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Numerical Simulation on the Effect of the Land Coverage Change on the Urban Heat Budget (토지피복 변화가 도시열수지에 미치는 영향에 관한 수치시뮬레이션)

  • Kim, Sang-Ok;Yeo, In-Ae;Ha, Kyung-Min;Yee, Jurng-Jae;Yoon, Seong-Hwan
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.176-179
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    • 2009
  • In this study, Urban Climate Simulation was performed using 3-Dimensional Urban Canopy Model. The characteristics of urban thermal environment was analyzed by classifying land coverage and increasing natural land coverage ratio. The results are as follows. The characteristics of the land coverage on urban thermal environment formation can be summarized by the effects like higher temperature on the artificial coverage, and the contrary effects on the natural coverage. When the water coverage 100% was made up, maximum temperature was declined by $5.5^{\circ}C$, humidity by the 6.5g/kg, wind velocity by 0.6m/s, convective sensible heat by $400W/m^2$ and the evaporative latent heat was increased by $370W/m^2$ compared to when artificial coverage 100% was formed. These simulation results need to be constructed as DB which shows urban quantitative thermal characters by the urban physical structure. These can be quantitative base for suggesting combinations of the building and urban planning features at the point of the desirable urban thermal environment as well as analysing urban climate phenomenon.

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Effect of Plant Coverage on the Treatment Efficiency of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Vegetative Filter Strips (식생피도가 식생여과대의 질소 및 인 처리효율에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Byungsoo;Gil, Kyungik
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.499-503
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    • 2008
  • In order to control the non-point source pollution, a vegetative filter strips (VFS) was set up and the site-monitoring was performed. The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of the plant coverage on treatment efficiency of total nitrogen (T-N) and total phosphorus (T-P) using vegetative filter strips. According to the results, it seemed that the treatment efficiencies of T-N and T-P were closely related with the plant coverage ratio. The results showed that treatment efficiency of T-P average 50% at higher than 50% of the plant coverage and 20~23% at lower than 50% of the plant coverage. Also, the treatment efficiency of T-N increased with the increase of the plant coverage ratio.

Coverage Maximization in Environment Monitoring using Mobile Sensor Nodes (이동센서노드를 이용한 환경감시 시스템에서의 커버리지 최대화)

  • Van Le, Duc;Yoon, Seokhoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.05a
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    • pp.116-119
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    • 2015
  • In this paper we propose an algorithm for environment monitoring using multiple mobile sensor (MS) nodes. Our focus is on maximizing sensing coverage of a group of MS nodes for monitoring a phenomenon in an unknown and open area over time. In the proposed algorithm, MS nodes are iteratively relocated to new positions at which a higher sensing coverage can be obtained. We formulated an integer linear programming (ILP) optimization problem to find the optimal positions for MS nodes with the objective of coverage maximization. The performance evaluation was performed to confirm that the proposed algorithm can enable MS nodes to relocate to high interest positions, and obtain a maximum sensing coverage.

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A New Algorithm for Complete Coverage Path-Planning of Cleaning Robots (청소 로봇을 위한 경로 계획의 새로운 알고리즘)

  • Jiang, Liu;Son, Young-Ik;Kim, Kab-Il
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.252-254
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    • 2005
  • Completer coverage path planning requires the robot path to cover every part of the workspace, which is an essential issue in cleaning robots and many other robotic applications such as vacuum robots and painter robots. In this paper, a novel Water Flowing Algorithm (WFA) is proposed for cleaning robots to complete coverage path planning in unknown environment without obstacles. The robot covers the whole workspace just like that water fills up a container. First the robot goes to the lowest point in the workspace just like water flows to the bottom of the container. At last the robot will come to highest point in the workspace just like water overflows from the container and simultaneously the robot has covered the whole workspace. The computer simulation results show that the proposed algorithm enable the robot to plan complete coverage paths.

