• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.3-13
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• 2006

Although the drought impacts are comparably not catastrophic, the results from the drought are fatal in various social and economical aspects. Different from other natural hazards including floods, drought advances slowly and spreads widely, so that the preparedness is quite important and effective to mitigate the impacts from drought. Soil moisture depletion directly resulted from rainfall shortage is highly related with drought, especially for crops and vegetations, therefore a drought can be evaluated using soil moisture conditions. In this study, SMI (Soil Moisture Index) was developed to measure a drought condition using soil moisture model and frequency analysis for return periods. Runs theory was applied to quantify the soil moisture depletions for the drought condition in terms of severity, magnitude and duration. In 1994, 1995, 2000, and 2001, Korea had experienced several severe droughts, so the SMI developed was applied to evaluate applicability in the mid-range hydrologic unit watershed scale. From the results, SMI demonstrated the drought conditions with a quite sensitive manner and can be used as an indicator to measure a drought condition.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제59권3호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2017

The main goal of this paper is to assess application of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) remote sensing and GIS based images in detection and measuring of rice field drought area in South Korea. Drought is recurring feature of the climatic events, which often hit South Korea, bringing significant water shortages, local economic losses and adverse social consequences. This paper describes the assesment of the near-realtime drought damage monitoring and reporting system for the agricultural drought region. The system is being developed using drought-related vegetation characteristics, which are derived from UAV remote sensing data. The study area is $3.07km^2$ of Wonbuk-myeon, Taean-gun, Chungnam in South Korea. UAV images were acquired three times from July 4 to October 29, 2015. Three images of the same test site have been analysed by object-based image classification technique. Drought damaged paddy rices reached $754,362m^2$, which is 47.1 %. The NongHyeop Agricultural Damage Insurance accepted agricultural land of 4.6 % ($34,932m^2$). For paddy rices by UAV investigation, the drought monitoring and crop productivity was effective in improving drought assessment method.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.285-291
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• 2020

이 연구에서는 Noah 3.3 지면모형을 이용하여 표층과 근역층(root-zone)의 토양함수비를 추정하고, 이를 위성기반 및 재분석 토양수분자료와 비교·검증하였다. 먼저, Noah 3.3 지면모형으로부터 추정한 4개 토양층 중 지면에 가까운 3개층(즉, 표층으로부터 1 m 깊이까지) 토양함수비를 이용하여 3개층의 깊이 가중평균값을 근역층 토양 함수비로 정의하였다. 이렇게 Noah 3.3 지면모형으로 추정한 토양함수비를 위성기반 표층 토양 함수비(European Space Agency Climate Change Initiatives Soil Moisture Product v04.4, ESA CCI SM v04.4)와 ERA-interim 재분석 표층 및 근역층 토양함수비와 비교·검증하였다. 또한, 전지구의 주요 5개 유역(Yangtze, Mekong, Mississippi, Murray-Darling, Amazon)에 대해 Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) 관측 Total Water Storage Anomaly (TWSA) 와 TWS Change (TWSC)를 이용하여 비교·검증하였다. Noah 3.3 지면모형으로 산정한 토양수분 자료는 동아시아 지역과 남아시아 지역, 호주, 북미와 남미 등 대부분의 아시아·태평양지역에서 높은 아노말리 상관관계를 보였으며, 5개 유역에서 호주의 머레이-달링(Murray-Darling)유역에서 다소 낮은 상관관계를 보였으나, 나머지 4개 유역에서는 대체로 높은 상관성을 보였다. Noah 3.3 지면모형은 준실시간 토양수분 모의가 가능하기 때문에 이에 기반한 가뭄감시가 가능하며, 선제적 가뭄 대응 대책 마련에 활용성이 클 것으로 기대된다.