• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.53 no.12
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• pp.1071-1079
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• 2020

For integrated water management, it is essential to secure basic data such as the amount of agricultural water intake. The river water intake through the intake weir is carried out through the agricultural irrigation canal, and a method for measuring the quantity of water intake is required to suit the characteristics of the measuring points. In this study, the accuracy of the calculated flow data was determined by applying a microwave water surface current meter. The microwave water surface current meter is a method of calculating surface velocity using doppler effect, which is mainly used in high-velocities situations such as flood. Surface velocity is difficult to represent the average velocity of the entire section at low dicharges or high wind speeds, it is considered to be low in continuous utilization throughout the year, and it is necessary to verify whether the measurement using an microwave water surface curren meter is appropriate in agricultural irrigation canal. The data measured with an microwave water surface curren meter were compared with the actual flow data to calculate the intake data in agricultural irrigation canal. In agricultural irrigation canal, the low-level discharge calculated using an microwave water surface current meter at a minimum velocity of about 0.3 m/s and a minimum discharge of about 1.0 m3/s or higher was found to have a high tendency and accuracy compared to the standard discharge, especially when the high discharge was high. Although effective results can be obtained in terms of quantity at low discharge, it is deemed that subsequent studies are needed to calculate the average discharge of the cross section at low discharge, given that the trend of data is unstable. Through this study, it is suggested that it is appropriate to calculate the amount of water intake through the microwave water surface current meter in artificial waterways with a certain discharge or higher, so it is expected to be widely distributed as a method for measuring river water intake.

• Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.225-231
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• 2014

Discharge measurement during flood season is very difficult. Microwave water surface current meter (MWSCM) can measures river surface velocities easily without contacting water. This study introduces its improved version, MWSCM for general use. The existing version of MWSCM is for floods so that its applicable period in a year is short. It has been improved to extend its applicability in a year. The range of measurable velocity for MWSCM for general use is extended so it can be applied during normal flows as well as high flows. MWSCM for general use can measure the velocity range of $0.03{\sim}20.0ms^{-1}$, whereas MWSCM for floods can measure the velocity range of $0.5{\sim}10.0ms^{-1}$. To make such innovation of MWSCM for general use, the applied microwave frequency of MWSCM was changed from 10 GHz to 24 GHz. Waveguide slot array antenna has been designed with the new development of the circuit of transmitting and receiving part. Improvement requests on the existing MWSCM for floods - weight lightening, measured velocity stabilization, self-test, low power consumption, and waterproof and dampproof - from the users of it have been reflected for the development of the new version of MWSCM.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2005.05b
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• pp.1512-1517
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• 2005

Soil particles from rainfall flow into reservoir and give lots of influence in water quality because the Even though techniques related with computer and communications are growing rapidly, it is true that efforts for hydrological survey and the management of its results have not been made enough to make use of the state-of-the-art technologies. Among the water-related techniques, measurement of river discharge is the most important one because these data are basic to almost every field of the hydrological science. In this research, a large-scale particle image velocimetry (LSPIV) unit has been designed and constructed to measure river discharge effectively In field conditions. Measured data using this unit is compared with the results recorded by the microwave water surface current meter (MWSCM) at the same location. The purpose of this research is to propagate the feasibility of using the MWSCM for river discharge velocimetry.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.100-100
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• 2016

