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DEVELOPMENT OF A TOY INTERFEROMETER FOR EDUCATION AND OBSERVATION OF SUN AT 21 cm

  • Park, Yong-Sun;Kim, Chang-Hee;Choi, Sang-In;Lee, Joo-Young;Jang, Woo-Min;Kim, Woo-Yeon;Jeong, Dae-Heon
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.77-81
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    • 2008
  • As a continuation of a previous work by Park et al. (2006), we have developed a two-element radio interferometer that can measure both the phase and amplitude of a visibility function. Two small radio telescopes with diameters of 2.3 m are used as before, but this time an external reference oscillator is shared by the two telescopes so that the local oscillator frequencies are identical. We do not use a hardware correlator; instead we record signals from the two telescopes onto a PC and then perform software correlation. Complex visibilities are obtained toward the sun at ${\lambda}\;=\;21\;cm$, for 24 baselines with the use of the earth rotation and positional changes of one element, where the maximum baseline length projected onto UV plane is ${\sim}\;90{\lambda}$. As expected, the visibility amplitude decreases with the baseline length, while the phase is almost constant. The image obtained by the Fourier transformation of the visibility function nicely delineates the sun, which is barely resolved due to the limited baseline length. The experiment demonstrates that this system can be used as a "toy" interferometer at least for the education of (under)graduate students.

Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Visibility Impairment in a National Park Area (국립공원 지역 시정장애 현상의 물리.화학적 특성)

  • Kim, Kyung-Won
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.325-338
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    • 2009
  • National parks provide recreation, health, and science to human being. The provision of beautiful landscape view of the national park improves an economic and social phase of a nation. However, visibility impairment frequently occurred in the national park area of Gyeongju. The purpose of this study is to investigate the physical and the chemical characteristics of visibility reduction observed at the national park area of Gyeongju. Optical, chemical, meteorological characteristics and scenic monitoring were performed at the visibility monitoring station of Gyeongju University located at the Seoak section of Gyeongju national park from April 28 to May 9, 2008. Light extinction, light scattering, and light absorption coefficients were continuously measured using a transmissometer, a nephelometer, and an aethalometer, respectively. In order to investigate the impact of aerosol chemistry on visibility impairment, size-resolved aerosols were collected at intervals of 2-hour (from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M.) and 14-hour (from 6 P.M. to 8 A.M.) interval each sampling day. The average light extinction coefficient and the average visual range were measured to be $270{\pm}135\;Mm^{-1}$ and $14.5{\pm}6.3\;km$ during the intensive monitoring period, respectively. It was revealed that sulfate particle was the largest contributor to the light extinction under hazy condition. Organic mass accounted for about 26% of the average light extinction. The mass extinction efficiencies for $PM_{1.0}$, $PM_{2.5}$, and $PM_{10}$ were estimated to be 9.0, 4.7, and $2.7\;m^2\;g^{-1}$ under the consideration of water growth function of hygroscopic aerosols, respectively.

Integrated GIS-Based Logistics Process Monitoring Framework with Convenient Work Processing Environment for Smart Logistics

  • Yu, Yeong-Woong;Jung, Hoon;Bae, Hyerim
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.306-316
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    • 2015
  • In today's highly competitive business environment, most companies try to manage their logistics function strategically to satisfy their orders as cost-effectively as possible and maximize their present and future profits. In this environment, logistics process visibility is essential to companies wishing to competently track components, parts, or products in transit from the original suppliers to the final destinations. Thus, it is important to provide instantly and easily recognizable information about such visibility to all stakeholders, especially customers. To ensure a high-level geographical visibility of the logistics processes, in this paper, we propose a way of implementing a GIS-based logistics process monitoring environment and of integrating a performer's work processing environment on the monitoring system. Additionally, to provide more abundant monitoring information, we describe a procedure for creating and processing various monitoring information, which are represented as ECA rules in this work processing environment. Therefore, it is possible to provide intuitive and visible monitoring information regarding the logistics process and resource elements.

DEVELOPMENT OF SEMI-VLBI SYSTEM AND OBSERVATION OF SUN AT 21 cm

  • Park Yong-Sun;Kang Hyun-Woo;Kim Hyo-Uk;Kang Heui-Jeong;Jee Myeong-Keun;Lee Sul-Gi;Ahn Jung-Hyun;Kim Jin-Su;Shin Young-Soo;Kang Song-Hun
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 2006
  • We report the development of a semi-VLBI observation system operating at 21 cm and present the measurement of visibility function toward the sun using this system. The system consists of two 2.3 meter antennas with a maximum separation of 35 meter, a conventional high speed data acquisition system, and a set of programs for software correlation. Since two local oscillators of receiver modules are independent, data had to be fringe-fitted to yield the visibility amplitude. It is found that the visibility amplitude decreases and then bounces back as baseline increases. We confirm that solar disk with brighter limb best explains the measured visibility amplitude.

Adaptive Watermarking Using Successive Subband Quantization and Perceptual Model Based on Multiwavelet Transform Domain (멀티웨이브릿 변환 영역 기반의 연속 부대역 양자화 및 지각 모델을 이용한 적응 워터마킹)

  • 권기룡;이준재
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.6 no.7
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    • pp.1149-1158
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    • 2003
  • Content adaptive watermark embedding algorithm using a stochastic image model in the multiwavelet transform is proposed in this paper. A watermark is embedded into the perceptually significant coefficients (PSCs) of each subband using multiwavelet transform. The PSCs in high frequency subband are selected by SSQ, that is, by setting the thresholds as the one half of the largest coefficient in each subband. The perceptual model is applied with a stochastic approach based on noise visibility function (NVF) that has local image properties for watermark embedding. This model uses stationary Generalized Gaussian model characteristic because watermark has noise properties. The watermark estimation use shape parameter and variance of subband region. it is derive content adaptive criteria according to edge and texture, and flat region. The experiment results of the proposed watermark embedding method based on multiwavelet transform techniques were found to be excellent invisibility and robustness.

