• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.531-546
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• 2009

The main objective of this study is to analyse the polarimetric characteristics of the various terrain targets by ground-based polarimetric SAR system and to confirm the compatible and effective polarimetric analysis method to reveal the polarization properties of different terrain targets by the GB-SAR. The fully polarimetric GB-SAR data with HH, HV, VH, and VV components were focused using the Deramp-FFT (DF) algorithm. The focused GB-SAR images were processed by the H/A/$\alpha$ polarimetric decomposition and the combined H/$\alpha$ or H/A/$\alpha$ and Wishart classification method. The segmented image and distribution graphs in H/$\alpha$ plane using Cloude and Pottier's method showed a reliable result that this quad-polarization GB-SAR data could be useful to classified corresponding scattering mechanism. The H/$\alpha$-Wishart and H/A/$\alpha$-Wishart classification results showed that a natural media and an artificial target were discriminated by the combined classification, in particular, after applying multi-looking and the Lee refined speckle filter.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제38권5_2호
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• pp.737-746
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• 2022

전천후 자료 취득이 가능한 SAR 영상을 기반으로 한 선박 탐지와 인공지능 기반 탐지 알고리즘과 함께 사용하는 것은 안정적인 선박 모니터링에 효과적이다. 기존의 SAR 영상에서는 인공지능 기반 선박 탐지 알고리즘에 진폭 영상만을 주로 사용하였으며, 물체의 산란 특성을 구분할 수 있는 다중 편파 SAR 영상의 편파 지표는 사용되지 않았다. 이에, 본 연구에서는 이중 편파 Sentinel-1 SAR 영상으로부터 고유값 분해를 통해 취득한 4개의 편파 지표인 H, p₁, DoP, DPRVI와 방사 보정을 통해 취득한 2개 편파의 산란계수인 γ₀, _VV, γ₀, _VH를 이용하여 총 6개의 밴드를 가진 SAR 영상 52장의 데이터베이스를 구축하고, 이와 상응하는 시간에 취득한 선박의 실시간 위치 및 속도 정보인 AIS 자료를 사용하여 학습자료를 추출하였다. 구축된 밴드 조합에 대해 선박탐지 정확도를 평가한 결과, 이중 편파 지표를 진폭과 함께 사용한 경우 진폭 값만을 사용했을 때에 비해 개선된 탐지 정확도를 보였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.705-719
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• 2010

We investigated the speckle filtering effect in supervised classification of the C-band polarimetric Ground Based SAR image data. Wishart classification method was used for the supervised classification of the polarimetric GB-SAR image data and total of 6 kinds of speckle filters were applied before supervised classification, which are boxcar, Gaussian, Lopez, IDAN, the refined Lee, and the refined Lee sigma filters. For each filters, we changed the filtering kernel size from $3{\times}3$ to $9{\times}9$ to investigate the filtering size effect also. The refined Lee filter with the kernel size of bigger than $5{\times}5$ showed the best result for the Wishart supervised classification of polarimetric GB-SAR image data. The result also showed that the type of trees could be discriminated by Wishart supervised classification of polarimetric GB-SAR image data.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.1092-1100
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 C-밴드 대역 지상 운용 회전형 SAR 시스템에 대한 시험 결과를 선보인다. 회전형 SAR 시스템은 지상과 우주 공간 상에서 운용될 수 있는 미래의 회전형 SAR 시스템을 위한 시험대(test-bed)로써, 지표면 및 낮은 깊이의 지표면 속 목표물로부터의 전자파 산란를 영상화하기 위해 설계되었다. 또한, 생성된 SAR 영상과 시험결과를 본 논문에서 선보인다. 회전형 SAR 시스템은 네트워크 분석기(Agilent 8753E)를 기반으로한 HPS(Hongik Polarimetric Scatterometer) 시스템과 수평 회전팔(1.6 m)로 구성된다. 설계/제작된 시스템을 이용하여 다양한 목표물 설정 지역에서 SAR 영상을 획득하였다. 회전형 SAR 시스템을 검증하기 위해서 FDTD(Finite Difference Time Domain) 알고리즘을 이용한 SAR 영상 생성 과정을 모의 실험하였으며, 실제 측정 결과를 이용한 SAR 영상을 비교 분석하였다. 설계/제작된 회전형 SAR 시스템은 5 GHz의 중심 주파수로 운용되며, 해상도 조절을 위해 대역폭을 0.5~2 GHz 범위 내에서 변화시켜 SAR 영상을 분석하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.255-261
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• 2009

A new polarimetric SAR image classification technique based on the degree of polarization (DoP) and the co-polarized phase-difference (CPD) is presented in this paper. Since the DoP and the CPD of a scattered wave provide information on the randomness of the scattering and the type of scattering mechanisms, at first, the statistics of the DoP and CPD are examined with measured polarimetric SAR image data. Then, a DoP-CPD diagram with appropriate boundaries between six different classes is developed based on the SAR image. The classification technique is verified using the JPL AirSAR and ALOS PALSAR polarimetric data. The technique may have capability to classify an SAR image into six major classes; a bare surface, a village, a crown-layer short vegetation canopy, a trunk-layer short vegetation canopy, a crown-layer forest, and a trunk-dominated forest.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

