• Water for future
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• v.42 no.9
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• pp.29-35
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2001.05b
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• pp.833-838
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Zoological Society Korea Conference
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• 1995.10b
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• pp.194.1-194
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• 1995

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.155-201
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• 2002

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.53 no.1
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• pp.15-27
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• 2020

Streamflow discharge as a fundamental riverine quantity plays a crucial role in water resources management, thereby requiring accurate in-situ measurement. Recent advances in instrumentations for the streamflow discharge measurement has complemented or substituted classical devices and methods. Among various potential methods, surface current meter using microwave has increasingly begun to be applied not only for flood but also normal flow discharge measurement, remotely and safely enabling practitioners to measure flow velocity postulating indirect contact. With minimized field preparedness, this method facilitated and eased flood discharge measurement in the difficult in-situ conditions such as extreme flood in active ways emitting 24.125 GHz microwave without relying on natural lights. In South Korea, a rectangular shaped instrument named with Microwave Water Surface Current Meter (MWSCM) has been developed and commercially released around 2010, in which domestic agencies charging on streamflow observation shed lights on this approach regarding it as a potential substitute. Considering this brand-new device highlighted for efficient flow measurement, however, there has been few noticeable efforts in systematic and comprehensive evaluation of its performance in various measurement and riverine conditions that lead to lack in imminent and widely spreading usages in practices. This study attempted to evaluate the MWSCM in terms of instrumen's monitoring configuration particularly regarding tilt and yaw angle. In the middle of pointing the measurement spot in a given cross-section, the observation campaign inevitably poses accuracy issues related with different tilt and yaw angles of the instrument, which can be a conventionally major source of errors for this type of instrument. Focusing on the perspective of instrument configuration, the instrument was tested in a controlled outdoor river channel located in KICT River Experiment Center with a fixed flow condition of around 1 m/s flow speed with steady flow supply, 6 m of channel width, and less than 1 m of shallow flow depth, where the detailed velocity measurements with SonTek micro-ADV was used for validation. As results, less than 15 degree in tilting angle generated much higher deviation, and higher yawing angle proportionally increased coefficient of variance. Yaw angles affected accuracy in terms of measurement area.

• The Science & Technology
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• no.9 s.412
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• pp.6-8
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• 2003

'고흥 우주센터' 기공/ 한국, 물리올림피아드 첫 우승/ 세계 유수 R&D 연구센터 유치작업 착수/ 여학생 비율 높이는 이공계 대학에 장려금/ 2010년 유망 과학기술분야 직업 30종 선정/ 국내 인터넷 연구 2천 8백만 명/ 병원 · 백화점 등 레지오넬라균 주의보/ 세계 최초 위치인식기능 청소로봇 개발/ 붉은귀 거북, 하천 · 고궁서 생태계 어지럽힌다

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.3B
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• pp.283-296
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• 2008

The Urban Stream Assessment Technique (USAT) was suggested to give information about present urban stream condition. Domestic and foreign stream evaluation methods were analyzed and some streams were previously investigated to decide evaluation factors that could evaluate stream condition and have concern with characteristics and flood control of urban stream. The USAT consisted of three steps. High step has three characteristics concerned with functions of stream such as flood risk, stream, and ecology. In middle step, three characteristics were subdivided by ten features to describe changes and degradations of urban stream. Low step consisted of fifty three factors that explain the present condition of ten features. A survey of river experts was conducted to reflect weight among characteristics and features. The weights were calculated by analytic hierarchy process(AHP). The USAT was carried out to check over application of that in Suwon, Anyang, and Joongrang stream. The results of stream evaluation were expressed by factor index, feature index, characteristic index, total index, and evaluation grade. The results of the USAT were useful to realize changed and degraded areas. It is expected that the USAT can be used as base investigation for restoring and managing urban streams.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.52 no.8
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• pp.515-529
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• 2019

