• 한국측량학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.323-330
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• 2019

Radiometric normalization with multi-temporal satellite images is essential for time series analysis and change detection. Generally, relative radiometric normalization, which is an image-based method, is performed, and histogram matching is a representative method for normalizing the non-linear properties. However, since it utilizes global statistical information only, local information is not considered at all. Thus, this paper proposes a histogram matching method considering local information. The proposed method divides histograms based on density, mean, and standard deviation of image intensities, and performs histogram matching locally on the sub-histogram. The matched histogram is then further partitioned and this process is performed again, iteratively, controlled with the wasserstein distance. Finally, the proposed method is compared to global histogram matching. The experimental results show that the proposed method is visually and quantitatively superior to the conventional method, which indicates the applicability of the proposed method to the radiometric normalization of multi-temporal images with non-linear properties.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제38권6_4호
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• pp.1955-1969
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• 2022

KOMPSAT 시리즈 등 국가 위성정보를 활용하는 공공 및 민간의 사용자들은 대부분 광학 영상 중심으로 위성영상을 활용하고 있으며, 상대적으로 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 영상의 활용은 미흡한 실정이다. 현재 운영 중에 있는 KOMPSAT-5를 비롯하여 향후 KOMPSAT-6 및 초소형 SAR 위성체계 등이 발사 예정에 있기 때문에 다양한 분야에서 SAR 위성정보의 활용요구가 증대되고 있다. 이에 따라 SAR 위성정보 활용을 지원할 수 있는 SAR 활용 핵심 기술 보유가 필요한 시점이다. SAR 특성을 활용한 핵심 활용 기술로 변화탐지 기술이 있지만 현재까지도 SAR 영상을 활용하여 자동으로 변화를 탐지하고 사용자에게 알림하는 기술 개발은 요원한 상태이다. 본 연구는 독자적인 SAR 자동변화탐지알림 기술을 확보하고 우리나라 위성정보활용협의체와 같은 공공분야 기관의 실무자가 실무에 국내 SAR 위성정보를 활용하는 것을 촉진하기 위해 다중시기 KOMPSAT-5 SAR 위성영상의 자동변화탐지알림 기능 요소를 도출하고 프로토타입 프로그램을 개발하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.611-619
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• 2013

Although the need of crop production has increased in Mongolia, crop cultivation is very limited because of the harsh climatic and topographic conditions. Crop lands are sparsely distributed with relatively small sizes and, therefore, it is difficult to survey the exact area of crop lands. The study aimed to find an easy and effective way of accurate classification to map crop lands in Mongolia using satellite images. To classify the crop lands over the study area in northern Mongolia, four classifications were carried out by using 1) Thematic Mapper (TM) image August 23, 2) TM image of July 6, 3) combined 12 bands of TM images of July and August, and 4) both TM images of July and August by layered classification. Wheat and potato are the major crop types and they show relatively high variation in crop conditions between July and August. On the other hands, other land cover types (forest, riparian vegetation, grassland, water and bare soil) do not show such difference between July and August. The results of four classifications clearly show that the use of multi-temporal images is essential to accurately classify the crop lands. The layered classification method, in which each class is separated by a subset of TM images, shows the highest classification accuracy (93.7%) of the crop lands. The classification accuracies are lower when we use only a single TM image of either July or August. Because of the different planting practice of potato and the growth condition of wheat, the spectral characteristics of potato and wheat cannot be fully separated from other cover types with TM image of either July or August. Further refinements on the spatial characteristics of existing crop lands may enhance the crop mapping method in Mongolia.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2023년도 학술발표회
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• pp.34-34
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• 2023

