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A Study for Improving Naval Vessels's Position Calculation and Reporting Requirements for Safe Sailing in Narrow Channels (해군함정 협수로 연안 항해시 함위산출 및 보고사항 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Ko, Jae-Woo;Lim, Bong-Taek
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.39 no.6
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    • pp.451-456
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    • 2015
  • This research examines the use of Cross Bearing in the Republic of Korea Navy. Specifically, this study focuses on the degrees of errors caused by the order of measuring targets and suggests a new method to determine Advice Course. It then reviews the appropriateness of the contents of Location Report that is regularly to the duty officer during a voyage in a narrow channel. Whenever a naval vessel passes through a narrow channel, many number of sailors are assigned to diverse positions in order to enhance navigational safety. Even though it is possible to easily recognize the location of a ship with helps of various kinds of navigational equipments using state-of-the-art technology, there are still several situations where sailors' efforts are indispensible for calculating the position of their ship : when the ship is damaged during an engagement with enemies and when the enemies interfere (GPS) signals. In addition, the particularity of naval vessels in which many number of crew members can be assigned to various positions supports for the suitability of the use of Cross Bearing in the Navy. This study will contribute to navigational safety of the ROK Navy and fostering junior naval officers' seamanship.

A Study on the New Course Distance and the proper time to alter course (신침로거리와 전타시점에 관한 연구)

  • KIM, Min-Seok
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.586-591
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    • 2009
  • The marine traffic accidents go on increasing owing to the increment of marine traffic capacity, and the solutions about these matters are vigorously considering by many researchers. When the watch officer navigates to the narrow channel, bend or an area obscured by an intervening obstruction and around the harbour limit he must follow the planned track. The watch officer can safely navigate along the course laid down only when he alters his course in advance before the new course distance earlier than the course alternation point. If we call this point to be changed in advance a turning bearing, the turning bearing is decided according to the direction and the range from the clearing objects. The turning bearing helps the watch officer to determine whether the ship is at wheel-over position or not. The author in this paper suggest how to make and use a curve graph which is decided according to the direction and the distance from the clearing objects. If the watch officer utilize this curve graph he can judge swiftly and precisely whether his ship is at the wheel - over position or not.

Efficiency Assessment of Turbine for Tidal Current Power Plant by In-Field Experimental Test (현장계측에 의한 조류 발전용 수차의 효율 평가)

  • Han, Sang-Hun;Lee, Kwang-Soo;Yum, Ki-Dai;Park, Woo-Sun;Park, Jin-Soon;Yi, Jin-Hak
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.517-520
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    • 2006
  • The Korean peninsula has a number of coastal sites where the rhythmic rising and lowering of water surface due to tides results in strong tidal current. The kinetic energy of these currents can be efficiently exploited by use of tidal current turbines. The pilot tidal current power plant is to be constructed at the Uldolmok narrow channel between J info and Haenam, Our ins next Year, and extensive coastal engineer ing research works have been carried out. This paper describes and analyzes some observation results of field test about the efficiency of Helical turbine for tidal current power plant. The efficiency of turbine, which is diameter 2.2m and height 2.5m, is evaluated meximum RPM, torque, and current velocity. The tested turbines had the maximum efficiencies of the bounds of 25 to 35% in the current velocity range between 1.4 and 2.6 m/s. This result shows that the pilot tidal current power plant needs three helical turbines with diameter 3.0m and height 3.6m to produce electric power 500kW.

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The Geomorphic Characteristics and Late-Holocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Sejong-Si Based on the Pollen Analysis of the Right Bank of Geumgang (세종시 금강 우안(右岸)지역의 지형특성과 홀로세 후기 고환경복원)

  • Moon, Youngrong;Yoon, Soon-Ock;Hwang, Sangill
    • Journal of The Geomorphological Association of Korea
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2017
  • This study tried to reconstruct paleovegetation environments during the late Holocene with pollen analysis from archeological trenches at the right bank of Geumgang in Sejong-si. The lower hills was dominantly covered with pine trees, while alder trees and hygrophytes extended on the floodplain since 2,000yr BP. The pollen composition of Alnus dominance in the floodplain during the times is different from the general charateristics of Korean peninsula. Such a phenomenon is thought to be influenced by the fluvial process on the floodplain in the middle reaches of Geumgang around Sejong-si. Mihocheon and some tributaries join to Geumgang around Sejong-si, and the channel of Geumgang becomes narrow around the boundary between Sejong-si and Gongju-si. This narrow channel could attribute to the formation of extensive floodplain around Sejong-si. Moreover, human impacts such as agriculture appear continuously since 1,800yr BP.

Construction of LAN Using Asynchronous Code Division Multiplexing by Spread Spectrum Technique and a New Scheme of Cancelling Co-channel Interference (스펙트럼 확산 통신방식을 이용한 타국간 간섭제거 비동기 부호 분할 LAN의 구성)

  • 이동욱;변건식;김명기
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.729-743
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    • 1989
  • A spread spectrum(ss) communication system has a lot of advantage, such as realzation of asynchronous code division multiplexing(CDM), robutness to narrow-band interference, impulse noise, privacy function, and so on. We have considered utilization of these advantage to develop a local area network(LAN) using such a transmission channel as power-line. In a power-line, however, restricted bandwidth under the law makes it difficult to carry out CDM, and in a radio channel the sysstem has a near-far problem. These problems originate in co-channel interference, which is due to cross-correlation among pseudo-noise sequences of every channel in CDM. In this paper, we propose a new scheme of easily cancelling co-channel interference and investigate its performance by constructing a LAN using SS technique.

