• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.4B
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• pp.393-403
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• 2008

While characteristics of topography, soil, and vegetation coverage were surveyed, also surface runoff and soil erosion for each rainfall event were measured to analyze effect of change of land cover conditions in mountain areas, Yangyang, directly after wildfire. Fifteen rainfall events were taken in total during the survey period. The result of this survey appeared that the amount of surface runoff and soil erosion are a great difference between plots with rapidly recovered vegetation and bare plots after wildfire. The burned plots where vegetation recovered rapidly generated two times or more of surface runoff and soil erosion than control plots, as burned plots with bare soil showed about ten times of surface runoff and sediment than control plots. The result of correlation analysis between main parameters of the surface runoff and soil erosion presented that rainfall factors and vegetation factors had significant effects on runoff and soil erosion. The sensitivity of runoff and soil erosion showed specially high correlation with vegetation indices. If the land surface disturbed by wildfire are recovered by natural vegetation as time passes, runoff and soil erosion may be decreased gradually. Because runoff and soil erosion in the areas with rare vegetation or bare soil are generated continuously, the discriminated mediation strategies would be established as condition of each region.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.77-85
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• 2007

Assessment of soil erosion is a cost and time-consuming task. There are many models developed to predict soil erosion from an area, but Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) is most widely used empirical equation for estimating annual soil erosion. Soil erosion depends upon-rainfall intensity, type of soil, land cover and land use, slope degree, slope length and soil conservation practice. All these parameters are have spatial distribution and hence satellite remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) are applicable in the assessment of the influence on soil erosion. GIS has been integrated with the USLE (Universal Soil Loss Equation) model in identification of rainfall-based erosion to the Bocheong River which is the representative basin of IHP due to Typhoon Rusa. Similar studies are available in literature, ranging from those that use a simple model such as USLE to others of a more sophisticated nature.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.19-27
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• 2012

RUSLE(Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) has been widely used to estimate the soil loss amount of watersheds from rainfall erosivity, soil erodibility, topographic features and cropping management condition. Rainfall erosivity is the most dominant and sensitive factor among these so that the determination of reliable rainfall erosivity is essential to estimate the soil loss of watershed. Since there has been no criterion to determine the rainfall erosivity in Korea, the empirical values, determined from the relation between the annual average rainfall and erosivity or suggested by TBR(Transport Research Board), have been used for designing the erosion control structure and controlling the soil erosion for watersheds. In this study, the procedure for estimating the rainfall erosivity using frequency analysis is proposed. The most fitted distribution function, with calculated rainfall erosivities with various frequencies and durations, has been also selected. The suggested procedure can be used to estimate the optimal value of rainfall erosivity for RUSLE in order to design soil erosion structures and control the soil erosion in watersheds effectively.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.317-328
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• 2012

The objects of this study are to perform appropriateness analysis of USLE(universal soil loss equation) model and to accumulate the data measured in field. The basin area of Bongdong station is $342.27km^2$. This study simulated sediment outflows in the basin and performed a comparative analysis of simulated outputs with actual measurement values. Also annual rainfall was used to calculate rainfall-runoff erosivity factor which can influence soil erosion. The calculation of annual average soil erosion was made by soil erosion maps. The maps with a resolution of ($30m{\times}30m$) were created by multiplication of factors(R, LS, K, C, P) from ArcView Map Calculator. In this paper, it was shown that soil erosion was not occur in the most of basin.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.51 no.8
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• pp.665-676
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• 2018

Interrill erosion on a hillslope results from the combined action of the detachment of soil particles by raindrop impact and the sediment transport of surface runoff. This study newly defined the rainfall power which detaches soil particles and the sheet-flow power contributed to sediment transport in terms of energy expenditure rate of soil erosion and presented the effective power equation for interrill erosion by rainfall-induced sheet flow. The rainfall and sheet-flow power was evaluated by factors related with rainfall, slope, and runoff and coefficients of the power equation were analyzed based on references. Futhermore it was confirmed that the relative scales between the rainfall power and the sheet-flow power according to rainfall intensity reflect on the hydrological response and physical process of interrill erosion. From application of the field data for surface runoff and soil erosion it was verified that the rainfall and sheet-flow power is an appropriate equation to estimate a interrill erosion.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.27-37
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• 2001

Soil erosion by outflow of water or rainfall has caused many environmental problems as declining agricultural productivity, damaging pasture and preventing flow of water. As the interest in environment is increasing lately, soil erosion is considered as a serious problem, whereas the systematic regulation and analysis for that have not established yet. This research shows the method of extracting factor entered model which expects soil erosion by GSIS. There are several erosion model such as ANSWER, WEPP, RUSLE. The research used RUSLE erosion model which could expect general soil erosion connected easily with GSIS data. RUSLE's input factors are composed of rainfall runoff factor(R). soil erodibility factor(K), slope length factor(L), slope steepness factor(S), cover management factor(C) and support practice factor(P). The general equation used to extract L, S factor on the RUSLE to be oriented for agricultural area has some limitation to apply whole watershed. So, on this study we used a revised empirical equation applicable to the watershed by grid on the GSIS. Also, we analyzed RUSLE factors by watershed being analyzed with watershed extraction algorithm. Then we could calculate the minimum, maximum. mean and standard deviation of RUSLE factors by watershed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.124-128
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• 2011

