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Do Solar Cycles Share Spectral Properties with Tropical Cyclones that Occur in the Western North Pacific Ocean?

  • Kim, Ki-Beom;Kim, Jung-Hee;Chang, Heon-Young
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.151-161
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    • 2018
  • Understanding solar influences on extreme weather is important. Insight into the causes of extreme weather events, including the solar-terrestrial connection, would allow better preparation for these events and help minimize the damage caused by disasters that threaten the human population. In this study, we examined category three, four, and five tropical cyclones that occurred in the western North Pacific Ocean from 1977 to 2016. We compared long-term trends in the positions of tropical cyclone occurrence and development with variations of the observed sunspot area, the solar North-South asymmetry, and the southern oscillation index (SOI). We found that tropical cyclones formed, had their maximum intensity, and terminated more northward in latitude and more westward in longitude over the period analyzed; they also became stronger during that period. It was found that tropical cyclones cannot be correlated or anti-correlated with the solar cycle. No evidence showing that properties (including positions of occurrence/development and other characteristics) of tropical cyclones are modulated by solar activity was found, at least not in terms of a spectral analysis using the wavelet transform method.

A Study on the Determination of WGS84 Geoidal Height by the Interpolation Methods (보간방법에 의한 WGS84 지오이드고 결정에 관한 연구)

  • 강준묵;김홍진
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.237-244
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    • 1995
  • In this study, we made WGS84 geoidal height model from GPS measurements for bench marks and calculated geoidal height of B.Ms which were selected check points using the hi-linear, trend surface fitting and triangulation interpolation method. From these, the interpolation accuracy was studied. Also, we tried to study accuracy of height transformation by making up orthometric height with latitude and longitude on Bessel ellipsoid for bench marks which were calculated by applying transformation parameters that were got GPS measurements for precise primary control stations. As a result of this study, the WGS84 geoidal height and orthometric height could be determined as a deviation value of 20 cm.

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Small Scale Map Projection and Coordinate System Improvement in Consideration of Usability and Compatibility

  • Choi, Byoung Gil;Na, Young Woo;Jung, Jin Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.171-183
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    • 2016
  • Small-scale maps currently used are made by scanning and editing printed maps and its shortcoming is accumulated errors at the time of editing and low accuracy. TM projection method is used but its accuracy varies. In addition, small-scale maps are made without consideration of usability and compatibility with other scale maps. Therefore, it is necessary to suggest projection and coordinates system improvement methods in consideration of usability and compatibility between data. The results of this study reveal that in order to make the optimum small-scale map, projection that fits the purpose of map usage in each scale, coordinate system and neat line composition should be selected in consideration of interrelation and compatibility with other maps. Conic projection should be used to accurately illustrate the entire country, but considering usability and compatibility with other maps, traversing cylindrical projection should be used instead of conic projection. For coordinates system of the small-scale map, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM-K) based on the World Geodetic System should be used instead of conventional longitude and latitude coordinate system or Transverse Mercator.

Global Patterns of Pigment Concentration, Cloud Cover, and Sun Glint: Application to the OSMI Data Collection Planning

  • Kim, Yong-Seung;Kang, Chi-Ho;Lim, Hyo-Suk
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 1998.09a
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    • pp.387-392
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    • 1998
  • To establish a monthly data collection planning for the Ocean Scanning Multispectral Imager (OSMI), we have examined the global patterns of three impacting factors: pigment concentration, cloud cover, and sun glint. Other than satellite mission constraints (e.g., duty cycle), these three factors are considered critical for the OSMI data collection. The Nimbus-7 Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) monthly mean products and the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) monthly mean products (C2) were used for the analysis of pigment concentration and cloud cover distributions, respectively. And the monthly simulated patterns of sun glint were produced by performing the OSMI orbit prediction and the calculation of sun glint radiances at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA). Using monthly statistics (mean and/or standard deviation) of each factor in the above for a given 10$^{\circ}$ latitude by 10$^{\circ}$ longitude grid, we generated the priority map for each month. The priority maps of three factors for each month were subsequently superimposed to visualize the impact of three factors in all. The initial results illustrated that a large part of oceans in the summer hemisphere was classified into the low priority regions because of seasonal changes of clouds and sun illumination. Sensitivity tests were performed to see how cloud cover and sun glint affect the priority determined by pigment concentration distributions, and consequently to minimize their seasonal effects upon the data collection planning.

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An Immobilization of Extracellular Laccase to Humus-Iron Complex

  • Ginalska, Grazyna;Cho, Nam-Seok;Lobarzewski, Jerzy;Piccolo, Alessandro;Leonowicz, Andrzej
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.104-111
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    • 2001
  • There are some evidence that active enzymatic proteins, e.g. fungal laccase, exist in the naturally occured soil humus. This study was performed to investigate the covalent binding of fungal laccase to the humic acid-iron complex, and to measure laccase activity of immobilized ones. Seven methods were adopted to form the covalent binding of fungal laccase with soil humic acids complexed with iron. Using these seven methods it was possible to change the dimension of spacer arm between laccase and support, and also to regulate the mode of covalent binding of this enzyme. The spacer arm was regulated from 2C to 11C. There was not observed any straight relationship between the spacer arm longitude and the laccase activity after immobilization, but the binding mode more effective than the former. Three out of the seven methods gave the high activity of immobilized laccase, and which active products of laccase immobilization was stable up to 10 days after the process. It is indicated that natural soil condition might be prevented the laccase activation by the toxic influence of some phenolic humic compounds. It was shown, for the first time, the possibilities to obtain the high activity of fungal laccase by binding to humic acids, and especially in complex with iron.

