• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.327-338
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• 2000

The forest conditions of North Korea has been a great concern since it was known to be closely related to many environmental problems of the disastrous flooding, soil erosion, and food shortage. To assess the long-term changes of forest area as well as the canopy conditions, several sources of multitemporal satellite data were applied to the study area near Kaesung. KOMPSAT-1 EOC data were overlaid with 1981 topographic map showing the boundaries of forest to assess the deforestation area. Delineation of the cleared forest was performed by both visual interpretation and unsupervised classification. For analyzing the change of forest canopy condition, multiple scenes of Landsat and SPOT data were selected. After preprocessing of the multitemporal satellite data, such as image registration and normalization, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) was derived as a representation of forest canopy conditions. Although the panchromatic EOC data had radiometric limitation to classify diverse cover types, they can be effectively used t detect and delineate the deforested area. The results showed that a large portion of forest land has been cleared for the urban and agricultural uses during the last twenty years. It was also found that the canopy condition of remaining forests has not been improved for the last twenty years. It was also found that the canopy condition of remaining forests has not been improved for the last twenty years. Possible causes of the deforestation and the temporal pattern of canopy conditions are discussed.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.707-718
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• 2021

Background and objective: Due to the recent crisis of extinction in local areas, the mountain village promotion policy is recognized as an important task. This study examined the priorities of major policy projects in the forest sector that affect mountain village promotion. Methods: For research methods, literature search, expert advisory meetings, and a survey were conducted. The survey was conducted on 42 policy stakeholders from June 1 to August 13, 2021. The literature search was based on policy projects in the forest sector by 8 upper-level local governments including mountain villages. For questionnaire items, 173 forest policy projects were classified into 27 types through expert review, and the importance and performance of each type were rated on a 5-point Likert scale. Paired t-test, IPA, Locus for Focus model, and Borich needs assessment were used as the analysis methods, and the statistical program SPSS 21.0 was used as the analytical tool. Results: The results showed that 'creating forest-related jobs' and 'supporting cultivation of professional forestry workers' both showed high importance and performance, implying that they would show an effect in mountain village promotion. 'Creating forests for environmental improvement', 'discovering forest cultural assets' 'establishing and boosting forest tourism', 'providing forest therapy services', 'creating forest-related jobs', 'supporting community revitalization', and 'urban-rural exchanges' were found to be the types that needed improvement and concentration for mountain village promotion. In particular, 'creating forests for environmental improvement' and 'discovering forest cultural assets' were derived as priority considerations for mountain village promotion policies. Conclusion: In summary, it was found that in order to promote mountain villages, various content projects must be improved and carried out to enhance the physical environment and revitalize mountain villages.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.213-218
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• 2012

Abnormal dissolved oxygen concentration in aquatic habitat, both depletion and supersaturation, can be stress factor to aquatic animals. In this study the nationwide distribution of oxygen supersaturation was analyzed for three categories of streams (43 urban streams, 15 rural streams, and 14 forest streams) by using monitoring network data of the Korean Ministry of Environment. From the distribution analysis 30% of urban streams showed hyperoxic condition of eutrophic level, while no forest stream showed hyperoxic condition. The physiological effect of hyperoxia on fish was examined using two species of fish Zacco koreanus, which resulted in higher concentration of a stress hormone (cortisol) in fish exposed to hyperoxic concentration (196%) of oxygen. This study shows that hyperoxic condition is ubiquitous in urban and rural Korean streams, and it can be a stress factor to aquatic animals.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.349-357
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the water pollution degree in the Mid-Nakdong River watershed regarding to landcover types using GIS method. As a result of landcover classification, rate of urban appeared highly on Daegu Metropolitan city. Also, rate of agriculture showed highly in the riparian zones of the Nakdong and Guemho River and rate of forest appeared highly in the borders of the study area. To identify the groups of watershed with similar landcover patterns using the Cluster Analysis. According to the cluster analysis, the fifty sub-watersheds were grouped in three clusters, 'Urban watershed', 'Agriculture watershed', 'Forest watershed'. The proportion of urban area in each cluster had a positive correlation with water pollution degree. Otherwise, the proportion of agriculture in the Agriculture watershed had a high positive correlation with water pollution degree. Therefore, it is necessary to estimate environmental capacity of water duality considering ecological and environmental characteristics of watershed ecosystem and expand water duality monitoring systems to small stream.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.107-119
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• 1993