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Analysis of Environment Coverage in Newspapers and Possibility of Application in NIE(Newspaper In Education) (신문의 환경 보도 분석과 신문활용교육의 가능성)

  • Oh, Kang-Ho;Go, Yeong-Gu
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.67-76
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    • 2004
  • This study is considered how to use newspapers to apply education by the way of analyses of environment coverage in newspapers. Data for the study were gathered by content analyses of KINDS(Korean Integrated News Database System) established by Korean Press Institute. The environment coverage is mainly placed in social and regional magazines of newspapers, and the news story are mainly assigned to straight/feature magazines in type. The news of environment coverage is mostly gathered from data by government-informer, and the news is positive/agreement or negative/disagreement in tenor. The news gathering methods of planning/magazine newspaper serial are scientific and objective, and they are of the firsthand data by news reporter, contributions by experts and interviews. The spaces of the news are specially edited. The environment news is often negative/disagreeable in tenor because the news is mostly of straight ones written by non-experts. Applying newspapers in education is a useful learning method which students could develop thinking power and induce concerning and interest by themselves. From the results of the study, the useful suggestions to apply newspapers to learning are as follows. At first, spaces and types of news must be read in detail. Secondly, it is hopeful that indirect news by not writer himself might be possibly avoided in learning. Thirdly, the themes of news would be picked up in relation with learning contents. Lastly, it suggests that the tenor of news is neutral or, in cases, positive and negative together possibly.

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Relationships among a Habitat-Riparian Indexing System (HIS), Water Quality, and Land Coverage: a Case Study in the Main Channel of the Yangsan Stream (South Korea)

  • Jeong, Kwang-Seuk;Kim, Dong-Kyun;Hong, Dong-Kyun;Choi, Jong-Yun;Yoon, Ju-Duk;Joo, Gea-Jae
    • Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.502-509
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    • 2009
  • In this study a total of 27 stream sites, at 1 km intervals, were monitored for simple physicochemical water characteristics, land coverage patterns, and stream environment characteristics using the Habitat-riparian Indexing System (HIS), in the Yangsan Stream. The HIS has been tested in previous research, resulting in some identification of advantages in the application to the stream ecosystems data. Even though reliable stream environment characterization was possible using HIS, there was no information about the application of this tool to present continuity of environmental changes in stream systems. Also the necessity was raised to compare the results of HIS application with land coverage information in order to provide useful information in management strategy development. The monitoring results of this study showed that changes of environmental degradation were well represented by HIS. Especially, stream environment degradation due to construction was relatively well reflected in the HIS monitoring results, and the main causality of Yangsan Stream degradation was expansion of the urbanized area. In addition, there were significant relationships between the HIS scores and land coverage information. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare appropriate options in controlling or managing the expansion of the industrialized areas in this stream basin in order to improve the stream environment. For this purpose, ensemble utilization of HIS results, water quality, and geographical information, resulting in integration with remote sensing processes can be possible.

Analyzing Relationship between the Local Temperature, Land Usage and Land Coverage: Focused on the Integrated Model in the Microspace (토지이용 및 토지피복과 국지온도 간 관계 분석: 미시공간에서의 통합모델 구축을 중심으로)

  • Park, Yuna;Lee, Gunwon;Jeong, Yunnam;Kim, Seiyong
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 2014
  • In order for effective heat island reduction policies to be proposed, this research made use of the land usage and land coverage and Temperature of cities, Coordinate axis data within 500 meters of nationwide automatic weather stations (478 points) in order to analyze the correlation of summertime temperatures through multiple regression analysis. This research also developed a model and empirically analyzed the urban heat island reduction effect of factors that affect regional temperatures. Heat islands cause environment deterioration and therefore can harm citizens' health, and also affects the city's metabolism process. Thus in order to restrain regional temperature rises the conclusion was drawn that consideration to increase forest areas on part of land usage planning is needed. Appropriate policy measures to regulate traffic related factors are also needed to restrain regional temperature rises. In order for future heat island reduction this research proposes a way to set up more effective policies and urban sustainability improvement strategies, and is significant in that it makes use of detailed data such as land usage and land coverage, Temperature of cities, Coordinate axis in analyses.

