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Determination of Fire Severity and Deduction of Influence Factors Through Landsat-8 Satellite Image Analysis - A Case Study of Gangneung and Donghae Forest Fires - (Landsat-8 위성영상 분석을 통한 산불피해 심각도 판정 및 영향 인자 도출 - 강릉, 동해 산불을 사례로 -)

  • Soo-Dong Lee;Gyoung-Sik Park;Chung-Hyeon Oh;Bong-Gyo Cho;Byeong-Hyeok Yu
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.277-292
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    • 2024
  • In order to manage large-scale forest fires concentrated in Gangwon-do and Gyeongsangbuk-do with severe topographical heterogeneity, a decision-making process through efficient and rapid damage assessment using satellite images is essential. Accordingly, this study targets a large-scale forest fire that ignited in Gangneung and the Donghae, Gangwon-do on March 5, 2022, and was extinguished around 19:00 on March 8, to estimate the fire severity using dNBR and derive environmental factors that affect the grade. As environmental factors, we quantified the regular vegetation index representing vegetation or fuel type, the forest index that classifies tree species, the regular moisture index representing moisture content, and DEM in relation to topography, and then analyzed the correlation with the fire severity. In terms of fire severity, the widest range was 'Unbured' at 52.4%, followed by low severity at 42.9%, medium-low severity at 4.3%, and medium-high severity at 0.4%. Environmental factors showed a negative correlation with dNDVI and dNDWI, and a positive correlation with slope. Regarding vegetation, the differences between coniferous, broad-leaved, and other groups in dNDVI, dNIWI, and slope, which were analyzed to affect the fire severity, were analyzed to be significant with p-value < 2.2e-16. In particular, the difference between coniferous and broad-leaved forests was clear, and it was confirmed that coniferous forest suffered more damage than broad-leaved forest due to the higher fire severity in the Gangwon-do region, including Pinus densiflora, which are dominant species, as well as P. koraiensis, P. rigida and P. thunbergii.

Characteristics of Vegetation Structure of Burned Area in Mt. Geombong, Samcheok-si, Kangwon-do (강원도 삼척 검봉산 일대 산불 피해복원지 식생 구조 특성)

  • Sung, Jung Won;Shim, Yun Jin;Lee, Kyeong Cheol;Kweon, Hyeong keun;Kang, Won Seok;Chung, You Kyung;Lee, Chae Rim;Byun, Se Min
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2022
  • In 2000, a total of 23,794ha of forest was lost due to the East Coast forest fire, and about 70% of the damaged area was concentrated in Samcheok. In 2001, artificial restoration and natural restoration were implemented in the damaged area. This study was conducted to understand the current vegetation structure 21 years after the restoration of forest fire damage in the Samcheok, Gumbong Mountain area. As a result of classifying the vegetation community, it was divided into three communities: Quercus variabilis-Pinus densiflora community, Pinus densiflora-Quercus mongolica community, and Pinus thunbergii community. Quercus variabilis, Pinus densiflora, and Pinus thunbergii planted in the artificial restoration site were found to continue to grow as dominant species in the local vegetation after restoration. As for the species diversity index of the community, the Quercus variabilis-Pinus densiflora community dominated by deciduous broad-leaf trees showed the highest, and the coniferous forest Pinus thunbergii community showed the lowest. Vegetation in areas affected by forest fires is greatly affected by reforestation tree species, and 21 years later, it has shown a tendency to recover to the forest type before forest fire. In order to establish DataBase for effective restoration and to prepare monitoring data, it is necessary to construct data through continuous vegetation survey on the areas affected by forest fires.

An Experimental Study on the Effect of Rotation Strength on Fire Whirl Characteristics (회전강도가 Fire Whirl의 특성에 미치는 영향에 관한 실험연구)

  • Choi Sang-Yeol;Ryou Hong-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.20 no.2 s.70
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2005
  • Rotational motion in the atmosphere around a fire may have a profound influence on the fire plume. This process underlies the occurrence of fire whirls. Fire whirls are rare but highly destructive phenomenon which were observed in a large forest, urban and building fires. The present study aims to investigate of the effect of rotation Strength on the fire whirl characteristics expeimentally. Experiments are performed for various sizes of fire source with different rotation strength. From the experimental observations, it is noted that the mean centerline temperature is gradually increased and mean radial temperature is decreased as increases rotation strength. The characteristic mean flame height of fire based on the visible observation is increased as increases of dimensionless swirl parameter, $\Omega/\alpha$, represented by swirl induced motion to buoyancy driven motion.

Disaster Emergency Management Systems using Bio-AdHoc Sensor Networks (센서 탑재 바이오 애드 혹 네트워크를 이용한 재난 관리용 시스템)

  • Lee, Dong-Eun;Lee, Goo-Yeon
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.26 no.B
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    • pp.183-189
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    • 2006
  • Ad hoc network does not need any preexisting network infrastructure, and it has been developed as temporal networks in the various fields. Infostation is an efficient system to transfer informations which are not sensitive to delay. In this paper, we propose a disaster emergency management system using sensors attached to animals, that is combined with infostation system. We also analyze the performance of the proposed system by simulation. From the performance analysis results, we expect that the proposed system will be very useful to early detect big forest fires which occur frequently in Korea mountain areas.

