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East Asian Observatory: Current Status and Future Prospect

  • Kim, Jongsoo
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.58.2-58.2
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    • 2017
  • The special session of the East Asian Observatory was prepared to let the Korean Astronomical Community know the current status and future prospect of the EAO, and to hear the opinion from the community. The East Asian Observatory (EAO) was formulated on September 5, 2014 by East Asian Core Observatories Associations (EACOA) as a non-profit company registered in the State of Hawaii. As a first mission of the EAO, it has successfully operated the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) since March 2015. The Submillimeter Array (SMA) has been available to the East Asian astronomers from 2017A season through the EAO, and the Subaru and the East Asian VLBI Network (EAVN) are the possible facilities to be available in near future.

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A Study on the Conceptual Design of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle(USV) for the Korean Navy (한국형 무인 경비정(USV)의 개념설계에 관한 연구)

  • Boo Sung Youn
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.7 no.3 s.18
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    • pp.59-68
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    • 2004
  • Unmanned surface vehicles(USVs) have been developed for special operations in foreign navies. These will be employed to conduct critical missions including inspection, coast guard, ISR, fire protection, precision strike, mine interception warfare and antisubmarine warfare. It is also known the USVs will be deployed at the front line of the network-centric warfare to replace the manned naval operations. The unmanned operation can, thus, minimize unnecessary risk to personnel and enhance the success probability for the imposed mission. In this research, the USVs which are under operation and development in foreign navies are investigated. Based on this, an USV with $7\~10m$ of length and 10ton of weight for the Korean Navy which can be deployed near the Northern Limit Line(NLL), is proposed.

Adapting Public Research Institutes to New Dynamics of Innovation

  • Guinet, Jean
    • STI Policy Review
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.117-138
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    • 2012
  • Governments around the world place great hopes in innovation in their search for new sources of growth and for responses to grand challenges, such as climate change, new or re-emerging infectious diseases, accelerating urbanisation, ageing, food security, and availability of clean water. However they must devise their relevant support policies -- including through sponsored research within public research institutes -- taking into account that innovation processes are currently undergoing a major transformation. New innovation patterns include a broadening scope of relevant activities, a growing importance but changing nature of scientific roots of technological development, a stronger demand-pull, the emergence of new local and national STI powerhouses, and the rise of more open and globalised innovation networks. They translate into new opportunities but also constraints for policies to enhance the contribution of public research institutes to national innovation performance. The article derives the main policy implications regarding the desirable evolution of the mission, research focus, as well as the funding and steering of public research institutes, with a special reference to Korea.

Planning & Special Edition: Present Status and Globalization Development Suggestion of HanSik [Korean Meal] (기획특집: 한식(韓食)의 현주소와 세계화를 위한 제언)

  • Rhee, Seong-Kap
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.24-27
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    • 2011
  • Every government rallies with the private sector to support its traditional cuisines. In Korea, the effort to globalize traditional dishes began with the governments official declaration of "Hansik Globalization" in 2008. Now the mission of globalizing hansik has emerged as one of the most valuable propositions in creating a new value-added rural economy, sharing growth with the tourism industry. The global food industry is reported to be bigger that of the information technology industry by 5.6 times and the automobile industry by 2.5 times as of 2008. And considering that hansik is almost unknown outside of Korea, the potential for growth is huge.

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The study of Safety education, safe experience for students to develop research simulreyiteo (안전체험 시뮬레이터 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Tae-hwan
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.46-59
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    • 2010
  • In this study, the safety training of comparative analysis of the realities of Korea's safety training and international experience and practical training for the safety experience of a virtual reality simulator, the development of safe conduct as a controlled motion simulator system, image H / W and the control system works, sound effects H / W and the control system works, 4D special effects (smoke, heat, wind, vibration) and a control system integration, mission control system for the selection and evaluation of the proposal, and safety training on Game S / W of development as we have never experienced an earthquake action plan and evacuate to escape the power of experience and the experience of an earthquake (vibration + video), Also the collapse and a fire escape on the experience of following second disaster, the building collapsed during an escape experience in the field, in case of fire According to the initial fire suppression and fire extinguisher usage experience - experience of smoke and heat to escape in, Moreover, the Daegu subway fire in public places such as subway and evacuated to escape the experience, considering the suggested Simulator.

