• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 D
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• pp.845-847
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• 2000

깊은 생체 조직에서 전자기 에너지의 일부가 피부로 전달되는데, 이때 생체 내부에서 피부로 전달되는 전자기 에너지의 세기는, 주파수 대역과 전자기파를 흡수, 반사, 투과시키는 인체의 매질에 따라 다르다. Microwave Radiometry는 인체 내부 조직에서 방출되는 1-6 GHz 대역의 전자기 에너지 일부를 피부 표면에서 측정하여 일정한 체적내의 인체 내부 온도 평균온도를 추정하는 방법이다. 이러한 Radiometry로 암이나 종양 등의 이상 조직을 진단하는 의학적 가설은, 암이 진행시 악성 종양의 세포의 신진대사가 정상 세포보다 활발하게 되고 또한 종양 세포 주위로 혈액의 유입이 증가하게되어, 주위의 정상 세포 보다 열을 보다 더 방출하는 데 있다. 이때 발생된 열은 일정한 주파수 대역의 마이크로파 에너지를 방출하게 되고, 이에 Radiometry로 인체에 무해하고(passive), 비침습적(non-invasive), 방사능의 영향이 없는 (non-ionizing) 방법으로 인체 내부에서 전달되는 전자기 에너지 강도를 측정하여 종양 부위와 주위 정상부위의 온도 차이를 추정 의학진단에 응용할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 Microwave Radiometry의 의학적 응용과 생리학적 특성을 고려한 인체모델용 팬텀에 대하여 살펴본다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2003

The passive microwave remote sensing has progressed considerably in recent years Important earth surface parameters are detected and monitored by airborne and space born radiometers. However the spatial resolution of real aperture measurements is constrained by the antenna aperture size available on orbiting platforms and on the ground. The inverse problem technique is researched in order to improve the spatial resolution of microwave scanning radiometer. We solve a two-dimensional (surface) temperature-imaging problem with a major intention to develop high-resolution methods. In this paper, the scenario for estimation of both radiometer point spread function (PSF) and target configuration is explained. The PSF of the radiometer is assumed to be unknown and estimated from the observations. The configuration and brightness temperature of targets are also estimated. To do this, we deal with the parametric modeling of observation scenario. The performance of developed algorithms is illustrated on two-dimensional experimental data obtained by the water vapor radiometer.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제24권9호
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• pp.900-907
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• 2013

본 논문은 수면으로부터 복사되는 마이크로파 대역의 미약한 열잡음 전파를 수신하여 수면 표층수의 염분농도의 변화를 실시간으로 원격 모니터링이 가능한 L-band 마이크로파 라디오미터의 개발에 관한 연구 내용을 기술한다. 먼저 수면 염분 농도의 원격 측정 가능 범위 0~40 psu, 최대 오차 2 psu의 목표를 달성하기 위해 요구되는 마이크로파 라디오미터의 설계 사양을 도출하였으며, 도출된 사양을 만족시키는데 필요한 라디오미터 수신기를 설계 제작하였다. 제작된 수신기는 주파수 1,390 MHz, 대역폭 45 MHz로 47 dB의 시스템 이득과 0.41 K 이내의 감도를 갖는다. 제작된 수신기와 표준 혼 안테나로 구성한 L-band 마이크로파 라디오미터로 간이 풀장에 형성된 염분 농도 0~28 psu 범위의 수면을 대상으로 한 원격 측정 실험 결과, 10~28 psu 구간에서는 1.4 psu 이하로, 0~10 psu의 낮은 염분 농도 구간에는 2.9 psu의 오차로 수면 염분 농도의 변화를 측정할 수 있었다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume II
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• pp.892-895
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• 2006

