• 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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• 제34권4호
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• pp.591-600
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• 2018

Recent SAR systems provide fully polarimetric SAR data, which is known to be useful in a variety of applications such as disaster monitoring, target recognition, and land cover classification. The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of polarization SAR data for landslide detection. The detectability of different SAR parameters was investigated based on the supervised classification approach. The classifier used in this study is the Adaptive Boosting algorithms. A fully polarimetric L-band PALSAR-2 data was used to examine landslides caused by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in Kyushu, Japan. Experimental results show that fully polarimetric features from the target decomposition technique can provide improved detectability of landslide site with significant reduction of false alarms as compared with the single polarimetric observables.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.141-151
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 광역관측 운용 모드에 대한 Quad-pol SAR 시스템의 성능을 분석하고, 단일편파 시스템과의 비교 및 각 운용 모드 사이의 비교를 수행하고자 한다. SAR 위성의 짧은 재방문 주기를 위해서는 넓은 영역을 관측해야 하며, 이를 위한 SAR 운용 모드로 ScanSAR와 SweepSAR가 있다. 일반적으로 Quad-pol SAR 시스템은 관측 대상의 정보를 단일 편파를 사용할 때보다 다양하게 얻을 수 있지만 시스템 성능 변수들에 영향을 주므로 이러한 영향을 분석할 필요가 있다. 광역관측 Quad-pol SAR 시스템의 성능 분석 결과로부터 목표 성능을 만족시키기 위한 시스템 변수와 적합한 운용 모드를 선정할 수 있다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.47-60
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• 2017

The permafrost active layer plays an important role in permafrost dynamics. Ecological patterns, processes, and water and ice contents in the active layer are spatially and temporally complex depending on landscape heterogeneity and local-scale variations in hydrological processes. Although there has been emerging interest in the application of optical remote sensing techniques to permafrost environments, optical sensors are significantly limited in accessing information on near surface geo-cryological conditions. The primary objective of this study was to investigate capability of L-band SAR data for monitoring spatio-temporal variability of permafrost ecosystems and underlying soil conditions. This study exploits information from different polarimetric SAR observables in relation to permafrost environmental conditions. Experimental results show that each polarimetric radar observable conveys different information on permafrost environments. In the case of the dual-pol mode, the radar observables consist of two backscattering powers and one correlation coefficient between polarimetric channels. Among them, the dual-pol scattering powers are highly sensitive to freeze/thaw transition and can discriminate grasslands or ponds in thermokarst area from other permafrost ecosystems. However, it is difficult to identify the ground conditions with dual-pol observables. Additional backscattering powers and correlation coefficients obtained from quad-pol mode help understanding seasonal variations ofradar scattering and assessing geo-cryological information on soil layers. In particular, co-pol coherences atHV-basis and circular-basis were found to be very usefultools for mapping and monitoring near surface soil properties.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.117-126
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• 2018

This study aims to evaluate the usability of polarimetric SAR measurements for discriminating water-covered area from other land cover types and to propose polarimetric parameters showing the better response to the flood. Flood-related changes in the polarimetric parameters were studied using the L-band PALSAR-2 quad-pol mode data acquired before and after the severe flood events occurred in Joso city, Japan. The experimental results showed that, among various polarimetric parameters, the HH-polarization intensity, the Shannon entropy, and the surfaces scattering component of model-based decomposition were found to be useful to discriminate water-covered areas from other land cover types. Particularly, an unsupervised change detection with the Shannon entropy provides the best result for an automated mapping of flood extents.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.607-615
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• 2014

RVI (Radar Vegetation Index) has shown some promise in the vegetation fields, but its relationship with MVI (Multispectral Vegetation Index) is not known in the context of various land covers. Presented herein is a comparative analysis of the MVI values derived from the LANDSAT-8 and RVI values originating from the RADARSAT-2 quad-polarimetric SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) data. Among the various multispectral vegetation indices, NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and SAVI (Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index) were used for comparison with RVI. Four land covers (urban, forest, water, and paddy field) were compared, and the patterns were investigated. The experiment results demonstrated that the RVI patterns of the four land covers are very similar to those of NDVI and SAVI. Thus, during bad weather conditions and at night, the RVI data could serve as an alternative to the MVI data in various application fields.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제34권6_1호
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• pp.969-979
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• 2018

