• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.367-371
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• 2014

When the crew or passengers fall into the water due to marine accident of vessel, it is very important to rescue them quickly. In the case of marine accidents, most people in distress have been wearing a lifejacket, so if the GPS and Cospas-Sarsat communication module will be integrated within the lifejacket, it is easy to rescue them. In this paper, development of the dual band lifejacket-integrated antenna for GPS and Cospas-Sarsat communication is discussed. The antenna with the FR-4 substrate of 0.2mm thickness for flexibility was designed that it can be fitted close to the shoulder of the life jacket and operate at 1.575GHz and 406MHz. The GPS communication antenna was implemented with a ring-slot antenna having a circular polarized characteristic and a meander type linear polarized antenna is used as Cospas-Sarsat communication. The two antennas are fed by a single microstrip line and an open stub is used to minimize the mutual interference between the two antennas. The performance of the fabricated antenna attached to the life vest is confirmed by the measurement of the return loss at GPS and Cospas-Sarsat frequency bands.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.62
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• pp.65-86
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• 2020

Drones, which were originally developed for military purpose, have expanded rapidly not only in hobbies, leisure, but also in broadcasting, filming, and public sectors, and search and rescue drones have been used to find four Korean teachers who went to Nepal for volunteer work but went missing in the avalanche. The government is encouraging the use of drones in the public sector as a policy to foster the drone industry, and the market is expected to expand in the future. This study presents improvement measures and specific directions for use of drones by public agencies at a time when the use of drones is expanding in the public sector. To that end, this research reviewed the interviews of relevant experts, analysis of drone operation regulations by public agencies, and the cases of operation of drones for searching missing persons by police. First of all, it will have to secure skilled personnel before the introduction of the drones and then determine the specifications of the drones through sufficient review, and then be put into the mission after careful examination of the drones. Next, it is necessary to draw up a base rule for drone operation and draw up a manual accordingly. Finally, drone flight has the risk of a crash, and it is essential to secure dedicated personnel for drone operation, especially since drones in the public sector are specialized in large scale compared to hobby drones to achieve their purpose. This research only conducted a detailed analysis of the National Police Agency's drones for searching for missing persons, and there are limitations to the number of people interviewed. Subsequent studies will require analysis of various public institutions, and in addition to interviews, surveys will require analysis of various data and statistics.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.6_1
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• pp.1451-1466
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• 2023

In the context of maritime emergencies, the utilization of drones has rapidly increased, with a particular focus on their application in search and rescue operations. Deep learning models utilizing drone images for the rapid detection of distressed vessels and other maritime drift objects are gaining attention. However, effective training of such models necessitates a substantial amount of diverse training data that considers various weather conditions and vessel states. The lack of such data can lead to a degradation in the performance of trained models. This study aims to enhance the performance of deep learning models for distress ship detection by developing a maritime environment simulator to augment the dataset. The simulator allows for the configuration of various weather conditions, vessel states such as sinking or capsizing, and specifications and characteristics of drones and sensors. Training the deep learning model with the dataset generated through simulation resulted in improved detection performance, including accuracy and recall, when compared to models trained solely on actual drone image datasets. In particular, the accuracy of distress ship detection in adverse weather conditions, such as rain or fog, increased by approximately 2-5%, with a significant reduction in the rate of undetected instances. These results demonstrate the practical and effective contribution of the developed simulator in simulating diverse scenarios for model training. Furthermore, the distress ship detection deep learning model based on this approach is expected to be efficiently applied in maritime search and rescue operations.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.77-77
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• 2017

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.57-81
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• 2000

Universal AIS technology is effective and could enhance navigational safety -The AIS provides and improved method of vessel traffic surveillance -Complement to radar in collision avoidance -Invaluable in Search And Rescue operations -Reduce voice communications -Effective Fleet management

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.85-92
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• 1997

To understand the dynamics of a drifting object, an analysis based on fluid dynamics theory is presented. A simplified analysis shows a consistency with the linear formula currently used for search and rescue mission. Also an experiment using miniatured human models has been conducted to study the drift characteristics of Person-in-Water. The tests were carried out at the water channel facility and the models were tested in different positions and styles. The measured drag coefficients for human body ranged over 0.4-1.2.

• Journal of Korea Ship Safrty Technology Authority
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• s.37
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• pp.77-87
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• 2014

많은 선박 사고에서 해상 조난자를 수색 및 구조하는데 매우 많은 시간이 소요되며, 수중에서 체온저하 등으로 적정 시간 내에 구출되지 못한 조난자의 경우 사망 위험이 매우 높은 실정이다. 이러한 위험을 줄이기 위한 기존 기술로는 발광막대, SOS 부이, SART, EPIRB 등이 있으나, 급박한 상황에서 개인이 활용하는 데에는 한계가 있다. 이에 따라, 이러한 문제를 해결하고 효율적인 수색 및 구조 활동을 위한 새로운 방법을 연구하게 되었다.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.107-107
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• 2017

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.286-289
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• 2001

Three rotten the ocean became the traffic means which is important in the same time when it is a many resources with the geography VIP of our country which is this reed it came. Only the bay know currently all trades the sea to lead, it is become accomplished and over hold 98%. The safety supervision which it follows in him does to be more materialized. It observes the civil official system of the our country sea immediacy network of present time from the dissertation which it sees and the report search. against a structure network system it researches and to sleep it does.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.27 no.B
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• pp.53-58
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a design of the implementation for a search and rescue system for mountain climbers and evaluate the performance of the system. Search and rescues of people in emergency situations in mountain areas have been difficult due to lack of information about their location. In the proposed design, several small and commonly-available RF-based sensors, some amount of storage and processing devices are used. Infestations offer geographically intermittent coverage at high speeds. The proposed mountain climber tracking system use the directed diffusion scheme combined with infostation system. We also analyze the performance of the proposed system with NS-2 simulation package. From the performance analysis results, we expect that the proposed system will be very useful to early detect climbers' locations in emergency situations in Korea mountain areas.