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Extension of Range Migration Algorithm for Airborne SAR Data Processing

  • Shin, Hee-Sub;Song, Won-Gyu;Son, Jun-Won;Jung, Yong-Hwan;Lim, Jong-Tae
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.857-860
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    • 2005
  • Several algorithms have been developed for the data processing of spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR). In particular, the range migration algorithm (RMA) does not assume that illuminating wavefronts are planar. Also, a high resolution image can be obtained by the RMA. This paper introduces an extension of the original RMA to enable a more efficient airborne SAR data processing. We consider more general motion and scene than the original RMA. The presented formulation is analyzed by using the principle of the stationary phase. Finally, the extended algorithm is tested with numerical simulations using the pulsed spotlight SAR.

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A Study on X-band Frequency Synthesizer for Radar Transceiver (레이더 송수신기용 X 밴드 주파수 합성기에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Dong-Kook;Lee, Hyun-Soo
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.444-448
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a frequency synthesizer for X-band FMCW radars is proposed. Some X-band FMCW radars have been used as a level sensor for tanker ship and the resolution of the level sensor may be mainly depend on linearity of frequency sweep. For a linear frequency sweep. the proposed synthesizer employs a phase-locked loop using prescalars and a high speed digital PLL chip. The measured results show that the linear frequency sweep range is from 10 GHz to 11 GHz and the output power of the synthesizer is minium 7 dBm. and the phase noise is about -80 dBc/Hz at 100 KHz offset from 11 GHz.

Time-series InSAR Analysis and Post-processing Using ISCE-StaMPS Package for Measuring Bridge Displacements

  • Vadivel, Suresh Krishnan Palanisamy;Kim, Duk-jin;Kim, Young Cheol
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.527-534
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to monitor the displacement of the bridges using Stanford Method for Persistent Scatterers (StaMPS) time-series Persistent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar analysis. For case study bridges: Kimdaejung bridge and Deokyang bridge, we acquired 60 and 33 Cosmo-Skymed Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data over the Mokpo region and Yeosu region, respectively from 2013 to 2019. With single-look interferograms, we estimated the long-term time-series displacements over the bridges. The time-series displacements were estimated as -8.8 mm/year and -1.34 mm/year at the mid-span over the selected bridges: Kimdaejung and Deokyang bridge, respectively. This time-series displacement provides reliable and high spatial resolution information to monitor the structural behavior of the bridge for preventing structural behaviors.

High resolution ground penetrating image radar using an impulse waveform (초광대역 임펄스를 이용한 고해상도 지반탐사 이미지 레이더)

  • Park, Young-Jin;Kim, Kwan-Ho;Park, Hae-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.07c
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    • pp.2342-2344
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    • 2005
  • 초광대역 임펄스를 이용한 비파괴 지중 매설물 탐지용 지반 탐사 레이더(Ground penetrating image radar: GPR)를 개발하였다. 최대 탐사 깊이를 고려하여, 900 picosecond(ps) 상승 시간을 갖는 초광대역 임펄스를 설계하였고, 임펄스 발생기의 주파수 특성을 고려하여, 소형 평판형 다이폴 안테나가 설계되었다. 또한, 지중으로부터 반사되는 신호를 수신하기 위해서 고속의 A/D를 사용하였다. 측정은 송수신 안테나의 간격을 고정한 Bistatic 방식을 사용하였으며, 지중 매설물의 영상처리 판별을 위해 마이그레이션(migration) 기법을 사용하였다. 개발된 시스템은 금속 물체와 비금속 물체가 매설된 실증 시험장에서 시험되었고, 평면 해상도 및 깊이에 대한 해상도가 우수함을 보였다.

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Study of RF Impairments in Wideband Chirp Signal Generator (광대역 첩 신호 발생기를 위한 RF 불균형 연구)

  • Ryu, Sang-Burm;Kim, Joong-Pyo;Yang, Jeong-Hwan;Won, Young-Jin;Lee, Sang-Kon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.24 no.12
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    • pp.1205-1214
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    • 2013
  • Recently spaceborne SAR systems are increasing image resolution and frequency. As a high quality image resolution, the wider bandwidth is required and a wideband signal generator with RF component is very complicated and RF impairments of device is increased. Therefore, it is very important to improve performance by reducing these errors. In this study, the transmission signal of the wideband signal generator is applied to the phase noise, IQ imbalance, ripple gain, nonlinear model of high power amplifier. And we define possible structures of wideband signal generator and measure the PSLR and ISLR for the performance assesment. Also, we extract error of the amplitude and phase from the waveform and use a quadratic polynomial curve fitting and examine the performance change due to nonlinear device. Finally, we apply a high power amplifier predistortion method for non-linear error compensation. And we confirm that distortion in the output of the amplifier by intermodulation component is decreased by 15 dB.