The Chah-Nimeh reservoirs, which are a sort of natural lakes located in the border of Iran and Afghanistan, are the main drinking and agricultural water resources of Sistan arid region. Considering the occurrence of intense seasonal wind, locally known as levar wind, this study aims to explore the possibility to provide a TSM (Total Suspended Matter) monitoring model of Chah-Nimeh reservoirs using multi-temporal satellite images and in-situ wind speed data. The results show that a strong correlation between TSM concentration and wind speed are present. The developed empirical model indicated high performance in retrieving spatiotemporal distribution of the TSM concentration with R²=0.98 and RMSE=0.92g/m³. Following this observation, we also consider a machine learning-based model to predicts the average TSM using only wind speed. We connect our in-situ wind speed data to the TSM data generated from the inversion of multi-temporal satellite imagery to train a neural network based mode l(Wind2TSM-Net). Examining Wind2TSM-Net model indicates this model can retrieve the TSM accurately utilizing only wind speed (R²=0.88 and RMSE=1.97g/m³). Moreover, this results of this study show tha the TSM concentration can be estimated using only in situ wind speed data independent of the satellite images. Specifically, such model can supply a temporally persistent means of monitoring TSM that is not limited by the temporal resolution of imagery or the cloud cover problem in the optical remote sensing.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.407-411
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• 2012

Space-borne remote sensing is an effective and inexpensive way to identify crop fields and detect the crop condition. We examined the multi-temporal spectral characteristics of rice fields in South Korea to detect their phenological development and condition. These rice fields are compact, small-scale parcels of land. For the analysis, moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) and RapidEye images acquired in 2011 were used. The annual spectral tendencies of different crop types could be detected using MODIS data because of its high temporal resolution, despite its relatively low spatial resolution. A comparison between MODIS and RapidEye showed that the spectral characteristics changed with the spatial resolution. The vegetation index (VI) derived from MODIS revealed more moderate values among different land-cover types than the index derived from RapidEye. Additionally, an analysis of various VIs using RapidEye satellite data showed that the VI adopting the red edge band reflected crop conditions better than the traditionally used normalized difference VI.

• Korean Journal of Geomatics
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2002

Accurate classification of water area is an preliminary step to accurately analyze the flooded area and damages caused by flood. This step is especially useful for monitoring the region where annually repeating flood is a problem. The accurate estimation of flooded area can ultimately be utilized as a primary source of information for the policy decision. Although SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imagery with its own energy source is sensitive to the water area, its shadow effect similar to the reflectance signature of the water area should be carefully checked before accurate classification. Especially when we want to identify small flood area with mountainous environment, the step for removing shadow effect turns out to be essential in order to accurately classify the water area from the SAR imagery. In this paper, the flood area was classified and monitored using multi-temporal RADARSAT SAR images of Ok-Chun and Bo-Eun located in Chung-Book Province taken in 12th (during the flood) and 19th (after the flood) of August, 1998. We applied several steps of geometric and radiometric calculations to the SAR imagery. First we reduced the speckle noise of two SAR images and then calculated the radar backscattering coefficient $(\sigma^0)$. After that we performed the ortho-rectification via satellite orbit modeling developed in this study using the ephemeris information of the satellite images and ground control points. We also corrected radiometric distortion caused by the terrain relief. Finally, the water area was identified from two images and the flood area is calculated accordingly. The identified flood area is analyzed by overlapping with the existing land use map.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제34권6_2호
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• pp.1215-1227
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• 2018

