• 천문학논총
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.49-59
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• 2012

KASI (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) has developed an SLR (Satellite Laser Ranging) system since 2008. The name of the development program is ARGO (Accurate Ranging system for Geodetic Observation). ARGO has a wide range of applications in the satellite precise orbit determination and space geodesy research using SLR with mm-level accuracy. ARGO-M (Mobile, bistatic 10 cm transmitting/40 cm receiving telescopes) and ARGO-F (Fixed stationary, about 1 m transmitting/receiving integrated telescope) SLR systems development will be completed by 2014. In 2011, ARGO-M system integration was completed. At present ARGO-M is in the course of system calibration, functionality, and performance tests. It consists of six subsystems, OPS (Optics System), TMS (Tracking Mount System), OES (Opto-Electronic System), CDS (Container-Dome System), LAS (Laser System) and AOS (ARGO Operation System). In this paper, ARGO-M system structure and integration status are introduced and described.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2013

ARGO-M is a satellite laser ranging (SLR) system developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute with the consideration of mobility and daytime and nighttime satellite observation. The ARGO-M optical system consists of 40 cm receiving telescope, 10 cm transmitting telescope, and detecting optics. For the development of ARGO-M optical system, the structural analysis was performed with regard to the optics and optomechanics design and the optical components. To ensure the optical performance, the quality was tested at the level of parts using the laser interferometer and ultra-high-precision measuring instruments. The assembly and alignment of ARGO-M optical system were conducted at an auto-collimation facility. As the transmission and reception are separated in the ARGO-M optical system, the pointing alignment between the transmitting telescope and receiving telescope is critical for precise target pointing. Thus, the alignment using the ground target and the radiant point observation of transmitting laser beam was carried out, and the lines of sight for the two telescopes were aligned within the required pointing precision. This paper describes the design, structural analysis, manufacture and assembly of parts, and entire process related with the alignment for the ARGO-M optical system.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.129-136
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• 2005

Continued observation of ARGO floats for years(about 4 years) makes the conductivity sensor more vulnerable to fouling by marine life and associated drift in salinity measurements. In this paper, we address this issue by making use of floats deployed in different years. Floats deployed in the East Sea and the Indian Ocean are examined to find out float-to-float match-ups in such a way that an older float pops up simultaneously with a newer deployment (with tolerable space-time difference). A time difference of less than five days and space difference of less than 100km are considered for the match-up data sets. For analysis of the salinity drift under the stable water mass, observations of the floats from deepest water masses have been used. From the cross-check of ARGO floats in the East Sea and the Indian Ocean, it is found that there is a systematic drift in the older float compared to later deployments. All drift results, consistently show negative bias indicating the typical nature of drift from fouled sensors. However, the drift is much less than 0.01, the specified accuracy of ARGO program.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.461-468
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• 2008

Competitive power of pelagic fishery in Korea has been weakened by the domestic and international problems such as wage increase and exclusive economic zone. To make it worse, fishing fleet spends more than 80% of fishing time on searching fishing grounds. Real-time information on oceanographic data, temperature in particular, are likely to contribute to raise efficiency of fishing. However, available data obtained by satellite remote sensing, fixed buoy and drifting buoy, limited to sea surface or fixed positions. ARGO (Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography), an international program, has delivered vertical profiles of temperature and salinity in the upper 2000m of the world ocean every 10 days using freely moving floats. We have developed real-time oceanographic information system for pelagic fishery based on the Argo data which has the contents of vertical profile, horizontal distribution and vertical section of temperature around fishing grounds and searched data can be download unrestrictedly. Comparison of skipjack catch with sea surface temperature and depth of $20^{\circ}C$ derived from Argo data in the West Equatorial Pacific revealed that Argo data are able to help fishing fleet to find fishing grounds and to increase catch.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.245-252
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• 2010

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) has developed a mobile satellite laser ranging (SLR) system called ARGO-M since 2008 for space geodesy research and precise orbit determination technologies using SLR with mm level accuracy. ARGO-M is capable of night tracking and daylight tracking for which requires spatial, spectral and time filters due to high background noises. In this study, characteristics and specifications of ARGO-M are discussed and its tracking capabilities of night and daylight tracking are analyzed for STSAT-2B and KOMPSAT-5 through link budget. Additionally false alarm and signal detection probabilities are also analyzed depending on spectral and time filters for daylight tracking for these satellites.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.1075-1081
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• 2016

