• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.251-257
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• 2013

Discharge data examine the process of hydrologic cycle and used significantly in water resource planning and irrigation and flood control planning. It makes high quality discharge data, they carry out research on standard and method of discharge measurement, and equipment improvement. Now various flow meters are utilized to make discharge data in Korea. However, accuracy of equipment and exprerimental research data from measurement are not enough. ADCP(Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) have been introduced and utilized for flow measurements since the end of 1980's. ADCP flow method is a formal method for flow measurement can easily applyd to relatively large rivers gradually recognized. This equipment can measure the non-contact three-dimensional velocity and water depth data very quickly and efficiently. Also, spatial and temporal resolution of the data is more accurate than any other flow measurement methods which measure flow rate by velocity - area measurement method. In this paper, the velocity is measured using various flow meter and verified the effectiveness by applying from the ADCP in Geum-river. Various flow meters which are med for discharge measurements are VALEPORT002, FLOW TRACKER, PRICE AA and ADCP. The average of five times flow measurement result by ADCP was $10.412m^3/s$, with a standard deviation of 0.68. The repeat test by ADCP and comparison between ADCP and other flow devices to verify the most import factor, flow measurement accuracy. In the result, repeat test of the ADCP showed similar values, flow values were similar to other velocity device results and the average error is 7.7%.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.589-600
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• 2019

In order to investigate the flow structures around Geumo archipelago on Southern Waters of Korea, water movements were measured for 25 hours during spring tide in May and neap tide in September 2002 using ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) attached to a running boat. Dominant directions of ebb and flood current at spring tide are SE-NW, representing the average flow rate of approximately 40cm/s in the surface layer. However because of the topographical reason, the direction and speed of the flow in the narrow waterway sea area around the northwest of Gae Island were different. There was no notable baroclinic component of tidal flow at spring tide. This indicates that the sea area has been actively engaged in vertical mixing due to island wake or eddy due to narrow waterways, shallow water depth and rapid flow rate around archipelago. At neap tide, dominant directions of tidal flows are SSE-NNW and the average flow rate in the surface layer is about 85 percent of the spring tide. The duration and intensity of the flow direction are shorter and less dominant than the spring tide. It is expected that asymmetrical tidal mixing will occur due to vertical velocity shear and horizontal eddies. From daily mean tidal flows obtained from the ADCP observation, it was found that the northwest of Gae Island have flows in NW~NE, the west of Geumo Island have the average currents of up to 21 cm/s WSW~SSW and counterclockwise circulation or eddy currents are formed in the west of Sori Island.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.40 no.12
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• pp.957-968
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• 2007

It is essential to obtain accurate and highly reliable streamflow data for quantitative management for water resources. Thereafter such real-time streamflow gauging methods as ultrasonic flowmeter and index-velocity are introduced recently. Since these methods calculate flowrate through entire cross-section by measuring partial velocities of it, rational and theoretical basis are necessary for accurate estimation of discharge. The purpose of the present study lies in analysis on the applicability of Chiu#s(1987, 1988) two dimensional velocity distribution equations by applying them to natural rivers and by comparing simulated velocity distributions with observed ones obtained with ADCP. Maximum and mean velocities are calculated from observed data to estimate entropy parameter M. Such isovel shape parameters as h and $\beta_i$ are estimated by object function based on least squares criterion. In case optimized parameters are applied, Chiu#s velocity distributions fairly well simulate observed ones. By using 14 simulated data sets which have relatively high correlation coefficients, properties of parameters are analyzed and h, $\beta_i$ are estimated for velocity-unknown river sections. When estimated parameters are adopted for verification, simulated velocity distributions well reproduce real ones. Finally, calculated discharges display rough agreement with measured data. The results of the present study mean that if parameters related are properly estimated, Chiu#s velocity distribution is likely to reproduce the real one of natural rivers.