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Nonlinear Tidal Characteristics along the Uldolmok Waterway off the Southwestern Tip of the Korean Peninsula

  • Kang, Sok-Kuh;Yum, Ki-Dai;So, Jae-Kwi;Song, Won-Oh
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.89-106
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    • 2003
  • Analyses of tidal observations and a numerical model of the $M_2$ and $M_4$ tides in the Uldolmok waterway located at the southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula are described. This waterway is well known fer its strong tidal flows of up to more than 10 knots at the narrowest part of the channel. Harmonic analysis of the observed water level at five tidal stations reveals dramatic changes in the amplitude and phase of the shallow water constituents at the station near the narrowest part, while survey results show a decreasing trend in local mean sea levels toward the narrow section. It was also observed that the amplitudes of semi-diurnal constituents, $M_2$ and $S_2$ are diminishing toward the narrowest part of the waterway. Two-dimensional numerical modeling shows that the $M_2$ energy flux is dominated by the component coming from the eastern boundary. The $M_2$ energy is inward from both open boundaries and is transported toward the narrow region of the channel, where it is frictionally dissipated or transferred to other constituents due to a strong non-linear advection effect. It is also shown that the $M_4$ generation is strong around the narrow region, and the abrupt decrease in the M4 amplitude in the region is due to a cancellation of the locally generated M4 with the component propagated from open boundaries. The superposition of both propagated and generated M4 contributions also explains the discontinuity of the M4 phase lag in the region. The tide-induced residual sea level change and the regeneration effect of the $M_2$ tide through interaction with $M_4$ are also examined.

Measurement of Fluid Dynamic Characteristics around Stenotic Obstruction in a Circular Channel

  • An, Jin-Hyo;Cheema, T.A.;Jeong, Seong-Ryong;Lee, Choon-Young;Kim, Gyu-Man;Park, Cheol-Woo
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.35 no.7
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    • pp.921-929
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    • 2011
  • We measured experimentally the properties of fluid dynamics, velocity fields, and the pressure, around stenotic obstruction located inside a circular channel structure. Particle image velocimetry system was employed to obtain velocity fields at the central section of the circular channel in the streamwise direction. The stenosis model used was made of acrylic material with different stenotic aspect ratios. The working fluid was water and it was returned by a centrifugal pump system. Pressure measurements were carried out to validate the effect of a narrow passageway. Results showed that the acceleration of gap flow through stenotic obstruction and the pressure drop in the recirculation regime behind the stenosis model can be observed.

DS-CDMA System with Smart Antenna for Different Bandwidths in the Wideband Multipath Channel

  • Bae, Hyoung-Oh;Kim, Byung-Hak;Kim, Cheol-Sung
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2000.09a
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    • pp.79-82
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, the performance of 05-CDMA system with smart antenna is analyzed for different bandwidths (1.25MHz, 5MHz) and different channel environments (rural, urban). For the analysis of smart antenna system, the vector channel having the spatio-temporal correlation is modeled as a time-variant linear filter in time, and each multipath is assumed as a reflective wave from only one direction (only one cluster) in space. Several multipaths within one chip are distinguished into each one and the strongest signal is selected. DS-CDMA system with smart antenna using wider bandwidth present better performance than that using narrow bandwidth. It is shown that the smart antenna is more effective in urban area when using 2D-RAKE receiver.

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A Pilot Symbol Based Coherent QAM Decoder for a Wireless Channel (파일럿 패턴을 이용한 무선 QAM 송수신 기술 연구)

  • Kim, Han-Il;Han, Jae-Choong
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.50 no.8
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    • pp.400-405
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    • 2001
  • Quadrature Amplitude Modulation(QAM) is well known a bandwidth efficient modulation scheme. However, its use for mobile communications has been limited due to noise and signal distortion. Recently, the QAM scheme is emerging as a new modulation scheme for a band-limited wireless system. In this paper, we propose an iterative decoding algorithm assuming QAM signal for a narrow-band mobile channel. The Algorithm is based on the EM(Expectation Maximization) Algorithm, and the performances of the proposed decoder are assessed using computer simulation. The simulation results show that the proposed decoder perform better compared to that of other schemes.

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Analysis of DS-CDMA System with Smart Antenna for Different Bandwidths in the Wideband Multipath Channel

  • Jeon, Jun-Soo;Lee, Jeong-Won;Kim, Cheol-Sung
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.07c
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    • pp.1689-1692
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, the performance of DS-CDMA system with smart antenna is analyzed for different bandwidths (1.25MHz, 5MHz) and different channel environments (rural, urban). For the analysis of smart antenna system, the vector channel having the spatio-temporal correlation is modeled as a time- variant linear filter in time, and each multipath is assumed as a reflective wave from only one direction (only one cluster) in space. Several multipaths within one chip are distinguished into each one and the strongest signal is selected. DS-CDMA system with smart antenna using wider bandwidth present better performance than that using narrow bandwidth. It is shown that the smart antenna is more effective in urban area when using 2D-RAKE receiver.

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