• The Science & Technology
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• no.3 s.406
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• pp.62-67
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• 2003

갯벌은 다양한 생물이 살아가는 소중한 공간이며 동시에 사람들에게는 오염물질을 정화시켜주는 '자연의 정화조' 역할을 하는 곳이다. 또한 갯벌은 '단백질의 공급창고'로 불릴 만한 영양과 높은 음식재료를 충실히 제공하는 곳이다.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.43-55
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• 2004

Meiobenthic community structure was studied in intertidal mud flat and sand flat of Yeochari in Ganghwado in May and August, 1998. Sixteen groups of meiofauna were found at all study sites in the Yeochari tidal flats. Nematodes were the most dominant animal group among the meiofaunal groups as a whole. Sarcomastigophorans, harpacticoid copepods, nauplius larvae of crustaceans and ciliophorans which were also important components of the meiofaunal community. All of these five faunal groups comprised more than 90% of total meiofauna. The maximum total density of meiobenthos was $5.8{\times}10^6ind./m^2$ at the station of sand flat in August and the minimum density was $4.0{\times}10^6ind./m^2$ at same station in May. Biomass of meiobenthos was $1.5g/m^2$(May), $2.3g/m^2$(August) at mud flat and $1.7g/m^2$(May), $2.6g/m^2$(August) at sand flat. At the station of mud flat in May, the highest density was observed within 1cm in depth of upper sediment and steeply decreased increasing depth of sediment. At the sand flat station in August, the highest density was also observed within 1cm in depth of upper sediment and decreased with depth, while the concentration of the animals at the surface was not conspicuous as the mud flat. The value of N/C(nematodes/benthic harpacticoids) ratio was the highest at the station of sand flat in May and the lowest at the sand flat in August.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.485-486
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• 2001

갯벌을 포함하는 연안역은 생산성이 높으며, 특히 갯벌은 산란, 성육 및 섭이의 장으로 그 기능이 탁월하다. 따라서, 해양생물의 경우, 한종이 일정한 해역에서 생활사의 전부를 보내는 정주성 특성의 생물이 있는가하면, 생활사의 일부만을 이용하고 자유로이 이동하여 생활을 하는 생물이 있다. 반면 이러한 정주성 및 이동성 생물에게 있어서도 조석 및 주야에 따른 국지적인 이동성이 있는 것으로 밝혀져 있고, 외국에서는 이들에 연구를 지속적으로 수행중에 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.501-502
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• 2001

갯벌의 수질정화기능에 대하여 다양한 정의를 내릴 수 있으나 본 연구에서는 갯벌의 여과식성 저서생물에 의해 수중의 동ㆍ식물 플랑크톤과 데트리터스를 포함하는 입자성 유기물 (POM)이 포집되어 제거되는 기능으로 그 범위를 한정하였다. 갯벌생태계에서 수질정화기능의 핵심적 역할은 단연 이매패류가 담당하고 있다. 이들은 탁월한 여과능력으로 먹이 섭식과정에서 많은 양의 해수를 아가미로 걸러내기 때문에 결과적으로 수층의 입자성 유기물을 물리적으로 제거시키는 자연 여과시스템에 견주어진다. (중략)

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.375-384
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• 2012

The sedimentary processes of the Ganghwa tidal flat has been changed over 20 years because of the large-scale construction projects. The sedimentary environment of the Donggum tidal flat, located in the eastern part of Ganghwa tidal flat and in the lower reaches of Yeomha channel, was affected by changes the tidal current regime and estuarine circulation. These resulted an occurrence of rapid deposition in the tidal flat. The silt-clay laminated silt facies in the upper parts of two core sediments suggested that deposition had been relatively high in the tidal flat. The sedimentation rates from the cores using $^{210}Pb$ analysis were 3.25cm/year(st. 3) and 3.47cm/year(st. 5). However the short-term sediment accumulation rates from 2010 to 2012 were mostly less than 1cm/year, indicated that the sediments deposited relatively low rates. As a result, the sediment in the Donggum tidal flat rapidly accumulated during 2000s due to constructions of man-made structures. Recently, the increase of elevation in the tidal flat resulted to show relatively low sedimentation rate with seasonal variations.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.53-67
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• 2005

