• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.57-57
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• 2002

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.403-414
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• 2004

In the accompanying paper, we proposed a real. time volumetric imaging method using a cross array based on receive dynamic focusing and synthetic aperture focusing along lateral and elevational directions, respetively. But synthetic aperture methods using spherical waves are subject to beam spreading with increasing depth due to the wave diffraction phenomenon. Moreover, since the proposed method uses only one element for each transmission, it has a limited transmit power. To overcome these limitations, we propose a new real. time volumetric imaging method using cross arrays based on synthetic aperture technique with linear wave fronts. In the proposed method, linear wave fronts having different angles on the horizontal plane is transmitted successively from all transmit array elements. On receive, by employing the conventional dynamic focusing and synthetic aperture methods along lateral and elevational directions, respectively, ultrasound waves can be focused effectively at all imaging points. Mathematical analysis and computer simulation results show that the proposed method can provide uniform elevational resolution over a large depth of field. Especially, since the new method can construct a volume image with a limited number of transmit receive events using a full transmit aperture, it is suitable for real-time 3D imaging with high transmit power and volume rate.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 1998.09a
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• pp.262-267
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• 1998

In Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) imaging, the echoed data are collected by moving radar's position with respect to the target area, and this operation actually gives effect of synthesizing aperture size, which in turn gives better cross range resolution of reconstructed target scene. Among several inversion scheme for SAR Imaging, we uses an inversion scheme which uses no approximation in wave propagation analysis, and try to verify whether the collected data with synthesized aperture actually gives the same support as that with physical aperture in the same size. To do this, we make a signal subspace comparison of two imaging models with physical and synthesized arrays, respectively. Theoretical comparison and numerical analysis using Gram-Schmidt procedures had been performed. The results showed that the synthesized array data fully span the physical array data with the same system geometry and strongly support the proposed inversion scheme valuable in high resolution radar imaging.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.14-19
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• 2013

Comparative evaluation of offshore wind retreival software, which use the satellite images taken by Synthetic Aperture Radar sensor; SARTools of CLS-SOPRONO, France and SpaceEye of London Research and Development Corporation, Canada is carried out. For a reference satellite image, ENVISAT ASAR imagery of Jeollanam-do Wan-do area when the winter-time northwestern wind prevails is processed by CMOD_IFR2, CMOD4, CMOD5 algorithms. Wind speed difference and its relative ratio are calculated to evaluate uncertainty of software selection.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.505-508
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• 2000

The success of target reconstruction in SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) imaging system is greatly dependent on the coherent detection. Primary causes of incoherent detection are uncompensated target or sensor motion, random turbulence in propagation media, wrong path in radar platform, and etc. And these appear as multiplicative phase error to the echoed signal, which consequently, causes fatal degradations such as fading or dislocation of target image. In this paper, we present iterative phase error estimation scheme which uses echoed data in all temporal frequencies. We started with analyzing wave equation for one point target and extend to overall echoed data from the target scene - The two wave equations governing the SAR signal at two temporal frequencies of the radar signal are combined to derive a method to reconstruct the complex phase error function. Eventually, this operation attains phase error correction algorithm from the total received SAR signal. We verify the success of the proposed algorithm by applying it to the simulated spotlight-mode SAR data.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.299-307
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• 2001

This paper presents a experimental study of Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar(ISAR) imaging using Matrix Pencil(MP) method. A series of measurement for two types of target model was done in a Compact Range(CR)facility. The first target is a set of distributed slim cylinders to get a ISAR image of point-like scatterers. The second is UAV model representing a complex real target. The results show that ISAR images by MP method are better than by conventional FFT method under the realistic measurement conditions.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.4-16
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• 2011

영상 레이다(Synthetic Aperture Radar: SAR)는 기상조건이나 주야에 관계없이 전천후로 광범위한 지역의 영상을 고해상도로 얻을 수 있는 능동형 전자파 레이다 센서이다. 최근 세계적으로 위성 SAR는 2010년을 기점으로 최근 3~4년 사이에 유사이래 가장 많은 13개 이상의 저궤도 소형 SAR 위성들을 발사함에 따라 비로소 "저궤도 위성 SAR 전성기"로 진입하게 되었다. 우리나라에서도 아리랑위성 5호(KOMPSAT-5)에 SAR를 탑재하는 최초의 레이다 위성을 올해 2011년에 발사할 계획을 가지고 있으나 아직 발사가 지연되고 있다. 본 기고에서는 2011년 9월 27~30일 서울에서 개최된 국제 영상 레이다 학술 대회 APSAR 2011(Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar)의 성공을 기념하여 마련된 SAR 기술 특집호에 최신 위성 SAR 개발 동향을 중심으로 기술 발전 추세와 전망에 대하여 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.122-126
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• 1999

The imaging characteristics of a 2-D interferometric synthetic aperture radiometer, such as an angular resolution, depend largely on the type of an antenna array. In this paper, different array configurations of antenna are studied and compared with each array types to get more high resolution image in spatial. T-, X- and Y- types of antenna array are considered and the performances of each type are analyzed considering spatial resolution. The simulation results of candidate antenna types are presented in this paper. In case of Y-type the coverage area of the visibility function is wide and the angular resolution is high more than the others. X-type array shows the good performance for side lobe level.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.425-428
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• 1999

The radar interferogram represents phase differences between the two synthetic aperture radar observations acquired in slightly different angle. The success of the radar interferometric application largely depends on the quality of the interferogram generated from two or more synthetic aperture radar data sets. We propose here to apply the wavenumber correlation analysis to the in-phase and quadrature phase of the radar interferogram. The wavenumber correlation analysis is to resolve the highly correlated components from the low correlation components by estimating correlation coefficients for each wavenumber component. Through this approach, one can easily distinguish the signal components from the noise components in the wavenumber domain. Therefore, the wavenumber correlation analysis of the radar interferogram can be utilized to design post filter and to estimate the quality of interferogram. We have tested the wavenumber correlation analysis using a Radarsat SAR data pair to demonstrated the effectiveness of

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.455-458
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• 2004

소나 시스템의 표적 탐지 성능을 향상시키기 위해 물리적으로 제한된 길이의 어레이를 확장하는 합성 어퍼쳐 소나에 대한 연구와 실험이 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 왜곡된 어레이의 형상을 추정하여 왜곡을 보상한 후에 빔 영역에서 어레이를 합성하는 FFTSA(Fast Fourier Transform Synthetic Aperture) 기법의 성능을 분석하였다. 실험 데이터로는 한국 근해에서 견인 어레이로부터 획득한 데이터를 이용하였으며 실측된 데이터로 부어레이 간의 시-공간적인 위상 차이를 보상함으로써 어레이 길이를 확장하였다.