이 연구는 아마존 열대우림 지역에서 획득된 ALOS PALSAR 자료로부터 HH-편파 와 HV-편파 및 VV-편파와 VH-편파 간의 상관계수를 구하였으며, 이로부터 다중편파 SAR의 반사대칭(Reflection Symmetry) 가정에 대한 분석결과를 보고한다. 반사대칭 가정은 다중편파 SAR의 균질한 자연 산란체에서 HH-편파와 HV-편파 및 VV-편파와 VH-편파는 서로 완전 독립적이며 0의 상관계수를 갖는다는 것으로, 이는 다중편파 SAR의 필수적인 cross-talk 보정 계수 획득과정뿐만 아니라 다중편파 SAR 신호의 3-성분 분석법 등의 활용과정에서 흔히 적용되는 가정이다. 특히 아마존 열대우림 지역은 다중편파 SAR의 반사대칭성 보정에 대표적으로 활용되고 있는 국제적 기준분석 지역이다. 분석결과 가정과는 달리 반사대칭 쌍들 간의 상관계수는 0.018에서 0.097의 범위를 나타냈으며, 이는 동종편파와 이종편파 신호 간에 완전 독립적이지 못하며 무시할 수 없을 정도의 상관관계가 존재한다는 것을 지시하였다. 따라서 이와 같은 0이 아닌 상관계수는 향후 국내 다중편파 SAR 검 보정 계수 결정 및 SAR 다중편파 활용과정에서 오차로 작용할 수 있다는 점이 고려되어야 한다.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.195-206
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• 2016

The remote sensing technique using SAR data have many advantages when applied to the disaster site due to its wide coverage and all-weather acquisition availability. Although a single-pol (polarimetric) SAR image cannot represent the land surface better than a quad-pol SAR image can, single-pol SAR data are worth using for disaster-induced change detection. In this paper, an automatic change detection method based on a mixture of GGDs (generalized Gaussian distribution) is proposed, and usability of the textural features and intensity is evaluated by using the proposed method. Three ALOS/PALSAR images were used in the experiments, and the study site was Norita City, which was affected by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. The experiment results showed that the proposed automatic change detection method is practical for disaster sites where the large areas change. The intensity information is useful for detecting disaster-induced changes with a 68.3% g-mean, but the texture information is not. The autocorrelation and correlation show the interesting implication that they tend not to extract agricultural areas in the change detection map. Therefore, the final tsunami-induced change map is produced by the combination of three maps: one is derived from the intensity information and used as an initial map, and the others are derived from the textural information and used as auxiliary data.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2011

This study describes measurements of fast ice recorded on May 23, 2009, in Kongsfjorden (translated as 'Kongs Fjord'), an inlet on the west coast of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago. Seasonal fast ice is an important feature for Svalbard fjords, both in relation to their physical environment and also the local ecosystem, since it grows seaward from the coast and remains in place throughout the winter. Ice thickness, snow, ice properties, and wind speed were measured, while SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) data was observed simultaneously observed two times from ALOS-PALSAR (L-band). Measured ice thickness was about 25-35 cm while the thickness of ice floe broken from fast ice was measured as 10-15 cm. Average salinity was 1.9-2.0 ppt during the melting period. Polarimetric data was used to extract H/A/alpha-angle parameters of fast ice, ice floe, snow and glacier, which was classified into 18 classes based on these parameters. It was established that the area of fast ice represents surface scattering which indicates low and medium entropy surface scatters such as Bragg and random surfaces, while fast ice covered with snow belongs to a zone of low entropy surface scattering similar to snow-covered land surfaces. The results of this study will contribute to various interpretations of interrelationships between H/A/alpha parameters and the wave scattering Phenomenon of sea ice.