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SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF WATER-STRESSED FOREST CANOPY USING EO-l HYPERION DATA

  • Kook Min-Jung;Shin Jung-Il;Lee Kyu-Sung
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.7-10
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    • 2005
  • Plant water deficiency during drought season causes physiological stress and can be a critical indicator of forest fire vulnerability. In this study, we attempt to analyze the spectral characteristics of water stressed vegetation by using the laboratory measurement on leaf samples and the canopy reflectance spectra extracted from satellite hyperspectral image data. Leaf-level reflectance spectra were measured by varying moisture content using a portable spectro-radiometer. Canopy reflectance spectra of sample forest stands of two primary species (pine and oak) located in central part of the Korean peninsula were extracted from EO-l Hyperion imaging spectrometer data obtained during the drought season in 2001 and the normal precipitation year in 2002. The preliminary analysis on the reflectance spectra shows that the spectral characteristics of leaf samples are not compatible with the ones obtained from canopy level. Although moisture content of vegetation can be influential to the radiant flux reflected from leaf-level, it may not be very straightforward to obtain the spectral characteristics that are directly related to the level of canopy moisture content. Canopy spectra form forest stands can be varied by structural variables (such as LAt, percent coverage, and biomass) other than canopy moisture content.

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Valuation of Pure Internet Business : An Exploratory Study (국내 순수 인터넷 기업평가에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • 김정욱;정승렬;이재정
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.61-71
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    • 2000
  • Due to the potential growing capability that reflects future value, the market value of internet business companies (IB) are still evaluated high although major players like Amazon continuously suffer losses. Then, how do investors valuate the potential growing capabilities given that traditional financial/accounting based valuation approaches seem to be inappropriate for IB. This study attempts to provide an answer to this issue. We, therefore, analyzed the predictability of various accounting and non-accounting variables for IB value. These include book value, net income, unique visitors, page view, reach rate, public float and institutional holdings. Because of being in infant stage and difficulties in obtaining necessary web traffic data, sample of 20 pure IB were selected from Korea Stock Exchange Market, KOSDAQ, and informal market. The results of this study showed that web traffic date had the strongest relationship with IB value. In particular, unique visitors and reach rate were found to be best predictors for IB value while page view was reasonable indicator. Interestingly, net income was not found to related to IB value. This calls for an attention to the typical characteristics of IB that my hinder the usage of traditional valuation approaches for IB. Another results revealed that none of both public float and institutional holdings was significantly associated with IB value, indicating market’s supply-demand factors were less important than traffic information.

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Estimating Real-time Inundation Vulnerability Index at Point-unit Farmland Scale using Fuzzy set (Fuzzy set을 이용한 실시간 지점단위 농경지 침수위험 지수 산정)

  • Eun, Sangkyu;Kim, Taegon;Lee, Jimin;Jang, Min-Won;Suh, Kyo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2014
  • Smartphones change the picture of data and information sharing and make it possible to share various real-time flooding data and information. The vulnerability indicators of farmland inundation is needed to calculate the risk of farmland flood based on changeable hydro-meteorological data over time with morphologic characteristics of flood-damaged areas. To find related variables show the vulnerability of farmland inundation using the binary-logit model and correlation analysis and to provide vulnerability indicators were estimated by fuzzy set method. The outputs of vulnerability indicators were compared with the results of Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) for verification. From the result vulnerability indicators are applicable to mobile_based information system of farmland inundation.

Extraction of a crack opening from a continuous approach using regularized damage models

  • Dufour, Frederic;Pijaudier-Cabot, Gilles;Choinska, Marta;Huerta, Antonio
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.375-388
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    • 2008
  • Crack opening governs many transfer properties that play a pivotal role in durability analyses. Instead of trying to combine continuum and discrete models in computational analyses, it would be attractive to derive from the continuum approach an estimate of crack opening, without considering the explicit description of a discontinuous displacement field in the computational model. This is the prime objective of this contribution. The derivation is based on the comparison between two continuous variables: the distribution if the effective non local strain that controls damage and an analytical distribution of the effective non local variable that derives from a strong discontinuity analysis. Close to complete failure, these distributions should be very close to each other. Their comparison provides two quantities: the displacement jump across the crack [U] and the distance between the two profiles. This distance is an error indicator defining how close the damage distribution is from that corresponding to a crack surrounded by a fracture process zone. It may subsequently serve in continuous/discrete models in order to define the threshold below which the continuum approach is close enough to the discrete one in order to switch descriptions. The estimation of the crack opening is illustrated on a one-dimensional example and the error between the profiles issued from discontinuous and FE analyses is found to be of a few percents close to complete failure.

Analysis of the Relationship between Journal Impact Factor and Scholarly e-Journal Usage (학술지 영향력지수와 전자 학술지 이용의 상관관계 분석)

  • Kim, Hwan-min;Kim, Jay-hoon;Jeong, Do-heon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.40-44
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    • 2007
  • In order to find out the relationship between the indicator of scholarly impact and e-Journal usage in Korea, we analyzed the correlation between the usage statistics of e-Journals published by American Chemical Society, Science, Elsevier and Wiley which was licensed by KESLI consortia in 2006 and impact factor in JCR 2006. We selected 4 universities and 5 research institutes as target institutions which participated in all of the 4 consortia and had higher frequency of e-Journal usage than others. In this correlation analysis we used variables such as the subjects of journals, the types of institution, and impact factor.

