• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 1995

The assessment for a degree of drought has been carried out based on the soil moisture index in Korea. The soil moisture index(Im) was calculated assuming of constant evapotranspiration until wilting point as Im = w2/wf $.$100. The soil moisture content(W2) at the final of a period is obtained from W2 : Pe + Wl - E, here the effective precipitation amount is Pe, evapotranspiration E, and the soil moisture content at the beginning of a period is Wl. The filed capacity(Wf), as a mean value of fine sandy loams, was reduced to 92 mm/ft when we accept the wilting point and the available soil moisture content of 42 mm/ft, respectively. The drought begins in Korea when the soil moisture index drops to less than 50%. The value coincides the isoline of 11 or more consecutive days without measureable precipitation. The soil moisture index frequently drops in the northern part of Youngnam area and Honam area so that both areas are well known as the areas of drought. Key word : Droughts, Soil Moisture Index.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.375-381
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• 2014

Soil moisture is an essential satellite-driven variable for understanding hydrologic, pedologic and geomorphic processes. The European Space Agency (ESA) has endorsed soil moisture as one of Climate Change Initiates (CCI) and had merged multi-satellites over 30 years. The $0.25^{\circ}$ coarse resolution soil moisture satellite data showed correlations with variables of a water stress index, Temperature-Vegetation Dryness Index (TVDI), from a stepwise regression analysis. The ancillary data from TVDI, Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from MODIS were inputted to a multi-regression analysis for estimating the surface soil moisture. The estimated soil moisture was validated with in-situ soil moisture data from April, 2012 to March, 2013 at Andong observation sites in South Korea. The soil moisture estimated using satellite-based LST and NDVI showed a good agreement with the observed ground data that this approach is plausible to define spatial distribution of surface soil moisture.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.195-197
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• 2003

Soil moisture is a crucial variable in research works of hydrology, meteorology and plant sciences. Adequate soil moisture is essential for plant growth; excesses and deficits of soil moisture must be considered in agricultural practices. There are already several remote sensing methods used for monitoring soil moisture, such as thermal inertia, vegetation water-supplying index, crop water stress index and multi-factor regression. In this paper, an improved method has been discussed which is based on the thermal inertia. We analyzed the problems of monitoring soil moisture using satellites at first, and then put forward an simplified method which directly uses land surface temperature differences to measure soil moisture. Also we have taken the influence of vegetation into account, and import NDVI into the model. The method was used in the study of soil moisture in Heilongjiang Province, China, and we draw the conclusion by the experiments that the model can evidently increase the precision of monitoring soil moisture.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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• pp.337-337
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• 2017

Accurate and optimal water supply to cereal crop is critical in growing stalks and producing maximum yields. Excessive soil moisture may cause nutrient deficiencies and oxygen deficiency. Excessive soil water during crop growth stages results in decrease of yields. In Korea, the largest agricultural lands are paddy fields. Recently, upland crops are cultivated in paddy field soils to reduce overproduced rice in Korea. In order to success this policy, it is necessary to fully understand crop response to excessive soil moisture condition from paddy field soils. Adzuki bean is one of major legumes which provide protein in daily diet. Adzuki bean has been well know its weakness to excessive soil moisture condition, In order to obtain optimal yields of adzuki bean from paddy field cultivation, it is necessary to understand response of adzuki bean under different soil moisture conditions. This study investigated characteristics of growths, yields and response degree of water stress from adzuki bean. Three cultivars were selected for this study; Chungju, Hongeon, and Arari. All adzuki beans were cultivated in a paddy field which was divided into three sections with different soil moistures. The paddy field was located in Milyang, Gyeongsangnam during 2016. One section of the paddy field had the greatest average soil moisture content as 35.1% during adzuki bean cultivation (very poor). The second greatest soil moisture section had 32.6% (somewhat poor) and the smallest soil moisture section had 28.9% of soil moisture (somewhat well). During cultivation of three cultivar adzuki beans, soil moisture contents and groundwater levels were monitored. All the characteristics of growth and yield components were measured; height, thickness, 100 seed weights etc. Stress index values were calculated by Stress Day Index (SDI). All cultivars had the greatest yields from somewhat well section. Chungju had the greatest yields throughout all three sections compared to other cultivars. Chungju had 81% greater yield than Hongeon which had the smallest yield from somewhat well section. Arari set in middle from all sections. However there was no significant differences yields from very poor and somewhat poor sections. Leaf SPAD values tended to decrease and stable carbon isotope values increased as soil moisture increased. However, Chungju had no difference across different soil moistures in SPAD and stable carbon isotope values, while Hongeon had the greatest differences across sections. These trends followed by SDI values. Chungju had the smallest SDI values compared to other cultivars, which meant that Chungju was the strongest tolerance against excessive soil moisture than other cultivars. All three cultivars showed severe decrease of yields from very poor and somewhat poor sections. Arari and Hongeon showed great decrease from somewhat well section compared to yields from upland soil. These two cultivars may not be proper cultivating in paddy fields. In conclusion, adzuki bean is very sensitive to soil moisture condition and detailed soil managements are required to obtain optimal yields of adzuki bean from paddy field cultivation.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.3-13
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• 2006

