• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.831-833
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• 2003

We have evaluated the accuracy of digital elevation models of Jeju island generated with three different sensors, NASA JPL TOPSAR, JERS-1 SAR, KOMPSAT-1 EOC using Interferometric SAR and stereo photogrammetry. Characteristics and limitations of each method are described.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.257-272
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• 2007

This paper analyzed relationships between various features from SAR data with multiple acquisition dates and mode (frequency, polarization and incidence angles), and land-cover classes. Two typical types of features were extracted by considering acquisition conditions of currently available SAR data. First, coherence, temporal variability and principal component transform-based features were extracted from multi-temporal and single mode SAR data. C-band ERS-1/2, ENVISAT ASAR and Radarsat-1, and L-band JERS-1 SAR data were used for those features and different characteristics of different SAR sensor data were discussed in terms of land-cover discrimination capability. Overall, tandem coherence showed the best discrimination capability among various features. Long-term coherence from C-band SAR data provided a useful information on the discrimination of urban areas from other classes. Paddy fields showed the highest temporal variability values in all SAR sensor data. Features from principal component transform contained particular information relevant to specific land-cover class. As features for multiple mode SAR data acquired at similar dates, polarization ratio and multi-channel variability were also considered. VH/VV polarization ratio was a useful feature for the discrimination of forest and dry fields in which the distributions of coherence and temporal variability were significantly overlapped. It would be expected that the case study results could be useful information on improvement of classification accuracy in land-cover classification with SAR data, provided that the main findings of this paper would be confirmed by extensive case studies based on multi-temporal SAR data with various modes and ground-based SAR experiments.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.47-52
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• 2004

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a remote sensing technique capable of measuring ground surface deformation with sub-centimeter precision and spatial resolution in tens-of-meters over a large region. This paper highlights our on-going investigations of Aleutian volcanoes with SAR images acquired from European ERS-1 and ERS-2, Canadian Radarsat-l, and Japanese JERS-l satellites.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.107-109
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• 2003

Optical sensor-based land cover categories produce spectral signature confusion along with degraded classification accuracy. In the classification tasks, the goal of fusing data from different sensors is to reduce the classification error rate obtained by single source classification. This paper describes the result of land cover/land use classification derived from solely of Landsat TM (TM) and multisensor image fusion between JERS 1 SAR (JERS) and TM data. The best radar data manipulation is fused with TM through various techniques. Classification results are relatively good. The highest Kappa Coefficient is derived from classification using principal component analysis-high pass filtering (PCA+HPF) technique with the Overall Accuracy significantly high.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.13-24
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• 2000

SAR imagery usually reveals the influence of antenna look-direction on the delineation of geological structures. In this study, the look-direction bias in SAR image is quantitatively analyzed specifically for geological lineament study. Geologic lineaments are estimated using both Landsat TM and JERS-1 SAR images over the study area to quantitatively compare and analyze the look-direction bias in the SAR image. The standard geologic lineaments in the study area are established from lineaments estimated from TM images, field mapping, and fault lines in a published geologic map. The results show that lineaments normal to radar look-direction are extremely well enhanced while those parallel to look-direction are less visible as expected. However, certain lineaments even parallel to radar look-direction can still be detectable in a favorable topographic condition. Compared with TM image, the total number of detected lineaments in each direction in the SAR image increases or decreases ranging from 33% to 159% in length and from 28% to 187% in occurrence. The ratio of lineaments in SAR image to those in TM image with respect to direction can be fitted by a cosine function. The fitted function indicates that geological lineament is more easily detected in SAR image than in TM image within about $\pm$50$^{\circ}$ normal to radar look-direction. And lineaments with limited extension appear to be more sensitive to the look direction bias effect.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1070-1072
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• 2003

This study focuses on examing the feasibility of differential SAR interferometry (DInSAR) in the Northeastern Kyungsang Basin, Korea. Major faults in the Kyungsang Basin such as Yangsan fault, Dongrae fault, and Ulsan fault had developed during Cretaceous, and the activeness of these faults is still controversial in Korean geology community. We attempt to measure displacements in the study area by applying DInSAR techniques to JERS-1 SAR data sets. Some surface displacements are recognized by DInSAR method at Young-il Bay in which the POSCO Company locates, although the displacements may not be directly associated with geologic structures. We also discuss atmospheric effects for the techniques used.

