• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.119-131
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• 2018

The increase of high-resolution spatial data and methodological developments in recent years has enabled a detailed analysis of individual experiences in space and over time. However, despite the increasing availability of data and technological advances, such individual-level analysis is not always possible in practice because of its computing requirements. To overcome this limitation, there has been a considerable amount of research on the use of high-performance, public cloud computing platforms for spatial analysis and simulation. The purpose of this paper is to empirically evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of spatial analysis in cloud computing platforms. We compare the computing speed for calculating the measure of spatial autocorrelation and performing geographically weighted regression analysis between a local machine and spot instances on clouds. The results indicate that there could be significant improvements in terms of computing time when the analysis is performed parallel on clouds.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.69-85
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• 2014

Carbon stocks of NFI plots can be accurately estimated using field survey information. However, an accurate estimation of carbon stocks in other unsurveyed sites is very difficult. In order to fill this gap, various spatial information can be used as an ancillary data. In South Korea, there is the 1:5,000 forest type map that was produced by digital air-photo interpretation and field survey. Because this map contains very detailed forest information, it can be used as the high-quality spatial data for estimating carbon stocks. In this study, we compared three upscaling methods based on the 1:5,000 forest type map and 5th national forest inventory data. Map algebra(method 1), RK(Regression Kriging)(method 2), and GWR(Geographically Weighted Regression)(method 3) were applied to estimate forest carbon stock in Chungcheong-nam Do and Daejeon metropolitan city. The range of carbon stocks from method 2(1.39~138.80 tonC/ha) and method 3(1.28~149.98 tonC/ha) were more similar to that of previous method(1.56~156.40 tonC/ha) than that of method 1(0.00~93.37 tonC/ha). This result shows that RK and GWR considering spatial autocorrelation can show spatial heterogeneity of carbon stocks. We carried out paired t-test for carbon stock data using 186 sample points to assess estimation accuracy. As a result, the average carbon stocks of method 2 and field survey method were not significantly different at p=0.05 using paired t-test. And the result of method 2 showed the lowest RMSE. Therefore regression kriging method is useful to consider spatial variations of carbon stocks distribution in rugged terrain and complex forest stand.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.120-132
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• 2022

Recently, the rapid increase in vacant houses in urban areas has caused various problems such as worsening urban landscape, causing safety accidents, crime accidents, and hygiene problems. According to the Statistics Korea Future Population Estimation results, the growth rate of Korean population and households is expected to continue to decrease, which is likely to lead to an increase in the occurrence of vacant houses. If the problem caused by the occurrence of vacant houses is neglected, it causes not only a physical decline such as a deterioration of the residential environment but also a social and economic decline. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to grasp the spatial distribution characteristics of vacant houses at the local level considering the existence of regional characteristics and spatial influence. Therefore, in this study, in order to measure global spatial autocorrelation, the analysis was conducted centering on the old downtown area of Busan, where there are many vacant houses through Moran's I and Geographically Weighted Regression(GWR). In addition, the distribution of vacant houses in different spatial units in Eup_Myeon_Dong and Census was analyzed to evaluate the possibility of Modifiable Areal Unit Problem(MAUP), which differ in the results of spatial analysis as the spatial analysis units change. As a result of the analysis, the occurrence of vacant houses by Eup_Myeon_Dong in the old downtown area of Busan had spatial heterogeneity, and the spatial analysis results of vacant houses were different as the spatial analysis units were different. Accordingly, in order to understand the exact distribution characteristics of vacant house occurrence, spatial dimensions using the GWR model should be considered, and it is suggested that consideration of the MAUP is necessary.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.379-379
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• 2011

