• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.456-468
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• 2024

River discharge is a crucial indicator of climate change and requires accurate and continuous estimation for effective water resource management and environmental monitoring. This study used satellite gravimetry data to estimate river discharge in major basins with high discharge volumes, specifically the Congo and Orinoco basins. By enhancing the spatial resolution of gravity data through advanced post-processing techniques, including forward modeling and river routing schemes, we effectively detected changes in the water mass stored within river channels. Additionally, signals from surrounding regions were statistically removed using the Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis to isolate river-specific discharge signals. These refined signals were then converted into river discharge data through seasonal calibration using the modeled discharge data. Our results demonstrate that this method yields accurate and reliable discharge estimates comparable to in-situ measurements from gauge stations, even without ground-based surveys such as an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) field campaigns. This research highlights the significant potential of satellite-based gravity data as an alternative to traditional ground surveys, providing practical information on the hydrological status of regions associated with large-scale river systems.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.83-94
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• 2011

Extra heavy oil reservoirs are distributed over the world but most of them is deposited in the northern part of the Orinoco River in Venezuela, in the area of 5,500 $km^2$, This region, which has been commonly called "the Orinoco Oil Belt", contains estimated 1.3 trillion barrels of original oil-in-place and 250 billion barrels of established reserves. The Venezuela extra heavy oil has an API gravity of less than 10 degree and in situ viscosity of 5,000 cP at reservoir condition. Although the presence of extra heavy oil in the Orinoco Oil Belt has been initially reported in the 1930's, the commercial development using in situ cold production started in the 1990's. The Orinoco heavy oil deposits are clustered into 4 development areas, Boyaco, Junin, Ayachoco, and Carabobo respectively, and they are subdivided into totally 31 production blocks. Nowadays, PDVSA (Petr$\'{o}$leos de Venzuela, S.A.) makes a development of each production block with the international oil companies from more than 20 countries forming a international joint-venture company. The Eastern Venezuela Basin, the Orinoco Oil Belt is included in, is one of the major oil-bearing sedimentary basins in Venezuela and is first formed as a passive margin basin by the Jurassic tectonic plate motion. The major source rock of heavy oil is the late Cretaceous calcareous shale in the central Eastern Venezuela Basin. Hydrocarbon materials migrated an average of 150 km up dip to the southern margin of the basin. During the migration, lighter fractions in the hydrocarbon were removed by biodegradation and the oil changed into heavy and/or extra heavy oil. Miocene Oficina Formation, the main extra heavy oil reservoir, is the unconsolidated sand and shale alternation formed in fluvial-estuarine environment and also has irregularly a large number of the Cenozoic faults induced by basin subsidence and tectonics. Because Oficina Formation has not only complex lithology distribution but also irregular geology structure, geological evolution and characteristics of the reservoirs have to be determined for economical production well design and effective oil recovery. This study introduces geological formation and evolution of the Venezuela extra heavy oil reservoirs and suggest their significant geological characteristics which are (1) thickness and geometry of reservoir pay sands, (2) continuity and thickness of mud beds, (3) geometry of faults, (4) depth and geothermal character of reservoir, (5) in-situ stress field of reservoir, and (6) chemical composition of extra heavy oil. Newly developed exploration techniques, such as 3-D seismic survey and LWD (logging while drilling), can be expected as powerful methods to recognize the geological reservoir characteristics in the Orinoco Oil Belt.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10e
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• pp.46-48
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 임베디드 시스템과 웹서버 그리고 모바일로 구성되어지는 대형 중고자동차 관리 시스템을 설계 및 구현하는 방법을 소개하고, 임베디드 시스템 내부에서는 RFID와 서버로 연결되는 네트워크의 설계를 소개하며, 모바일 장치에서의 관리와 현장의 임베디드 시스템과의 동기화 설계에 대해 논의한다. 하드웨어는 MPC860CPU 50MHz를 갖춘 XN860Core보드 및 Access Point는 ORINOCO AP-500을 사용하였으며, 임베디드 시스템의운영체제는 HardHat Linux2.0JE를 사용하였다 중고자동차 관리시스템은 관리에서 영업까지필요한 기능을 구현할 수 있도록 설계하였으며, 향후 다른 분야로 응용할 수 있도록 설계하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.673-676
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• 2003

In this paper, we designed the embedded system used for wireless LAN communication. Embedded system kernel is made from general linux kernel 2.4.18 by applying the ARM patch (2.4.18-rmk7) and the SA1100 patch(2.4.18-rmk7), then porting board level suitable to target system. The SA-1110 PCMCIA interface provides controls for one PCMCIA card slot with a PSKTSEL pin for support of a second slot. The embedded system requires external logic to complete the PCMCIA socket interface. For dual-voltage support, level shifting buffers are required for all SA-1110 input signals. Hot insertion capability requires that each socket be electrically isolated from each other, and from the remainder of the memory system. embedded system is for socket services approaching PCMCIA socket, detecting number of sockets, sensing insertion and removal, and applying power. It also provides interface with Card services. Embedded system supports Host driver for lucent chips that is installed orinoco driver cross compiled. The meaning can say that is doing wireless LAN communication through wireless LAN in imbedded system.