• 상하수도학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.731-739
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• 2011

To investigate corrosivity characteristics of tap water in Korea, Langelier index (LI) of 30 multi-regional water treatment plants (WTPs) were evaluated. Weekly LI values of 30 WTPs were all negative, which means tap water in Korea might be very corrosive. Maximum LI decrease through water treatment processes was 0.95 under no additional corrosion control process. Based on the correlation results between LI and tap water qualities, pH and calcium concentration were confirmed as major parameters for LI control. Addition of calcium hydroxide with $CO_{2}$ or calcium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide can be chosen based on water quality. Continuous monitoring of LI and related parameters is recommended in water distribution system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.617-624
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• 2013

Low power consuming and highly responsive semiconductor-type microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gas sensors are fabricated for real-time environmental monitoring applications. This subsystem is developed using a gas sensor module, a Bluetooth module, and a personal digital assistant (PDA) phone. The gas sensor module consists of a $NO_2$ or CO gas sensor and signal processing chips. The MEMS gas sensor is composed of a microheater, a sensing electrode, and sensing material. Metal oxide nanopowder is drop-coated onto a substrate using a microheater and integrated into the gas sensor module. The change in resistance of the metal oxide nanopowder from exposure to oxidizing or deoxidizing gases is utilized as the principle mechanism of this gas sensor operation. The variation detected in the gas sensor module is transferred to the PDA phone by way of the Bluetooth module.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.568-573
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• 2007

Environmental information (temperature, humidity, vibration, $CO_2$, gas leakage, etc.) of building is an essential item to manage and monitor a building. For intelligent building, it is necessary to get temperature and illumination information to save energy and crack information to prevent structural problems. Moreover, temperature and gas leakage information to alarm a tire precaution, or humidity information to maintain comfortable environment. However, there have not been many researches on systems for gathering environmental information and building maintenance due to high costs. In this paper, wireless sensor network technology is applied to collecting building environmental information. Wireless sensor network is one of the latest issues and has low-power consumption, low-cost, self-configuration features.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권7호
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• pp.1298-1303
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• 2008

Respiration is induced by muscular contraction of the chest and abdomen, resulting in the abdominal volume change. Thus, continuous measurement of the abdominal dimension enables to monitor breathing activity. Conductive rubber cord has been previously introduced and tested to develop wearable application for respiratory measurements. This study implemented respiratory monitoring system with the conductive rubber cord in the patient's pants in purpose of quantitative estimation of tidal volume. Air mixed with $0{\sim}5%$ $CO_2$ was inhaled and the respiratory air flow rate, abdominal dimension change, and end tidal $CO_2$ concentration were simultaneously measured in steady state. $CO_2$ inhalation significantly increased the tidal volume in normal physiological state with the subject unawared. The tidal volume estimated from the abdominal dimension change linearly correlated with the tidal volume measured by a pneumotachometer with a correlation coefficient of 0.88. Customized calibration for each subject resulted in relative errors less than 10%. Therefore, the tidal volume was accurately estimated by measuring the abdominal dimension change.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제59권5호
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• pp.465-471
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• 2021

Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are hematophagous arthropod vectors that transmit epizootic arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses). Arboviruses are recognized as causes of pregnancy loss, encephalomyelitis, and congenital malformations in ruminants. Therefore, continuous monitoring and control of Culicoides, which causes significant damage to industrial animals are necessary. We performed attraction and repellent tests in Culicoides using various essential oils, cow dung, and carbon dioxide (CO₂). Culicoides tended to move more to cow dung (60.8%, P<0.0001) and CO₂ (63.8%, P<0.01). To the essential oils as repellents, 26.1% (P<0.0001), 18.7% (P<0.001), and 25.5% (P<0.01) of the Culicoides moved to the lavender, lemongrass, and eucalyptus chamber, respectively. The Culicoides that moved to the 3 essential oils chambers showed markedly low activity. Collectively, it was showed that Culicoides tended to be attractive to cow dung and CO₂, and repellent from the 3 essential oils.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제39권6_1호
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• pp.1195-1210
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• 2023

해안쓰레기는 미관 훼손 및 생태와 보건에 미치는 영향으로 인해 큰 문제로 대두되고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위한 노력의 일환으로 본 연구는 해안쓰레기 탐지와 모니터링을 위한 이미지 데이터셋 구축과 실시간 객체 탐지 분야의 대표적인 모델인 YOLOv8과 RT-DETR의 성능을 비교하였다. 특히 다양한 환경 하에서의 강건성을 평가하기 위해 여러 왜곡 조건에서 성능 변화 실험을 수행하였다. YOLOv8은 mean Average Precision (mAP) 0.927~0.945의 정확도와 65~135 Frames Per Second (FPS)의 탐지 속도를 보인 반면, RT-DETR은 mAP 0.917~0.918의 정확도와 40~53 FPS의 탐지 속도를 보였다. 색상 왜곡에 대해서는 RT-DETR이 더 강건한 성능을 보였으나, 그 외의 조건에서는 YOLOv8이 더 높은 강건성을 보였다. 본 연구의 결과는 실제 해안쓰레기 모니터링 시스템의 모델 선택에 있어 중요한 지침을 제공할 것으로 기대된다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.309-317
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• 2010