해빙의 이동은 지역적 분포뿐만 아니라 해빙의 생성 및 두께에도 영향을 미치기 때문에 해빙의 변화를 평가하는 데에 중요한 정보가 된다. 이 연구에서는 북극해 해빙의 이동 특성 탐지를 위해 Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite-2(KOMPSAT-2)와 Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite-3(KOMPSAT-3)의 두 위성 센서로부터 다중 시기 고해상도 광학 위성 영상을 획득하고, SIFT(Scale-Invariant Feature Transform), SURF(Speeded Up Robust Features) 및 ORB(Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF)의 특징점 추적 기법을 적용하였다. 두 위성 센서에서 획득된 영상의 활용을 위해 전처리 단계에서 공간해상도와 방사해상도를 일치시킨 후 특징점 추적 기법을 적용한 결과 SIFT의 경우 영상 전반에 걸쳐 특징점의 고른 공간 분포가 나타났고, SURF의 경우 해빙과 해양의 경계 부분에 특징점이 주요하게 분포하는 경향이 관찰되었으며 이러한 경향은 ORB에서 가장 현저하게 나타났다. 특징점 추적 기법별 연산 시간 측정 결과 SIFT, SURF 및 ORB의 순서로 연산 시간이 감소하였다. ORB의 경우 SIFT 기법 대비 추적된 특징점 수가 평균 59.8%로 줄어들었지만 연산 시간은 평균 8.7%에 해당하는 시간이 소요되어 해빙 이동 특성의 고속 탐지에 적합한 기법으로 판단된다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.693-701
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• 2011

Image registration is an essential process to analyze the time series of satellite images for the purpose of image fusion and change detection. The Mutual Information (MI) is commonly used as similarity measure for image registration because of its robustness to noise. Due to the radiometric differences, it is not easy to apply MI to multi-temporal satellite images using directly the pixel intensity. Image features for MI are more abundantly obtained by employing a Gabor filter which varies adaptively with the filter characteristics such as filter size, frequency and orientation for each pixel. In this paper we employed Bidirectional Gabor Filter Energy (BGFE) defined by Gabor filter features and applied the BGFE to similarity measure calculation as an image feature for MI. The experiment results show that the proposed method is more robust than the conventional MI method combined with intensity or gradient magnitude.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.271-285
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• 2009

Multi-temporal satellite imagery can be changed into a transform image that emphasizes the changed area only through the application of various change detection techniques. From the transform image, an automated change detection model calculates the optimal threshold value for classifying the changed and unchanged areas. However, the model can cause undesirable results when the histogram of the transform image is unbalanced. This is because the model uses a single threshold value in which the sign is either positive or negative and its value is constant (e.g. -1, 1), regardless of the imbalance between changed pixels. This paper proposes an advanced method that can improve accuracy by applying separate threshold values according to the increased or decreased range of the changed pixels. It applies multiple threshold values based on the cumulative producer's and user's accuracies in the automated binary change detection model, and the analyst can automatically extract more accurate optimal threshold values. Multi-temporal IKONOS satellite imagery for the Daejeon area was used to test the proposed method. A total of 16 transformation results were applied to the two study sites, and optimal threshold values were determined using accuracy assessment curves. The experiment showed that the accuracy of most transform images is improved by applying multiple threshold values. The proposed method is expected to be used in various study fields, such as detection of illegal urban building, detection of the damaged area in a disaster, etc.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2011

This study discussed the applicability of satellite SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imagery with regard to reservoir monitoring, and tried the extraction of reservoir storage from multi-temporal C-band RADARSAT-1 SAR backscattering images of Yedang and Goongpyeong agricultural reservoirs, acquired from May to October 2005. SAR technology has been advanced as a complementary and alternative approach to optical remote sensing and in-situ measurement. Water bodies in SAR imagery represent low brightness induced by low backscattering, and reservoir storage can be derived from the backscatter contrast with the level-area-volume relationship of each reservoir. The threshold segmentation over the routine preprocessing of SAR images such as speckle reduction and low-pass filtering concluded a significant correlation between the SAR-derived reservoir storage and the observation record in spite of the considerable disagreement. The result showed up critical limitations for adopting SAR data to reservoir monitoring as follows: the inappropriate specifications of SAR data, the unreliable rating curve of reservoir, the lack of climatic information such as wind and precipitation, the interruption of inside and neighboring land cover, and so on. Furthermore, better accuracy of SAR-based reservoir monitoring could be expected through different alternatives such as multi-sensor image fusion, water level measurement with altimeters or interferometry, etc.