본 연구는 우리나라 전국 기상관측소 중 1973년부터 2009년까지의 시 강수자료가 구축되어 있는 기상관측소 55개 지점에 대하여 비정상성 빈도해석을 수행하였다. 각 지점에 대하여 지속시간 1시간, 24시간에 대한 연 최대 강수량 자료를 구축하여 초기 20년을 기준으로 1년씩 추가한 연 최대 강수량 누적 자료를 생성하고, 생성된 기간별 자료의 평균, 위치매개변수, 축척매개변수를 산정하였으며, 위치매개변수와 축척매개변수는 확률가중모멘트법을 사용하여 산정하였다. 산정된 연 최대 평균 누적 강수량과 연도와의 선형 회귀식을 산정하여 목표연도별(2040, 2070, 2100년) 평균 강수량을 산정하였고, 위치매개변수와 축척매개변수도 평균 누적 강수량과의 선형 회귀식을 산정함으로써, 목표연도에 해당하는 각 매개변수를 산정하였다. 또한 산정된 목표연도별 평균 강수량, 위치매개변수와 축척매개변수를 이용해 확률강수량을 산정하였다. 비정상성 빈도해석을 수행하여 산정된 55개 지점에 대한 목표연도별 확률강수량을 Inverse Distance Weighted(IDW) 보간법을 사용하여 전국의 확률강수량을 공간적으로 표현하였다. 전국단위의 비정상성 빈도해석을 실시한 결과, 전체적으로 각 목표연도별 확률강수량이 증가하는 것으로 나타났으나, 일부 감소하는 지역도 나타났다. 경기도와 강원도 등 중부지역에서 확률강수량의 증가가 큰 것으로 나타났으며, 특히 강원도(강릉, 인재 등) 지역에서 확률강수량의 증가폭이 가장 크게 나타났다. 또한 남해지역에서는 대부분 확률강수량이 감소하는 것으로 나타났고, 그중에서 전라남도 남해안 부근(장흥 등)에 확률강수량의 감소가 가장 크게 나타났으며, 경북지역과 전북지역 부근에서는 증가 또는 감소의 차이가 미비하게 나타났다. 하지만 목표연도 2070년과 2100년에 대하여 산정된 확률강수량으로부터 선형 회귀식을 통해 목표연도별 평균 강수량, 위치매개변수, 축척매개변수를 추정하여 확률강수량을 산정하는 것에 한계가 있음을 보여주었다.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.96-111
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• 2016

Effort to reduce energy consumptions or CO2 emissions is global trend. To follow this trend, spatial studies related to characteristics affecting energy consumptions or CO2 emissions have been conducted, but only with the focus on spatial dependence, not on spatial heterogeneity. The aim of this study is to investigate spatial heterogeneity patterns of CO2 emission based on socio-economic factors, land-use characteristics and traffic infrastructure of Seoul city. Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) analysis was performed with 423 administrative district data in Seoul. The results suggest that population and employment densities, road density and railway length in most districts are found to have positive impact on the CO2 emissions. Residential and green area densities also have the highest positive impact on CO2 emissions in most districts of Gangnam-gu. The resulting model can be used to identify the spatial patterns of CO2 emissions at district level in Seoul. Eventually it can contribute to local energy policy and planning of metropolitan area.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.96-104
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• 2001

Usage of ecosystem models has been extended to landscape scales for understanding the effects of environmental factors on natural and agro-ecosystems and for serving as their management decision tools. Accurate prediction of spatial variation in daily temperature is required for most ecosystem models to be applied to landscape scales. There are relatively few empirical evaluations of landscape-scale temperature prediction techniques in mountainous terrain such as Korean Peninsula. We derived a periodic function of seasonal lapse rate fluctuation from analysis of elevation effects on daily temperatures. Observed daily maximum and minimum temperature data at 63 standard stations in 1999 were regressed to the latitude, longitude, distance from the nearest coastline and altitude of the stations, and the optimum models with $r^2$ of 0.65 and above were selected. Partial regression coefficients for the altitude variable were plotted against day of year, and a numerical formula was determined for simulating the seasonal trend of daily lapse rate, i.e., partial regression coefficients. The formula in conjunction with an inverse distance weighted interpolation scheme was applied to predict daily temperatures at 267 sites, where observation data are available, on randomly selected dates for winter, spring and summer in 2000. The estimation errors were smaller and more consistent than the inverse distance weighting plus mean annual lapse rate scheme. We conclude that this method is simple and accurate enough to be used as an operational temperature interpolation scheme at landscape scale in Korea and should be applicable to elsewhere.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.121-133
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• 2021

