible Ring net barriers are multi-functional mitigation devices commonly applied to rock fall or floating wood protection in floods, snow avalanches and also mud flows or granular debris flows, if properly dimensioned for the process or processes for which they are intended. Overtopping of the barriers by debris flows and sediment transport is possible, supporting the design concept that a series of barriers may be used to stop volumes of debris larger than are possible using only one barrier. The future for these barrier concepts looks promising because these barriers represent the state of art for such applications and are superior to many other available options.

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Debris Flows Mitigation by means of Flexible Barriers (토석류 피해저감을 위한 유연성 방호책 적용에 관한 연구)

  • You Byung-Ok;Chang Buhm-Soo;Choi Seung-Il;Choi Yu-Kyung
    • 기술발표회
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    • s.2006
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    • pp.220-231
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    • 2006
  • Debris flows are a natural hazard which looks like a combination of flood, land and rock slide. Large rainfall in July 2006 produced several large scale debris flows and many small debris flows that resulted in loss of life and considerable property and highway damage, as was widely reported in the national media. The hazard "debris flow" is still insufficiently researched Furthermore debris flows are very hard to predict. In this paper, a general over view of the debris flow problems along the highway, a generic way for the design and dimensioning of flexible barrier systems will be presented. A brief description of the various unique barrier types will be provided, too. The future for these barrier concepts looks promising because these barriers represent the state of art for such applications and are superior to many other available options.

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