• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.25-32
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• 2009

In this paper, the technical trends of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) were studied by investigating the journals and conference associated with the advanced technology of SAR. SAR has been first demonstrated in 1950. The main objective of SAR development is to overcome the limitations of real aperture radars. From 1950, many new concepts and technologies for SAR system is suggested and realized by many international researchers and engineers. New concepts for future SAR systems represented in the recent conference have been rearranged and analyzed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.130-138
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• 2003

The classical image reconstruction for stripmap-mode Synthetic Aperture Radar is the Range-Doppler algorithm. When the spotlight-mode SAR system was envisioned, Range-Doppler algorithm turned out to fail rapidly in this SAR imaging modality. Thus, what is referred to as Polar format algorithm, which is based on the Plane wave approximation, was introduced for imaging from spotlight-mode SAR raw- data. In this paper, we have studied for the raw data processing schemes in the spotlight-mode Synthetic Aperture Radar. We apply the Wavefront Reconstruction scheme that does not utilize the approximation in spotlight-mode SAR imaging modelity, and compare the performance of target imaging with the Polar format inversion scheme.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.44 no.9
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• pp.806-813
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• 2016

For satellite attitude control and maneuver, normally four reaction wheels are used through pyramid configuration. However, if satellite's moment of inertia is large or available reaction wheels' capability is small, we can consider using five reaction wheels. In this case, we should think the arrangement of wheels and their operation method. Active SAR satellite requires high agile maneuver about roll axis to achieve looking angle change. In this research, we study the operation method of five reaction wheels configuration for fast roll maneuver.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.443-443
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• 2022

적설은 자주는 아니지만 가끔 비교적 넓은 범위에 피해를 발생시킨다. 적설에 의한 피해를 예방하기 위해서는 피해를 유발하는 적설심을 미리 파악해 둘 필요가 있다. 하지만 관측하고 있는 적설심은 특정 관측지점으로 한정되어 피해를 유발하는 한계적설심을 파악하는데 어려움이 있다. 이를 극복하기 위한 일반적인 방법은 관측지점의 적설을 보간하여 공간적으로 확대하는 것이다. 하지만 이것은 매우 적은 자료를 가지고 넓은 영역을 통계적으로 추정해야하는 한계로 인해 피해 유발 한계적설심의 구명에 더 혼란을 주기도 한다. 이를 보완하기 위해서는 넓은 영역을 관측하는 위성영상을 활용할 수 있으며, 그 중에서도 합성개구레이더(Synthetic Aperture Radar; SAR)를 이용한 InSAR(Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) 기법은 이를 위해 적절한 방법일 수 있다. 영상의 간섭계는 두 개의 다른 시기에 측정된 합성개구레이더 영상의 위상차를 이용한 것으로 일반적으로 다른 조건들이 일치할 때 지형의 변화를 추적할 때 사용되곤 한다. 그런데 만약 두 시기 사이에 특별한 지형적인 변화를 일으키는 요인이 없고 단지 적설만이 존재한다면 두 영상의 위상차는 적설의 효과로 볼 수 있을 것이다. 적설이 전파의 전달경로를 다르게 만들어 위상차를 발생시키는 것으로 가정할 수 있다. 이때 발생하는 위상차는 적설심과 적설의 굴절률에 의해 다를 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 적설 전후에 수집된 인공위성 합성개구레이더 자료의 위상차를 분석한 간섭영상을 이용해 적설심의 공간분포를 추정하여 비교해 보고자 한다. 이를 위해 적설에 대한 투과가 가능한 C밴드 레이더를 사용하는 Sentinel-1의 영상을 사용하였다. 적설심의 공간분포는 실제 피해발생지역의 적설심을 보다 정확하게 추정하는데 기여할 수 있으며, 이것은 실제 피해유발적설심을 파악하는데 도움이 될 것이다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2006.03a
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• pp.71-74
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• 2006