Satellite Rainfall Monitoring: Recent Progress and Its Potential Applicability (인공위성 강우모니터링: 최근 동향 및 활용 방안)

  • Kim Seong-Joon;Shin Sa-Chul;Suh Ae-Sook
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.142-150
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    • 1999
  • During the past three decades after the first attempt to use satellite imagery or derived cloud products for rainfall estimation, much is known and understood concerning the scope and difficulties of satellite rainfall monitoring. After a brief general introduction this paper reviews recent progress in this field with special reference to improvement of algorithms, inter-comparison projects, integrative use of data from different sources, increasing lengths of data records and derived products, and interpretability of rainfall results. Also the paradigm of TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) which is the first space mission(1997) dedicated to measuring tropical and subtropical rainfall though microwave and visible/infrared sensors, including the first spaceborne rain radar was introduced, and the potential applicability to the field of agriculture and water resources by combining satellite imagery is described.

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The Current VIP Guard System and Its Development (요인의 안전을 위한 경호조직 분석 및 발전 방안)

  • 오세용;김창은
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.81-98
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    • 2003
  • In modern society, there are diverse sorts of VIPs including a king and individuals. Some like a king or president are in need of professional secret services, and others become VIPs by being guarded by a bodyguard company at their own request. The former is called a public guard, and the latter is a private one. In the field of the public guard, the nation should be furnished with a guard system in consideration of political circumstances to protect VIPs. That is, the parliamentary cabinet system and presidential system call for a different guard system, and the guard system's professional features vary to some degree with political situations and cultural climate. If the ultimate goal of guard is to protect the chief of the democratic and open state in a most efficient and safe manner, it's mandatorily necessary to set up a professional and specialized guard organization to provide democratic and efficient secret services. It's desired that the domestic presidential guard division should be staffed with not only expert guards but other personnels dispatched from the military and police. In the police, guard mission is splitted among various guard and security agencies, including the National Police Agency's public security bureau or the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's public security division, 101 security unit, mobile police and 22 special guard division. As a chain of command is separated and it's difficult to manage such organizations effectively, the National Police Agency should be exclusively in charge of VIP guard and security. In the area of private guard, the private police system has shared national security task as a middle organization between the private police and private guard. But now its intent has gradually weakened, and its mission should be redefined. In addition, the way people look at private guard should change, and they should be well informed that it could serve to prevent possible crimes, protect them against crimes and get rid of their inconveniences. To make a good impression on people, the guard associations and businesses should put their efforts into reinforcing publicity activities, and the government, academic circles and press should team up with them as well.

A Review on the Change in Submarine Roles in Naval Warfare: Based on Warfare Paradigm (전쟁 패러다임의 전환에 따른 잠수함의 역할 변화에 대한 고찰)