• The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.218-224
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• 2001

Water movement in the Young San River Estuary where a sea dyke was constructed, was observed using anacoustic doppler profiler (ADP) and two TGPS buoys for 25 hours on 27-28 July 2000. Hydrographic observations were simultaneously taken using CTD to understand the characteristic of the spacial structure of temperature and salinity. A large quantity of fresh water was discharged from the sea dyke on 26 July 2000. The observation period fell on neap tide. The amplitude of the tidal elevation and the maximum velocity of the tidal current were about 4 m and 12 cm/sec respectively. The water movement at the surface layer is mainly controlled by wind, and those at the other layers are controlled by semidiurnal tide. The low salinity water less than 22 psu was observed along the northern part during the early observation period while southerly wind prevails. The less saline water moves westward and finally leaves the estuary by easterly wind early on the second day. We can divide the vertical structure into four layers by hydrography and current structure. Mean velocity structure shows that relatively less saline waters at the surface and the middle layer move seaward, and the waters at the upper and the bottom layers move landward. It is thought that the intermittent discharge of river water from the sea dyke makes vertical structure of four layers.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.340-343
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• 2008

The Soya Warm Current (SWC) is a coastal boundary current, which flows along the coast of Hokkaido in the Sea of Okhotsk. Seasonal and subinertial variations in the SWC are investigated using data obtained by high-frequency (HF) ocean radars, coastal tide gauges, and a bottom-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). The HF radars clearly capture the seasonal variations in the surface current fields of the SWC. The velocity of the SWC reaches its maximum, approximately 1 m/s, in the summer, and becomes weaker in the winter. The velocity core is located 20 to 30 km from the coast, and its width is approximately 50 km. The almost same seasonal cycle was repeated in the period from August 2003 to March 2007. In addition to the annual variation, the SWC exhibits subinertial variations with a period from 10-15 days. The surface transport by the SWC shows a significant correlation with the sea level difference between the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk for both of the seasonal and subinertial variations, indicating that the SWC is driven by the sea level difference between the two seas. Generation mechanism of the subinertial variation is discussed using wind data from the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) analyses. The subinertial variations in the SWC are significantly correlated with the meridional wind component over the region. The subinertial variations in the sea level difference and surface current delay from the meridional wind variations for one or two days. Continental shelf waves triggered by the meridional wind on the east coast of Sakhalin and west coast of Hokkaido are considered to be a possible generation mechanism for the subinertial variations in the SWC.

• The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.180-190
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• 2014

It has been customary to exclude top 10-20% of velocity profiles in the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measurement due to side lobe effects at the boundary. To better understand the mixing in the Yeongsan estuary, the freshwater advection speed (FAS) was recovered from highly contaminated ADCP data near the surface. The velocity profiles were measured by using ADCP at two stations in the Yeongsan estuary during August 2011: one was located in front of the Yeongsan estuarine dam and the other was deployed near Goha Island. The FAS was recovered from the ADCP data set by applying rigorous post-processing methods and compared with the sediment advection speed (SAS). The SAS was determined by the peak time difference of suspended sediment concentration between two stations in the channel, divided by the distance of two stations. The FAS and the SAS showed very similar value when the freshwater discharge was greater than $2.0{\times}10^7$ ton and the SAS was a bit greater when the freshwater discharge was smaller. Since the FAS was on average about 0.8 m/s greater than the velocity at 0.8 of water depth from the bottom, the net discharge, estimated with recovered FAS and integrated over water depth and tidal cycle, was directed seaward during the high discharge contrary to the onshore direction of the net discharge estimated with 0.8 of water depth from the bottom. Moreover, the velocity shear and Richardson number changed when the FAS was used. Thus, the importance of the true FAS is appreciated in the investigation of the surface layer stability. If currents, temperature and salinity were observed for longer time in the future, it could be possible to more accurately understand the formation and decay of stratification as well as the suspended sediment transport processes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.230-230
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• 2020

