• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• v.2
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• pp.559-562
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• 2006

Although flood is a very common natural disaster in Bangladesh, recently Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh got flooded even in moderate rainfall. Accordingly, on January 2002 the sale and use of polythene bags were banned, by identifying it as one of the main causes for such flooding. Now the question arises, whether only polythene shopping bags are alone responsible for causing water logging problem. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to detect the reason(s) for the recent prolonged water logging problem in Dhaka City, even by small amount of rainfall. Both contingent valuation method and remote sensing technique were used for comparison of the results. The results of the study indicated that, not only polythene bags, but also unplanned land filling is also liable for creating water logging problem in Dhaka City. Finally, the study suggested that, the value of wetlands lost, which is directly related to the recent water logging problem, is more higher than what actually thought by the citizens of Dhaka City.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1433-1437
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 타당성조사 수준의 재해저감시설 계획을 위한 지역구분을 시행할 때 지형자료 등 최소한의 자료만으로 객관성이 높고, 수문학적으로 의미있는 지역구분이 설정될 수 있도록 기준을 정립하고 그에 따른 근거를 설정하고자 하였다. 내배수 침수재해와 관련하여 기존의 치수계획이 빗물펌프장 등 일부 구조물에만 한정되어 해당 홍수방어시설에 과도한 부담을 주고 있으므로 유역내 저류지, 빗물 탱크, 침투시설 등의 다양한 내배수 홍수분담시설의 설치 및 그에 따른 효과를 종합적으로 고려한 계획수립이 필요하다. 또한 지속적으로 피해가 커지고 있고 피해원인 및 양상이 다양해지는 도시유역의 내배수 재해에 대한 대책으로 피해지역의 확인 및 관련 저감대책 수립을 위한 지역구분의 방안에 대한 연구가 최근들어 강조되고 있다. 내배수 재해에 대응하기 위해서 전체유역을 지형특성 및 재해저감 시설의 입지조건을 종합적으로 고려하여 보수, 유수, 저지지역의 구분 방안을 검토하였다. 저지지역 설정을 위한 기준으로 평균침수심을 활용하였고, 아울러 유수지역과 보수지역을 구분하기 위해서는 습윤지수를 활용한 지표의 포화여부와 한계경사를 활용하였다. 이러한 지역구분 결과는 내배수 재해저감시설의 설치를 위한 기초자료로써 활용 방안을 검토하였다.

• International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Korean Journal of Geophysical Research
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-14
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• 1998

Various numerical methods for the two dimensional shallow water equations have been applied to the problems of flood routing, tidal circulation, storm surges, and atmospheric circulation. These methods are often based on the Alternating Direction Implicity(ADI) method. However, the ADI method results in inaccuracies for large time steps when dealing with a complex geometry or bathymetry. Since this method reduces the performance considerably, a fully implicit method developed by Wilders et al. (1998) is used to improve the accuracy for a large time step. Finite Difference Methods are defined on a rectangular grid. Two drawbacks of this type of grid are that grid refinement is not possibile locally and that the physical boundary is sometimes poorly represented by the numerical model boundary. Because of the second deficiency several purely numerical boundary effects can be involved. A boundary fitted curvilinear coordinate transformation is used to reduce these difficulties. It the curvilinear coordinate transformation is used to reduce these difficulties. If the coordinate transformation is orthogonal then the transformed shallow water equations are similar to the original equations. Therefore, an orthogonal coorinate transformation is used for defining coordinate system. A multigrid (MG) method is widely used to accelerate the convergence in the numerical methods. In this study, a technique using a MG method is proposed to reduce the computing time and to improve the accuracy for the orthogonal to reduce the computing time and to improve the accuracy for the orthogonal grid generation and the solutions of the shallow water equations.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.19 no.6 s.67
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• pp.22-28
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• 2005

We investigated the characteristics of the overflow/wave overtopping, induced by the storm surge and high waves in Masan bay and Busan Coast during Typhoon 'Maemi', which landed at the southeast coast of the Korean peninsula on September, of 2003, causing a severe inundation disaster. Characteristics of the water level, increase by the overflow / wave overtopping, were discussed in two patterns. One is the increase of water level in the region, located inside of a bay, like Masan fishing port, and the waves are relatively small. The other is in the open sea, in which the waves act directly, as on the seawall in Suyong bay. In the former region, the water level increase was affected by the storm surge, as well as the long period oscillation and waves. In Masan fishing port, about $80\%$ of the water level increase on the quay wall was caused by the storm surge. In the latter one, it was greatly affected by the wave run-up. In Suyong bay, about $90\%$ of the water level increase on the seawall was caused by the wave run-up.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.5-15
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• 2015