The big data analysis has received much attention from the researchers working in various fields because the big data has a great potential in detecting or predicting future events such as epidemic outbreaks and changes in stock prices. Reflecting the current popularity of big data analysis, many authors have proposed methods tracking influenza epidemics based on internet-based information. The recently proposed 'autoregressive model using Google (ARGO) model' (Yang et al., 2015) is one of those influenza tracking models that harness search queries from Google as well as the reports from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and appears to outperform the existing method such as 'Google Flu Trends (GFT)'. Although the ARGO predicts well the outbreaks of influenza, this study demonstrates that a classical seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model can outperform the ARGO. The SARIMA model incorporates more accurate seasonality of the past influenza activities and takes less input variables into account. Our findings show that the SARIMA model is a functional tool for monitoring influenza epidemics.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.554-566
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• 2012

성공적인 국제 Argo 사업을 통해 얻어진 고해상도의 수온 및 염분 프로파일들을 이용하여 준실시간으로 3차원 전지구 해양 상태의 재현이 가능해졌으며, 전지구 해양 자료 분석 연구에 대한 관심 또한 크게 증가하였다. 본 연구에서는 XBT와 Argo 자료의 계통 오차, 열염분 해수면 높이 및 인공위성 관측 자료와의 해수면 수지 불일치, 해양 열용량 변동 및 객관 분석장 개발 현황 등 최근의 자료 분석 연구의 주요 쟁점들에 관해 정리하였다. 특히 동아시아 해역에서의 지역 규모 해양 기후 변화 분석에 앞서 매우 신중한 해양 자료의 품질 관리 및 전구 규모의 해양 변동에 관한 이해가 필요하다는 것을 강조하였다.

• 한국항공운항학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항공운항학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.32-34
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• 2015

캔위성은 대기권 내에서 낙하하며 실제 위성을 모사하는 초소형위성으로 저렴한 비용과 용이한 접근성으로 인공위성 시스템 교육과 실험 등에 있어서 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 이러한 점을 착안하여 Argos는 촬영위성과 통신위성 2기로 구성된 캔위성 시스템을 개발하였다. Argos는 해당지역의 영상을 수집하고 위성 간 통신을 하는 것을 주 임무로 하였다. 또한 자세데이터, 위치데이터, 온도, 압력을 수집하고 지상국으로 전송 하는 것을 부 임무로 하였다. Argos는 실제 발사된 이후 제한적인 임무를 수행하였고, 위성간의 통신으로 임무데이터를 지상국으로 전송하였다. 본 논문에서는 광범위 데이터 수집의 역할을 하는 Argos의 개발과정과 운용결과를 소개하고자 한다.

• 한국항공운항학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항공운항학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.1-5
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• 2015

캔위성은 대기권 내에서 낙하하며 실제 위성을 모사하는 초소형위성으로 저렴한 비용과 용이한 접근성으로 인공위성 시스템 교육과 실험 등에 있어서 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 이러한 점을 착안하여 Argos는 촬영위성과 통신위성 2기로 구성된 캔위성 시스템을 개발하였다. Argos는 해당지역의 영상을 수집하고 위성 간 통신을 하는 것을 주 임무로 하였다. 또한 자세데이터, 위치데이터, 온도, 압력을 수집하고 지상국으로 전송 하는 것을 부 임무로 하였다. Argos는 실제 발사된 이후 제한적인 임무를 수행하였고, 위성간의 통신으로 임무데이터를 지상국으로 전송하였다. 본 논문에서는 광범위 데이터 수집의 역할을 하는 Argos의 개발과정과 운용결과를 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.155-162
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• 2011

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute has been developing one mobile and one stationary satellite laser ranging system for the space geodesy research and precise orbit determination since 2008, which are called as ARGO-M and ARGO-F, respectively. They will be capable of daytime laser ranging as well as nighttime and provide the accurate range measurements with millimeter level precision. Laser ranging accuracy is mostly dependent on the optics and optoelectronic system which consists of event timer, optoelectronic controller and photon detectors in the case of ARGO-M. In this study, the optoelectronic system of ARGO-M is addressed and its critical design is also presented. Additionally, the experiment of the integrated optoelectronic system was performed in the laboratory to validate the functional operation of each component and its results are analyzed to investigate ARGO-M performance in advance.