전자파표면유속계는 대표적인 비접촉식 계측기기로 최근 유량조사를 위해 활발하게 활용되고 있다. 국내에서 사용되고 있는 전자파표면유속계는 평수기 저유속에서도 측정이 가능하고 편각 측정이 가능하도록 개발되어 한 측정 지점에서 다 지점의 유속이 측정이 가능해 평수기 홍수기에 비교적 적은 인원으로 빠른 시간에 유량측정이 가능하다. 하지만 국내의 경우 전자파표면유속계가 과연 얼마만큼의 정확한 유속을 측정하는지에 대한 분석이 다소 부족한 실정으로 특히, 실제 하천에서 정확한 분석은 수행되지 않은 상태에서 유량 측정에 사용되고 있다. 전자파표면유속계를 실제 하천에서 사용할 경우 발생 할 수 있는 오차의 요인으로는 교량과 같이 높은 지점에서 측정을 수행할 경우 측정영역(Footprint or Illuminated area)에 따른 오차가 발생할 수 있는 가능성이 있고, 동일 측정 지점에 대해 수직각과 편각에 변화에 따른 유속 측정 오차가 발생할 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 국내에서 개발된 Mutronics사의 전자파표면유속계(MWSCM; Microwave Water Surface Current Meter)에 레이저포인터를 부착하여 표면유속 약 0.5m/s ~ 1m/s의 자연 하천과 매우 유사한 실제 소하천 규모의 한국건설기술연구원 안동실험센터 직선하천에서 수직각(Tilt angle) 및 편각(Yaw angle)을 변화시켜가며 유속를 측정하였다. 그리고 측정된 결과를 활용하여 수직각과 편각의 변화에 따른 전자파표면유속계의 측정영역을 검토하였고, 동일한 측정 지점에 micro-ADV를 이용해 측정된 연직유속분포를 외삽하여 산정된 표면유속과 비교하여 전자파표면유속계의 측정 정확도를 분석하였다. 분석결과, 수직각(Tilt angle) 15도 이하에서는 유속 측정의 정확도가 떨어지는 것으로 나타났고, 편각(Yaw angle)이 커질수록 측정영역이 커지게 되어 변동 계수가 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 전자파표면유속계의 측정 오차는 측정영역에 민감하게 반응하는 것으로 나타나 실제 전자파표면유속계를 이용한 유량측정 시 측정영역을 고려한 측정이 수행되어야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.16-16
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• 2021

전자파표면유속계(Microwave Water Surface Current Meter)를 이용한 홍수기 유량측정은 교량과 같은 구조물을 이용하여 안전 및 측정위치의 흐름조건 등의 이유로 측정의 한계가 발생한다. 이런 문제점을 개선하기 위해 전자파표면유속계를 드론(Drone)과 결합하여 하천에서의 유량측정에 이용하였다. 전자파표면유속계는 비접촉식 유속측정 장비로 하천의 표면유속을 측정하고 유량산정을 위해 환산계수 0.85를 적용하여 평균유속을 산정하고 있다. 환산계수 0.85는 하천의 각 횡측선 수심-유속분포를 일반적인 분포로 가정하고 표면유속에 0.85를 곱하여 평균유속을 산정한다(Rantz, 1982). 그러나 하천의 측정위치 및 흐름특성에 따라 유속분포가 변화하기 때문에 국외 많은 연구에서 환산계수의 범위를 0.72에서 1.72까지 제시한 바 있다(Johnson and Cowen, 2017). 따라서 환산계수 0.85의 일률적인 적용은 부정확한 유량산정을 초래할 수 있어 측정위치에 적절한 환산계수 산정이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 2020년 금강의 지류인 봉황천에 위치한 금산군(황풍교) 관측소에서 드론과 전자파표면유속계를 이용해 측정한 표면유속과 ADCP를 이용하여 동시 측정한 평균유속의 비교를 통해 환산계수를 산정하여 평균유속 산정의 정확도를 높이고자 하였다. 전자파표면유속계로 측정한 6개 성과 중 ADCP와 동시 측정한 4개의 성과를 분석하여 환산계수를 산정하였다. 측정성과별 측선수는 16~17개로 홍수터로 월류하여 비정상흐름이 발생한 측선은 제외하고 측선별 환산계수는 0.66에서 1.09의 범위로 나타났고, 성과별 환산계수의 평균치는 0.90에서 0.93 범위로 산정되었다. 환산계수가 일반적인 수치보다 높게 산정된 것은 측정위치 하류 약 600m에 위치한 콘크리트 고정보의 영향이 홍수 시 흐름의 수위-유속분포에 영향을 미쳐 높게 산정된 것으로 판단된다. 따라서 유량산정에 있어 환산계수는 4개 성과에서 산정된 환산계수의 평균치인 0.92를 적용하여 산정하였다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.48 no.8
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• pp.613-623
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• 2015

To overcome the difficulties of discharge measurements during flood season, MWSCM(micowave water surface current meter) which measures river surface velocities without contacting water has been applied in field work since its development. The existing version of MWSCM is for floods so that its applicability is low due to the short periods of floods. Therefore the renovative redesign of MWSCM to increase the applicability was conducted so that it can be applied to the discharge measurements during normal flows as well as flood ones by extending the measurable range of velocity. A newly developed high-performance MWSCM for general use can measure the velocity range of 0.03-20.0 m/s from flood flows to normal flows, whereas MWSCM for floods can measure the velocity range of 0.5-10.0 m/s. The improvement of antenna isolation between transmitter and receiver to block the inflow of transmitted singals to receiver and the improvement of phase noise of oscillator are necessary for detecting low velocity with MWSCM technology. Separate type antenna of transmitting and receiving signals is developed for isolation enhancement and phase locked loop synthesizer as an oscillator is applied to high-performance MWSCM for general use. Microwave frequency of 24 GHz is applied to the new MWSCM rather than 10 GHz to make the new MWSCM small and light for convenient use of it at fields. Improvement requests on MWSCM for floods-stable velocity measurement, self test, low power consumtion, and waterproof and dampproof-from the users of it has been reflected on the development of the new version of MWSCM.

• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.15-32
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• 2023

There are some difficulties such as safety problem and need of manpower in measuring discharge by submerging the instruments because of many floating debris and very fast flow in the river during the flood season. As an alternative, microwave water surface current meters have been increasingly used these days, which are easy to measure the discharge in the field without contacting the water surface directly. But it is also hard to apply the method in the sudden and rapidly changing field conditions. Therefore, the estimation of the discharge using the surface velocity in flood conditions requires a theoretical and economical approach. In this study, the measurements from microwave water surface current meter and rating curve were collected and then analyzed by the discharge estimation method using the surface velocity. Generally, the measured and converted discharge are analyzed to be similar in all methods at a hydraulic radius of 3 m or over or a mean velocity of 2 ㎧ or more. Besides, the study computed the discharge by the index velocity method and the velocity profile method with the maximum surface velocity in the section where the maximum velocity occurs at the high water level range of the rating curve among the target locations. As a result, the mean relative error with the converted discharge was within 10%. That is, in flood season, the discharge estimation method using one maximum surface velocity measurement, index velocity method, and velocity profile method can be applied to develop high-level extrapolation, therefore, it is judged that the reliability for the range of extrapolation estimation could be improved. Therefore, the discharge estimation method using the surface velocity is expected to become a fast and efficient discharge measurement method during the flood season.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.347-347
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• 2020

하천수의 통합적인 물관리를 위해서는 농업용수의 목적으로 취수되는 하천수량과 같은 기초자료의 확보가 필수적이다. 취입보를 통해 취수되는 하천수량은 취수문에 근접한 농업용수로에서 유량을 계측할 수 있는데, 계측지점의 특성에 맞는 최적의 계측방법 선정 및 검증이 필요하다. 대부분의 농업용수로는 단면이 일정하여 수위-유량 관계 곡선식, 초음파 측정법, 수면경사법, 구조물법 등 대부분의 계측방법 적용이 가능한데, 본 연구에서는 전자파 표면 유속계를 이용해 산정한 유량자료와 실측 유량자료와의 적합성을 비교하여 전자파로 측정한 유량자료의 정확도를 확인하였다. 전자파 표면 유속계는 도플러 효과를 이용해 표면 유속을 산정하는 방식으로, 주로 홍수기와 같이 고유량 상황에서 사용되고 있고, 저유량이나 바람이 센 상황에서는 표면유속이 단면 전체의 평균유속을 대변하기 어려워 연중 지속적인 활용도가 낮은 상황이다. 농업용수로는 다양한 규모로 설계되어 있어 저유량에서부터 고유량까지 넓은 범위의 계측방안이 필요한데, 전자파 표면 유속계를 이용한 계측으로는 연속적인 자료 확보에 한계가 있다. 본 연구에서는 일정한 단면에서 전자파 표면 유속계와 실측 유속과의 비교를 통해 적정 수준의 정확도를 가질 수 있는 전자파 표면 유속계 측정범위를 특정하고, 저유량 구간에서 취약한 표면 유속 측정 자료를 보정할 수 있는 개선 방법을 적용하여 농업용수를 취수하는 지점에서 전자파 표면 유속계의 연중 상시 계측 가능 방안에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 전자파 표면 유속계의 측정 범위 특정과 저유량 계측 개선 방안 등을 통해 추후 농업용수로의 하천수 취수량 계측 방법 선정에 도움이 될 것으로 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.942-947
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• 2006

In KOWACO, flow measurement system using PDA has been developed and used since 2004. Even though this system has improved the reliability of the measured flow data, it still has some problems caused by the internet-based data manipulation scheme. We found that this kind of data handling method is not suitable because it causes frequent communication problems especially in fringe areas. To solve this problem, the structure and algorithms of existing system has been analyzed and an improved system is proposed. Besides, improvement study on the rate of change and the uncertainty of the flow data have been performed as well as the communication method between the Microwave Water Surface Current Meter and PDA adopting the state-of-the-art IT technology.