Suspended Solids (SS) generated in rivers are mainly introduced from non-point pollutants or appear naturally in the water body, and are an important water quality factor that may cause long-term water pollution by being deposited. However, the conventional method of measuring the concentration of suspended solids is labor-intensive, and it is difficult to obtain a vast amount of data via point measurement. Therefore, in this study, a model for measuring the concentration of suspended solids based on remote sensing in the Nakdong River was developed using Sentinel-2 data that provides high-resolution multi-spectral satellite images. The proposed model considers the spectral bands and band ratios of various wavelength bands using a machine learning model, Support Vector Regression (SVR), to overcome the limitation of the existing remote sensing-based regression equations. The optimal combination of variables was derived using the Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) and weight coefficients for each variable of SVR. The results show that the 705nm band belonging to the red-edge wavelength band was estimated as the most important spectral band, and the proposed SVR model produced the most accurate measurement compared with the previous regression equations. By using the RFE, the SVR model developed in this study reduces the variable dependence compared to the existing regression equations based on the single spectral band or band ratio and provides more accurate prediction of spatial distribution of suspended solids concentration.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.348-356
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• 2014

To understand the relationship between road-traffic noise and urban components such as population, building, road-traffic and land-use, the city of Cheongju that already has road-traffic noise maps of daytime and nighttime was selected for this study. The whole area of the city is divided into square cells of a uniform size and for each cell, the urban components are estimated. A spatial representative noise level for each cell is determined by averaging out population-weighted facade noise levels for noise exposure population within the cell during nighttime. The relationship between the representative noise level and the urban components is statistically modeled at the cell level. Specially, we introduce a spatial auto regressive model and a spatial error model that turns out to explain above 85 % of the noise level. These findings and modeling methods can be used as a preliminary tool for environmental planning and urban design in modern cities in consideration of noise exposure.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.79-86
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• 2020

The number of business closure is one of key indicators diagnosing the status of local economy. The increases in closure are attributed to various endogenous/exogenous factors such as decreases in sales of stores, decline of local market, deterioration of global financial condition, but it is not trivial task to figure out the cause and effect mechanism among variables. The effects of those factors are expected to show geographical variations, which the empirical analysis results in this study presented. As such, the objective of this study is to estimate the effects of variables on increase in the number of business closure and examine the distributional properties of the geographic variations of the effects among spatial units of analysis. To this end, GWR (Geographically Weighted Regression) model was utilized to draw empirical analysis outcomes. It is expected that the outcomes of the sort in this research may be useful in aiding decision-making process of drafting locality-specific policies and/or deciding where to prioritize the limited public resources available.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.512-512
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• 2015

시 공간적 관측에서 다양한 원인에 의해 강우 자료에 결측이나 오측이 발생할 수 있다. 강우를 측정하고 자료를 수집 관리하는 측면에서 결측 되거나 오측된 자료를 추정 보완할 필요가 있다. 현재까지 결측 강우 자료를 추정하기 위한 방법으로 결측 지점 인근의 관측소를 이용한 단순 가중 평균치 방법에서부터 복잡한 통계적 기반의 보간 방법에 이르기까지 많은 연구들이 진행되고있다. 본 연구에서는 결측 된 강우 자료를 추정하기 위해 인공 신경망을 이용하여 모형을 구축하고 주변 관측소의 강우자료를 이용해 신경망 학습을 실시하여 적용해 보았으며, 최근 관측의 단위가 짧아지고 있는 점을 고려하여 10분, 30분, 1시간 등 다양한 시간간격의 강우자료를 구축하고 선형회귀모형과 RDS 방법, 신경망 모형을 이용한 방법 등을 적용한 결과를 비교하여 신경망 모형의 적용성을 살펴보았다. 단순한 구조면에서는 기존의 RDS 방법에 대한 적용성이 높은 것으로 판단되었으나, 성능의 개선을 위한 별다른 방법이 없는 반면 신경망 모형은 입력 자료를 다양하게 변환하여 구성하는 경우 성능을 개선하여 적용성이 더 높아 질 수 있는 것으로 판단되었다. 향후 신경망 모형을 이용해 잘못 측정된 강우를 적절히 선별하고 결측된 보완함으로써 관측된 강우 자료의 활용성을 높일 수 있을 것이다.