• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2011

Precise control of antenna position is very critical in ArcSAR system which uses an arc-rail as a platform for the antenna movement instead of linear rail. In order to minimize the antenna positional error, we improved the motion driving system and applied a newly developed motion control S/W which utilizes the real time antenna position information from magnetic linear scale and encoder. The experimental results showed that the rotational RMS error was reduced to $0.0062^{\circ}$ from $0.0432^{\circ}$. In terms of antenna positional RMS error for the arm length of 3m, it was reduced to 0.324mm from 2.262mm. It is expected that the ArcSAR system can be used to monitor the sub-millimetric displacement of terrain and structural targets.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.107-112
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• 2009

A technique for the simulation of various kinds of ground based SAR system was developed. This is an ancillary research for the development of an ArcSAR system which uses an arc-rail as a platform for the antenna movement instead of linear rail. The results of applying conventional Deramp FFT based SAR focusing algorithm to the simulated raw signal of linear rail type ground based SAR for the point targets showed that the developed simulation technique generated accurate GB-SAR raw signal. The developed technique is now being used for the development and verification of SAR focusing algorithm for the arc-rail type ground based SAR. The simulation technique is also expected to be very useful for the purpose oriented system design and operation planning of ground based SAR technique.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.78-81
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• 2009

레일형 GB-SAR의 단점을 극복하고자 차량에 원형레일을 탑재하여 신속한 기동을 확보하고 합성구경의 길이를 늘리며 영상영역을 확장한 ArcSAR를 세계 최초로 설계하고 시작품을 제작하였다. ArcSAR의 핵심기술이라고 할 수 있는 원형레일은 알루미늄 프로파일로 제작한 회전디스크, 곡선가이드, 리니어 가이드로 구성되며, 서보모터를 이용하여 구동된다. 회전디스크의 지름은 2.1 m 이며, 회전 디스크 위에 장착된 곡선 가이드를 따라 안테나가 탑재된 리니어 가이드가 이동하며 정밀한 원형 운행을 하게 된다. 리니어 가이드는 슬라이드식으로 제작되어 최대 3 m 까지 확장이 가능하여 스폿 모드 측정시 6 m 길이의 레일에서의 자료 획득과 유사한 결과를 얻게 된다. SAR 측정 장비는 회전디스크 위에 장착되어 전원을 제외한 별도의 슬립링을 사용을 자제하였다. 레일의 구동과 자료의 획득은 LabVIEW 기반의 통합 제어측정 소프트웨어를 통해 구현하였으며, 실내 실험 및 현장적용 실험을 통해 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.03a
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• pp.3-6
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 레일형 GB-SAR의 단점을 극복하고자 차량에 원형레일을 탑재하여 신속한 기동을 확보하고 합성구경의 길이를 늘리며 영상영역을 확장한 Arc-SAR의 설계안을 제시한다. 하드웨어 측면에서 살펴보면, 밴형 차량의 상부에 원형레일을 설치하고 마이크로파 송, 수신 안테나를 탑재한 후 레일 위를 1mm 이내의 정밀도로 이동시키며, 자료를 획득하게 된다. 이때 안테나에 연결된 동축 케이블은 차량 내부의 송, 수신장치에 연결되는데 RF대역에서 완벽히 작동하는 슬립링이 없기 때문에 내부 송, 수신 장치를 턴 테이블위에 장착하여 외부 안테나의 이동과 동일한 각도로 회전하여, 동축 케이블의 꼬임을 방지하게 된다. 송, 수신 장치의 구성은 벡터 네트워크 분석기를 기반으로 마이크로파 앰프, 마이크로파 스위치로 구성되며, 통합 제어 소프트웨어를 통해 외부 안테나의 이동과 함께 제어된다. 한편, Arc-SAR 영상의 구현은 원형레일을 따라 얻어지는 합성구경의 기하학적인 특수성을 감안하여 최초로 시도될 것이다. 이 시스템은 RTK-GPS를 장착하여 지반변형 모니터링 시 차량 이동 오차를 최소화 하고자 하며, 이외에 고정형 산란체를 이용하여 차량 이동 오차를 보정하고자 한다. 또한 AWS (Automatic Weather System)을 장착하여 위상의 대기보정을 동시에 수행할 것이다. 이 시스템은 차량 탑재에 의한 기동성의 확보로 침수나 침하 등 긴급 재난 지역에 즉각적인 대응이 가능하며, 대형 구조물의 주기적인 변형 모니터링 등에 활용성이 클 것이다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.237-243
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• 2012