A growing number of studies have examined the relevance and impact of social media in building organizational resilience, which the ability to recover from a crisis, in the field of emergency management. However, few studies have assessed how these emergency response organizations perceive their own use of social media in crisis situations. In attempting to fill this gap, this study conducted a structured survey with emergency-response organization representatives in Seoul, South Korea, to examine how such organizations evaluate their utilization of social media in an urban emergency situation and how their social media uses are related to promoting organizational resilience during adverse events such as a flood. Overall, the findings imply that organizations are not yet taking full advantage of social media. Respondent evaluations of their own social media use in all three assessment areas-information provision, information dissemination, and emotional messages-were not satisfactory. However, their perceptions of how well they utilize social media were positively related to how they view their organizational resilience. Therefore, it may be that these organizations realize the powerful role of social media in building organizational resilience but lack the knowledge and experience to make the best use of social media services.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.244-244
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• 2011

기후변화의 영향으로 인한 자연재해의 대규모화는 정상성에 기반한 관측치를 대상으로 설계량을 결정하는 현행 방재기준의 한계를 보여주고 있다. 기후변화의 심각성과 기후변화 영향 고려 방법에 대한 사회적 요구를 충족하기 위하여 기후변화를 고려한 방재대책 수립 방안에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 미래 기후변화의 영향을 평가하고 수문사상의 발생 크기에 따라방재대책을 수립하는 방안을 제시하고자 한다. 우선, 대상유역인 굴포천 유역의 방재시설물을 조사하고 각 시설물의 한계능력을 평가한다. 그리고 기후변화 시나리오 및 기후모형 자료를 수집하여 대상유역으로 규모축소하고 도시유출모형인 SWMM 모형을 이용하여 미래 기후변화의 영향으로 발생 가능한 수문사상에 따른 홍수량을 산정한다. 또한 홍수피해규모를 다차원법으로 산정하고 이러한 피해를 줄이기 위한 방재시설물의 설치 및 개선에 의한 홍수피해 저감 편익을 비교하는 방식으로 경제성 분석에 기반한 방재대책을 수립하는 방안에 대하여 제시한다. 이러한 방법론은 향후 기후변화를 고려한 방재 대책을 마련하는데 있어 유용한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.717-727
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• 2011

Impervious surface affects urban climate, flood, and water pollution and has important role as basic data for urban planning and environmental and resources management uses. With a high paved rate, increased quantity of the outflown water and brings urban flooding during a heavy rain. Moreover, these non-point source pollution is getting increased the water pollution. In this regard, it is definitely important to research and keep monitoring the current situation of paved surface, which influences urban ecosystem, disaster and pollution. In this study, we suggest a method to utilize high resolution satellite image data for efficient survey on the current condition of paved surface. We analysed the paved surface condition of Dae-jeon metropolitan city area using KOMPSAT-2 image and validate its practicalness and limitation of this method.

• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.130-133
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• 2016

The increase in impervious surfaces due to urban development has caused a groundwater drawdown through the reduction of underground infiltration, flood disaster due to increased rainfall runoff and environmental pollution in higher pollutant concentrations of first flush rainwater. As an alternative to these problems, the needs of low impact development (LID) techniques is increasing in urban areas. In this study, the restoration efficiency of water cycle was assessed at a residential site development applied with the LID rainwater management system. The results of monitoring the water cycling showed that the efficiency of water cycle of LID rainwater management system was improved 41% more than that of conventional methods.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.95-106
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• 2008

Eco-friendly material and implementation methods have become important along with the existing standardized maintenance concept for the irrigation and flood control. However, the intrinsic function of the hydraulic structure is water supply and disaster prevention. Therefore, the material and work methods should be considered both eco-friendliness, durability and safety which are prerequisite elements to maintain the engineering function. In this study eco-friendly material and work methods would be classified into the vegetation based system, eco-friendly concrete system and stone-material system according to the characteristics of material. The quality standard for durability followed KS specification and related regulations. The quality standard for safety and eco-friendliness was set after literature review, and the database was developed using the standard. The structure applicable to onsite - the eco-friendly material and work method were classified based on the function and material of the hydraulic structure. Finally, database has been established for convenient management and selection of the proper material and work method. The eco-friendly material and work method could be searched easily for the convenience of the users, and the web-based data system has been developed for continuous registration of the material and work methods to be developed in the future.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.539-550
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• 2016

Detection of water bodies in land surface is an essential part of disaster monitoring, such as flood, storm surge, and tsunami, and plays an important role in analyzing spatial and temporal variation of water cycle. In this study, a quantitative comparison of different thresholding-based methods for water body detection and their applicability to Kompsat-5 SAR data were presented. In addition, the effect of speckle filtering on the detection result was analyzed. Furthermore, the variations of threshold values by the proportion of the water body area in the whole image were quantitatively evaluated. In order to improve the binary classification performance, a new water body detection algorithm based on the bimodality test and the majority filtering is presented.