토양유실 모델링의 중요한 입력자료인 강우침식인자는 분석자료, 호우사상의 분류, 강우 운동에너지식의 적용, 30분 최대 강우강도의 산정방법 등에 따라 연구자별로 결과값이 달라질 수 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 다양한 강우 운동에너지식에 따른 (R)USLE의 강우침식인자(R factor) 값의 차이와 정도를 비교 분석하기 위한 것이다. 이를 위해서 기상청으로부터 서울 지점에 대한 1960∼1999년 기간의 1분 단위 강우자료를 이용하여 5가지 강우 운동에너지식에 따른 강우침식인자를 각각 계산하였으며, 그 값을 비교 분석하였다. 연구결과 Wischmeier와 Smith(1978)의 강우 운동에너지식을 적용한 강우침식인자 값이 가장 크게 나타났고, Brown과 Foster(1987)의 식을 적용한 값이 이에 비해 약 10%, 노재경과 권순국(1984)의 식을 적용한 값이 약 20% 작게 평가되는 것으로 나타났다. 국내에서 개발된 유일한 강우 운동에너 지식인 노재경과 권순국(1984)의 강우 운동에너지식을 적용한 서울 지점의 강우침식인자는 6988.9MJmm/ha/hr/yr이었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.114-114
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• 2016

토양유실에 영향을 미치는 기후 인자로는 강우, 기온, 바람, 습도 및 태양열 복사 등이 있다. 이들 중 강우는 토양침식에 직접적인 영향을 미치는 인자로 토립장의 이탈로 인한 토양침식을 유발한다. 토양침식을 예측하는데 있어 강우의 영향을 나타내는 지표의 설정은 매우 중요하다. 이러한 강우침식인자는 각 강우사상에 대한 강우에너지와 30분 최대 강우강도의 곱의 합으로 정의된다. 강우침식도를 정확하게 계산하기 위해서는 다년간 측정된 분단위 강우자료가 필요하며, 강우자료 획득의 제한과 강우의 분류 및 계산과정 등이 복잡하여 실무적으로 산정하기 어려운 점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 1분 상세강우자료를 이용하여 개정범용토양유실공식(RUSLE)의 강우침식도 R의 추정을 위해 2001년부터 2015년까지 15년간 전국 61개 기상청 관측소의 강우 자료를 수집하여 지점별로 새롭게 계산한 연 강우침식도 및 경험식을 산정하였으며 남한전체($99,720km^2$)를 대상으로 연 강우침식량의 공간분포맵을 작성하였다. 지점별 산정된 경험식은 연평균 강우량과 1분 강우자료로부터 산정된 강우침식도와의 상관관계로 회귀식을 도출하였다. 1분 강우자료로 계산된 강우침식도와 연평균 강우량의 상관관계로부터 도출된 경험식과의 결정계수($R^2$, determination coefficient)는 0.70 ~ 0.98로 높은 상관관계를 나타냈으며 또한, 기존의 국내에서 적용된 경험식과 비교하여 평균 $R^2$가 0.59에서 0.80로 실측값과의 정확성이 높게 개선됨을 알 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.448-448
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• 2015

급경사면의 세류간 토양침식은 지표면과의 강우입자 충돌에 의한 튀김현상과 면상흐름에 의한 토사이송 능력의 상호작용에 의해 영향을 받는다. 강우운동에너지와 면상흐름이 세류간 토양침식 및 토사유출 발생에 있어서 상대적인 기여도에 대한 연구는 국내뿐만 아니라 전 세계적으로도 미흡하다. 본 연구에서는 강우현상을 재현할 수 있는 강우모의 실험장비와 사면 토양침식 실험을 위한 소규모 토양플롯을 제작하여 실험에 사용하였다. 강우모의에 의한 강우운동에너지는 자연강우의 운동에너지 산정식의 계산결과와 비교했을 때, 약 0.58배의 규모를 재현했다. 강우입자의 충돌을 제어하기 위한 스트립을 토양플롯에 올려놓은 경우와 커버가 없는 나지상태에서 강우모의 실험을 한 경우 사면에서 발생한 지표유출수, 지표하유출수 및 토사유출 자료를 측정하고 분석하였다. 강우강도가 증가함에 따라 지표유출량은 증가하고, 지표하유출량은 상대적으로 감소했다. 지표커버는 지표유출의 첨두유량 발생시간을 지연시켰으며, 지표유출량과 지하수량의 변화를 초래했다. 지표커버에 의해 지표유출량은 평균 1.82배 감소하지만, 토사유출량은 평균 4.93배로 상대적으로 크게 감소하였다. 단위수류력과 토사유출량과 관계를 분석한 결과 강우운동에너지는 토양입자의 튀김현상에 의한 침식을 증가시킬 뿐만 아니라 지표유출수의 유속을 증가시켜 토사이송능력을 가중시키는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.458-461
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• 2015

연구는 북한지역의 표토침식량 산정을 위하여 토양침식을 유발하는 강우침식인자를 산정하고 장기간에 걸친 경향성을 분석하기 위한 연구로서, 대상지역은 평양 관측소 지점의 1981~2014년의 강우자료를 이용하였다. 가용한 북한지역의 강수량은 월강수량이기 때문에, 강우침식인자의 산정은 수정 IAS 지수를 이용한 추정방법과 연강수량을 이용한 추정방법을 적용하였다. 연강우침식인자에 대한 경향성 분석결과 평양지점의 장기간에 걸친 연강우침식인자 값에 대한 뚜렷한 경향성은 발견되지 않는 것으로 나타났다.