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A Study on the East/West Station Keeping Planning Considering Wheel Off-Loading (휠오프로딩을 고려한 동서 위치유지 기동 계획 연구)

  • 이상철;주광혁;김방엽;박봉규;박영웅
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.34 no.9
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    • pp.60-66
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    • 2006
  • Now, on developing COMS(Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) has solar panel on the south panel only. Therefore, the wheel off-loading has to be performed periodically to reduce a induced momentum energy by a asymmetric solar panel. One of two East/West station keeping maneuver to correct simultaneously longitude and eccentricity, orbit corrections may be performed during one of the two wheel off-loading manoeuvres per day to get enough observation time for meteorological and ocean sensor. In this paper, we applied a linearized orbit maneuver equation to acquire maneuver time and delta-V. Nonlinear simulation for the station keeping is performed and compared with general station keeping strategy for fuel reduction.

A method to determine the azimuth of a baseline by measuring the apparent direction of the Sun (태양의 겉보기 방향각 측정을 통하여 어떤 기선의 방위각을 결정하는 방법)

  • Lim, Mu-Taek;Park, Yeong-Sue;Rim, Hyoung-Rae;Koo, Sung-Bon;Kwak, Byoung-Wook
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.155-165
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    • 2008
  • A method to determine the azimuth of a baseline by using the measured apparent directions of the Sun, the measurement time and the latitude and the longitude of the survey point. Comparing the azimuths determined by this method and those determined by the PDGPS(Post Processed Differential GPS) on 3 different baselines, the differences (this method - PDGPS) between the azimuths determined by two methods were -13", +45" and +24" respectively. This method can be used as an effective and rapid tool in cases that require the accuracy lower than 1 arc-min.

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Photo Retrieval System using Combination of Smart Sensor and Visual Descriptor (스마트 센서와 시각적 기술자를 결합한 사진 검색 시스템)

  • Lee, Yong-Hwan;Kim, Heung-Jun
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.45-52
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    • 2014
  • This paper proposes an efficient photo retrieval system that automatically indexes for searching of relevant images, using a combination of geo-coded information, direction/location of image capture device and content-based visual features. A photo image is labeled with its GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates and direction of the camera view at the moment of capture, and the label leads to generate a geo-spatial index with three core elements of latitude, longitude and viewing direction. Then, content-based visual features are extracted and combined with the geo-spatial information, for indexing and retrieving the photo images. For user's querying process, the proposed method adopts two steps as a progressive approach, filtering the relevant subset prior to use a content-based ranking function. To evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme, we assess the simulation performance in terms of average precision and F-score, using a natural photo collection. Comparing the proposed approach to retrieve using only visual features, an improvement of 20.8% was observed. The experimental results show that the proposed method exhibited a significant enhancement of around 7.2% in retrieval effectiveness, compared to previous work. These results reveal that a combination of context and content analysis is markedly more efficient and meaningful that using only visual feature for image search.

STATION-KEEPING MANEUVER SIMULATION FOR THE COMMUNICATION, OCEAN AND METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE

  • Kim Young-Rok;Lee Byoung-Sun;Bang Hyo-Joon;Choi Kyu-Hong;Park Sang-Young
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2004.10b
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    • pp.251-253
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    • 2004
  • Automated east/west and north/south station-keeping maneuvers were simulated for the geostationary COMS (Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) satellite that will be launched around year 2008, The satellite has to be maintained within ${\pm}0.05^{\circ}$ at the nominal longitude of $128.2^{\circ}\;E$. The general perturbation method was used to keep the position of the geostationary satellite. Weekly based east/west and biweekly based north/south station-keeping maneuvers were investigated. The sun pointing perigee control method and two-bum strategy were used for the east/west station-keeping maneuver. Switching the right ascension of the ascending node to descending node was adopted for the north/south station-keeping maneuver. One year station-keeping maneuver was demonstrated and various station-keeping orbital parameters were analyzed.

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RESONANCE EFFECT ON THE GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT DUE TO THE NON-ZONAL GEOPOTENTIAL (지구 비대칭 중력장이 정지위성에 미치는 효과)

  • 박종욱;문인상;최규홍;최용석
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.23-35
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    • 1990
  • Resonance effect on the orbital elements of geosynchronous artificial satellite due to the non-zonal geopotential has been calculated. For the perturbation of a artificial satellite, perturbation effects due to the non-zonal geopotential is less than due to the $J_2$ or Luni-Solar perturbation, but non-zonal harmonics resonance exist. So, we calculate the perturbation of geosynchronous artificial satellite orbit due to the non-zonal harmonics resonance. The effect on the orbit eccentricity of non-zonal harmonics resonance is represented by a phase plane plot of ec. The effect on the orbit eccentricity of non-zonal harmonics resonance is represented by a phase plane plot of $e_c$ verse $e_s$. The evolution of mean longitude and semi-major axis are obtained.

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