The atmospheric effects on the retrieval of sea ice concentration from passive microwave sensors are examined using simulated data typical for the Arctic summer. The simulation includes atmospheric contributions of cloud liquid water and water vapor and surface wind on surface emissivity on the microwave signatures. A plane parallel radiative transfer model is used to compute brightness temperatures at SSM/I frequencies over surfaces that contain open water, first-year (FY) ice and multi-year (MY) ice and their combinations. Synthetic retrievals in this study use the NASA Team (NT) algorithm for the estimation of sea ice concentrations. This study shows that if the satellite sensor’s field of view is filled with only FY ice the retrieval is not much affected by the atmospheric conditions due to the high contrast between emission signals from FY ice surface and the signals from the atmosphere. Pure MY ice concentration is generally underestimated due to the low MY ice surface emissivity that results in the enhancement of emission signals from the atmospheric parameters. Simulation results in marginal ice areas also show that the atmospheric and surface effects tend to degrade the accuracy at low sea ice concentration. FY ice concentration is overestimated and MY ice concentration is underestimated in the presence of atmospheric water and surface wind at low ice concentration. In particular, our results suggest that strong surface wind is more important than atmospheric water in contributing to the retrieval errors of total ice concentrations over marginal ice zones.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2018

Passive microwave sea surface temperatures (SST) were validated in the Northwest Pacific using a total of 102,294 collocated matchup data between Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) / GPM Microwave Sensor(GMI) data and oceanic in-situ temperature measurements from March 2014 to December 2016. A root-mean-square (RMS) error and a bias error of the GMI SST measurements were evaluated to $0.93^{\circ}C$ and $0.05^{\circ}C$, respectively. The SST differences between GMI and in-situ measurements were caused by various factors such as wind speed, columnar atmospheric water vapor, land contamination near coastline or islands. The GMI SSTs were found to be higher than the in-situ temperature measurements at low wind speed (<6 m/s) during the daytime. As the wind speed increased at night, SST errors showed positive bias. In addition, other factors, coming from atmospheric water vapor, sensitivity degradation at a low temperature range, and land contamination, also contributed to the errors. One of remarkable characteristics of the errors was their latitudinal dependence with large errors at high latitudes above $30^{\circ}N$. Seasonal characteristics revealed that the errors were most frequently observed in winter with a significant positive deviation. This implies that SST errors tend to be large under conditions of high wind speeds and low SSTs. Understanding of microwave SST errors in this study is anticipated to compensate less temporal capability of Infrared SSTs and to contribute to increase a satellite observation rate with time, especially in SST composite process.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.677-686
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• 2014

2014년에 완공된 남극 장보고 과학기지 주변 테라노바 만은 연중 해빙이 넓게 분포하고 있어 쇄빙선의 항해에 매우 큰 영향을 미치고 있다. 이 연구에서는 수동 마이크로파 센서인 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) 및 Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS)의 최근 10년간 해빙 면적비 자료와 우리나라의 쇄빙 연구선인 아라온호의 2010-2012년 항해 경로를 이용하여 장보고 과학기지 방문을 위한 쇄빙선의 최적 항로와 항해 가능 기간을 분석하였다. 아라온호는 최대 78%의 해빙 면적비를 보이는 지역까지 항해가 가능하였다. 아라온호의 항해속도는 해빙 면적비가 높을수록 감소하였으나, 70%의 해빙 면적비까지는 전체 항로에 대한 평균속도(~11 kn)에 근접한 속도를 나타냈다. 이에 따라 아라온호는 70% 이하의 해빙 면적비까지 일반적 운항이 가능하다고 판단하였다. 2010-2012년에 아라온호가 항해한 경로에 대해, 최근 10년 동안의 해빙 면적비 자료로부터 70% 이하의 해빙 면적비를 나타내는 연중 항해가능 기간을 도출하였다. 2010년과 2011년의 항로에 대한 10년 동안의 연중 최대 항해 가능 기간은 각각 연 61일과 62일이었으나, 70% 이하의 해빙 면적비가 관찰되지 않아 일반적인 항해가 어려운 연도가 일부 관찰 되었다. 반면 2012년의 아라온호 항해 경로는 매년 70% 이하의 해빙 면적비를 나타내는 항해 가능 기간이 존재하였으며, 이는 최소 연 15일에서 최대 연 89일로 분석되었다. 이를 통해 2012년에 운항한 아라온호의 항로가 장보고 과학기지 방문을 위한 쇄빙선의 최적 항로임을 제시할 수 있었다. 하지만 수 십 km의 해상도를 가지는 해빙 면적비 자료로는 장보고기지 연안에 근접한 해빙 상태를 알 수 없기 때문에, 고해상도의 광학 및 SAR 자료를 이용한 연구가 필요할 것으로 보인다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.181-184
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• 2001