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A Field Experiment Study of Broadleaf Liriope Planting Width Calculation for Forest Fires Spread Blocking (산불확산 저지를 위한 맥문동 식재폭 산정 야외실험)

  • Kwon, Chun-Geun;Lee, Si-Young;Lee, Si-Hyeong
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.417-421
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    • 2011
  • 본 연구에서는 우리나라 전역에 군락으로 서식하는 상록 다년초인 맥문동을 이용한 현장 실험을 실시하여 지표화 방지 및 확산속도 저지를 위한 산불 이격거리를 제시하고자 삼척시 검봉산 맥문동 식재지에서 식재지 미식재지 총 4종류의 실험구를 설정하고 실험한 결과 맥문동 식재지는 미식재지에 비해 1.1-2.9배 산불확산속도 저지 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 지표화 발생시 산림내로 확산되기 전 초동진화에 필요한 시간(30분)을 감안하면, 산림인접지 부근의 식재폭은 최소 69m 최대 203m가 필요한 것으로 나타났다.

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Fire detection system and alarm system using wild boars (동물들을 이용한 재난 조기 경보 시스템의 설계 및 분석)

  • Jeong, Eui-Jong;Lee, Goo-Yeon
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.719-720
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    • 2006
  • Ad hoc networks does not need any wired network infrastructure. Therefore, they have been developed in temporary networks or mainly in military networks. Infostations offer geographically intermittent coverage at high speeds. Up-to-date there have been frequent big forest fires in Korea mountain areas. It is very important to detect them early to prevent them from being big disasters. In this paper, we propose a disaster emergency management system using sensor attached wild boars' mobility combined with infostation system. We also make a numerical analysis of the performance of the system.

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Bio-Adhoc Sensor Network for Disaster Emergency Management Systems (재난 관리용 시스템을 위한 센서 탑재 바이오 Ad hoc 네트워크 구축방안 연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Eun;Lee, Goo-Yeon
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.775-776
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    • 2006
  • Ad hoc network does not need any preexisting network infrastructure, and it has been developed as temporal networks in the various fields. Infostation is an efficient system to transfer information which does not have delay sensitive characteristics. In this paper, we propose a disaster emergency management system using sensor attached animals' mobility combined with infostation system. We also analyze the performance of the proposed system. From the performance analysis results, we expect that the proposed system will be very useful to early detect big forest fires which occurs frequently in Korea mountain areas.

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Disaster Events Detection using Twitter Data

  • Yun, Hong-Won
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.69-73
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    • 2011
  • Twitter is a microblogging service that allows its user to share short messages called tweets with each other. All the tweets are visible on a public timeline. These tweets have the valuable geospatial component and particularly time critical events. In this paper, our interest is in the rapid detection of disaster events such as tsunami, tornadoes, forest fires, and earthquakes. We describe the detection system of disaster events and show the way to detect a target event from Twitter data. This research examines the three disasters during the same time period and compares Twitter activity and Internet news on Google. A significant result from this research is that emergency detection could begin using microblogging service.

Development of an algorithm for detecting sub-pixel scale forest fires using MODIS data (MODIS영상을 이용한 소규모 산불 탐지 기법 개발)

  • Kim, Sun-Hwa;Lee, Kyu-Sung
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2009.03a
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    • pp.87-92
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    • 2009
  • 현재 미국 NASA에서는 전 지구에서 일별 발생하는 산불 탐지 영상(MOD14 product)을 제작, 배포하고 있다. 그러나, 이러한 MOD14 영상은 MODIS 자체의 낮은 공간해상도로 인하여 우리나라와 같이 소규모 산불이 발생하는 지역에서는 산불 탐지 정확도가 매우 낮게 나타났다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 MODIS 산불 지도에서 탐지되지 못한 소규모 산불을 대상으로 혼합화소분석기법(spectral mixed analysis)을 적용한 새로운 산불 탐지 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 새로운 산불 탐지 알고리즘은 진행산불 탐지 알고리즘과 연소지 탐지 알고리즘으로 구성된다. 소규모 산불이 170건 이상 발생한 2004년과 2005년 4월 남한지역을 대상으로 적용한 결과 1ha 규모의 연소지 탐지가 가능하게 되었으며, 연구 결과 소규모 진행산불과 연소지에 대해 70%이상의 탐지율을 확보하였으며, 40% 이하의 오탐지율(false alarm ratio)을 산출하였다.

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A Flashover Characteristics Due to Flames (화염으로 인한 전기적 섬락특성 변화)

  • Sohn, H.K.;Lee, H.K.;Han, H.J.;Park, I.P.;Oh, H.H.;Min, B.W.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.703-704
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    • 2007
  • Most of the transmission lines in Korea pass through a mountains. The forest fire occurred in around the transmission lines make an accident such as flashover and faults in the power transmission lines. In spite of that risk, there are no research on the flashover characteristics by fires in electric discharge engineering in our country. This paper was mentioned about the relation between the flame and flashover characteristics. We were carried out simple test by using artificial flame generator and rod-plane or conductor-plane gaps. And we were summarized test results.

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