하천 유량측정을 위한 표면유속계는 비접촉식 방식이기 때문에 현장에서의 측정이 간편하고, 비교적 안전하기 때문에 홍수시 유량측정에 널리 이용되고 있다. 비접촉식 유속계가 가지고 있는 이러한 장점으로 전자파표면유속계의 활용이 점차 증가하고 있으며, 영상유속계와 같은 비접촉 측정방식의 활용방안 마련에 대한 연구개발 등이 꾸준히 진행되어 왔다. 최근에는 고정식으로 상시 운영이 가능한 표면유속계 등이 출시되어 소규모 하천이나 수로에서의 상시 유량측정에 활용되고 있다. 다만, 이러한 비접촉식 유속계는 표면의 유속을 측정하기 때문에 유량산정을 위해서는 평균유속으로의 환산이 필요하지만, 현재까지는 평균유속 환산계수를 사용하여 표면유속을 평균유속으로 환산하는 방법이 유일하게 활용되고 있다. 하지만, 실제 하천에서는 단면 및 하도형태, 하상조건, 수리특성 및 유속분포 등의 다양한 조건에 따라 환산계수가 결정되기 때문에 이를 단순히 일률적으로 적용하는 것은 곤란하며, 이로 인해 과거 오랫동안 표면유속을 평균유속으로 환산하기 위한 다양한 연구가 진행되었지만, 실제 다양한 조건의 하천에 적용할 수 있는 표준화된 방법은 아직까지 제시되지 못하고 있다. 현재까지, 고정식으로 설치된 유속계로부터 측정된 유속을 평균유속으로 환산하는 방법으로는 국내외적으로 지표유속법(Index Velocity Method)과 유속분포법(Velocity Profile Method)이 대표적이며, H-ADCP (Horizontal-Acoustic Doppler Velocity Profiler) 또는 UVM(Ultrasonic Velocity Meter) 등과 같은 초음파유속계를 활용한 자동유량측정시설의 유량산정방법으로 활용되고 있다. 이러한 방법들은 고정된 유속계의 측정유속을 지표유속(V_i)으로 하여 다양한 범위의 실측된 평균유속과의 관계를 개발하여 활용하거나, 지표유속을 매개로 개수로 단면의 이론적인 유속분포를 추정하여 평균유속을 산정한다. 이러한 지표유속을 활용하는 방법들에서 공통적으로 중요한 것은 하천단면의 최대유속(V_max)이 가장 좋은 지표유속이라는 것이다. 따라서 국제기준에서는 지표유속을 측정하는 유속계의 가장 바람직한 위치로 유심부(core flow)를 권장하고 있다. 하지만, 접촉식 유속계의 경우 유심부 설치가 매우 어렵고 많은 비용이 들기 때문에, 비접촉식 유속계를 활용하여 하천단면의 최대유속을 측정할 수 있다면, 가장 효율적인 고정식 측정방법이 될 수 있을 것이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 비접촉식 표면유속계의 고정식 유량측정 활용성 및 적용성을 검토할 목적으로 표면유속에 대한 유량산정방법을 검토하였다. 이를 위해 24GHz의 주파수를 갖는 레이다표면유속계인 Sensoflow를 낙동강 수계 길안천에 위치한 안동시(대사3교)에 고정설치하여 표면유속을 지표유속으로 수집하였다. 다양한 유량규모에서 측정한 실측 표면유속과 수집된 표면유속을 지표유속으로 활용하여 지표유속관계를 개발하였으며, 산정된 유량을 기존 수위-유량관계곡선식의 환산유량과 비교하여 표면유속의 지표유속 활용성을 검토하였다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.50 no.8
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• pp.521-535
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• 2017

Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) have been widely utilized for assessing streamflow discharge, yet few comprehensive studies were conducted to evaluate discharge uncertainty in consideration of individual uncertainty components. It could be mostly because it was not easy to determine which uncertainty framework can be appropriate to rigorously analyze streamflow discharge driven by ADCPs. In this regard, considerable efforts have been made by scientific and engineering societies to develop a standardized theoretical framework for uncertainty analysis in hydrometry. One of the well-established UA methodology based on sound statistical and engineering concepts is Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty Measurement (GUM) adopted widely by various scientific and research communities. This research fundamentally adapted the GUM framework to assess individual uncertainty components of ADCP discharge measurements, and subsequently provided results of a customized experiment in a controllable real-scale artificial river channel. We focused particularly upon sensitivities of uncertainty components in the GUM framework driven by ADCPs direct measurements such as depths, edge distance, submerged depth, velocity gap, sampling time, repeatability, bed roughness and so on. Section-by-Section method for ADCP discharge measurement was applied for uncertainty analysis for this study. All of measurements were carefully compared with data using other instrumentations such as ADV to evaluate individual uncertainty components.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.308-308
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• 2011