Although the drought impacts are comparably not catastrophic, the results from the drought are fatal in various social and economical aspects. Different from other natural hazards including floods, drought advances slowly and spreads widely, so that the preparedness is quite important and effective to mitigate the impacts from drought. Soil moisture depletion directly resulted from rainfall shortage is highly related with drought, especially for crops and vegetations, therefore a drought can be evaluated using soil moisture conditions. In this study, SMI (Soil Moisture Index) was developed to measure a drought condition using soil moisture model and frequency analysis for return periods. Runs theory was applied to quantify the soil moisture depletions for the drought condition in terms of severity, magnitude and duration. In 1994, 1995, 2000, and 2001, Korea had experienced several severe droughts, so the SMI developed was applied to evaluate applicability in the mid-range hydrologic unit watershed scale. From the results, SMI demonstrated the drought conditions with a quite sensitive manner and can be used as an indicator to measure a drought condition.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제30권6B호
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• pp.541-549
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• 2010

현재 우리나라는 지구 온난화로 인한 이상기후 현상이 발생하여 평균 강우량은 증가하는 반면에 강우일수는 감소하는 경향을 나타내고 있다. 다시 말하면, 강우가 특정한 기간에 집중되어 내려 홍수에 의한 피해도 심각하지만 가뭄에 의한 피해 또한 심각하다는 것을 나타낸다. 기존의 연구를 살펴보면 홍수에 대한 연구는 비교적 많은 편이지만 가뭄에 대한 연구는 상대적으로 드물다. 본 연구에서는 토양수분과 강수량으로 가뭄지수를 산정하여 비교 검토하였으며 이를 바탕으로 정확한 가뭄의 경향을 파악하고자 한다. 연구지역은 전라남도 해남이며, 토양수분자료로 Soil Moisture Index(SMI)를 산정하였고, 기상 자료로 Standardized Precipitation Index(SPI)와 Palmer Drought Severity Index(PDSI)를 산정하였다. 본 연구에서는 KoFlux 타워에서 측정된 토양수분 값을 이용하여 보다 실질적인 가뭄지수를 산정할 수 있었다. 각 가뭄지수를 월 단위로 산정하였고, 비교분석 결과 세 가지 가뭄지수는 대체로 비슷한 경향을 나타내었다. 따라서 KoFlux 타워에서 측정된 토양수분 값으로 가뭄지수를 산정하는 것은 적절하다고 판단되고 토양수분 값은 모든 기상학적 요인들에 직접적으로 영향을 받기 때문이라고 판단된다.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2004년도 학술발표회
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• pp.209-214
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• 2004

국내산지사면에서의 토양수분의 시공간적 분포를 파악하기 위하여 TDR(Time Domain Reflectometry)을 이용한 토양수분 장기 모니터링을 실시하였다. 대상사면을 측량하여 DEM(Digital Elevation Model)을 구축하고 흐름분배알고리즘에 적용하여 측정지점을 선정, 역 측량하여 효율적인 측정 체계를 구축하였다. DEM을 통하여 대상산지사면의 지형을 파악, 활용하여 정적 습윤지수(steady-state wetness index), 반동력학적 습윤지수(quasi-dynamic wetness index)를 구하였다. 장기 모니터링을 통한 토양수분 자료를 시공간적으로 분석하고 각각의 습윤 지수의 특징을 분석하고 습윤 지수와 토양수분 실측치와의 유의성과 제한점을 비교 분석하였다.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.282-287
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• 2000

Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] crops, grown in a rice soybean rotation, can suffer when grown in soil with excessive moisture. The objective of this work were to determine the reduction in growth and yield, responses of vegetative and reproductive growth of soybean to excessive soil moisture achieved by prolonged irrigation. Responses of different cultivars were determined at growth stages from V6 to R8 to clarify the sensitive growth stages or characteristics to excessive soil moisture. Cultivar differences in response to excessive soil moisture condition were conspicuous in seed dry weight and harvest index (HI) but not in the response of seed number or pod number per plant. The timing of irrigation causing the condition of excessive soil moisture influenced the vegetative or reproductive traits. Soybean plants were more affected by irrigation commencing at the pre-flowering than at the post-flowering stage. Post-flowering irrigation did not reduce growth of vegetative organs significantly; in fact the growth of stems and leaves was facilitated by the prolonged irrigation commencing at flowering. Differences between cultivar response to prolonged irrigation were assumed to relate to the reduced amount of assimilates translocated to the reproductive organ.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제38권6_4호
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• pp.1935-1943
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• 2022

위성 영상을 활용하여 대규모 또는 정밀 토양 수분도를 제작하는 방법의 개발과 이를 적용한 사례 연구는 원격탐사 응용 분야에서 중요한 연구 주제 중 하나이다. 이 연구는 제주도 연구 지역을 대상으로 토양 수분도를 제작하였다. 이를 위하여 선형으로 조정된 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 편광 영상과 입사각 정보를 이용하여 광학 영상과 함께 토양 수분도를 산출하였다. SAR 영상은 Google Earth Engine (GEE)에서 제공하는 후반 산란 계수 Analysis Ready Data (ARD) 자료를 사용하였다. 또한 Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)의 토지 피복도(land cover map)와 KOMPSAT-3 고해상도 위성 영상의 지표 반사도로부터 산출한 식생 지수 정보(normalized difference vegetation index, NDVI)를 토양 수분도 처리 과정에 적용하였다. 이처럼 SAR 영상과 광학영상 정보를 융합하여 처리하는 경우는 토양 수분 산출물의 신뢰도를 향상할 수 있는 것으로 알려져 있다. 산출물의 과학적 분석을 위하여 KOMPSAT-3 영상으로 제작한 정규 수분 지수(normalized difference water index, NDWI)와 비교 분석을 실시하였다. 그리고 KOMPSAT-3 처리 결과의 검증을 위하여 Landsat-8 위성의 NDWI 처리 결과와 비교하였다. 이 연구를 통하여 산출한 토양 수분도 결과는 KOMPSAT-3 영상과 Landsat-8 위성으로 각각 처리한 NDWI 처리 결과와 높은 상관도를 나타냈다. 마지막으로 이 연구에 사용한 토양 수분 산출 알고리즘을 우리나라 고해상도 위성인 KOMPSAT-5 영상에 맞게 추가 개발하면 다른 외부 영상 없이 KOMPSAT 광학 위성정보와 KOMPSAT SAR 영상정보를 이용한 정밀 토양 수분도 제작이 가능할 것이라고 생각한다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.415-419
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• 2021

We developed a highly accurate, yet inexpensive, refractive index (RI)-based soil moisture sensor. To detect the RI, a light guide was set with a light-emitting diode and photodiode. When the air fills the space between the soil particles, most of the incident light is reflected at the interface between the waveguide and the air because of the large RI difference. As the moisture of the soil increases, the macroscopic soil RI increases. This allows incident light to pass through the interface. The intensity of the light reaching the photodiode was simulated according to the change in the soil RI. Using the simulation results, we designed and manufactured a curved glass waveguide. We evaluated the performance of the RI-based soil sensor by comparing it with a commercially available, high-cost and high-performance time-domain reflectometer (TDR). Our sensor was 96% accurate, surpassing the costly TDR sensor.