• Journal of Korean Society of societal Security
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.85-90
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• 2009

In recent days, climatic change cause abnormal weather all over the world and we have a great loss of life and property every year. In Korea, we suffer from landslide problem because large regions of Korea Peninsula are composed of mountain. In order to detect rapidly and to take follow-up measures of disaster, the remote sensing is being used actively as conventional field survey has many restrictions in accessibility because of more time and man power requirement. In additions interferometric SAR is one of the techniques that have our attention because it can provide many kinds of accurate surface information without restriction of atmospheric and ground conditions by using L-band. In this study, we aimed to monitor the displacement of mountain area in Kangwondo and this results will be used for detecting landslide. Also we build the web system for detecting and analyzing the landslide.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.85-90
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• 2000

백두산 지역의 JERS-1 SLC 영상과 볼리비아 지역의 RADARSAT 영상에 대해 각각 interferometry와 radargrammetry를 이용하여 수치표고모형을 제작하였다. Interferometry 는 coregistration, interferogram 작성, phase unwrapping 과정으로 나눠지는데 temporal decorrelation으로 낮은 coherence, 부정확한 궤도정보가 DEM의 정확도를 저하시키는 주요 원인으로 작용하였다. Radargrammetry는 photogrammetry와 동일한 처리과정, 즉 GCP를 이용한 stereo model 설정, 영상 matching, 고도추출단계로 이루어지지만 광학영상 과는 다른 SAR 영상의 기하학적, 방사적 특성이 고려되어야 한다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.346-348
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• 2003

In this study, we attempted to estimate the discharge of the Amazon River branches from JERS-1/SAR images, which are independent of the weather. We visualized some traces of the Amazon River branches, transformed river shapes into a one-dimensional signal, and calculated the characteristics of the river shapes such as the meandering wavelength and the amplitude with Fourier and wavelet analysis. Then, we related the characteristics of the river shapes with the existing discharge data and derived some regression equations. Finally, we estimated the discharge of the Amazon River branches from the SAR images.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.96-101
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• 2000

SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferometry 기술은 co-registration, 정밀궤도 계산, phase unwrapping, 지형보정과 같은 기술로 구성되어있다. 구속화된 위상값을 절대 위상값으로 변환하는 과정인 phase unwrapping 기술은 정밀지형고도를 얻는데 있어서 핵심기술이다. 본 연구에서는 JERS-1 SAR 영상으로부터 interferogram을 구하고, 이로부터 추출된 위상정보를 이용하여 branch cut(Goldstein et. al, 1988), minimum discontinuity(Flynn, 1997) 그리고 minimum $L^p$-norm(Ghiglia and Romero, 1996)방법 적용결과에 대한 비교 분석을 실시하였다. Goldstein 알고리즘은 수행속동가 매우 빠르지만 residue를 연결한 branch cut에 의해 분활된 영역 내에서, 서로 다른 적분 경로로 인해 위상이 단절되었다. 영상내의 모든 화소에서 절대 위상을 구한 minimum discontinuity와 minimum $L^p$-norm 알고리즘 수행 결과는 상관관계가 0.995로 매우 유사하였는데, 가중된 불연속선의 합을 최소화하는 minimum discontinuity 알고리즘이 minimum $L^p$-norm에 비해 영상 일부 지역에서 발생하는 위상 오차를 전파시키지 않는다는 장점이 있다. Minimum $L^p$-norm 방법은 다른 두 방법과 달리 위상정보 내에 많은 잡음이 있더라도 적절한 해를 구할 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 각 방법은 대상 자료의 특성에 따라 효율성이 있으나 Flynn의 알고리즘이 지역적 특성과 무관하게 가장 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.