Geospatial information for river network and watershed boundary have played a fundamental roles in terms of river management, planning and design, hydrological and hydraulic analysis. Irrespective of their importance, the lack of punctual update and improper maintenance in currently available river-related geospatial information systems has revealed inconsistency issues between individual systems and spatial inaccuracy with regard to reflecting dynamically transferring riverine geography. Given that digital elevation models (DEMs) of high spatial resolution enabling to reproduce precise river network are only available adjacent to national rivers, DEMs with poor spatial resolution lead to generate unreliable river network information and thereby reduce their extensible applicabilities. This study first of all evaluated published spatial information available in Korea with respect to their spatial accuracy and consistency, and also provides a methodology and tool to modify existing low resolution of DEMs by means of striation of conventional or digitized river network to replicate input river network in various degree of further delineation. The tool named FSND was designed to be operated in ArcGIS ModelBuilder which ensures to automatically simulate river network striation to DEMs and delineation with different flow accumulation threshold. The FNSD was successfully validated in Seom River basin to identify its replication of given river network manually digitized based on recent aerial photograph in conjunction with a DEM with 30 meter spatial resolution. With the derived accuracy of reproducibility, substantiation of a various order of river network and watershed boundary from the striated DEM posed tangible possibility for highly extending DEMs with low resolution to be capable of producing reliable riverine spatial information subsequently.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.635-635
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• 2015

1960년대부터 우리나라는 증가하는 용수수요에 대한 안정적인 생 공용수 공급, 수력발전, 하천생태계 유지를 위한 하천유지용수 공급 및 하천 연안지역의 홍수피해 경감 등의 목적으로 댐 사업이 본격적으로 시작되었다. 그러나 현재 댐 건설적지의 감소, 환경보전에 대한 인식 증대 및 지역 주민의 반대 등으로 신규 댐건설에 한계가 있는 실정이다. 또한 국제적으로 댐 건설 패러다임의 변화로 지속가능한 개발을 위한 노후화된 댐의 개량이 새로운 방안으로 제시됨에 따라 국내에서도 이에 대한 대안으로 기존 댐 재개발의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 한정된 자원과 인력을 통해 댐 재개발의 효과를 극대화하기 위해서는 댐 재개발 우선순위 결정이 필수적이다. 국내에서도 이에 대한 연구가 진행되어 수자원공사 및 농어촌공사에서 각각 댐 및 농업용 저수지의 재개발 우선순위 평가기법을 제시하였으나 최근 기후변화로 인한 영향이 고려되지 않았을 뿐만 아니라 공공서비스 향상, 고령화율과 안전, 환경 및 지역사회 등 여러 측면을 고려한 기준이 제시되어 있지 않았다. 또한 국내 댐 재개발 우선순위 평가 기술은 다른 선진 국가들에 비해 기술적으로 많이 뒤떨어진 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 국내 댐 재개발 우선순위 평가기준 개발을 위한 국내외 사례조사 및 비교분석을 통해 기존의 댐 재개발 우선순위 결정 기술에서 나아가 기후변화 및 시대적 환경적 측면을 고려한 다 기준 댐 재개발 우선순위를 개발하여 향후 기후변화 적응 댐 재개발 실행프레임워크 구축 기술에 활용하고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• v.56 no.1
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• pp.45-56
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• 2023

In stream ecosystem assessment, RIVPACS, which makes a simple but clear evaluation based on macroinvertebrate community, is widely used. In this study, a preliminary study was conducted to develop a RIVPACS-type model suitable for Korean streams nationwide. Reference streams were classified into two types(upstream and downstream), and a prediction model for macroinvertebrates was developed based on each family. A model for upstream was divided into 7 (train): 3 (test), and that for downstream was made using a leave-one-out method. Variables for the models were selected by non-metric multidimensional scaling, and seven variables were chosen, including elevation, slope, annual average temperature, stream width, forest ratio in land use, riffle ratio in hydrological characteristics, and boulder ratio in substrate composition. Stream order classified 3,224 sites as upstream and downstream, and community compositions of sites were predicted. The prediction was conducted for 30 macroinvertebrate families. Expected (E) and observed fauna (O) were compared using an ASPT biotic index, which is computed by dividing the BMWPK score into the number of families in a community. EQR values (i.e. O/E) for ASPT were used to assess stream condition. Lastly, we compared EQR to BMI, an index that is commonly used in the assessment. In the results, the average observed ASPT was 4.82 (±2.04 SD) and the expected one was 6.30 (±0.79 SD), and the expected ASPT was higher than the observed one. In the comparison between EQR and BMI index, EQR generally showed a higher value than the BMI index.