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Flood Characteristics at Nakdong Estuary with 1 Dimensional Unsteady Model (1차원 부정류 모형을 활용한 낙동강 하류의 홍수 특성)

  • Lee, Sang-jin;Shin, Hyun-Ho;Kim, Joo-Cheol;Hwang, Man-Ha
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.149-155
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    • 2010
  • Rainfalls would increase the discharges or stages of tributary channels in natural watersheds, which in turn augment the magnitude of main stream stages. Rising of water surface elevation in main streams can affect and damage the human activities because of the possibilities of the breakdown or overflow of the embankment. Therefore it is necessary to establish the structural or non-structural alternatives for the sake of prevention or treatment of those disasters. Many mathematical models to analyze the flood flows in natural watercourses have been proposed as the non-structural alternatives so far. In this study one of the such models, FLDWAV developed by NWS(National weather Service), is applied to the downstream reach of Nakdong river. Model calibration is performed on various Manning's roughness coefficients at the gauging stations. The simulation results are compared well with hydrological estimations of flood discharges considering the effects of multipurpose dams upstream of control points.

A Study on Landslide Warning Guidelines Based on Regional Rainfall (지역별 강우량 기반 급경사지 붕괴 예경보기준 연구)

  • Ryu, Ji Hyeob;Park, Jung Yong;Lim, Ik Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 2013
  • The existing landslide warning guideline was mostly issued in 1990's and did not consider recent weather changes such as focused area heavy rainfall or regional geographic features. And every regional government applies the guideline equally which results in continued disasters. Thus it is necessary to conduct a research on landslide with regards to the correlation between the increased focused rainfall and regional geographic features. We propose a renewed emergency escape guideline against steep slope landslides that can assess most likely avalanche time according to amounts of rain and a continued raining time, for a swift escape of the residents of the affected area.

Development and Application of Evaluation System for Disaster Prevention Ability of Urban Parks (도시공원 방재기능 평가체계 개발 및 적용)

  • Huang, Zhirui;Lee, Ai Ran
    • Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.199-207
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    • 2020
  • Against the backdrop of frequent weather disasters such as floods, droughts, and heat waves worldwide, urban parks should provide functions for the safety of urban residents as well as rest, culture, and ecological functions. In this study, a classification system for urban disaster prevention parks is proposed for the safety of the urbanites with the aim of securing a complex function in a green space in response to climate changes in the city. Analytical indicators were extracted through literature research, and the classification system was verified through on-site surveys of the target sites and interviews with those involved. The large class for evaluation was divided into three types: location, spatial composition, and disaster prevention complex facilities of urban parks; the direction of improvement was proposed for problems identified through empirical analysis.

Economic Analysis of Typhoon Surge Floodplain Using GIS and MD-FDA (MD-FDA와 GIS를 이용한 태풍해일 침수지역의 경제성 분석)

  • Choi, Hyun;Yoon, Hong-Joo;Ahn, Chan-Whan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.995-998
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    • 2007
  • It is essential to establish some systematic counterplans to diminish such damages of large-scale tidal invasion on coastal lowlands considering the recent weather conditions of growing scale of typhoons. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to make the counterplans for prevention against disasters fulfilled effectively based on the data conducted by comparing and analyzing the accuracy between observation values and the results of estimating the greatest overflow area according to abnormal tidal levels centered on Masan area where there was the severest damage from tidal wave at that time.

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Database Construction of High-resolution Daily Meteorological and Climatological Data Using NCAM-LAMP: Sunshine Hour Data (NCAM-LAMP를 이용한 고해상도 일단위 기상기후 DB 구축: 일조시간 자료를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Su-Jung;Lee, Seung-Jae;Koo, Ja-seob
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.135-143
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    • 2020
  • Shortwave radiation and sunshine hours (SHOUR) are important variables having many applications, including crop growth. However, observational data for these variables have low horizontal resolution, rendering its application to related research and decision making on f arming practices challenging. In the present study, hourly solar radiation data were physically generated using the Land-Atmosphere Modeling Package (LAMP) at the National Center f or Agro-Meteorology, and then daily SHOUR fields were calculated through statistical downscaling. After data quality evaluation, including case studies, the SHOUR data were added to the existing publically accessible LAMP daily database. The LAMP daily dataset, newly updated with SHOUR, has been provided operationally as input data to the "Gyeonggi-do Agricultural Drought Prediction System," which predicts agricultural weather disasters and field crop growth status.

