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Using a Digital Echosounder to Estimate Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) Cover and Biomass in Kwangyang Bay (디지털 음향측심기를 이용한 광양만 잘피(Zostera marina L.)의 피도와 생물량 추정)

  • Kim, Keun-Yong;Kim, Ju-Hyoung;Kim, Kwang-Young
    • ALGAE
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2008
  • Eelgrass beds are very productive and provide nursery functions for a variety of fish and shellfish species. Management for the conservation of eelgrass beds along the Korean coasts is critical, and requires comprehensive strategies such as vegetation mapping. We suggest a mapping method to spatial distribution and quantify of eelgrass beds using a digital echosounder. Echosounding data were collected from the northeast part of Kwangyang Bay, on the south of Korea, in March, 2007. A transducer was attached to a boat equipped with a DGPS. The boat completed a transect survey scanning whole eelgrass beds of 11.7 km2 with a speed of 1.5-2 m s-1 (3-4 knot). The acoustic reflectivity of eelgrass allowed for detection and explicit measurements of canopy cover and height. The results showed that eelgrass bed was distributed in depth from 1.19 to 3.6 m (below MSL) and total dry weight biomass of 4.1 ton with a vegetation area of 4.05 km2. This technique was found to be an effective way to undertake the patch size and biomass of eelgrass over large areas as nondestructive sampling.

Microclimate and Rice Production (수도작의 미기상과 생산성)

  • Uchijima, Zenbei
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.314-339
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    • 1982
  • Fluctuating climate is still most important environmental constrain, although improved modem agricultural technology has succeeded to increase crop production in the world. To stabilize the food production under fluctuating weather conditions, it is very needed to obain the quantitative information of interactions between crops and climate. The main purpose of this paper is three hold. Using the JIBP-data, the dry matter accumulation of rice crops is studied in relation to weather indexes (\SigmaTa and \SigmaSt). Temperature dependence of the yield index of rice is analyzed as to air temperature and water temperature. \SigmaT$_{10}$ -fluctuations are studied using meteorological data at various stations. The possible shift of \SigmaT$_{10}$ -isopleths due to climate fluctuation is evaluated. The second interest is in the plant climate of rice crops. Using results of canopy photosynthesis, it is pointed that the canopy structure has most important implication in plant climate. Leaf-air, stomatal, and mesophyll resistances of rice crops are described in relation to weather conditions. The change in light condition and aerodynamical property of rice crops with the growth is illustrated. The energy partition is also studied at different growing stages. Third point is to show in more detail effective countermeasures against cold irrigation water and cool summer. Heat balance of warming pond and polyethylene tube as a heat exchanger is studied to make nomo-grams for evaluating the necessary area and necessary length. Effects of windbreak net on rice crops are illustrated by using experimental and simulation results.lts.

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Quantitative Study on the Effect of the Building Composition on the Urban Thermal Environment (건물군 조건이 도시 열환경에 미치는 영향에 관한 정량적 검토)

  • Yeo, In-Ae;Yoko, Kamata;Yee, Jurng-Jae;Yoon, Seong-Hwan
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.180-183
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    • 2009
  • In this study, Urban Climate Simulation was performed by 3-Dimensional Urban Canopy Model. The characteristics of urban climate was analyzed combining artificial land coverage, building size, heat production from the air conditioning and topographic conditions as physical variables which affects urban climate characteristics. The results are as follows. (1)The aspects of the urban climatal change is derived to be related to the combination of the building coverage ratio, building height and shading area. (2)Whole heat generation was influenced by the convective sensible heat at the lower building height and by the artificial heat generation at the higher one over 20-story building influence to some extent of the building coverage ratio. The effect of the altitude is not more considerable than the other variables as below $1^{\circ}C$ of the air temperature.

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Vegetation Structure of Mountain Ridge from Gajisan to Neungdongsan in the Nakdong-jeongmaek (낙동정맥 가지산~능동산 구간의 능선부 식생구조)

  • Kim Dong-Pil;Choi Song-Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.279-287
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    • 2004
  • To investigate the vegetation structure of the section of Nakdong-jeongmaek from Gajisan to Neungdongsan, fifty plots of 100$m^2$ at ten locations were set up. In accordance with the requirements of DCA(detrended correspondance analysis), which is an ordination technique, the sites were chosen contiguously with each other. The vegetation structure analysis showed Quercus dentata, Pinus densiflora, Q. mongolica to be the major species at canopy layer, Rhododendron schlippenbachii at the layer below the canopy and Tripterygium regelii at the shrub level. Shannon's diversity index was 1.5315~2.4005 per unit area of 500$m^2$. It appeared that the Quercus dentata forest of this ridge section of Nakdong-jeongmaek is about 30 or 40 years old.