이 논문은 편파화 정도(degree of polarization: DoP) 와 동일편파 위상차이(co-polarized phasedifference:CPD)를 이용하여 완전편파 SAR 영상을 분해하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 이 영상 분해 기법을 검증하기 위해 2009년에 춘천 지역에서 얻은 ALOS PALSAR 완전편파 L-밴드 영상데이터를 이용하여 이 새로운 영상 분해 기법의 결과와 기존의 3-성분 분해방법과 4-성분 분해방법의 결과들과 비교한다. ALOS PALSAR 영상 자료의 바다, 맨땅, 산림 그리고 도심지역을 선정하여 새로운 DoP-CPD 영상 분해기법을 적용한 결과, 제안된 영상 분해 기법의 정확도가 기존의 분해기법보다 높거나 유사함을 보인다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.789-802
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• 2021

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) at C-band is an ideal remote sensing system for crop monitoring owing to its short wavelength, which interacts with the upper parts of the crop canopy. This study evaluated the potential of dual polarimetric Sentinel-1 at C-band for monitoring rice phenology. Rice phenological variations occur in a short period. Hence, the short revisit time of Sentinel-1 SAR system can facilitate the tracking of short-term temporal morphological variations in rice crop growth. The sensitivity of SAR backscattering coefficients, backscattering ratio, and polarimetric decomposition parameters on rice phenological stages were investigated through a time-series analysis of 33 Sentinel-1 Single Look Complex images collected from 10th April to 25th October 2020 in Gimhae, South Korea. Based on the observed temporal variations in SAR parameters, we could identify and distinguish the phenological stages of the Gimhae rice growth cycle. The backscattering coefficient in VH polarisation and polarimetric decomposition parameters showed high sensitivity to rice growth. However, amongst SAR parameters estimated in this study, the VH backscattering coefficient realistically identifies all phenological stages, and its temporal variation patterns are preserved in both Sentinel-1A (S1A) and Sentinel-1B (S1B). Polarimetric decomposition parameters exhibited some offsets in successive acquisitions from S1A and S1B. Further studies with data collected from various incidence angles are crucial to determine the impact of different incidence angles on polarimetric decomposition parameters in rice paddy fields.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.329-336
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• 2012

This paper give further assessment on the original DoP-CPD classification scheme. This paper provides some additional comparative study on the DoP-CPD with H/A/alpha classifier in terms of multi look effects and classification performances. The statistics and multi looking effects of the DoP and CPD were analyzed with measured polarimetric SAR data. DoP-CPD is less sensitive to the number of averaging pixels than the entropy-alpha technique. A DoP-CPD diagram with appropriate boundaries between six different classes was then developed based on the data analysis. A polarimetric SAR image DoP-CPD classification technique is verified with C-band polarimetric RADARSAT-2 images.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2008년도 International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.33-36
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• 2008

This paper presents soil moisture retrieval from measured polarimetric backscattering coefficients of a vegetated surface. Based on the analysis of the quite complicate first-order radiative transfer scattering model for vegetated surfaces, a simplified scattering model is proposed for an inversion algorithm. Extraction of the surface-scatter component from the total scattering of a vegetation canopy is addressed using the simplified model, and also using the three-component decomposition technique. The backscattering coefficients are measured with a polarimetric L-band scatterometer during two months. At the same time, the biomasses, leaf moisture contents, and soil moisture contents are also measured. Then the measurement data are used to estimate the model parameters for vv-, hh-, and vh-polarizations. The scattering model for tall-grass-covered surfaces is inverted to retrieve the soil moisture content from the measurements using a genetic algorithm. The retrieved soil moisture contents agree quite well with the in-situ measured soil moisture data.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2008년도 International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.29-32
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose one unsupervised classification technique using the degree of polarization (DoP) and the co-polarized phase-difference (CPD) statistics, instead of the entropy and alpha. It is shown that the DoP is closely related to the entropy, and the CPD to the alpha. The DoP explains the feature how much the effect of multiple reflections is contained. Hence, the DoP could be used as an important factor for classifying classes. The CPD can also be computed from the measured Mueller matrix elements. For the smooth surface scattering, the CPD is about $0^{\circ}$, and for dihedral-type scattering, the CPD is about $180^{\circ}$. A DoP-CPD diagram with appropriate boundaries between six different classes is developed based on the SAR image. The classification results are compared with the existing Entropy-alpha diagram as well as the IPL-AirSAR polarimetric data. The technique may have capability to classify an SAR image into six major classes; a bare surface, a village, a crown-layer short vegetation canopy, a trunk-layer short vegetation canopy, a crown-layer forest, and a trunk-dominated forest. Based on the DoP and CPD analysis, a simple three-component decomposition technique was also proposed.