• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.841-849
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the method of estimating the areal precipitation reflecting the altitude of the mountainous terrain on Jeju Island by comparing and analyzing the areal precipitation using the Thiessen polygon method and the isohyetal method in mountainous streams. In terms of constructing the Thiessen polygon network, rainfall errors occurred in 94.5% and 45.8% of the Thiessen area ratio of the Jeju and Ara stations, respectively. This resulted in large areal precipitation and errors using the isohyetal method at altitudes below 600 m in the target watershed. In contrast, there were small errors in the highlands. Rainfall errors occurred in 18.91% of the Thiessen area ratio of Eorimok, 2.41% of Witseoreum, and 2.84% of Azalea Field because of the altitudinal influence of stations located in the highlands at altitudes above 600 m. Based on the areal precipitation estimation using the Thiessen polygon method, it was considered to be partially applicable to streams on Jeju Island depending on the altitude. However, the method is not suitable for mountainous streams such as the streams on Jeju Island because errors occur with altitude. Therefore, the isohyetal method is considered to be more suitable as it considers the locations of the rainfall stations and the orographic effect and because there are no errors with altitude.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.163-178
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• 2011

Using the library users' data in Lake County Public Library Systems, Florida, US, this study discussed how geographic information systems can be applied in LIS fields. These data were analyzed with such GIS functions as geocoding, Thiessen polygon, density, buffer, and distance measurement. Results indicate that findings from a study of these functions allowed for, not only a better understanding of the geographic locations of library users and user's library activity patterns, but also for the ability to identify library market areas for future library service planning. Additionally, results from a study of the Thiesen polygon and buffer functions indicated the distance impact on library use. Regarding the travel distance of library users, the measurement of distance using road networks was suggested.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.53 no.7
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• pp.493-505
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• 2020

The rainfall-runoff model has been generally adopted to obtain a consistent runoff sequence with the use of the long-term ground-gauged based precipitation data. The Thiessen polygon is a commonly applied approach for estimating the mean areal rainfall from the ground-gauged precipitation by assigning weight based on the relative areas delineated by a polygon. However, spatial bias is likely to increase due to a sparse network of the rain gauge. This study aims to generate continuous runoff sequences with the mean areal rainfall obtained from radar rainfall estimates through a PRMS rainfall-runoff model. Here, the systematic error of radar rainfall is corrected by applying the G/R Ratio. The results showed that the estimated runoff using the corrected radar rainfall estimates are largely similar and comparable to that of the Thiessen. More importantly, one can expect that the mean areal rainfall obtained from the radar rainfall estimates are more desirable than that of the ground in terms of representing rainfall patterns in space, which in turn leads to significant improvement in the estimation of runoff.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.48 no.11
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• pp.937-944
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• 2015

This study proposed a novel technique, namely the Radar Polygon Method (RPM), for areal rainfall estimation based on radar precipitation data. The RPM algorithm has the following steps: 1. Determine a map of the similar rainfall occurrence of which each grid cell contains the binary information on whether the grid cell rainfall is similar to that of the observation gage; 2. Determine the similar rainfall probability map for each gage of which each grid cell contains the probability of having the rainfall similar to that of the observation gage; 3. Determine the governing territory of each gage by comparing the probability maps of the gages. RPM method was applied to the Anseong stream basin. Radar Polygons and Thiessen Polygons of the study area were similar to each other with the difference between the two being greater for the rain gage highly influenced by the orography. However, the weight factor between the two were similar with each other. The significance of this study is to pioneer a new application field of radar rainfall data that has been limited due to short observation period and low accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.16-16
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• 2016

실무에서 많이 사용되고 있는 면적강우량 산정방법은 관측소간 위치관계를 이용한 기법으로 본 연구에서는 실측자료를 기반으로 한 면적강우량 산정기법 개발을 위한 연구를 진행하였다. 강우공간분포의 실측자료인 기상레이더 자료를 이용하여 지점관측소가 위치한 곳에서의 강우강도와 주변지역의 강우강도를 검토하였고 지점관측소 위치에서 계측된 강우강도와 일정한 차이 범위 안에 있는 유사한 강우강도가 발생했던 빈도를 기준으로 관측소의 지배범위를 결정하는 방법인 '레이더 폴리곤 기법(Radar polygon Method, PRM)'을 제시하였으며, 이를 안성천 유역에 적용하여 유역 크기 및 관측소 배치에 따른 영향을 검토하였다. 본 연구는 관측기간 및 정확도의 문제로 인하여 제한적으로 활용되어 온 레이더 강우관측자료의 새로운 활용분야를 개척하였다는 점에서 큰 의미를 찾을 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.19-19
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 선행연구에서 제안한 '레이더 폴리곤 기법(Radar polygon Method, PRM)'의 개선방안을 도출하고 산지 및 평야 등 다양한 지형조건을 갖춘 대상유역을 선택하여 제안된 기법을 적용 검토하였다. RPM은 강우공간분포의 실측자료인 기상레이더 자료를 이용하여 지점관측소가 위치한 곳에서의 강우강도와 주변지역의 강우강도를 비교하여 지배범위를 결정하는 방법으로 기존에는 일정한 차이 범위 안에 있는 유사한 강우강도가 발생했던 빈도를 기준으로 관측소의 지배 범위를 결정하였으나, 금회에는 지점관측소가 위치한 곳에서의 강우강도와 주변지역의 강우강도의 비의 합을 기준으로 지배범위를 결정하는 방법을 적용하여 개선된 결과를 도출하였다. 또한, 4개 대상유역을 선정하여 RPM을 적용, 레이더 강우자료의 적용 개수에 따른 민감도 분석 및 지형에 따른 영향 등을 검토하였다. 본 연구는 관측기간 및 정확도의 문제로 인하여 제한적으로 활용되어 온 레이더 강우관측 자료의 새로운 활용분야를 개척하였다는 점에서 큰 의미를 찾을 수 있다.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.83-108
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• 1989

