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A Quantitative Study on the Variational Features of Rock Properties Followed by Weathering in Granites (풍화현상에 수반되는 화강암의 물성변화에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yeonghwa;Hong, Soon Ho
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.221-232
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    • 1990
  • Upon the basis of the measurements of index properties and ultrasonic velocities as well as the determination of degree of weathering mainly based on microscopic observation, relatively fare correlation has been found between the degrees of weathering and the physical properties of rocks, particularly between degrees of weathering and maximun water content. A significantly better correlation has been obtained between degree of weathering and P wave velocity by grouping rock samples according to rock facies. This study presented the range of physical parameters corresponding to each degree of weathering in granites.

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High-resolution Seismic Study Using Weigh-drop at the Boundary of Pungam Basin (중력추를 이용한 풍암분지 경계 부근에서의 고해상도 반사파 탐사)

  • Kim, Hyoun Gyu;Kim, Ki Young
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.519-526
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    • 1998
  • A high-resolution seismic survey was conducted at the northeastern boundary of Pungam basin, one of the Cretaceous sedimentary basins in Korea. A 100 kg weight was used as an energy source and was found to be better than a sledge hammer in mapping deeper geologic structures. Several processing techniques such as f-k filtering, predictive deconvolution, and time-variant filtering are useful to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio by suppressing unwanted seismic energy. Four seismic units are recognized where many vertical faults are developed. The boundary fault between sedimentary rocks and Precambrian gneiss is identified along with a fracture zone of approximately 30 m wide. Bedding planes of the sedimentary rocks dipping westward are interpreted to be limbs of a syncline or volcanic flow. There faults and tilted bedding planes indicate that the basin had undergone significant tectonic deformation.

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Change of Tree Types and Estimation of Tree Ages in a Research Forest from Two-decade Archive of Landsat Images

  • Jeon, Kyeong-Mi;Lee, Hoon-Yol
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.407-410
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    • 2005
  • We used a series of Landsat images acquired from 1984 to 2001 to observe decadal changes of the research forest of Kangwon National University. Tree NDVI images of November in 1984, 1986 and 2001 were displayed in RGB color composite. This image enabled us to identify historical change of conifer types and their approximate ages. Conifers were classified into 'old conifer aged more than 25 years', 'young conifer aged 20-25 years' 'very young conifer aged less than 20 years', and recently deforested areas. The results coincide with in situ data very well. Archives of higher resolution images should be used to monitor the change of area for various tree types.

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Statistical Atmospheric Correction of Lake Surface Temperature from Landsat Thermal Images

  • Han, Hyang-Sun;Lee, Hoon-Yol
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.418-421
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    • 2005
  • In this study, we analyzed surface temperature of lakes in the Han River system, using Landsat-5 and -7 time-series images. Surface temperature was extracted using NASA equation and compared with in situ 10m-depth temperature in Lake Soyang and surface temperature on five other dam lakes downstream. The 24 images out of 29 showed standard deviation of temperature difference less than $2^{\circ}C$, to which a novel statistical atmospheric correction could be applied. The correlation coefficients were 0.950 at Lake Soyang and 0.979-0.997 at the other lakes after atmospheric correction.

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Urban Growth of Chuncheon City Observed by Landsat Satellite Images

  • Ahn, Young-Jin;Lee, Hoon-Yol
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.411-414
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    • 2005
  • In this study, 8 Landsat(TM/ETM+) satellite images acquired from 1984 to 2002 were used to investigate the growth of Chuncheon city, Kangwon-do, Korea. The images were geocoded and classified using training set collected from field survey. Four land-use types were classified such as urban area, green zone, agricultural land and water body. It also showed rapid increase of urban area in the past two decades from 1166ha in 1984 to 3358ha in 2002. About 2182ha of agricultural land and green zone have been changed to urban area. Agricultural land was newly formed from the green zone.

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Wavenumber Correlation Analysis of Statellite Geopotential Anomalies

  • Kim, Jeong-Woo;Kim, Won-Kyun;Kim, Hye-Yun
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.111-116
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    • 2000
  • Indentifying anomaly correlations between data sets is the basis for rationalizig geopotential interpretation and theory. A procedure is presented that constitutes an effective process for identifying correlative features between the two or more geopotential data sets. Anomaly features that show direct, inverse, or no correlations between the data may be separated by applying filters in the frequency domains of the data sets. The correlation filter passes or rejects wavenumbers between co-registered data sets based on the correlation coefficient between common wavenumbers as given by the cosine of their phase difference. This study includes an example of Magsat magnetic anomaly profile that illustrates the usefulness of the procedure for extracting correlative features between the data sets.

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