하천에서 유량을 산정하기 위해서 전자파표면유속계를 이용하여 표면유속을 측정하고 수심평균유속환산계수 0.85를 일률적으로 적용하여 수심평균유속을 산정하고 있다. 이 수심평균유속환산계수 0.85의 적절성에 대한 논의가 지속되어져 왔으나 그 동안에는 이에 대한 현장검증을 할 수 있는 방법이 없었던 실정이다. 하지만 최근 들어서는 ADCP(Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler)의 하천용 Application인 StreamPro ADCP가 개발되어 이를 이용하면 홍수기에 수심별 유속을 측정할 수 있다. 다만 홍수기에 StreamPro ADCP의 적용시에는 여러 가지 높은 위험성이 상존하는 것은 인지의 사실이지만, 그 외의 별다른 방법이 없는 실정이다. 따라서 홍수기에 StreamPro ADCP를 이용하여 수심별 유속을 측정하고 이와 동시에 측정한 표면유속을 이용하여 수심평균유속환산계수를 산정하여 기존에 환산계수로 적용하고 있는 0.85의 적절성을 파악하고자 하였다. 흐름조건별 수심평균유속환산계수 산정을 위하여 평수기 용담 수자원시험유역의 동향지점에서 수심평균유속환산계수를 산정한 결과 0.632~1.352로 넓게 분포하고 있음을 파악하였다. 이렇게 계수가 실제 적용하는 0.85와는 크게 차이가 나는 이유로는 수심이 얕아서 바닥마찰의 영향이 크기 때문인 것으로 판단되었다. 이에 본 연구에서는 여러 지점에서 홍수기 수심별 유속의 실측을 통하여 수심평균유속환산계수 분포정도를 산정하고자 하였다. 대청댐 상류의 수통수위표가 위치해 있는 적벽대교지점에서 StreamPro ADCP를 이용하여 수심평균유속환산계수를 산정한 결과 0.735~0.986 사이에 분포하고 있다. 측정한 결과의 수심평균유속환산계수의 평균값은 0.853으로 기존에 수심평균유속의 산정을 위하여 적용하고 있는 0.85와 거의 일치함을 보이고 있다. 측정당시 수심이 3.6 m에 이르고 있고 유속 또한 1.55 m/s에 이르고 있어 홍수시 일반하천에서 발생하는 수위와 유속임을 감안할 때, 0.735~0.986의 수심평균유속환산계수는 홍수시 순간적인 변화의 폭이 큼을 알 수 있다. 이렇게 순간적인 변화가 큰 이유로는 난류의 성분이 강해서 나타나는 것으로 이를 평균하면 0.853으로 나타나고 있어 홍수시에 수심평균유속환산계수를 0.85를 사용하여도 무방함을 알 수 있다. 동향지점에서 홍수기에 수심별 유속의 실측을 통하여 수심평균유속환산계수를 산정하고자 하였다. 그러나 이 지점은 강한 와류로 인하여 ADCP가 심하게 흔들림으로 인하여 순간적인 유속의 차이가 최대 4배까지 보임을 알 수 있다. 이로 인하여 수심평균유속환산계수의 범위는 0.233~0.983에 이른다. 측정당시 표면유속이 2.07 m/s 인 것을 감안하여 이 표면유속에 상응하는 수심별 유속 자료만을 이용하여 산정시, 수심평균유속환산계수는 0.876이다. 하천의 하류지점에서 수심별 유속을 측정하여 수심평균유속환산계수를 산정하고자 한강하류로 유입하는 굴포천의 구교 및 박촌1교 지점에서 유속측정을 실시하였다. 이들 두 지점은 홍수기에 조차도 유속이 1 m/s 에 이르지 못하는 지점으로, 수심평균유속환산계수를 산정한 결과 각각 0.826, 0.833을 나타내고 있어, 수심평균유속환산계수 0.85가 홍수기뿐만 아니라 평 갈수기에도 적용할 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.136-150
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• 2022

In this study, a comparative review was conducted on how to use RGB images to obtain river topographic information, which is one of the most essential data for eco-friendly river management and flood level analysis. In terms of the topographic information of river zone, to obtain the topographic information of flow section is one of the difficult topic, therefore, this study focused on estimating the river topographic information of flow section through RGB images. For this study, the river topography surveying was directly conducted using ADCP and RTK-GPS, and at the same time, and orthomosiac image were created using high-resolution images obtained by drone photography. And then, the existing developed regression equations were applied to the result of channel topography surveying by ADCP and the band values of the RGB images, and the channel bathymetry in the study area was estimated using the regression equation that showed the best predictability. In addition, CCHE2D flow modeling was simulated to perform comparative verification of the topographical informations. The modeling result with the image-based topographical information provided better water depth and current velocity simulation results, when it compared to the directly measured topographical information for which measurement of the sub-section was not performed. It is concluded that river topographic information could be obtained from RGB images, and if additional research was conducted, it could be used as a method of obtaining efficient river topographic information for river management.