Sensor Specification and Application of KOMPSAT5 (KOMPSAT 5의 센서제원과 활용방안)

  • Han, seung-hee;Kim, sung-gil
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.207-208
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    • 2016
  • KOMPSAT-5는 마이크로파를 매개로 하는 SAR센서가 탑재되어 있으며 해상도 1m로 기상과 주야간에 관계없이 지상의 영상을 획득할 수 있다. SAR페이로드에는 X-band(9.66GHz)Synthetic Aperture Radar를 포함하고 있다. K5시스템은 Standard Modes, High Resolution Modes와 Wide Swath Modes를 가지고 있으며 4가지의 추가적인 작동모드가 있어 다방면에 활용이 기대된다. 본 연구에서는 KOMPSAT 5 센서재원을 살펴보고 활용방안을 제안하고자 한다.

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CNN Based Human Activity Recognition System Using MIMO FMCW Radar (다중 입출력 FMCW 레이다를 활용한 합성곱 신경망 기반 사람 동작 인식 시스템)

  • Joon-sung Kim;Jae-yong Sim;Su-lim Jang;Seung-chan Lim;Yunho Jung
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.428-435
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    • 2024
  • In this paper, a human activity regeneration (HAR) system based on multiple input multiple output frequency modulation continuous wave (MIMO FMCW) radar was designed and implemented. Using point cloud data from MIMO radar sensors has advantages in terms of privacy, safety, and accuracy. For the implementation of the HAR system, a customized neural network based on PointPillars and depthwise separate convolutional neural network (DS-CNN) was developed. By processing high-resolution point cloud data through a lightweight network, high accuracy and efficiency were achieved. As a result, the accuracy of 98.27% and the computational complexity of 11.27M multiply-accumulates (Macs) were achieved. In addition, the developed neural network model was implemented on Raspberry-Pi embedded system and it was confirmed that point cloud data can be processed at a speed of up to 8 fps.

Evaluation of SAR Image Quality

  • Lee Young-ran;Kim Kwang Young;Kwak Sunghee;Shin Dongseok;Jeong Soo;Kim Kyung-Ok
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.397-400
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    • 2004
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) is an active micro­wave instrument that performs high-resolution observation under almost all weather conditions. Although there are many advantages of SAR instrument, many complicated steps are involved in order to generate SAR image products. Many research and algorithms have been proposed to process radar signal and to increase the quality of SAR products. However, it is hard to find research which compare the quality of SAR products generated with different algorithms and processing methods. In our previous research, a SAR processing s/w was developed for a ground station. In addition, quality assessment procedures and their test parameters inside a SAR processor was proposed. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the quality of SAR images generated from the developed SAR processing s/w. However, If there are no direct measurements such as radar reflector or scattering field measurement values it is difficult to compare SAR images generated with different methods. An alternative procedures and parameters for SAR image quality evaluation are presented and the problems involved in the comparison methods are discussed. Experiments based on real data have been conducted to evaluate and analyze quality of SAR images.

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Estimation of Rice Growth Using RADARSTA-2 SAR Images at Seosan Region

  • Kim, Yihyun;Hong, Sukyoung;Lee, Kyoungdo;Jang, Soyeong
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.237-244
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    • 2013
  • Radar remote sensing is appropriate for monitoring rice because the areas where this crop is cultivated are often cloudy and rainy. Especially, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can acquire remote sensing information with a high temporal resolution in tropical and subtropical regions due to its all-weather capability. This paper analyzes the relationships between backscattering coefficients of rice measured by RADARSAT-2 SAR and growth parameters during a rice growth period. We examined the temporal variations of backscattering coefficients with full polarization. Backscattering coefficients for all polarizations increased until Day Of Year (DOY 222) and then decreased along with Leaf Area Index (LAI), fresh weight, and Vegetation Water Content (VWC). Vertical transmit and Vertical receive polarization (VV)-polarization backscattering coefficients were higher than Horizontal transmit and Horizontal receive polarization (HH)-polarization backscattering coefficients in early rice growth stage and HH-polarization backscattering coefficients were higher than VV-polarization backscattering coefficients after effective tillering stage (DOY 186). Correlation analysis between backscattering coefficients and rice growth parameters revealed that HH-polarization was highly correlated with LAI, fresh weight, and VWC. Based on the observed relationships between backscattering coefficients and variables of cultivation, prediction equations were developed using the HH-polarization backscattering coefficients.

A Study on Design and Fabrication of SRD Impulse Generator and Antenna for Ground Penetrating Radar System (지반투과 레이더 시스템을 위한 SRD 임펄스 발생기 및 안테나의 설계 및 제작에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyoung-Jong;Shin, Suk-Woo;Choi, Gil-Wong;Choi, Jin-Joo;Shin, Shang-Youal
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.509-516
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, a ground penetrating radar(GPR) system is implemented for landmine detection. The performance of the GPR system is associated with the characteristics of local soil and buried target. The choice of the center frequency and the bandwidth of the GPR system are the key factors in the GPR system design. To detect a small and shallow target, the higher frequencies are needed for high depth resolution. We have been designed, fabricated and tested a new impulse generator using step recovery diodes. The measured impulse response has an amplitude of 6.2V and a pulse width of 250ps. The implemented GPR system has been tested real environmental conditions and has proved its ability to detect a small buried target.