• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.117-125
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• 2014

Korea's first X-band SAR satellite KOMPSAT-5 has been launched in 2013, so the research related to the X-band SAR satellite image is required to increase the utilization of KOMPSAT-5. In this study, we generated a DEM(Digital Elevation Model) using X-band SAR satellite images based on three methods which are InSAR, radargrammetry and RPC(Rational Polynomial Coefficients), and evaluated the performance of each methods. The four stripmap mode TerraSAR-X images taken in Daejeon were used to generate DEM, and accuracy was evaluated using DEM by IKONOS RPC. As results, DEM produced by the InSAR showed the highest accuracy. Also, we knew that RPC could be effective method if you want to create a large area DEM which contains the various elevation.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.499-504
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• 2003

This paper describes the system for evaluating the sea wave informations such as wave direction and wave length in real time, by using image data obtained from the marine X-band radar. We proposed here a method for automatic selection of the partial image data without the user's individual selection at the radar. We also discussed that the wave direction could be obtained by a 2-dimensional discrete Fourier transform algorithm. We carried some evaluation works on the algorithm through computer simulation. The obtained thirteen radar image data under several sea surface conditions were analyzed by the method described and the result was presented.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.271-280
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• 2022

Landfast sea ice forms near coastlines in polar regions. Continuous monitoring of this sea ice is important, as it plays a key role in the marine ecosystem and affects the operation of nearby research stations. This study detected landfast sea ice around Jang Bogo research station in East Antarctica by stacking interferometric coherence images of Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data with 6-, 12- and 18-day temporal baselines. A total of 50 landfast sea ice maps were generated covering July 2017 to June 2018. The time series revealed regional differences in the timing of the maximum extent as well as growth rate of landfast sea ice. Overall, detecting landfast sea ice using interferometric SAR coherence seems promisingly feasible; however, limitations remain owing to low backscattering coefficients from new and smooth sea ice surfaces and subtle movements of sea ice in contact with the Campbell Glacier Tongue.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.440-440
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• 2022

1970년대부터 집중 건설 된 우리나라의 다목적댐, 홍수조절댐, 용수전용댐 등의 대형 국가 수자원시설물들의 '고령화'가 급속히 진행되어 수리구조물에 대한 안정성을 주기적으로 파악할 수 있는 정밀안전모니터링 체계 구축이 시급한 시점이다. 주기적인 정밀안전모니터링 방법들 중에는 위성 등을 활용한 원격관측 기술들이 최근 시도되고 있다. 위성 영상레이더(SAR; Synthetic Aperture Radar)는 마이크로파 대역의 전자기파를 송·수신하는 능동센서로 날씨 및 주·야간에 영향을 받지 않고 지표면 관측이 가능한 장점이 있다. 특히, 고정산란체 영상레이더 간섭(PSInSAR; Permanent Scatterer Interferometry SAR)기법은 영상레이더 영상에서 긴밀도(coherence)가 상대적으로 높은 수자원시설물과 같은 고정산란체의 위상(phase) 정보를 이용하여 mm급의 측정민감도로 시계열 변위 분석이 가능하다. 또한, 여러 장의 InSAR 영상을 생성하였기 때문에 DEM 오차, 위성궤도 오차, 대기 성분에 의한 지연 오차 등을 보다 정밀하게 제거할 수 있는 장점이 있다 본 연구에서는 국내 중대형 수자원시설물의 정밀안전모니터링을 위하여 고정산란체 영상레이더 간섭 기법을 영암금호방조제, 영주댐, 소양강댐 등에 적용하여 시계열 변위 분석을 수행하였다. 2014년 11월부터 2022년 3월(현재)까지 획득된 Sentinel-1 SLC(Single Look Complex) 위성자료의 상승(Ascending) 궤도 126장 및 하강(Descending)궤도 187장을 각각 활용하였다. 두 위성궤도를 모두 활용하여 수직, 수평 변위 등 3차원 분석을 수행하였으며, 특히 소양강댐 GPS 관측 자료와 정확도 검증에서 연평균 2mm의 RMSE를 보였다. 이를 통해 위성 원격탐사 기술로도 댐, 보, 방조제와 같은 수자원시설물에 대한 시계열 변위 분석을 통한 댐 안전관리가 가능함을 보여주고 있다. 2025년 발사될 국내 C-밴드 SAR 탑재 수자원위성 개발을 통해 한반도 재방문주기를 단축시킴으로써, 한반도 전역의 수자원시설물 정밀안전진단체계 구축이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1153-1162
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• 2008

