• 제목/요약/키워드: Polar regions

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극지기초안전교육과정 개발에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Development of Curriculum of Polar safety training)

  • 이진우;김이완;우영진;이창희
    • 수산해양교육연구
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    • 제28권4호
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    • pp.1031-1041
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    • 2016
  • Interests in the Polar Regions have been growing due to various factors such as depletion of natural resources and advanced resource development technologies, accelerated rate of polar ice melting as a result of global warming, etc. In particular, demand for the workforce related to vessel passage using the Northern Sea Route and polar studies is still expanding. The International Maritime Organization adopted the Polar Code in 2015 for the safety of ship operation in polar waters and it will enter into force from 2017. But education and training section in the code has been prescribed only for the safe navigation in the ice covered waters intended for navigational offices. There is no basic safety training requirement that applies commonly for all personnel exposed to the risk of the polar regions and the relevant study or discussion has not been made so far. Therefore, this study provides basic data for developing safety training courses for crew and other personnel by analyzing relevant regulations on polar safety training and the contents of relevant safety training in offshore industry required by the costal states adjacent to arctic ocean.

Multi-constellation Local-area Differential GNSS for Unmanned Explorations in the Polar Regions

  • Kim, Dongwoo;Kim, Minchan;Lee, Jinsil;Lee, Jiyun
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • 제8권2호
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    • pp.79-85
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    • 2019
  • The mission tasks of polar exploration utilizing unmanned systems such as glacier monitoring, ecosystem research, and inland exploration have been expanded. To facilitate unmanned exploration mission tasks, precise and robust navigation systems are required. However, limitations on the utilization of satellite navigation system are present due to satellite orbital characteristics at the polar region located in a high latitude. The orbital inclination of global positioning system (GPS), which was developed to be utilized in mid-latitude sites, was designed at $55^{\circ}$. This means that as the user is located in higher latitudes, the satellite visibility and vertical precision become worse. In addition, the use of satellite-based wide-area augmentation system (SBAS) is also limited in higher latitude regions than the maximum latitude of signal reception by stationary satellites, which is $70^{\circ}$. This study proposes a local-area augmentation system that additionally utilizes Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) considering satellite navigation system environment in Polar Regions. The orbital inclination of GLONASS is $64.8^{\circ}$, which is suitable in order to ensure satellite visibility in high-latitude regions. In contrast, GLONASS has different system operation elements such as configuration elements of navigation message and update cycle and has a statistically different signal error level around 4 m, which is larger than that of GPS. Thus, such system characteristics must be taken into consideration to ensure data integrity and monitor GLONASS signal fault. This study took GLONASS system characteristics and performance into consideration to improve previously developed fault detection algorithm in the local-area augmentation system based on GPS. In addition, real GNSS observation data were acquired from the receivers installed at the Antarctic King Sejong Station to analyze positioning accuracy and calculate test statistics of the fault monitors. Finally, this study analyzed the satellite visibility of GPS/GLONASS-based local-area augmentation system in Polar Regions and conducted performance evaluations through simulations.

Axisymmetric dynamic instability of polar orthotropic sandwich annular plate with ER damping treatment

  • Yeh, Jia-Yi
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.25-39
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    • 2014
  • The axisymmetric dynamic instability of polar orthotropic sandwich annular plate combined with electrorheological (ER) fluid core layer and constraining layer are studied in this paper. And, the ER core layer and constraining layer are used to improve the stability of the annular plate system. The boundaries of instability regions for the polar orthotropic sandwich annular plate system are obtained by discrete layer annular finite element and the harmonic balance method. The rheological property of an electrorheological material, such as viscosity, plasticity, and elasticity can be controlled by applying different electric field strength. Thus, the damping characteristics of the sandwich system are more effective when the electric field is applied on the sandwich structure. Additionally, variations of the instability regions for the polar orthotropic sandwich annular plate with different applying electric field strength, thickness of ER layer and some designed parameters are investigated and discussed in this study.

중학생의 극지 소양 평가 (Assessing Middle School Students' Polar Literacy)

  • 최하늘;신동희
    • 한국지구과학회지
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    • 제44권2호
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    • pp.169-183
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    • 2023
  • 본 연구는 극지의 높은 교육적 가치를 바탕으로 극지 교육의 방향과 과학과 교육과정을 올바르게 설정하기 위한 노력의 일환으로 학생들의 극지 소양을 평가, 분석했다. 연구를 위해 개발된 극지 소양 검사 문항은 극지에 대한 지식, 기능, 태도, 신념 영역과 학생들의 배경 변인을 묻는 문항으로 구성되었다. 예비 검사를 통해 여러 차례 수정, 보완된 최종 검사 문항은 32 3명의 중학교 2학년 학생들을 대상으로 적용되었다. 전체 학생들에 대한 극지 소양 문항의 응답 특성을 분석했고, 극지 문제를 바라보는 관점에 따라 학생들을 세계 시민적 관점 또는 실용적 관점을 지닌 집단으로 구분하여 이들의 극지 소양을 추가로 비교 분석했다. 분석 결과, 학생들은 극지의 기후 변화와 생물에 대한 이해는 높았으나 극지의 핵심 구성 요소인 '얼음'에 대한 이해는 매우 낮았으며, 극지의 문제를 다룰 때 지구 시스템적 사고로 접근하지 못했다. 또한, 세계 시민적 집단의 학생들은 실용적 집단의 학생들보다 극지의 문제에 대한 지적 이해가 높고, 그 심각성에 대해 깊게 공감하고 있었다. 본 연구는 설문 결과를 바탕으로 극지 교육이 앞으로 나아가야 할 구체적인 방향을 제시했다는 점에서 의의가 있다.

