• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.183-192
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• 2009

SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) is an all-weather imaging radar and is widely used in military and civil application. Especially high-resolution SAR images are very important in military purpose because it can be used at target recognition application. LIG Nex1 developed a SAR system called NexSAR with bandwidth of 600 MHz and resolution of 30 cm to obtain technologies required for high-resolution SAR. To achieve 600 MHz bandwidth of waveform generator, two DDSs are used and its output signals are SSB modulated. And deramp technique is used to reduce the sampling rate of ADC at high resolution mode. NexSAR has stripmap and spotlight modes and its functionality and performances are evaluated through ground and flight tests.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.580-583
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• 2017

To compensate the degraded SAR image due to the residual errors and the spatial variant errors remaining after the motion compensation in the airborne SAR, we have introduced the autofocus method based on the partition processing. Thus, after we perform the spatial partition for the spotlight SAR data and the time partition for the stripmap SAR data, we reconstruct the subpatch images for the partitioned data. Then, we perform the local autofocus with the suitability analysis process for the phase errors estimated by the autofocus. Moreover, if the estimated phase errors are not properly compensated for the subpatch images, we perform the phase compensation method with the weight to the estimated phase error close to the degraded subpatch image to increase the SAR image quality.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.118-127
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• 2018

In this work, we have designed and manufactured radar target simulation equipment for the performance analysis of synthetic aperture radar(SAR) systems. First, we have explained the function and performance specification of the target simulation equipment and point target scenario generation for validation of the SAR system. In addition, we have developed a simple and accurate calibration method for the time delay of the SAR system using the manufactured target simulation equipment. We have analyzed the point target impulse response function of the SAR image acquired using the SAR system and the target simulation equipment. It was observed that the measured peak to side lobe ratio(=-13.25 dB) and resolution(=0.49 m) are in good agreement with the corresponding theoretical values.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.72-78
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• 2021

This paper proposes a wide-band dual-polarization stacked patch array antenna for satellite SAR system applications. The array antenna was designed for loss minimization and wide-band characteristics to enhance the performance of the SAR system and optimize it for active return loss in applications to active phased arrays. The fabricated array antenna showed a performance of 19.26%/19.79% fractional bandwidth within the -10 dB reference level of the active return loss and showed loss characteristics of 0.797 dB/0.799 dB averaged within the operational frequency for both H/V-polarization cases. The pattern performance was verified by comparing the measured patterns with the calculated patterns obtained by the array factor.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.723-732
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• 2017

Simplified factorizing-technique to improve the efficiency on computational procedure and the complexity of the conventional back-projection algorithm, which is used to reconstruct airborne FMCW-SAR image, is suggested, and the reconstruction process of SAR image by this simplified factorizing-technique are presented in this paper. This technique can be efficiently applied to airborne FMCW-SAR having a relatively narrow beamwidth and long synthetic aperture length, and its basic rationale is to exclude the data that has low level of contribution during computational procedure. Using the raw data of practical airborne FMCW-SAR system, performances of this proposed technique such as SAR image quality and processing time were compared and analyzed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1027-1030
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• 2015

In the airborne SAR, the motion errors induced by atmospheric turbulence decrease the resolution and increase the sidelobes. If the sidelobes are not properly compensated, the image quality is degraded. Thus, in this paper, we have introduced the sidelobe reduction method to increase the image quality. After we calculate the scene center based on the estimated squint angle for the flight path partitioned by the subaperture technique, we perform the motion compensation for the scene center. Then, after we perform the recursive sidelobe reduction for the region of interest in the reconstructed SAR image, we extend it for the full image.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.6_1
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• pp.847-855
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• 2018

GMTI (Ground Moving Target Indicator) is a kind of airborne radar function that is used widely in military applications to detect the moving targets on the ground. In this paper, GMTI signal processing technique was presented and its performance was verified using sum and difference channels raw data obtained by the captive flight test.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.410-418
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• 2017

Results of an analysis of the continuous motion effect for FMCW-SAR system and a signal processing to correct it are presented in this paper. SAR images reconstructed by back-projection algorithm are included as well. To analyze how platform velocity and sampling frequency affect the continuous motion effect, FMCW signal model was used, and the signal processing in time-doppler(t, $k_u$) domain was adopted. Then, back-projection algorithm and modified matched-filter was used to reconstruct SAR images, and it was validated using measured data by airborne FMCW-SAR system in X-band frequency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.01a
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• pp.35-36
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• 2015

무인항공기는 광대역의 전장 정보를 실시간으로 획득하거나 적 위협정보를 파악하기 위해 영상정보를 활용하며 보다 정확한 감시 및 정찰 정보의 획득과 가시화를 위해 정밀한 영상정보처리 기법이 요구된다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 무인항공기를 통해 획득한 영상 정보를 지상통제장비로 전송하고 이를 효과적으로 시각화하는 통합 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 영상정보처리 시각화 시스템을 통해 무인항공기와 지상통제장비는 전장에서 요구되는 임무와 역할을 효과적으로 수행할 것으로 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1442-1445
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• 2015

본 논문은 SAR 영상에서 객체를 추출하는 새로운 방법으로 특징점 기반 분할 히스토그램 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 영상 히스토그램에서 객체로 추정될 수 있는 영역을 세밀하게 추출하기 위해 영상에서 특징점을 추출한 후, 특징점의 밝기를 기준으로 히스토그램을 분할한다. 분할 히스토그램이 배경과 객체 성분을 모두 포함하고 있을 경우 해당 영역의 혼합 확률밀도함수가 교차되는 임계점을 계산한다. 계산된 임계점을 기준으로 현재 영역이 전체 영상에서 차지하는 비율을 비교하여 배경과 객체 여부를 판단한다. 제안하는 방법은 무인 감시 정찰 시스템 등 다양한 응용 기술에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.