파랑은 선박의 안전운항에 있어서 중요한 요소이다. 지금까지의 파랑관측은 부이와 같은 현장관측에 주로 의존하고 있으나, 근년 위성에 의한 리모트센싱의 기술이 발달함에 따라, 파랑계측에 분야에도 시도되고 있다. 하지만 국내에서는 SAR(합성개구레이더)의 처리 경험 자체가 부족하여 본격적인 연구개발이 시작되지 않고 있다. 본 연구에서는 SAR를 이용한 파랑계측을 하기 위한 초기단계로, 1) SAR화상에서 파랑의 영상화 메커니즘, 2) 파랑 스펙트럼 추정 기법의 소개를 하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.43 no.7
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• pp.648-656
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• 2015

Active SAR satellite's main maneuver is roll axis maneuver to change SAR antenna direction. In addition, yaw steering is required to minimize the doppler centroid variation. Thus, it is resonable to assign the torque/momentum capacity mostly to roll axis and then yaw axis. In this case, the pitch axis shows low agility performance. However, due to orbit maintenance, large angle maneuver about pitch axis is sometimes required. In this paper, we study the pitch axis maneuver time reduction through sequential rotation about roll and yaw axis. Since these two axes have high agility performance than pitch axis, maneuver time reduction is possible when large angle rotation about pitch axis is required.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.104-108
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• 2006

There are range and azimuth direction resolution of synthetic aperture radar on the aircraft or satellite. Wide bandwidth chirp pulse generation technology is prerequisite for SAR image with fine resolution. There are two kinds of digital chirp pulse generation technology as arbitrary waveform generator(AWG) and direct digital synthesizer(DDS). In this paper, we design and implement a digital chirp pulse generator to generate 300MHz wide bandwidth linear FM chirp pulse for the fine resolution image with direct digital synthesizer. Implemented chirp pulse generator can be useful for the SAR sensors to make 50cm range resolution image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.152-153
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• 2023

AIS has been widely used for maritime traffic assessment for its convenience. However, AIS has problems with position missing due to radio interference and transmission distance limit. On the other hand, satellite radar determines the location of ships over a wide sea regardless of the problems. This study proposes a noble method of stepwise threshold determination to detect ships from Sentinel-1. The proposed method is up to 25 times faster than the existing moving window-based threshold determination method, and the detection accuracy is similar.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.10 no.1 s.20
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• pp.1-7
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• 2004

RADARSAT is one of many possible data sources that can play an important role in marine surveillance including ship detection because radar sensors have the two primary advantages: all-weather and day or night imaging. However, atmospheric effects on SAR imaging can not be bypassed and any remote sensing image has various geometric distortions, In this study, radiometric and geometric calibrations for RADARSAT/SAT data are tried using SGX products georeferenced as level 1. Even comparison of the near vs. far range sections of the same images requires such calibration Radiometric calibration is performed by compensating for effects of local illuminated area and incidence angle on the local backscatter, Conversion method of the pixel DNs to beta nought and sigma nought is also investigated. Finally, automatic geometric calibration based on the 4 pixels from the header file is compared to a marine chart. The errors for latitude and longitude directions are 300m and 260m, respectively. It can be concluded that the error extent is acceptable for an application to open sea and can be calibrated using a ground control point.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.49-52
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• 2004

RADARSAT is one of many possible data sources that can play an important role in marine surveillance including ship detection because radar sensors have the two primary advantages: all-weather and day or night imaging. However, atmospheric effects on SAR imaging can not be bypassed and any remote sensing image has various geometric distortions. In this study, radiometric and geometric calibrations for RADARSAT/SAR data are tried using SGX products georeferenced as level 1. For radiometric calibration, information on the magnitude of the radar backscatter coefficient of the imaged terrain is extracted from the processed image data. Conversion method of the pixel DNs to beta nought and sigma nought is also investigated Finally, automatic geometric calibration based on the header file is compared to a marine chart.