• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.39 no.12
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• pp.921-925
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• 2015

The number of people suffering from renal disease increases every year. One of the most common treatments (clinical care options) for renal diseases is hemodialysis. However it takes a long time and has a high cost. Therefore, the importance of artificial kidney research has risen. Filtering creatinine from blood is one of the prime renal functions. Thus, we designed a novel two channel microfluidic chip focused on that function. In order to bond the individual polydimethylsiloxane layers, we have developed a housing system using acrylic plastic frame. This method has significant advantages in changing filter membranes. We use anodic aluminum oxide for the filter membrane. We analyzed the difference in the absorbance values for various creatinine concentrations using the Jaffe reaction. For the purpose of acquiring a standard equation to quantify the creatinine concentration, we interpolated the measured data and confirmed the concentration of the filtered solution. Through this experiment, we determined how the filtration efficiency depended on the flow rate and creatinine concentration.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.203-212
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• 2002

This study was conducted to remove the urban heat island effects embedded in the interpolated surfaces of daily minimum temperature in the Korean Peninsula. Fifty six standard weather stations are usually used to generate the gridded temperature surface in South Korea. Since most of the weather stations are located in heavily populated and urbanized areas, the observed minimum temperature data are contaminated with the so-called urban heat island effect. Without an appropriate correction, temperature estimates over rural area or forests might deviate significantly from the actual values. We simulated the spatial pattern of population distribution within any single population reporting district (city or country) by allocating the reported population to the "urban" pixels of a land cover map with a 30 by 30 m spacing. By using this "digital population model" (DPM), we can simulate the horizontal diffusion of urban effect, which is not possible with the spatially discontinuous nature of the population statistics fer each city or county. The temperature estimation error from the existing interpolation scheme, which considers both the distance and the altitude effects, was regressed to the DPMs smoothed at 5 different scales, i.e., the radial extent of 0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 and 5.0 km. Optimum regression models were used in conjunction with the distance-altitude interpolation to predict monthly normals of daily minimum temperature in South Korea far 1971-2000 period. Cross validation showed around 50% reduction in terms of RMSE and MAE over all months compared with those by the conventional method.conventional method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.4C
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• pp.371-379
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed new de-interlacing algorithm for video data using intensity gradient filter and median filter with texture detection in the image block. We first introduce the texture detection. According to texture detection, the current region is determined into smooth region or texture region. In case that the smooth region interpolated by median filter. In addition, in case of the texture region, we calculate missing pixel value using intensity gradient filter. Therefore, we analyze the local region feature using the texture detection and classify each missing pixel into two categories. And then, based on the classification result, a different de-interlacing algorithm is activated in order to obtain the best performance. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs well with a variety of moving sequences compared with conventional intra-field method in the literature.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.177-182
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• 2004

A chill unit has been used to estimate chilling requirement for dormancy release and risk of freezing damage. A system that calculates chill units was developed to obtain site-specific estimates of dormancy release date for grapes and evaluated in Baekgu myun near Kimje City, Chunbuk, Korea from September 2002 to March 2003. The system utilized daily minimum and maximum temperature maps generated from spatial interpolation with temperature correction for topography. Hourly temperature was temporally interpolated from the daily data using a sine-exponential equation (Patron and Logan, 1981). Hourly chill units were determined from sigmoid, reverse sigmoid, and negatively increasing sigmoid functions based on temperature ranges and summed for 24 h. Cumulative daily chill units obtained from measurements did not increase until 20 October 2002, which was used as a start date for accumulation to estimate the dormancy release date. As a result, a map of dormancy release date in the study area was generated, assuming 800 chill units as a threshold for the chilling requirement. The chill unit accumulation system, implemented using Microsoft Visual Basic and C++ (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA), runs in the Windows environment with ArcView (ESRl Inc., Redlands, CA, USA).

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.119-124
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• 2007

The few observed data related snowmelt was the major cause of difficulty in extracting snowmelt factors such as snow cover area, snow depth and depletion curve. Remote sensing technology is very effective to observe a wide area. Although many researchers have used remote sensing for snow observation, there were a few discussions on the characteristics of spatial and temporal variation. Snow cover maps were derived from NOAA AVHRR images for the winter seasons from 1997 to 2006. Distributed snow depth was mapped by overlapping between snow cover maps and interpolated snowfall maps from 69 meteorological observation stations. Model parameters (Snow Cover Area: SCA, snow depth, Snow cover Depletion Curve: SDC) building for 5 major watersheds in South Korea. Especially SDC is important parameter of snowmelt model.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.518-518
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• 2015

