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SATELLITE MONITORING OF OIL SPILLS CAUSED BY THE HEBEI SPIRIT ACCIDENT

  • Yang, Chan-Su;Yeom, Gi-Ho;Chang, Ji-Seong
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.368-368
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    • 2008
  • Oil spills are a principal factor of the ocean pollution. The complicated problems involved in detecting oil spills are usually due to varying wind and sea surface condition such as ocean wave and current. The Hebei Spirit accident was happened in the west sea ($36^{\circ}$41'04" N, $126^{\circ}$03'12" E) near about 8 km distant from Tae-An, Korea on December 7, 2007. The aim of this work is to improve the detection and classification performance in order to define a more accurate training set and identifying the feature of oil spill region. This paper deals with an optimization technique for the detection and classification scheme using multi-frequency and multi-polarization SAR and optical image data sets of the oil spilled sea. The used image data are the ENVISAT ASAR WS and Radarsat-1 of C-band and ALOS PALSAR of L-band SAR data and KOMPSAT-2 optical images together with meteorological or oceanographic data. Both the theory and the experimental results obtained are discussed.

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Air Pollution Reduction Strategies of World Major Ports

  • Han, Chul-Hwan
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.48
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    • pp.27-56
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    • 2010
  • Pollution emissions from international shipping and port activities have a significant impact on public health and global climate changes. The purpose of this paper is to review the status of pollution mitigation measures implemented to date in port industry and find out some implications for Korean ports. For this aim, the clean air strategies of the world major ports including six USA ports (Los Angeles/Long Beach, Now York/New Jersey, and Seattle and Tacoma), two European ports (Rotterdam and Gothenburg) and Busan Port were considered. Various measures to reduce emission from ports are evaluated by sectors-ocean going vessels, cargo handling equipments, truck and rail-, on the basis of categories such as reduction control technologies, operational changes and market-based measures. The policy implications of this paper are as follows. First, Clean Air Act Plans of Korean ports are required as soon as possible. Second, integrated approach is required to reduce emission effectively. Finally, the effect of port-related emission reduction can be maximized when various measures are conducted on a regional basis including neighboring ports. Furthermore, regional or global-based approach is useful to guarantee the level playing field among ports.

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A Study on the Characteristics of Water Quality in the Jinhae Bay (진해만해역의 수질환경특성에 관한 연구)

  • 반영남;국승기
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.255-261
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    • 2004
  • Through spot-investigation and observation of water quality environment of Jinhae Bay, this conducts the sea movement simulation on the current water quality of Jinhae Bay, grasps the flowing characteristics of Jinhae Bay and carries out ocean pollution simulation by using the data collected. Sea movement simulation results are tested by using Ocean Investigation Bureau's data of tide and current, and are also used in the ocean pollution spreading simulation. Water quality spreading simulation is conducted by using the data of sea movement and data of observation and then the results are compared with data of spot investigation. COD condensity is calculated and the water quality characteristics of Jinhae Bay are grasped.

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Water and Contaminated Water (기술사 마당 - 기술자료 - 물과 물)

  • Chung, Choon-Byeong
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.44-47
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    • 2012
  • The water is very important resource that we can maintain our life and get the high-quality energy. The water begins with creation of the earth and circulates in the atmosphere, ocean, surface and subsurface in the form gases, liquids and solids. Human has used the water in abundance, however we have polluted water irresponsibly and discharged wastewater into the earth. We must think, how long does areas, pollution, pollution treatment, produce. Consider together about the water shock will occur when in any form.

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Development of Water Wheel Type Oil Skimmer (수차형 유회수기의 개발)

  • 노준혁;박안진;강상훈;이영식;김종현;윤범상
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2000
  • The ocean is now increasingly suffering from pollution mainly caused by oil spill accidents roil increasing marine transportation. It cause not only the deterioration of ocean resources but also critical damage on the ocean ecosystem. Present study is an experimental one for the development of the oil skimmer which can collect spilled-oil actively and effectively from the sea surface. As an effort of achieving it, a new type of water wheel attached nil skimmer was devised, based upon the concept of orifice. The shapes of the water wheel, blades and oil storing tank are found to be very important factors on the oil skimming performance through systematic experimental analysis. Real oil recovery test was also carried out in square tank using the oil skimmer with their optimal shapes. Quite satisfactory result are obtained from the test which showed 99% and 98% recovery rates for light oil and heavy oil in still water condition, respectively.

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A Study of a Method for Detecting Marine Pollution Using X-band Radar (X-Band 레이더를 이용한 해양오염 관측기법에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Seung-Geun;Yang, Young-Jun;Park, Jun-Soo;Kwon, Sun-Hong
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.53-56
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    • 2010
  • Oil spills and red tide can be very damaging to the environment and fishery farming. These catastrophic accidents must be detected as quickly as possible. In this paper, we report the results of applying the wavelet transform to SAR or marine radar images for the detection of the boundaries of an oil spill or red tide. The application of the wavelet transform to these phenomena looks quite promising in detecting the boundaries of oil spills and red tide areas.

Sedimentary Environments and Heavy Metallic Pollution at Shihwa Lake (시화호의 퇴적환경과 중금속오염)

  • Hyun, Sang-Min;Chun, Jong-Hwa;Yi, Hi-Il
    • The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.198-207
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    • 1999
  • Five core sediments acquired from the Lake Shihwa are analyzed for variations of sedimentary environment and heavy metal pollution after the Shihwa seawall construction. The depositional environment of the study area is divided into anoxic, oxic and mixed suboxic conditions based on the C/N ratio and C/S ratios of organic matters. Controlling factors for redox condition are the water depth and the difference in industrial effluents supply. Correlations among geochemical elements (Mn, U, Mo) show a distinctive difference and thus can be used as an indicator of redox condition. The content of Al, Ti are dependent on the sediment characteristics, and the contents of heavy metals (Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Pb) indicate heavy metal pollution. The concentrations of heavy metals are higher near Shiswa-Banwol industrial complexies than the central part of Lake Shihwa. Especially, the accumulation of the heavy metal at the surface sediments near Shihwa-Banwol industrial complex are two to eight times higher than in the center of Lake Shihwa.

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Numerical Study of a Droplet Movement for the Ocean $CO_2$ Sequestration ($CO_2$해양처리를 위한 액적 거동 시뮬레이션 기초연구)

  • Jung Rho-Taek;Kang Seong-Gil
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2005
  • In the situation which Russia's ratification of the Kyoto protocol at February,2004, ANNEX I nations must reduce GHG(Green House Gas) discharge rate from 2008 by 2012 to the reduction level at 1990. We introduce the CO₂ ocean sequestration that is one of promising method for getting the stable CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere. There are four categories : ocean transportation technique, ocean initial dissolution technique, ocean deep current evaluation technique, and ocean biological evaluation technique. In this paper, we carried out the fundamental numerical study on the ocean initial dissolution technique, when the Liquidized CO₂ is emitted at the deep ocean, It is very important to the dissolution rate of movable CO₂ interface because it Is directly impact to the ocean organism. In order to investigate the relation of the interface movement and rate of the dissolution, we develope CR(Computational Fluid Dynamics) code that was constructed by the finite volume method based on the unstructured mesh, and a droplet's boundary surface can move and one direction dissolution from disperse phase into continuous phase adopted as its physics be. This study clarifies hydrodynamic relation between solubility and movement of the droplet through the verification of the Cm code.

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