This study was conducted to increase to increase the plant species diversity, which was based on the analysis of plant community structure and the survey of human's disturbance degree in Mt. Yongma and Mt. Acha urban nature park, Seoul. The plant community were divided into four groups by TWINSPAN and DCA. These groups were Pinus rigida-P. densiflora community, Quercus mongolica-Q.aliena-Q.accutissima community, Robinia pseudoacaia-Q.accutissima-Poplus${\times}$albaglandulosa community and R.pseudoacacia community. The successional trends of tree species seems to be from P.densiflora, P.rigida, Sorbus alniflora to Q.mongolica, Q.aliena and from P.${\times}$albaglandulosa, R.pseudoacacia, through Q.accutissima, to Q. mongolica, Q.aliena. The species diversity of plant community was high in natual plant community but was low in artificial planting community respectively. Number of species, number of species individuals, indices of species diversity was lowered and soil hardness was increased by the user's trampling, undercutting work and planting P.koraiensis after thinning. In the basis of study results, we proposed the management plan for the urban forest.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.218-227
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• 2021

Background: Artificial light at night has recently been identified as a major factor adversely affecting global insect diversity. Here, we compared the insect diversity in Gwangneung Forest Biosphere Reserve, specifically in the Korea National Arboretum (with no artificial light at night), with that of three nearby urban sites with a gradient of artificial light at night (five locations at each site). We analyzed the effects of the artificial night lighting index, mean annual temperature, and field light intensity (lux) at night on the insect community structure. Results: The urban sites generally exhibited higher species richness and abundance as well as clear indicator species compared with the control site. The size distribution of the collected insects markedly differed between the control and the three urban sites. The abundance of herbivorous and omnivorous insects increased and decreased, respectively, with the increase in light intensity. Species richness of herbivorous and omnivorous insects was likely correlated with the field light intensity at night and artificial night lighting index, respectively. Conclusions: This study demonstrates the association between nighttime environment and marked changes in insect community structure and revealed consequent transition of ecosystem services by changes in trophic group composition.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제37권5_3호
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• pp.1373-1387
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• 2021

산불은 지표 에너지 균형, 사회 및 환경에 중대한 위협을 미치며, 사회경제적 손실을 일으킨다. 한편, 현재까지 널리 사용되고 있는 다중분광 위성 영상 기반 산불 피해 탐지 알고리즘은 구름으로 인한 반사도 오염으로 인해 시의적절한 산불 정보를 얻기 어려운 문제가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 구름에 영향을 받지 않는 유럽우주국의 Sentinel-1 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) 자료로부터 2019년 4월 초에 발생한 남한 강원도의 강릉·동해, 고성·속초 및 인접한 북한의 두 산불 발생 지역을 대상으로 주성분분석(Principal Component Analysis; PCA)을 포함하는 일련의 전 처리 및 K-means clustering을 이용하여 산불 피해 면적을 탐지하였다. 추정된 산불 면적은 국립산림과학원에서 남한의 두 산불에 대해 제공한 산불 피해 면적 및 강도 참조자료 및 산불 피해 탐지에 널리 사용되는 dNBR (differenced Normalized Burn Ratio)을 사용하여 검증하였다. 국립산림과학원의 참조자료 기반 검증에서 강릉·동해와 고성·속초 산불에 대해 평균 약 86%의 정확도를 보였다. dNBR을 사용한 검증에서는 남한 및 북한의 지역 모두에 대해 평균 약 84%의 정확도를 보였다. 이때, 산불 강도가 강할수록 산불 면적 탐지 성능이 높고 반대로 산불 강도가 약할수록 산불 면적 탐지 성능이 낮은 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구를 통해 검증된 SAR 영상을 이용한 PCA 및 K-means clustering 기반 탐지 알고리즘이 추후 구름의 영향이 크고 작은 산불이 빈번하게 발생하는 한반도에 대하여 신속한 산불 피해 면적 탐지에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.61-74
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to propose vegetation management devices through analyzing the actual vegetation, flora, plant community structure and soil chemical concentrations in Weolmi urban nature park, Incheon. The actual vegetation of Weolmi Park in various areas is composed of urbanization area(2 types, 25.9%), landscape planting area(4 types, 16.1%), grass and marsh area(5 types, 7.6%) and mountain forest areal(14 types, 50.4%). The flora is composed of 295 taxa with 80 families, 253 species, 35 varieties and 7 formas, and among them there are 16 naturalized plant families, 39 species, 3 varieties. In reflection of size, the number of the species seems high but most of the them are under influence of human disturbance. Nine survey plots of plant community structure are classified into two groups. One is the semi-natural plant community(Prunus sargentii-Acer palmatum, Quercus accutissma-Prunus sargentii, Quercus serrata-Quercus accutissma-Prunus sargentii, Prunus sargentii, and Zelkova serrata-Prunus sargentii) that migrated finn the planting forest to the natural forest and the other is planting forest(Pinus koraienssis-Pinus thunbergii-Abies holophylla-Chamaectparis obtusa, Prunus sargentii, Pinus thunbergii-Alnus firma, Zelkova serrata). The average pH is 4.65 which means the soil acidity is quite high. The concentration of K, Ca, Mg and base saturation is very low. It seems that the environmental pollutants from Incheon Port and industrial plants near by survey site and long-distance transport of air pollutants from China made the soil condition worse. On the basis of the results above, six vegetation management devices are suggested: 1) removing the hazard plants(Pueraia thunbergiana and Humulus japonica), 2) natural landscape management of the middle and long term, 3) increasing species diversity, 4) Robinia pseudoacacia management, 5) keeping the naturalized plants from being distributed any further inside the mountain forest, 6) improving soil acidification.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.1-13
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• 1998