Contributions of emergent vegetation acting as a substrate for biofilms in a free water surface constructed wetland

  • Zhao, Ruijun;Cheng, Jing;Yuan, Qingke;Chen, Yaoping;Kim, Youngchul
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.57-65
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    • 2019
  • This study assessed the contribution of emergent vegetation (Phragmites australis, Typha latifolia, and Nelumbo nucifera) to the submerged surface area, the amount of biofilms attached to the submerged portions of the plants, and the treatment performance of a free water surface (FWS) constructed wetland. Results showed that a 1% increase ($31m^2$) in the vegetative area resulted in an increase of $220m^2$ of submerged surface area, and 0.48 kg Volatile Suspended Solids (VSS) of attached biofilm. As the vegetation coverage increased, effluent organic matter and total Kjeldahl nitrogen decreased. Conversely, a higher nitrate concentration was found in the effluent as a result of increased nitrification and incomplete denitrification, which was limited by the availability of a carbon source. In addition, a larger vegetation coverage resulted in a higher phosphorus in the effluent, most likely released from senescent biofilms and sediments, which resulted from the partial suppression of algal growth. Based on the results, it was recommended that constructed wetlands should be operated with a vegetation coverage of just under 50% to maximize pollutant removal.

Abundance of Breeding Birds in Relation to Forest Environment in Jirisan National Park (지리산국립공원의 산림환경에 따른 번식조류의 풍부도)

  • Lee, Do-Han;Song, Ho-Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.320-324
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    • 2008
  • This study was conducted to investigate abundance of breeding birds in relation to forest environment, to figure out the influential factors in abundance of breeding birds and to get the basic data for effective management of the bird community in Jirisan National Park. For this purpose, this research selected 4 main hiking trails as survey points and conducted a survey on breeding bird species and forest environment from April to August in 2007. The study results are as follows: The number of the birds observed during the breeding season was 33 species at the elevation of 300 meters to 1,900 meters. This research made a regression analysis of 13 bird species appearing at more than 30% of all surveyed points, species richness, and richness in the number of individuals. As a result of making a simple and multiple regression analysis of the factors, among the forest environment factors, that have an effect on richness in bird species, each species was found to be less influenced by an elevation. In addition, this analysis revealed that among the forest environment factors, coverage of tree-1 layer(>12m), tree height, coverage of shrub layer(2${\sim}$0.5m), slope, coverage of subtree-2 layer(4${\sim}$2m) appeared as more influential ones on the variation of abundance in more species than an elevation itself. That explains why it is necessary to continuously maintain and manage the coverage of tree-1 layer(>12m), tree height, coverage of shrub layer(2${\sim}$0.5m), slope, and coverage of subtree-2 layer$(4{\sim}2m)$, etc. for the preservation and management of bird species in a breeding season at Jirisan National Park.

Performance Evaluation of Channel Shortening Time Domain Equalizer in Wireless LAN Environment (무선랜 환경에서 채널 단축 시간영역 등화기의 성능평가)

  • Yoon Seok-Hyun;Yu Hee-Jung;Lee Il-Gu;Jeon Tae-Hyun;Lee Sok-Kyu
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.31 no.3A
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    • pp.240-248
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we consider an OFDM receiver algorithm design for IEEE 802.11a/p system, which targeting large coverage area while keeping the transmission format unchanged. Particularly, taking into account the inter-symbol interference(ISI) and inter-carrier interference(ICI) that can be induced with large RMS delay spread, we employ channel shortening time-domain equalizer(TEQ) and evaluate the receiver performance in terms of SINR and packet error rate(PER). The preamble defined in IEEE802.11a/p is used to estimated the initial equalizer tap coefficients. Primary purpose of the paper is to give an answer to the question, though partially, whether or not 16-QAM constellation can be used in none line of sight environment at the boundary of a large coverage area. To this end, we first analyze the required TEQ parameters for the target channel environment and then perform simulation for PER performance evaluation in a generic frequency selective fading channel with exponential power-delay profile.