이 연구에서는 ESRI사의 ArcGIS 프로그램을 이용하여, 한반도 남한지역 중 기후변화시나리오에 의한 강수량이 제공되지 않는 해안선지역에 대해 기후변화시나리오를 이용하여 장래 강수량을 생성할 수 있는 모형을 개발하였다. 기상청에서 제공하는 기후변화 시나리오에 의한 장래강수데이터의 경우 복잡한 해안선지역에 대해 장래 강수데이터를 제공하고 있지 않기 때문에 최근의 지형도를 적용하여 기상청에서 제공하지 않는 지역에 대해 보완격자를 생성하고, 공간보간 기법을 이용하여 이를 해결할 수 있다. 1km 격자단위의 강수데이터를 생성하기 위하여 GIS내에 여러 툴(tools)의 기능을 단계적으로 모형화하여 순서화된 작업을 자동적으로 수행할 수 있는 model builder를 사용하였다. 데이터 변환작업을 위한 전처리, 데이터 보간 추출 기능과 공간보간기법을 적용하여 기후변화 시나리오가 적용된 데이터누락지역에서의 장래 강수예측데이터를 생성할 수 있도록 하였다. 기상청에서 제공하는 RCP 8.5 시나리오를 이용하였고, 일부 해안선과 섬 지역에 대해 장래강수량을 생성할 수 있는 보간기법이 적용된 모형으로 한반도 남한지역 중 강수자료가 제공되지 않는 총 4,186개의 격자에 대해 적합한 공간보간기법을 선택하여, 일단위 및 월단위 강수자료를 생산할 수 있도록 하였다. 기상청에서 제공하는 강수데이터의 경우 'ASCII' 파일 형식으로 기후변화 데이터를 제공하기 때문에 사용자가 별도의 프로그램을 이용하여 강수예측자료를 얻어야 하는 문제가 있다. 강수예측자료를 텍스트파일 형태로 사용자가 원하는 좌표를 선택 한 후 데이터를 추출할 수 있도록 격자화하여 저장되도록 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.229-229
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• 2015

Downscaling is a fundamental procedure in the assessment of the future climate change impact at regional and watershed scales. Hence, it is important to investigate the spatial variability of the climate conditions that are constructed by various downscaling methods in order to assess whether each method can model the climate conditions at various spatial scales properly. This study introduces a fundamental research from Jang and Kavvas(2015) that precipitation variability from a popular statistical downscaling method (BCSD) and a dynamical downscaling method (MM5) that is based on the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis data for a historical period and on the CCSM3 GCM A1B emission scenario simulations for a projection period, is investigated by means of some spatial characteristics: a) the normalized standard deviation (NSD), and b) the precipitation change over Northern California region. From the results of this study it is found that the BCSD method has limitations in projecting future precipitation values since the BCSD-projected precipitation, being based on the interpolated change factors from GCM projected precipitation, does not consider the interactions between GCM outputs and local geomorphological characteristics such as orographic effects and land use/cover patterns. As such, it is not clear whether the popular BCSD method is suitable for the assessment of the impact of future climate change at regional, watershed and local scales as the future climate will evolve in time and space as a nonlinear system with land-atmosphere feedbacks. However, it is noted that in this study only the BCSD procedure for the statistical downscaling method has been investigated, and the results by other statistical downscaling methods might be different.

• Atmosphere
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.183-196
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• 2019

High-quality and high-resolution meteorological information is essential to reduce damages due to disastrous weather phenomena such as flash flood, strong wind, and heat/cold waves. There are many meteorological observation stations operated by Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) in Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA). Nonetheless, they are still not enough to represent small-scale weather phenomena like convective storm cells due to its poor resolution, especially over urban areas with high-rise buildings and complex land use. In this study, feasibilities to use additional pre-existing networks (e.g., operated by local government and private company) are tested by investigating the effects of network density on the gridded horizontal distribution of two meteorological variables (temperature and precipitation). Two heat wave event days and two precipitation events are chosen, respectively. And the automatic weather station (AWS) networks operated by KMA, local-government, and SKTechX in Incheon area are used. It is found that as network density increases, correlation coefficients between the interpolated values with a horizontal resolution of 350 m and observed data also become large. The range of correlation coefficients with respect to the network density shows large in nighttime rather than in daytime for temperature. While, the range does not depend on the time of day, but on the precipitation type and horizontal distribution of convection cells. This study suggests that temperature and precipitation sensors should be added at points with large horizontal inhomogeneity of land use or topography to represent the horizontal features with a resolution higher than 350 m.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.621-628
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• 2018

More than four visible GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites are required to obtain absolute positioning. However, it is not easy to satisfy this condition when a rover is in such unfavorable condition as an urban area. As a consequence, clock-aided positioning has been used as an alternative method especially when the number of visible satellites is three providing that receive clock error information is available. In this study, LSC (Least-Squares Collocation) method is proposed to interpolate clock errors for clock-aided positioning after analyzing the characteristics of receiver clock errors. Numerical tests are performed by using GPS data collected at one of Korean CORS (Continuously Operating Reference Station) and a nearby GPS station. The receiver clock errors are obtained through the DGPS (Differential GPS) positioning technique and segmentation procedures are applied for efficient interpolation. Then, LSC is applied to predicted clock error at epoch which clock information is not available. The numerical test results are analyzed by examining the differences between the original and interpolated clock errors. The mean and standard deviation of the residuals are 0.24m and 0.49m, respectively. Therefore, it can be concluded that sufficient accuracy can be obtained by using the proposed method in this study.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.47-58
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• 2018

Recently, remote sensing video applications have become increasingly important in many wireless networks. Distributed compressive video sensing (DCVS) framework in these applications has been studied to reduce encoding complexity and to simultaneously capture and compress video data. Specially, a motion compensated block compressed sensing with smoothed projected Landweber (MC-BCS-SPL) has been actively researched for one useful algorithm of DCVS schemes, However, conventional MC-BCS-SPL schemes do not provide good visual qualities in reconstructed Wyner-Ziv (WZ) frames. In this paper, the conventional schemes of MC-BCS-SPL are described and then upgraded to provide better visual qualities in WZ frames by introducing reliability estimate between adjacent key frames and by constructing efficiently motion-compensated interpolated frames. Through experimental results, it is shown that the proposed algorithm is effective in providing better visual qualities than conventional algorithm.