Excitation Processes of the CH4 Aurorae of Jupiter and Saturn

  • Kim, Sang Joon
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제43권1호
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    • pp.72.1-72.1
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    • 2018
  • Recently, an analysis of 3-micron spectra of CH4 line emission from our Gemini/GNIRS observations of Jupiter's polar regions yielded an unexpected result: The homopause (~1 microbar pressure level) located directly above the long-lasting 8-micron CH4 north-polar hot spot (Great 8-micron Hot Spot: GHS) is cool compared with the temperatures of nearby auroral regions (Kim et al. 2017). Most of the 8-micron emission of the GHS originates from CH4 at the ~1 mbar level (i.e., deeper in the stratosphere, where cooling time is several years), much longer than at the altitude of the homopause. We propose a mechanism to explain the temperature difference: locally-fixed and transient, but energetic auroral particles, which can penetrate to the 1 mbar level and deposit energy there creating and maintaining the GHS. For Saturn, thus far we have not detected distinctive 8-micron nor 3-micron CH4 hot spots in the polar regions. We will present a possible implication for this difference between Jupiter and Saturn.

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Survivability, Mobility, and Functionality of n Rover for Radars in Polar Regions

  • Stansbury, Richard S.;Akers, Eric L.;Harmon, Hans P.;Agah, Arvin
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • 제2권3호
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    • pp.343-353
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents the survivability, mobility, and functionality of a rover as part of a radar system for polar regions. Rovers can provide autonomy and precision for radars used to measure ice thickness and other characteristics of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. These rovers can be used to move radar antennas in precise patterns for synthetic aperture radars while providing environmental protection and power to the onboard radar equipment. This paper describes the mobility, actuation, sensing, winterization, control, and virtual prototyping of a polar rover. The rover has been successfully tested in Greenland.

공간 변형 영상에서의 Hough 변환 (Development of Hough Transform for Space-Variant Image)

  • 김장식;진성일
    • 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전자공학회 2000년도 제13회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.675-678
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    • 2000
  • This paper presents a parametric line equation on the log-polar mapped plane to detect the straight lines in an original image. The log-polar edge image used in Hough transform is constructed by combining the edge images of both fovea and periphery. The foveal edge image detected by a Sobel mask on the Cartesian plane is transformed to the log-polar plane by forward mapping but the edge detection of the peripheral region is obtained by directly applying the newly developed mask to the log-polar plane. This paper also proposes a analytic method then determining a border between the fovea and the periphery regions.

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초·중등학교 교사들의 극지 소양 (Elementary and Secondary School Teachers' Polar Literacy)

  • 정수임;최하늘;김민지;신동희
    • 한국지구과학회지
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    • 제42권6호
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    • pp.734-751
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    • 2021
  • 이 연구는 극지 소양 교육을 학교 교육과정에 반영하기 위한 기초 자료를 마련하고자 수행되었다. 교육과정을 현장에서 구현하는 교사들이 지닌 극지 인식과 교수 경험, 극지 관련 인지적·정의적 특성을 조사했다. 대도시 및 중소도시 10개교의 초·중·고등학교 교사 56명을 대상으로 극지 관련 인식, 교수 현황, 극지 지식, 극지와 기후 변화에 대한 신념 및 태도를 포함한 설문을 실시했다. 그 결과, 교사들은 극지 정보에 대한 효능감은 낮은 편이나, 극지와 기후 변화 문제 해결에 있어 교육자의 위상을 긍정적으로 평가하고 있으며 세계 시민적 가치를 실용적 목적보다 우선했다. 학교에서 극지와 기후 변화 문제를 교수한 경험은 교과와 비교과에 걸쳐 다양했지만, 완성된 형태의 교수-학습 자료를 제공받기 원하는 등 교수 개발에 있어 수동적인 면모를 보였다. 인지적 측면에서 교사들은 극지 변화와 기후가 영향을 주고받는 작동 원리와 과정에 대해 다소 모호한 이해를 드러냈다. 정의적 측면에서 대부분 교사들은 학교급을 초월해서 극지 관련 문제에 대한 신념과 태도에서 높은 경향이 나타났지만, 행동 선택은 근소하게 낮았다. 이상의 결과를 바탕으로 극지 소양을 증진시키기 위한 기회 및 자료 제공, 가치 및 태도 형성을 위한 다양한 맥락의 교육 소재 발굴, 극지 연구 자료를 활용한 교육 자료 개발, 학생과 교사를 포함한 극지 지식에 대한 오개념 파악, 초등 교사의 극지 소양 강화, 정의적 태도와 가치관 함양 등의 시사점을 제안했다.