• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.405-415
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• 2005

It is difficult to classify tidal flat surface that is composed of a mixture of mud, sand, water and microphytobenthos. We used a Linear Spectral Unmixing (LSU) method for effectively classifying the tidal flat surface characteristics within a pixel. This study aims at 1) detecting algal mat using LSU in the Saemangeum tidal flats, 2) determining a suitable end-member selection method in tidal flats, and 3) find out a habitual characteristics of algal mat. Two types of end-member were built; one is a reference end-member derived from field spectrometer measurements and the other image end-member. A field spectrometer was used to measure spectral reflectance, and a spectral library was accomplished by shape difference of spectra, r.m.s. difference of spectra, continuum removal and Mann-Whitney U-test. Reference end-members were extracted from the spectral library. Image end-members were obtained by applying Principle Component Analysis (PCA) to an image. The LSU method was effective to detect microphytobenthos, and successfully classified the intertidal zone into algal mat, sediment, and water body components. The reference end-member was slightly more effective than the image end-member for the classification. Fine grained upper tidal flat is generally considered as a rich habitat for algal mat. We also identified unusual microphytobenthos that inhabited coarse grained lower tidal flats.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.57-69
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• 2001

This study propose a image processing system of unsupervised analysis. This system integrates low-level segmentation and high-level classification. The segmentation and classification are conducted respectively with and without spatial constraints on merging by a hierarchical clustering procedure. The clustering utilizes the local mutually closest neighbors and multi-window operation of a pyramid-like structure. The proposed system has been evaluated using simulated images and applied for the LANDSATETM+ image collected from Youngin-Nungpyung area on the Korean Peninsula.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.75-85
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• 2006

This paper has dealt with a data fusion for the problem of land-cover classification using multisensor imagery. Dempster-Shafer evidence theory has been employed to combine the information extracted from the multiple data of same site. The Dempster-Shafer's approach has two important advantages for remote sensing application: one is that it enables to consider a compound class which consists of several land-cover types and the other is that the incompleteness of each sensor data due to cloud-cover can be modeled for the fusion process. The image classification based on the Dempster-Shafer theory usually assumes that each sensor is represented by a single channel. The evidential approach to image classification, which utilizes a mass function obtained under the assumption of class-independent beta distribution, has been discussed for the multiple sets of mutichannel data acquired from different sensors. The proposed method has applied to the KOMPSAT-1 EOC panchromatic imagery and LANDSAT ETM+ data, which were acquired over Yongin/Nuengpyung area of Korean peninsula. The experiment has shown that it is greatly effective on the applications in which it is hard to find homogeneous regions represented by a single land-cover type in training process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.107-110
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• 2007

There it has been progressed study about the city of land use and change detection in different period. The aim of the study is to find the differences in spatial change for subway construction lines using Landsat TM and SPOT image. The result of study to use judge the data in subway role about the city growth. In the recently, it will be expected to use important basis data in development of the city.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.259-263
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• 2006

Development and maintenance of forests are very important at Korea which has mountainous topography of more than 60% of the national territory. Under the circumstances, variety period's data is being required for the continuous monitoring of forest area. In this study, change of forests type was analyzed using Landsat TM satellite image which have multi-spectral bands. Furthermore, change detection system for forests type was constructed on web for the periodical monitoring. By using this system, everyone can easily use for the monitoring of forest type's periodical change.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.196-200
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to examine the image­based atmospheric correction models using the data from Landsat Enhanced Thermal Mapper Plus (ETM+) that have quite similar spectral characteristics to the forthcoming Korea Multi-Purpose SATellite (KOMPSAT)-2 Multi-Spectral Camera (MSC), and the in-situ measured surface reflectance data during satellite overflight. The main advantage of this type of correction is that it does not require in-situ measurements during each satellite overflight. While substantial differences are present between Top-Of-the Atmosphere (TOA) reflectance and in-situ measurements, the results showed that Case 1 based on COST model gives most accurate results among three cases. The accuracy of Case 2 is very close to Case 1 and its values are smaller than in-situ data. No notable features appear between some bands in the Case 3 and in-situ data. It is expected from this study that if the current methods are applied to the IKONOS high resolution data, we will be able to develop the suitable atmospheric correction methods for MSC data.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2006.03a
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• pp.223-227
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• 2006

최근 위성기술의 발전은 크게 두 가지 방향으로 진행되고 있다. 하나는 고해상도(High Resolution)라는 말로 대표되는 공간해상도(Spatial Resolution)의 향상이고, 다른 하나는 초분광(Hyperspectral)으로 대표되는 분광해상도(Spectral Resolution)의 향상이다. 특히 초분광영상(Hyperspectral Image)은 지상피복 및 대상물에 대해 실험실에서 얻을 수 있을 정도의 연속적이고 좁은 파장 간격의 분광정보를 제공하고 있어, 기존에 사용하던 다중분광영상(Multispectral Image) 보다 많은 양의 정보를 사용자에게 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 다중분광영상과 초분광영상의 분광 정보를 활용한 영상분류능력을 비교분석하고 그 결과를 평가하였다. 분석결과는 다중분광영상에서 식별이 어려웠던 초지, 농지, 나지에 대한 분석 능력이 초분광영상에서 상당히 향상됨으로써 감독분류에서 약 20% 정도의 정확도 향상을 가져왔으며, 무감독분류의 경우에는 미소한 차이로 그 정확도가 향상된다는 것이다. 이런 결과는 향후 초분광영상의 토지 피복분류 및 대상물 탐사에 긍정적인 활용 방안을 제시할 수 있음을 알려주고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 1998.09a
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• pp.110-115
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• 1998

Through the ISODATA method, the micro-landform of Julpo-Bay tidal flat was classified into mudflat, mixedflat, and sandflat using Landsat TM image. Each showed an apparent differences in its topographical characteristics and grain size composition. For example, mudflats are formed with flat faces and tidal channel of dissected gully. Its characteristics of grain size analysis that the grains have less than mean grain size 4 phi. Its sorting is bad (higher than 1 S.D.), and it showed strongly positive skewness. But sandflat is topographically flat without tidal channel. It has developed with ripple marks. According to the grain size analysis of deposits, the soil is coarse size with 90% of sand and its sorting is well(lower than 1 S.D.) Also, it showed strongly negative skewness. Mixed flat is in between mudflat and sandflat in its characteristics.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.167-174
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• 2001

National Parks in Korea occupy about four percents of South Korean land. This paper aims to prove the potentiality of the application of remotely sensed data for the effective management of National Parks. Different satellite images such as Landsat TM, IRS-1C, Alternative image, and IKONOS image are analyzed for the detection of changes, the extraction of degraded areas, and the comparison of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in Bukhansan National Park. The artificial structures such as buildings and paved areas are overvalued in relatively higher resolution data. The result showed that the choice of images should be determined according to specific purposes and the combination of different resolution data may be the solution for the effective management of National Park.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.227-234
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• 2000

In general, neural networks are widely used for the category classification of multispectral images. Since the input multispectral images into neural networks we, however, low contrast images, neural networks converge very slowly and are of bad performance. To overcome this problem, we propose a new image enhancement method which consists of smoothing process, finding the main valley and enhancement process. In addition the enhanced images by the proposed method are used as the input of neural networks for the category classification. When the new category classification method is applied to multispectral LANDSAT TM images, we verified that the neural networks converge very lastly and that the overall category classification performance is improved.