To discern general tendency in relatively pure even-aged pine stands, to group the stands and to perceive neighbourhood effects a total of 39 sites of pine stand was surveyed from nearby Seoul (12 sites), Chunsung, Kangwon (13 sites) and Sosan, Chungnam (14 sites), for herb and shrub species 32, 19; 37, 19 and 41, 14 in the respective areas from September 1987 to July 1988. In terms of detrended correspondence analysis (DECORANA), the stands were subjected to ordinate with 16 physical variables and the vegetational variables. The resource ratio (N:P, N:K, P:K) as physical variables also was tried out in the DECORANA as well as independent variable (N.P.K). The outcome did not show any meaningful difference. It is suggested that there seems to be no apparent interaction among the elements in the study. Three vertical vegetation componeent, that is, tree layer, shrub layer, herb layer were subjccted to DECORANA independently, pairwisely and as a whole (a total 7 combinations). Of those analysis herb layer trial alone seems to indicate relatively clearer differences among the physical variables. In the stands nearby Seoul first axis indicated soil field capacity and exchangeable cations (K, Ca and Na) and second axis did not show any tendency. For the Chunsung stands first axis also revealed soil field capcity and amount of arganic matter and second axis showed amount of exchangeable cation (K, Ca and Na), In the Seosan 1st axis indicated pH and exchangeable cations (K, Ca and Na). For the 39 sites 4 clusters in terms of herb layer might be defined: Peucedanum terebinthaceum-Cymbopogon tortilis-Polygala japonica-Festuca ovina (1); Atractylodes japonica-Patrina scabiosaefolia (2); Potentilla fragarioides-Atractylodes (3); and Cymbopogon tortilis (4). In the neighbourhood effects study in terms of the basal area distribution, Thiessen polygon area and Gini coefficient for the Pinus thunbergii stands of Seosan the Thiessen polygon area approach seems to indicate earlier (30 years old) neighbourhood effect than the others (45 years).

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.13-21
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• 2012

In this study, homogeneous regions for regional frequency analysis were identified using rainfall data from 61 observation points in Korea. The used data were gathered from 1980 to 2010. Self organizing map and K-means clustering based on Davies-Bouldin Index were used to make clusters showing similar rainfall patterns and to decide the optimum number of the homogeneous regions. The results from this analysis showed that the 61 observation points can be optimally grouped into 6 geographical clusters. Finally, the 61 observations points grouped into 6 clusters were mapped regionally using Thiessen polygon method.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.11-21
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• 2015

Emergency Medical Service(EMS) has become focused due to all kinds of disaster and a great number of casualties. The 119 emergency vehicles' dispatching methods are now being focused, for travel time of ambulances are the critical components in terms of saving human lives. Therefore, this study tried to rearrange 119 EMS regions more efficiently. For this study, Daejeon Metropolitan City's real call cases were analyzed. In order to rearrange the regions, OD Cost Matrix analysis was performed between 800 thousands random points and 26 departments in the Daejoen Metropolitan City. By creating Thiessen Polygon from the random points, a new region was created. As a results, average areas of the regions were reduces from 32 square kilometers to 20 square kilometers, and average time of arrivals are were also improved. Hence, if related organizations plan to rearrange EMS regions, they may utilize this study.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.45 no.7
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• pp.657-674
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• 2012

This paper presents the effect of spatially-distributed rainfall on both rainfall-sediment-runoff and erosion or deposition in the experimental Cheoncheon catchment: upstream of Yongdam dam basin. The rainfall fields were generated by three rainfall interpolation techniques (Thiessen polygon: TP, Inverse Distance Weighting: IDW, Kriging) based only on ground gauges and two radar rainfall synthetic techniques (Gauge-Radar ratio: GR, Conditional Merging: CM). Each rainfall field was then assessed in terms of spatial feature and quantity and also used for rainfall-sediment-runoff and erosion-deposition simulation due to the spatial difference of rainfall fields. The results showed that all the interpolation methods based on ground gauges provided very similar hydrologic responses in spite of different spatial pattern of erosion and deposition while raw radar and GR rainfall fields led to underestimated and overestimated simulation results, respectively. The CM technique was acceptable to improve the accuracy of raw radar rainfall for hydrologic simulation even though it is more time consuming to generate spatially-distributed rainfall.