In this paper, an atmospheric effect of repetitive measurements of X-band (9.65 GHz) arc-rail type GB-SAR (ArcSAR) system was quantitatively analyzed. Four artificial triangular trihedral corner reflectors as stationary targets for getting stable back scattered signal during 43 hours continually. The results of the analysis showed that the phase of those stationary targets had changed maximum of 5 radian (12.4 mm) and total RMS error had was 1.62 radian (4 mm) during 65 repeated measuring time. The refractive index of air which was calculated using the temperature;humidity and pressure of atmosphere showed very close relationship with the phase difference. We could check the atmospheric correction was fulfilled by the correction of an atmospheric effect using refractive index during the selected 16 hours period showed that RMS error was dropped from 1.74 radian (4.3 mm) to 0.10 radian (0.24 mm).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.357-372
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• 2016

Augustine volcano, located along the Aleutian Arc, is one of the most active volcanoes in Alaska and nearby islands, with seven eruptions occurring between 1812 and 2006. This study monitored the surface displacement before and after the most recent 2006 eruption. For analysis, we conducted a time-series analysis on data observed at the permanent GPS(Global Positioning System) observation stations in Augustine Island between 2005 and 2011. According to the surface displacement analysis results based on GPS data, the movement of the surface inflation at the average speed of 2.3 cm/year three months prior to the eruption has been clearly observed, with the post-eruption surface deflation at the speed of 1.6 cm/year. To compare surface displacements measurement by GPS observation, ENVISAT(Environmental satellite) radar satellite data were collected between 2003 and 2010 and processed the SBAS(Small Baseline Subset) method, one of the time-series analysis techniques using multiple InSAR(Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) data sets. This result represents 0.97 correlation value between GPS and InSAR time-series surface displacements. This research has been completed precise surface deformation using GPS and time-series InSAR methods for a detection of precursor symptom on Augustine volcano.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.38 no.4 s.173
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• pp.381-394
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• 2005

Mokpo city is a coastal city located at the south western coast of the Korean Peninsula. Large regions within Mokpo are subjected to significant subsidence because about $70\%$ of the city area is a reclaimed land from the sea. Although no confidential quantitative measurements are available up to the present, the subsidence rate is as much as several cm per year. In this study, we aimed to estimate the subsidence rate over Mokpo city by using twenty-six JERS-1 SAR dataset from September 1992 to October 1998. Several tens of differential interferograms were processed from JERS-1 dataset and STRM 3-arc DEM. The results indicate continuous subsidence in Dongmyung-dong, Hadang-dong and Wonsan-dong in city, and the subsidence velocity reach over 4 cm/yr in the most highly sinking area. For facilitating the analysis of time-varying surface change, we also carried out an interferometric SAR time series analysis using permanent scatterer and consequently determined space-time maps of surface deformation at each acquisition time of JERS- 1 SAR.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.229-236
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• 2009

KOorea Multi-purpose SATellite(KOMPSAT)-5 will be launched at 550km altitude in 2010. Accurate satellite position(20 cm) and velocity(0.03 cm/s) are required to treat highly precise Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) image processing. Ionosphere delay was eliminated using dual frequency GPS data and double differenced GPS measurement removed common clock errors of both GPS satellites and receiver. SAC-C carrier phase data with 0.1 Hz sampling rate was used to achieve precise orbit determination(POD) with ETRI GNSS Precise Orbit Determination(EGPOD) software, which was developed by ETRI. Dynamic model approach was used and satellite's position, velocity, and the coefficients of solar radiation pressure and drag were adjusted once per arc using Batch Least Square Estimator(BLSE) filter. Empirical accelerations for sinusoidal radial, along-track, and cross track terms were also estimated once per revolution for unmodeled dynamics. Additionally piece-wise constant acceleration for cross-track direction was estimated once per arc. The performance of POD was validated by comparing with JPL's Precise Orbit Ephemeris(POE).