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Efficient Path Finding in 3D Games by Using Visibility Tests (가시성 검사를 이용한 3차원 게임에서의 효율적인 경로 탐색)

  • Kim, Hyung-Il;Jung, Dong-Min;Um, Ky-Hyun;Cho, Hyung-Je;Kim, Jun-Tae
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.9 no.11
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    • pp.1483-1495
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    • 2006
  • The navigation mesh represents a terrain as a set of triangles on which characters may move around. The navigation mesh cab be generated automatically, and it is more flexible in representing 3D surface. The number of triangles to represent a terrain may vary according to the structure of the terrain. As characters are moving around on a navigation mesh, the path planning can be performed more easily by projecting the 3D surfaces into 2D space. However, when the terrain is represented with an elaborated mesh of large number of triangles to achieve more realistic movements, the path finding can be very inefficient because there are too many states(triangles) to be searched. In this paper, we propose an efficient method of path finding in 3D games where the terrain is represented by navigation meshes. Our method uses the visibility tests. When the graph-based search is applied to elaborated polygonal meshes for detailed terrain representation, the path finding can be very inefficient because there are too many states(polygons) to be searched. In our method, we reduce the search space by using visibility tests so that the search can be fast even on the detailed terrain with large number of polygons. First we find the visible vertices of the obstacles, and define the heuristic function as the distance to the goal through those vertices. By doing that, the number of states that the graph-based search visits can be substantially reduced compared to the plane search with straight-line distance heuristic.

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Reducing the Search Space for Pathfinding in Navigation Meshes by Using Visibility Tests

  • Kim, Hyun-Gil;Yu, Kyeon-Ah;Kim, Jun-Tae
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.867-873
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    • 2011
  • A navigation mesh (NavMesh) is a suitable tool for the representation of a three-dimensional game world. A NavMesh consists of convex polygons covering free space, so the path can be found reliably without detecting collision with obstacles. The main disadvantage of a NavMesh is the huge state space. When the $A^*$ algorithm is applied to polygonal meshes for detailed terrain representation, the pathfinding can be inefficient due to the many states to be searched. In this paper, we propose a method to reduce the number of states searched by using visibility tests to achieve fast searching even on a detailed terrain with a large number of polygons. Our algorithm finds the visible vertices of the obstacles from the critical states and uses the heuristic function of $A^*$, defined as the distance to the goal through such visible vertices. The results show that the number of searched states can be substantially reduced compared to the $A^*$ search with a straight-line distance heuristic.

Optimal Dispersion Condition to Distinguish OPD Directions of Spectrally-Resolved Interferometry (방향 판별 분산간섭계의 최적 분산 조건 연구)

  • Yun, Young Ho;Kim, Dae Hee;Joo, Ki-Nam
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.259-264
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    • 2017
  • Spectrally resolved interferometry (SRI) is an attractive technique to measure absolute distances without any moving components. In the spectral interferogram obtained by a spectrometer, the optical path difference (OPD) can simply be extracted from the linear slope of the spectral phase. However, SRI has a fundamental measuring range limitation due to maximum and minimum measurable distances. In addition, SRI cannot distinguish the OPD direction because the spectral interferogram is in the form of a natural sinusoidal function. In this investigation, we describe a direction determining SRI and propose the optimal conditions for determining OPD direction. Spectral phase nonlinearity, caused by a dispersive material, effects OPD direction but deteriorates spectral interferogram visibility. In the experiment, various phase nonlinearities were measured by adjusting the dispersive material (BK7) thickness. We observed the interferogram visibility and the possibility of direction determination. Based on the experimental results, the optimal dispersion conditions are provided to distinguish OPD directions of SRI.

Process Methology of Designing User Interface in Enterprise Portal (기업포탈사이트 업무화면 설계 프로세스 방법론 - 보험사의 프로젝트 진행 사례를 중심으로)

  • Kwon, Suk-Kyoung
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02b
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    • pp.310-316
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    • 2008
  • This theory focuses on the Enterprise Portal and researches and analyzes the user requirement on as-is system. The UI Checklist Matrix is made based on the result of user analysis and evaluation of checklist. The horizontal axis of the Matrix is composed of 6 results(Layout, Navigation, Information, Function, Visibility and Interaction) of user requirement analysis. The vertical axis of the Matrix is composed of 10 subjects, Learnability, Efficiency, Accuracy, Accessibility, Consistency, Agility, Convergence, Personalization, Technology, and Standardization. At the point of vertical and horizontal items meet, indicates the graded of importance and defines a details item. The Guideline in which Matrix is reflected is set and according to the guideline, designing the business screen and assessing the Matrix.

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Adaptive MAP High-Resolution Image Reconstruction Algorithm Using Local Statistics (국부 통계 특성을 이용한 적응 MAP 방식의 고해상도 영상 복원 방식)

  • Kim, Kyung-Ho;Song, Won-Seon;Hong, Min-Cheol
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.31 no.12C
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    • pp.1194-1200
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we propose an adaptive MAP (Maximum A Posteriori) high-resolution image reconstruction algorithm using local statistics. In order to preserve the edge information of an original high-resolution image, a visibility function defined by local statistics of the low-resolution image is incorporated into MAP estimation process, so that the local smoothness is adaptively controlled. The weighted non-quadratic convex functional is defined to obtain the optimal solution that is as close as possible to the original high-resolution image. An iterative algorithm is utilized for obtaining the solution, and the smoothing parameter is updated at each iteration step from the partially reconstructed high-resolution image is required. Experimental results demonstrate the capability of the proposed algorithm.