Characterization of Cemented Sand for Building of Levee (하천제방축조재료로서 시멘트혼합토의 특성)

  • Jeong, Woo-Seob;Kim, Yung-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.6 no.4 s.23
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2006
  • There are loss of lives and properties in many areas of the basin of the Nak-Dong river by the unusual weather and the localized heavy rain recently, and many difficulties of levee construction for prevention of disasters by acquisition of material and expensive transportation. In this research, The factors and causes which affect the strength through laboratory tests about the cemented sand that is mixed a few portland cement and sand of Nak-Dong river bed was researched closely. For providing the fundamental data which is needed in design and analysis of levee material, the compaction test and the standard triaxial compression test etc was conducted., analyzed compression strength and characteristic of stress-strain behavior in which the influence of cement content.

Analysis on Electric Field Based on Three Dimensional Atmospheric Electric Field Apparatus

  • Xing, Hong-yan;He, Gui-xian;Ji, Xin-yuan
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.1697-1704
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    • 2018
  • As a key component of lighting location system (LLS) for lightning warning, the atmospheric electric field measuring is required to have high accuracy. The Conventional methods of the existent electric field measurement meter can only detect the vertical component of the atmospheric electric field, which cannot acquire the realistic electric field in the thunderstorm. This paper proposed a three dimensional (3D) electric field system for atmospheric electric field measurement, which is capable of three orthogonal directions in X, Y, Z, measuring. By analyzing the relationship between the electric field and the relative permittivity of ground surface, the permittivity is calculated, and an efficiency 3D measurement model is derived. On this basis, a three-dimensional electric field sensor and a permittivity sensor are adopted to detect the spatial electric field. Moreover, the elevation and azimuth of the detected target are calculated, which reveal the location information of the target. Experimental results show that the proposed 3D electric field meter has satisfactory sensitivity to the three components of electric field. Additionally, several observation results in the fair and thunderstorm weather have been presented.

Water Level Tracking System based on Morphology and Template Matching

  • Ansari, Israfil;Jeong, Yunju;Lee, Yeunghak;Shim, Jaechang
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.1431-1438
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we proposed a river water level detection and tracking of the river or dams based on image processing system. In past, most of the water level detection system used various water sensors. Those water sensors works perfectly but have many drawbacks such as high cost and harsh weather. Water level monitoring system helps in forecasting early river disasters and maintenance of the water body area. However, the early river disaster warning system introduces many conflicting requirements. Surveillance camera based water level detection system depends on either the area of interest from the water body or on optical flow algorithm. This proposed system is focused on water scaling area of a river or dam to detect water level. After the detection of scale area from water body, the proposed algorithm will immediately focus on the digits available on that area. Using the numbers on the scale, water level of the river is predicted. This proposed system is successfully tested on different water bodies to detect the water level area and predicted the water level.

Smart Streetlight based on Accident Recognition using Raspberry Pi Camera OpenCV (라즈베리파이 카메라 OpenCV를 활용한 사고 인식 기반 스마트 가로등)

  • Dong-Jin, Kim;Won-Seok, Choi;Sung-Pyo, Ju;Seung-Min, Yoo;Jae-Yong, Choi;Hyoung-Keun, Park
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.1229-1236
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, we studied accident-aware smart streetlights to prevent secondary accidents when driving on highways. It used Arduino and sensors to inform drivers of weather conditions, incorporated functions such as LED brightness control according to sunlight and night driving vehicles, and used Raspberry Pi camera OpenCV to learn various traffic accidents, natural disasters, and wildlife.

Transition of Rice Cultural Practices during Chosun Dynasty through Old References. III. Differentiation of Rice Varieties in the Dynasty (주요 고농서를 통한 조선시대의 도작기술 전개과정 연구 III. 조선시대의 벼 품종 분석)

  • Lee, Sung-Kyum;Guh, Ja-Ok;Lee, Eun-Woong;Lee, Hong-Suk
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.370-381
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    • 1991
  • In Nongsajiksul, rice varieties were not appeared but varieties groups were introduced and divided according to growth periods, or 'Sun, Gang, Na'or introduced names of some of local varieties. However, the weather conditions for rice culture in Korea were characterized by 'early drought and late flooding', and winds and rains in summer, so that rice safe harvest by avoiding these disasters was the most important. Thus, development of rice varieties after the 15th century has gradually been adapted for ‘early-seeding and early-harvesting’, and for disaster tolerance. With time, rice varieties, which were early maturing, had awned, had color on panicles, had tolerance for grain shattering, had tolerance for winds, and had good responses to fertilizers, were grown in large areas.rown in large areas.

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