The use of radar rainfall for hydrological appraisal has been a challenge due to the limitations in raw data generation followed by the complex analysis needed to come up with precise data interpretation. In this study, RAIDOM (RAdar Image DigitalizatiOn Method) has been developed to convert synthetic radar CAPPI(Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator) image data from Korea Meteorological Administration into digital format in order to come up with a more practical and useful radar image data. RAIDOM was used to examine a severe local rainstorm that occurred in July 2006 as well as two other separate events that caused heavy floods on both upper and mid parts of the HanRiver basin. A distributed model was developed based on the available radar rainfall data. The Flood Hydrograph simulation has been found consistent with actual values. The results show the potentials of RAIDOM and the distributed model as tools for flood prediction. Furthermore, these findings are expected to extend the usefulness of radar rainfall data in hydrological appraisal.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.86-92
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• 2005

Synthetic Aperture Radar is an active sensor utilizing the microwaves in order to get the requested high resolution imageries day or night regardless of the weather conditions. In this paper, the architecture of a real-time system controller for the airborne small SAR system, KOrea Miniature SAR which was developed by Agency for Defense Development is proposed considering the embedded real-time environment. The main purpose of the system controller is to control the internal and the rest of subsystem within SAR system in real-time. The main characteristics of the proposed system controller were implemented using the real-time operating system and the distributed hardware architecture for the small, low weight and real-time operation. The system controller performance and real-time operation were verified and confirmed by the demo flight with the KT-1 airplane.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.29.3-29.3
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• 2008

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.1-9
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• 2016

This paper was studied in two ways with respect to the information received from the video signal separation technique of PPI Scop radar device. The proposed technique consists in generating an image signal through the video signal separation and synthesis, symbol generation, the residual image signal generation process. This technology can greatly improve the operating convenience with improved ease of discrimination, screen readability for the operator in analyzing radar information. The first proposed method was constructed for high-speed FPGA-based information processing systems for high speed operation stability of the system. The second proposed method was implemented intelligent algorithms and a software algorithm function curve associated resources.This was required to meet the constraints on the radar information, analysis system. Existing radar systems have not the frame data analysis unit image. However, this study was designed to image data stored in the frame-by-frame analysis of radar images with express information MPEG4 video. Key research content is to highlight the key observations expresses the target, the object-specific monitoring information to the positive image processing algorithm and the function curve delays. For high-definition video, high-speed to implement data analysis and expressing a variety of information was applied to the ARM Processor Support in Pro ASIC3.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.467-475
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• 2014

In this paper, we introduce a sparse recovery algorithm applied to a radar signal model, based on the compressive sensing(CS), for the formulation of the radar signatures, such as high-resolution range profile(HRRP) and ISAR(Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar) image. When there exits missing data in observed RCS data samples, we cannot obtain correct high-resolution radar signatures with the traditional IDFT(Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform) method. However, high-resolution radar signatures using the sparse recovery algorithm can be successfully recovered in the presence of data missing and qualities of the recovered radar signatures are nearly comparable to those of radar signatures using a complete RCS data without missing data. Therefore, the results show that the sparse recovery algorithm rather than the DFT method can be suitably applied for the reconstruction of high-resolution radar signatures, although we collect incomplete RCS data due to unwanted interferences or jamming signals.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.9-23
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• 2019

Super-refraction of radar beams tends to occur primarily under a particular vertical structure of temperature and water vapor pressure profiles. A quality control process for the removal of anomalous propagation (AP) ehcoes are required because APs are easily misidentified as precipitation echoes. For this purpose, we collected X-band polarimetric radar parameters (differential reflectivity, cross-correlation coefficient, and differential phase) only including non-precipitation echoes (super-refraction and clear-sky ground echoes) and precipitation echoes, and compared the echo types regarding the relationships among radar reflectivities, polarimetric parameters, and the membership functions. We developed a removal algorithm for the non-precipitation echoes using the texture approach for the polarimetric parameters. The presented algorithm is qualitatively validated using the S-band Jindo radar in Jeollanam-do. Our algorithm shows the successful identification and removal of AP echoes.