  • Jang, Jun-Seop
    • Strategy21
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    • s.46
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    • pp.89-122
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    • 2020
  • The longing for submarine manufacture and the fear of her power had exited for a long time, but submarine that could submerge and attack was built from 20th century by science technology development. The question, 'Submarine can exercise her power in naval warfare?' had exited before World War I, but the effective value of submarine was shown in the procedure of a chain of naval warfare during World War I and World War II. Germany and the United States made the best use of submarines at that time. The submarines of these nations mounted fierce attack on the enemy's battleships and merchant ships and blocked the sea lanes for war material. These fierce attack on ships became impossible After World War II, and the major powers reduced and coordinated the defence budget, so they considered the role of submarine. However, submarine is still powerful weapon system because she can secretly navigate under the water, and one of the most important force in the navy. The aim of this thesis is analyzing submarine roles in each naval warfare and integrating maritime strategy and weapon system technology into her roles. First, the research about represent submarine roles like anti-surfaceship warfare, anti-submarine warfare, intelligence gathering, land attack, supporting special operation and mine landing warfare will be presented, then the major naval warfare where submarine participated(during ex-World War I, World War I, World War II, The Cold War Era and post Cold War) and the analyzing of submarine roles by time will be presented. Submarine was developed for anti-surfaceship warfare during ex-World War I but could not make remarkable military gain in naval warfare because her performance and weapon was inadequate. However, the effective value of submarine in the procedure of a chain of naval warfare was shown during World War I and World War II. The major powers put battleships into naval warfare undiscriminatingly to command the sea power and submarines did massive damage to enemy navy power, so put a restraint the maritime power of enemy, and blocked the sea lanes for war material. After World War II, the battlefield situation changed rapidly and the concept of preemption became difficult to apply in naval warfare. Therefore, the submarine was unable to concentrate on anti-surfaceship mission. Especially during the Cold War era, nuclear submarine came to appear and her weapon system developed rapidly. These development gave submarines special missions: anti-submarine warfare and intelligence gathering. At that time, United States and Soviet submarines tracked other nation's submarines loaded with nuclear weapons and departing from naval their base. The submarines also collected information on the volume of ships and a coastal missile launching site in company with this mission. After Cold War, the major powers despatched forces to major troubled regions to maintain world peace, their submarines approached the shores of these regions and attacked key enemy installations with cruise missiles. At that time, the United States eased the concept of preemption and made the concept of Bush doctrine because of possible 911 terrorism. The missiles fired from submarines and surface battleships accurately attacked key enemy installations. Many nations be strategically successful depending on what kind of mission a submarine is assigned. The patterns of future naval warfare that my country will provide against will be military power projection and coalition/joint operations. These suggest much more about what future missions we should assign to submarines.

GEO-KOMPSAT-2A AMI Best Detector Select Map Evaluation and Update (천리안위성2A호 기상탑재체 Best Detector Select 맵 평가 및 업데이트)

  • Jin, Kyoungwook;Lee, Sang-Cherl;Lee, Jung-Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.359-365
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    • 2021
  • GEO-KOMPSAT-2A (GK2A) AMI (Advanced Meteorological Imager) Best Detector Select (BDS) map is pre-determined and uploaded before the satellite launch. After the launch, there is some possibility of a detector performance change driven by an abrupt temperature variation and thus the status of BDS map needs to be evaluated and updated if necessary. To investigate performance of entire elements of the detectors, AMI BDS analyses were conducted based on a technical note provided from the AMI vendor (L3HARRIS). The concept of the BDS analysis is to investigate the stability of signals from detectors while they are staring at targets (deep space and internal calibration target). For this purpose, Long Time Series (LTS) and Output Voltage vs. Bias Voltage (V-V) methods are used. The LTS for 30 secs and the V-V for two secs are spanned respectively for looking at the targets to compute noise components of detectors. To get the necessary data sets, these activities were conducted during the In-Orbit Test (IOT) period since a normal operation of AMI is stopped and special mission plans are commanded. With collected data sets during the GK2A IOT, AMI BDS map was intensively examined. It was found that about 1% of entire detector elements, which were evaluated at the ground test, showed characteristic changes and those degraded elements are replaced by alternative best ones. The stripping effects on AMI raw images due to the BDS problem were clearly removed when the new BDS map was applied.

Moon Imaging for the Calibration of the COMS Meteorological Imager (천리안 위성의 기상탑재체 보정을 위한 달 영상 획득 방안)

  • Park, Bong-Kyu;Yang, Koon-Ho
    • Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.44-50
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    • 2010
  • COMS accommodates multiple payloads; Meteorological Image(MI), Ocean Color Imager(GOCI) and Ka-band communication payloads. In order to improve the quality of MI visible channel, the moon image has been taken into account as backup reference in addition to Albedo monitoring. However, obtaining the moon image by adding special mission schedule is not recommended after IOT, because we may miss chances to obtain meteorological images during the time slots for special imaging. As an alternative solution, an approach extracting moon image from MI FD(Full Disk) image has been proposed when the moon is positioned near to the earth. However, prediction of acquisition time of moon image is somewhat difficult as the moon moves while the MI is scanning type sensor. And the moon can not be seen when it is behind the earth or outside of FD field of view. This paper discusses how effectively the moon can be detected by the MI FD imaging. For that purpose, this paper describes an approach taken to predict the time when the moon image is achievable and then introduces the results obtained from computer simulation.