Selection of the Most Sensitive Waveband Reflectance for Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Calculation to Predict Rice Crop Growth and Grain Yield

  • Nguyen Hung The;Lee Byun Woo
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.49 no.5
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    • pp.394-406
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    • 2004
  • A split-plot designed experiment including four rice varieties and 10 nitrogen levels was conducted in 2003 at the Experimental Farm of Seoul National University, Suwon, Korea. Before heading, hyperspectral canopy reflectance (300-1100nm with 1.55nm step) and nine crop variables such as shoot fresh weight (SFW), leaf area index, leaf dry weight, shoot dry weight, leaf N concentration, shoot N concentration, leaf N density, shoot N density and N nutrition index were measured at 54 and 72 days after transplanting. Grain yield, total number of spikelets, number of filled spikelets and 1000-grain weight were measured at harvest. 14,635 narrow-band NDVIs as combinations of reflectances at wavelength ${\lambda}l\;and\;{\lambda}2$ were correlated to the nine crop variables. One NDVI with the highest correlation coefficient with a given crop variable was selected as the NDVI of the best fit for this crop variable. As expected, models to predict crop variables before heading using the NDVI of the best fit had higher $r^2$ (>10\%)$ than those using common broad- band NDVI red or NDVI green. The models with the narrow-band NDVI of the best fit overcame broad- band NDVI saturation at high LAI values as frequently reported. Models using NDVIs of the best fit at booting showed higher predictive capacity for yield and yield component than models using crop variables.

Flux of Carbon Dioxide and Deposition Velocity of Ozone over Glycine max Canopy (대두 개체군에 있어서 $CO_2$$O_3$ 플럭스)

  • 김원식;이호준
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.39-43
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    • 2000
  • Carbon dioxide (CO₂) and ozone (O₃) fluxes were measured over Glycine max canopy using the bowen ratio energy balance method at Fuchu - 20 km west of Tokyo, in late July and late September 1996. The CO₂, and O₃, fluxes were influenced by variation in leaf area index (LAI) during the measuring period. When LAI was more than 3.0, the CO₂ flux was found to be positively correlated with photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). The O₃, flux was always positive with an average deposition velocity for this case of about 0.5 mol m/sup -2/s/sup -1/. A positive correlation existed between the deposition velocity of O₃ and CO₂ during the period of LAI>2.0.

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POTENTIAL OF MULTI-BAND SAR DATA FOR CLASSIFYING FOREST COVER TYPE

  • Shin, Jung-Il;Yoon, Jong-Suk;Kang, Sung-Jin;Lee, Kyu-Sung
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.258-261
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    • 2007
  • Although there have been lack of studies using X-band SAR data particularly for forestry application as compared to C-, and L-band SAR data, it has a potential to distinguish tree species because most signals are backscattered on the top of canopy. This study aimed to compare signal characteristics of multi-band SAR data including X-band for classifying tree species. The data used for the study are SIR-C/X-SAR data (X-, C-, L-band) obtained on Oct. 3, 1994 over the forest area near Seoul, S. Korea. Thirty ground sample plots were collected per each tree species. Initial comparison of backscattering coefficients among three SAR bands shows that X-band data showed better separation of tree species than C- and L-band SAR data irrespective of polarization. The weak penetrating in canopy layer might be possible source of information for X-band data to be useful for the classification of forest species and cover type mapping.

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Comparing NDVI to maximum latewood density of annual tree rings in a boreal coniferous forest in North China

  • He, Jicheng;Shao, Xuemei;Wang, Lili
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.34-36
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    • 2003
  • In boreal conifers in China's Northeast area, maximum latewood density (MXD) of tree-ring varies in response to growing season temperature. Forest net productivity can be estimated using the Normalized-difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) calculated from satellite sensor data. MXD from the Mohe site in this area was compared with estimates of NPP for 1982-1999 produced by the NDVI model, which was established based on the relationship of leaf area index (LAI) and NDVI. The result shows that the MXD series correlated significantly with the NDVI model estimates series, suggesting that MXD appeared to be an appropriate index for productivity or canopy growth in region where forest productivity is strongly temperature-related.

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Easy and Quick Survey Method to Estimate Quantitative Characteristics in the Thin Forests

  • Mirzaei, Mehrdad;Bonyad, Amir Eslam;Bijarpas, Mahboobeh Mohebi;Golmohamadi, Fatemeh
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.73-77
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    • 2015
  • Acquiring accurate quantitative and qualitative information is necessary for the technical and scientific management of forest stands. In this study, stratification and systematic random sampling methods were used to estimation of quantitative characteristics in study area. The estimator ($((E%)^2xT)$) was used to compare the systematic random and stratified sampling methods. 100 percent inventory was carried out in an area of 400 hectares; characteristics as: tree density, crown cover (canopy), and basal area were measured. Tree density of stands was compared through systemic random and stratified sampling methods. Findings of the study reveal that stratified sampling method gives a better representation of estimates than systematic random sampling.