CCS는 "이산화탄소의 포집 및 저장 기술"의 약어로서, 화석연료를 사용하는 화력발전소, 제철소 등에서 대규모로 배출하는 이산화탄소를 저감하기 위한 방법이다. CCS는 화석연료의 연소에서 발생되는 가스를 포집하여, 압축, 수송, 주입의 프로세스를 거처서 깊은 지하에 영구적으로 저장한다. CCS를 기존 화력발전소에 적용시에는 CCS 설비가 없는 발전소에 비해 약 80~90%의 이산화탄소를 줄일 수 있다. IPCC의 보고서에 의하면, CCS는 2010년까지 이산화탄소 총 감축량의 10~55%를 감당할 수 있는 경제적 잠재력이 있다고 보고되고 있다. 본 고에서는 CCS 기술의 해외 적용 사례 및 관련 핵심 기술 동향에 대해 간략하게 소개하고자 한다.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.339-348
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• 2014

Agro-ecosystem plays an important role in the mitigation of atmospheric $CO_2$ concentration through photosynthesis and soil carbon fixation. The perennial crops have capacity of carbon accumulation because they have lived for years in the same position. Carbon dioxide fixation occurs in the fruit orchard by photosynthesis and soil carbon sequestration. The objectives of this review are to introduce the fruit orchard as a carbon dioxide sink and to summarize the methods that measure $CO_2$ flux in the orchard. There are three difference methods (chamber, biomass, and eddy covariance method) to measure $CO_2$ exchanges on sites. However, there is no standard method suitable for fruit cultivation condition in Korea. Thus the standard method have to be developed in order to exactly estimate the carbon accumulation. In foreign studies, the carbon assessments were conducted in apple, peach, olive, grape orchard and so on. On the other hand the estimation of $CO_2$ exchange was carried out for apple and mandarine orchard in Korea. According to these results, fruit orchard is a $CO_2$ sink even though amount of carbon accumulation is smaller than the forest. To introduce certainly fruit orchard as greenhouse gas sink, long-term monitoring and further study have to be conducted under each planting condition.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2010

The main objectives of this comparative study were 1) to quantify the potential contribution of wood chips to revegetation on the cut slope in a constructed area, 2) to compare the floristic similarity of species composition whether existing of wood chips in the soil media or not. Wood chips were combined with soil media in the ratio of 30%. The thin layer (1 cm, 3 cm) soil media revegetation methods and the thick layer (10 cm) soil media revegetation method were constructed on the cut slopes by machineries respectively. Also, comparative experiments the existence of wood chips in the soil media were conducted to evaluate the effects of wood chips on revegetation works. The total size of quadrat was $300m^2$ ($100m^2{\times}3$). The results of monitoring for 3 years on cut slopes were as follows: 1) All the quadrat existed in the proper range for vegetation. 2) Species richness of quadrat including wood chips was 10% more than those of commercial soil medias. 3) The coverage rates of quadrat including wood chips were similar or superior to those of conventional methods. It can be concluded that the use of wood chips would be effective to promote establishment of diverse landscape and vegetation. However, it behooves to continue monitoring on succession of vegetation for ecological restoration. Finally, adequate wood chips deposit and gathering methods should be studied properly.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.90-95
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• 2012

위성영상은 광범위한 지역에 걸쳐 실시간으로 정확한 지표 상태에 대한 정보를 수집할 수 있어 재난재해관리에도 효율적 수단으로 사용되고 있다. 특히 고해상도 영상은 1m급 이하 지표 물체를 탐지할 수 있어 도심지역 정보 획득에 매우 유용하다. 본 논문에는 재난 발생 시 고해상도 위성영상으로부터 변화탐지 기법을 사용하여 피해를 탐지하고 피해정보를 추출하는 방법론이 제안되었다. 사용된 영상분석기법은 텍스쳐 정보를 이용하여 시간적 변화를 탐지하는 기법으로 특징 추출과 변화탐지 단계로 구성되어있다. 특징 추출 단계에서는 wavelet과 GLCM을 이용하여 텍스쳐가 추출되었고 변화탐지 단계에서는 영역간 텍스쳐의 상관관계를 이용한 분류기법이 사용되었다. 제안된 방법은 고해상도 위성영상을 사용하여 지진피해지역을 탐지하는 예에 적용되어 테스트 되었다.