이 논문의 주요 목적은 지리정보체계의 지도모델링 기법을 이용하여 소규모 산림의 산불 진화용 저수 탱크의 적지 분석에 있다. 부산광역시 서구에 위치한 암남 도시자연공원을 대상으로 산불 진화 모델에 필요한 산불 진화 시설, 지형 등의 수치 지도 데이터베이스를 만들었다. 암남공원에 현재 설치되어 있는 산불 진화 시설에 근거해 조기진화가 가능한 지역과 산림의 산불 진화 효과를 밝히기 위해 지리정보체계를 이용한 서술적 지도모델링 기법을 적용해 현재의 저수 탱크 시설로 초기 진화가 용이한 지역과 현재의 진화효과를 규명하고, 규정적 지도모델링 기법에 의해 현재의 시설로 충분치 못한 지역에 추가로 시설을 설치해 조기 진화를 가능하게 할 수 있도록 하였다. 본 연구에서는 산불 진화와 같은 재해 관리에 지리정보체계와 지도 모델링이 효율적으로 활용 가능함을 밝혔다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제87권4호
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• pp.584-589
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• 1998

대기중의 오염물질의 영향에 의한 산림내 강우와 토양의 중금속 분석을 공단지역, 도시지역, 일반지역으로 구분하여, 강우와 토양 중금속의 관련성을 평가하기 위한 목적으로 수행하였다. 해송림과 참나무림에 있어서 임의우, 수관통과우, 수간류의 중금속 함량은 공단지역이 Zn>Cu>Pb>Cd 순이었고, 도시지역이 Zn>Pb>Cu>Cd 순으로 분석되었다. 공단지역은 모든 중금속이 높게 검출되었고, 강우별로 수간류에서 높게 조사되었다. 수간으로부터 거리별 토양의 중금속은 수간으로부터 20cm 이내의 토양에서 가장 높았고, 지역별로 공단지역이 Zn>Cu>Pb>Cd 순이었고, 도시지역은 Zn>Pb>Cu>Cd 순으로 검출되었다. 강우와 토양의 성분은 정의 상관이었고, 회귀식은 Zn이 Y=7.79+4.78X($r=0.8685^{**}$), Pb은 Y=7.90+4.53X($r=0.7242^*$)였고, 그리고 Cu는 Y=3.89+3.91X($r=0.8658^{**}$)로 추정되었다.