A coplanar waveguide(CPW) on a dielectric substrate consists of a center strip conductor with semi-infinite ground planes on either side. This type of waveguide offers several advantages over microstrip line. It facilitates easy shunt as well as series mounting of active and passive devices. It eliminates the need for wraparound and via holes, and it has a low radiation loss. These, as well as several other advantages, make CPW ideally suited for microwave integrated circuit applications. However, very little information is available in the literature on models for CPW discontinuities. This lack of sufficient discontinuity models for CPW has limited the application of CPW in microwave circuit design. We presented for the characteristics of coplanar waveguide open end capacitance and series gap capacitance. Measurements by utilizing the resonance method were made and the experimental data confirmed the validity of theories. The relationships between the CPW capacitances and the physical dimensions were studied.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.201-203
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• 2004

We present here, some of the studies carried for estimation of rainfall over land and oceanic regions in and around South Korea. We use active and passive microwave measurements from TRMM - TMI and Precipitation Radar (PR) respectively during a typhoon even named - RUSA that took place during 30 Aug. 2002. We have followed due approach by Yao at. all (2002) and examined the performance of their algorithm using two main predictor variable, named as Scattering Index (SI) and Polarization Corrected Brightness Temperature (PCT) while using TMI data. The rainfall rate estimated using PCT and SI shows some under-estimation as compared to the AWS rainfall products from the PR in common area of overlap. A larger database thus would be used in future. To establish a new rain rate algorithm over Korean region based on the present case study.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume I
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• pp.138-141
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• 2006

In developing algorithms to retrieve the sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface wind speed from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) aboard the AQUA and the Advanced Earth Observation Satellite-II (ADEOS-II), data from the SeaWinds aboard ADEOS-II were helpful. Since features of the ocean microwave emission (Tb) related with ocean wind are not well understood, in case of using only AMSR data, combination of AMSR and SeaWinds revealed pronounced features about the ocean Tb. Two results from combinations of the two sensors were shown in this paper. One result was obtained at wind speeds over about 6m/s, in which the ocean Tb varies with the air-sea temperature difference, even though the SeaWinds wind speed is fixed at the same values. The ocean Tb increases as the air-sea temperature difference becomes negative, i.e., the boundary condition becomes unstable. This result indicates that the air temperature should be included in AMSR SST algorithm. The second result was obtained from comparison of two wind speeds between AMSR and SeaWinds. There is a small difference of two wind speeds, which might be related with several mechanisms, such as evaporation and plankton.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.641-644
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• 2009

We have studied on the microwave characteristics for the meander type inductors on the MgO substrates and $Al_2O_3$ substrates by employing 3-D high frequency simulation, respectively. Proper designs of meander type inductors were proposed and confirmed through the high frequency simulations, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 turns meander type inductors have been choose to analyze the electrical properties for the microwave passive component applications. The Al top electrodes have 282 nm length, 45 nm width, 100 nm thickness and 15 nm gap. The simulations were carried out from 50 MHz to 30 GHz, Frequency dependent inductances and quality factor were calculated by employing the equivalent circuit model of meander type inductors. The self resonances frequency of meander type inductor were shifted from high frequency to low frequency range as the number of the turn of inductors was increased. From the microwave simulations, the inductances and quality factors of meander type inductors were extracted through the scattering parameter.