• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.627-636
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• 2021

Although many studies on ship detection using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite images are being conducted around the world, there are still very few employing SAR microsatellites, as most of the microsatellites are optical satellites. Recently, the ICEYE and Capella Space have embarked on the development of microsatellites with SAR sensor, and similar projects are being initiated globally in line with the flow of the new space era [e.g., for the ICEYE: 18 satellites (~2021); Capella Space: 36 satellites (~2023); and the Coast Guard SAR: 32 satellites in the early development stage]. In preparation for these new systems, it is important to review the SAR microsatellite system and the recent advances in this technology. Accordingly, in this paper, the current status and characteristics of optical and SAR microsatellite constellation operation are described, and studies using them are investigated. In addition, based on the status and characteristics of the representative SAR microsatellites, specifically the ICEYE and Capella systems, methods for using SAR microsatellite data for ship detection applications are described. Our results confirm that the SAR microsatellites operate as a constellation and have the advantages of short revisit cycles and quick provision of high-resolution images. With this technology, we expect SAR microsatellites to contribute greatly to the monitoring a wide-area target vessel, in which the spatiotemporal resolution of the imagery is especially important.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.439-439
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• 2022

인공위성은 위성통신, 기상 등 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있지만 재난과 위성영상 특성 매칭의 제약으로 재난 상황에서는 제한적으로 사용되었다. 국내외 위성 갯수의 증가로 위성영상을 준-실시간으로 확보 가능함에 따라 활용할 수 있는 범위가 증가하여 최근에는 재난·재해에 신속하게 대비하기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구는 재난 발생 지역의 위성 영상 확보를 위해 촬영된 영상과 미래시점의 촬영 예정인 영상의 촬영 예정 시간 및 영역을 빠른 시간 내 분석하여 최적 위성영상 확보에 기반이 되고자 한다. 행정안전부에서 분류한 재난·재해 유형에 따라 재난 예측, 탐지, 사후처리를 위한 위성자료의 확보를 위하여 다양한 위성과 탑재된 센서들의 궤도, 공간 해상도, 파장대 등의 위성영상의 적시성을 분석하여 최적 위성을 정의하였다. 위성 궤도 시뮬레이션은 TLE(Two Line Element) 정보를 이용하는 SGP4(Simplified General Perturbations version 4) 모델에 적용하여 개발하였다. 최신 TLE 정보를 이용하여 위성 궤도 정보 및 센서 정보(공간 해상도, Swath width, incidence angle IFOV 등)을 적용하였다. 수집된 위성 궤도 정보를 기반으로 위성의 궤도를 예측하여 예측된 위치에서의 촬영 영역을 산정하는 분석 기능을 수행하여 최종 시뮬레이션 데이터를 생성한다. 개발된 위성 궤도 시뮬레이션 알고리즘을 토대로 태풍 미탁 사례에 적용하였다. 위성 궤도 시뮬레이션 알고리즘을 태풍 미탁 사례에 적용한 결과 다종 위성리스트 중 위성 궤도 분석을 통해 최단기간 획득 가능한 위성 중 정지 궤도 기상위성인 Himawari-8, GK-2A는 태풍 경로 모니터링, 광학 위성인 Sentinel-2, PlanetScope는 건물 피해 지역, SAR 위성인 Sentinel-1, ICEYE는 홍수 지역을 탐지하는데 최적 위성 영상으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.41-54
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• 2021

It is very essential to estimate the water body area using remote exploration for water resource management, analysis and prediction of water disaster damage. Hydrophysical detection using satellites has been mainly performed on large satellites equipped with optical and SAR sensors. However, due to the long repeat cycle, there is a limitation that timely utilization is impossible in the event of a disaster/disaster. With the recent active development of Micro satellites, it has served as an opportunity to overcome the limitations of time resolution centered on existing large satellites. The Micro satellites currently in active operation are ICEYE in Finland and Capella satellites in the United States, and are operated in the form of clusters for earth observation purposes. Due to clustering operation, it has a short revisit cycle and high resolution and has the advantage of being able to observe regardless of weather or day and night with the SAR sensor mounted. In this study, the operation status and characteristics of micro satellites were described, and the water area estimation technology optimized for micro SAR satellite images was applied to the Daecheong Dam basin on the Korean Peninsula. In addition, accuracy verification was performed based on the reference value of the water generated from the optical satellite Sentinel-2 satellite as a reference. In the case of the Capella satellite, the smallest difference in area was shown, and it was confirmed that all three images showed high correlation. Through the results of this study, it was confirmed that despite the low NESZ of Micro satellites, it is possible to estimate the water area, and it is believed that the limitations of water resource/water disaster monitoring using existing large SAR satellites can be overcome.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.5_3
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• pp.997-1008
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• 2023

Ship detection at sea can be performed in various ways. In particular, satellites can provide wide-area surveillance, and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery can be utilized day and night and in all weather conditions. To propose an efficient ship detection method from SAR images, this study aimed to apply the You Only Look Once Version 5 (YOLOv5) model to Sentinel-1 images and to analyze the difference between individual vs. integrated models and the accuracy characteristics by polarization. YOLOv5s, which has fewer and lighter parameters, and YOLOv5x, which has more parameters but higher accuracy, were used for the performance tests (1) by dividing each polarization into HH, HV, VH, and VV, and (2) by using images from all polarizations. All four experiments showed very similar and high accuracy of 0.977 ≤ AP@0.5 ≤ 0.998. This result suggests that the polarization integration model using lightweight YOLO models can be the most effective in terms of real-time system deployment. 19,582 images were used in this experiment. However, if other SAR images,such as Capella and ICEYE, are included in addition to Sentinel-1 images, a more flexible and accurate model for ship detection can be built.