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Earned Value Management Application Issues and Consideration for Weapon System Development Project (무기체계 연구개발 사업에서의 사업성과관리 적용 이슈 및 고려사항)

  • Kuk, Seung Hak;Kim, Yun Hee;Kim, Yongsin;Ju, You Yi
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2015
  • It is generally recommended to use EVM as an efficient means for measuring project performance and progress so that the EVMS user could manage his project successfully. In spite of it's favorable intention, most project participants think it as a heavy load or a sub practiced job with low responsibility. Especially in a weapon system R&D project, the manager should consider a possibility to change plans in the middle of the project because of uncertainty coming from properties of the R&D project. Even though there are lots of variables triggering unpredictable troubles in EVM application, EVM still could be a valuable project health indicator. In this paper we introduce a case study of EVM application for weapon system development project. Furthermore, we suggest several solutions for the issues occurring in utilizing EVM.

Profitability and the Distance to Default: Evidence from Vietnam Securities Market

  • VU, Van Thuy Thi;DO, Nhung Hong;DANG, Hung Ngoc;NGUYEN, Tram Ngoc
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 2019
  • The paper examines the influence of profitability on distance to default (DD) in Vietnam securities market. The investigated sample consists of 211 companies listed on HOSE during 18 years from 2010 to 2017. We apply KMV model to calculate distance to default and use both macroeconomics factors and firm specific factors as independent variables. Using General Least Squared (GLS) method, we find evidence to confirm the positive relationship between profitability and distance to default. This result showed that, although profitability did not directly reflect the cash flow generated, a good profitable enterprise would be an important factor to help facilitate and generate cash flow and at the same time debt was guaranteed when it was due. Besides, the test results revealed that the financial structure and sales on assets have the inverse effect on the distance to default at the significance level of 5%. The results also revealed that a group of macro factors had an influence on the distance to default of businesses, including spread, GDP and trade balance (via exchange rates). Gross domestic income had certain impacts on the distance to default of businesses. This was also a basic indicator measuring the national economic cycle.

Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mass Tourism on Regional Tourism Destinations in Indonesia

  • Lee, Jung Wan;Syah, Ahmad Mujafar
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 2018
  • The study examines economic and environmental impacts of mass tourism on regional tourism destinations, particularly the establishment of "Ten New Bali", in Indonesia. The sample is restricted to the period of time in which annual data is available and comparable among variables from 1980 to 2015 (36 observations). All of the time series data was collected and retrieved from the World Development Indicator database published by the World Bank. This study applies cointegrating regression analysis using the fully modified OLS, canonical cointegrating regression, and dynamic OLS. The results of the study suggest that 1) there is a long-run equilibrium relationship between tourism receipts, environmental degradation and economic growth in Indonesia, 2) tourism growth and agriculture land growth are positively related to an increase of total output in the short-run in Indonesia, and 3) arable land is significant at the 0.01 level, but forest rents and CO2 from transport are not significant in the short-run in Indonesia. The results confirm that arable land is negatively related to an increase of total output in Indonesia. That is, when tourism growth in the economy is getting realized it shows that the environmental degradation increases greatly in inverse in the model, eventually negative impacts to the environment.

Comparative Evaluation of Surface Temperature among Rooftop Colors of Flat Roof Building Models : Towards Performance Evaluation of Cool Roof (평지붕 건물 축소모형의 지붕색에 대한 표면 온도의 비교평가: 쿨루프 성능평가 차원에서)

  • Ryu, Taek Hyoung;Um, Jung-Sup
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.83-91
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    • 2013
  • Cool roofs are currently being emerged as one of important mechanism to save energy in relation to the building. It is specifically proposed that the changing trends of rooftop surface temperature in the flat roof building model could be used effectively as an indicator to reduced cooling load reduced by cool roof since it can present stable temperature record, that is not influenced according to the nearby physical as well as human variables. The temperature of cool roof in summer was lower around $20^{\circ}C$, compared to the general roofs. Such a seasonal or daily comparative study for rooftop temperature in the building model will highlight that the cool roof efficiency could be calculated in much area-wide context according to rooftop color distribution in urban residential area. It is anticipated that this research output could be used as a valuable reference in identifying energy saving by cool roof since an objective monitoring has been proposed based on the rooftop temperature in the building model, fully quantitative performance of thermal infrared image.

A Study on the Family Decision Making and Choice Behavior of Family Dining out From a Family Life Cycle Perspective : Family Restaurant Study (가족 생활주기에 따른 가족외식 구매결정 과정에서 가족 구성원의 영향력과 외식선택 속성에 관한 연구 -패밀리 레스토랑을 중심으로-)

  • Chae, Sin-Seok;Lee, Eun-Su;Choe, Seung-Man
    • Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2006
  • The family life cycle is a useful indicator of consumer behavior, as well as the family life cycle concept utilizes a combination of demographic and socioeconomic variables that best explains the changes in the construct of the family. The family decision-making research has frequently examined role relationship between husband and wife across stages and sub-decisions. The objective of this research is to measure children and parents' perceptions of the influence of the decision-making process for a family dining-out experience, and to determined the customers' choice behavior of restaurants according to isolated factors underlying the important attributes of the restaurants, and finally authors applied a market segmentation approach by capturing customers' preference of restaurant attributes in family dining-out situation and to investigated influence of the family decision making for family dining out in family life cycle. For practitioner, marketing implications are provided and recommendations for future research are also discussed.

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