Cheonsu bay, which is typically a semi-closed type, is characterized by various environments such as channels, sand bars, small islands and tidal flats. The construction of Seosan A and B sea dikes from 1983 to 1985 might continuously change sedimentary environments in the northern part of the bay. In order to investigate sedimentary environment, surface and core sediments were sampled at the Hwangdo tidal flat and adjacent sea in June and October 2003. The surface sediments consisted of five sedimentary facies. Generally, the surface sediments in October were changed coarser on the tidal flat and little changed in the subtidal area compared to those in June 2003. Sedimentary facies analysis of three core sediments suggested that wave and tidal current were relatively strong in the tidal flat near Hwangdo, whereas the energy was relatively low in the tidal flat near channel. Sediment accumulation rates in the Hwangdo tidal flat during 11 months indicated that sediments deposited in the central part, whereas eroded in eastern and western sides of the tidal flat. These caused that sea dike changed tidal current patterns and sediment supplies.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.89-104
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• 2004

In the aftermath of nation-wide controversy over "conservation vs. development" of the costal wetland in the Saemangeum, Korea could legislate the laws of wetland conservation and costal management in 1998. Since then, the public interest in the costal mudflats and its conservation has increased greatly, but the controversy on the economic value of mutflat wetland and the futher (un)necessity of reclamation) is not yet settled. In the cases of Korea dealt, economic valuation of wetland was performed mainly in the milieu of reclamation(development) vs conservation conflict, or from interest of recreational use. Korean studies used to estimate economic value of development case and conservation case respectively and then tried to compare these two value, as is sometimes done also in other countries. But the scrutiny of the results of these studies leads us to conclude that the revealed wide discrepancy among estimated values, above all other methodological problems, denies any practical applicability to the actual policy use. Benefit transfer as a convenient alternative method of valuation can not be usable either in our cases, because there is too few reliable estimated economic values of mudflat wetlands.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.295-303
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• 2003

The tidal flat area of south and west coast consists of 2.4% of total land area of Korea. About 83% of tidal flat is located at the west coast, and the remaining tidal flat is located at the south coast. This tidal flat is also divided for administrative regions which are Gyeonggi Province(35.1%), Chungnam Province(12.7%) Jeonbuk Province(4.7%), Jeonnam Province(44.0%) and Gyeongnam Province(3.5%). The tidal flat of west coast of Korea is one of the most important stopover site for shorebirds on the East Asia-Australia Flyway. The tidal flat is used for feeding and resting place by migratory shorebirds. Generally, waterbirds including migratory shorebirds are considered as key species to show the superiority of wetland. By the criteria of Lamsar Convention in the basis of waterbird, at least 14 coastal wetlands in Korea have to be internationally important wetlands. The factors to affect the distribution of shorebirds at the certain tidal flat are closely related with 1) the distribution of benthic invertebrates, potential prey of shorebirds 2) the availability of roosting site 3) the size of tidal flat 4) the intensity of human disturbance. In this paper, we summarized the regional status of tidal flat of Korea and its conservation methods related with migratory waterbirds.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.7-26
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• 1999

생태계의 기능에 대한 과학적 지식이 없었던 시대에 대부분의 사람들은 갯벌을 황무지로 여겼다. 그러나 갯벌은 주인 없이 버려져 있는 쓸모 없는 땅이 아니라 오랜 세월동안 우리 바다를 풍요롭게 가꾸어 온 우리의 산하요, 우리 강토의 한 부분이다. 바로 조상으로부터 물려받은 우리의 귀중한 자연 유산이다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.563-572
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• 2020

Tidal flats provide important indicators that inform the condition of the environment, so we need to monitor them systematically. Currently, the projects to monitor tidal flats by periodically observing the creatures in tidal flats are underway. Still, it is done in a way that people observe directly, so it is not systematic and efficient. In this paper, we propose a background modeling method for tidal flat images that can be applied to a system that automatically monitors creatures living in tidal flats using sensor network technology. The application of sensor network technology makes it difficult to collect enough images due to the limitation of transmission capacity. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method to effectively model the background and generate foreground maps by reflecting the characteristics of tidal flat images in the situation where the number of images to be used for analysis is small. Experimental results show that the proposed method models the background of a tidal flat image easily and accurately.