• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.130-138
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• 2003

Stripmap-mode 합성개구레이더의 고전적인 영상 복원기술은 Range-Doppler 알고리즘이다. 하지만 고해상도 Spotlight-mode 합성개구레이더 시스템에서는 Range-Doppler 알고리즘을 적용했을 때 성능이 상당히 나빠지므로 Spotlight-mode에 맞는 별도의 Inversion 알고리즘이 연구되어왔다. 본 논문에서는 Spotlight-mode 합성개구레이더에서 Raw-data를 처리하기 위한 알고리즘 연구를 통해 기존의 평면파 근사 방법을 이용하고 있는 Polar format 알고리즘과 근사 방법을 사용하지 않는 Wavefront Reconstruction 기법에 대한 성능분석을 시도하였다. 이 때 Source 신호의 Carrier 주파수, 합성 개구면 Size, 그리고 표적물의 위치에 따라 두 Inversion기법의 결과 영상을 비교함으로써 Wavefront Reconstruction 기법의 우수성을 입증하였다. Spotlight-mode 합성 개구 레이더 시스템을 시뮬레이션하여 Raw-data를 생성시키고 각 알고리즘에 적용하여 역변환을 통해 영상화된 표적물의 형태로 성능을 비교 분석하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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• pp.501-504
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• 2000

The classical image reconstruction for stripmap SAR is the range-Doppler imaging. However, when the spotlight SAR system was envisioned, range-Bowler imaging fumed out to fail rapidly in this SAR imaging modality. What is referred to as polar format processing, which is based on the plane wave approximation, was introduced for imaging from spotlight SAR data. This paper has been studied for the raw data processing schemes in the spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar. we apply the wavefront reconstruction scheme that does not utilize the approximation in spotlight-mode SAR imaging modelity, and compare the performance of target imaging with the polar format inversion scheme.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제1권6호
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• pp.598-603
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• 2017

Traditional three-dimensional (3-D) laser imaging systems are based on real aperture imaging technology, whose resolution decreases as the range increases. In this paper, we develop a novel 3-D imaging technique based on the synthetic aperture technology in which the imaging resolution is significantly improved and does not degrade with the increase of the range. We consider an imaging laser radar (ladar) system using the floodlight transmitting mode and multi-beam receiving mode. High 3-D imaging resolutions are achieved by matched filtering the linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals respectively in range, synthetic aperture along-track, and the real aperture across-track. In this paper, a novel 3-D imaging signal model is given first. Because of the motion during the transmission of a sweep, the Doppler shift induced by the continuous motion is taken into account. And then, a proper algorithm for the 3-D imaging geometry is given. Finally, simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed technique.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2002

A high speed data link capability is one of the critical factors in determining the performance of the spaceborne SAR system with high resolution because of the strict requirement far the real-time data transmission of the massive SAR data in a limited time of mission. In this paper, based on the data lint model characterized by the spaceborne small SAR system, the high rate multi-channel data link module is designed including link storage, link processor, transmitter, and wide-angle antenna. The design results are presented with the performance analysis on the data link budget as well as the multi-mode data rate in association with the SAR imaging mode of operation from high resolution to the wide swath.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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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.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.157-175
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• 2000

A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system is able to provide all-weather, day-and- night superior imaging capability of the earth surface, and thus is extremely useful in surveillance for both civil and military applications. In this paper, the X-band high resolution spaceborne SAR system design is demonstrated with the key design performance for a given mission and system requirements characterized by the small satellite system. The SAR multi-mode imaging technique is presented with a critical parameter assessment, and the standard mode results are analyzed in terms of the image quality performances. In line with the system requirement X-band SAR payload and ground reception/processing subsystems are designed and the major design results are presented with the key performance characteristics. This small satellite SAR system shows the wide range of imaging capability with high resolution, and proves to be an effective surveillance systems in the light weight, high performance and cost-effective points of view.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.167-175
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• 1999

원격탐사 관련 핵심기술은 최근에 국방, 의료영상, 환경, 지질 등과 같은 광범위한 분야에서 활용범위를 확대하고 있다. 1cm ~ 수십 cm 파장의 파를 관측하는 마이크로파 원격탐사 기술은 반사 적외선 원격탐사나 열 적외선 원격탐사 기술에 비해 날씨조건과 밤낮에 관계없이 탐사를 수행할 수 있다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 마이크로파 영상레이다인 합성 개구 레이다를 이용한 영상화 방식은 응용목적에 따라 stripmap 방식, spotlight 방식, 그리고 inverse 방식으로 구분된다. 본 논문에서는 inverse 방식으로 지상에 고정된 레이다가 비행하는 항공체를 영상화하는 기법에 대해서 기술하였다. 비행 항공체의 영상화 기법은 자동 펴적인식 시스템 구축시 중요한 기술단계이며, 최근 이 분야에 대해 활발히 연구되고 있다. 비행 항공체를 영상화하기 위해 제안된 3가지 방식인 퓨리에 처리 기법, 시간-n 주파수 처리 기법, 그리고 투시로부터 복원 기법을 소개한 후, 각 방식의 장단점을 분석하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2002

고해상도 위성 영상 레이다(SAR)에서 획득한 대용량의 레이다 영상신호는 주어진 임무시간 내에 실시간으로 지상에 전송해 주어야 하기 때문에 위성탑재 영상 레이다의 고속 데이터 전송 능력이 시스템의 성능을 결정하는 중요한 요인이 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 소형 경량의 위성 SAR의 임무 요구 조건을 만족하고, 위성 영상 레이다의 운용모드에 따라 고해상도에서 광역모드에 이르기까지 광범위한 데이터를 고속으로 처리할 수 있는 멀티 채널 데이터 전송모듈 설계에 관하여 논한다. 주어진 위성 데이터 링크 모델을 바탕으로 링크 버짓과 영상 모드별 데이터 전송률을 분석하고, 시스템의 요구 전송율과 오차율을 만족하는 온 보드 영상 자료 저장기, 자료 처리기, 송신기 및 전송 안테나의 설계 결과를 제시하고 성능을 분석하였다. 본 설계에 적용된 고속 채널 모듈은 고속자료 전송이 요구되는 위성 및 항공기 탑재 데이터 링크의 성능확장에 효과적으로 활용될 수 있다.

• 지질공학
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.257-267
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• 2021

Constraints on the structure and composition of the active layer are important for understanding permafrost evolution. Soil convection owing to repeated moisture-induced freeze-thaw cycles within the active layer promotes the formation of self-organized patterned ground. Here we present the results of ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys across a selected sorted circle near King Sejong Station, Antarctica, to better delineate the active layer and its relation to the observed patterned ground structure. We acquire GPR data in both bistatic mode (common mid-points) for precise velocity constraints and monostatic mode (common-offset) for subsurface imaging. Reflections are derived from the active layer-permafrost boundary, organic layer-weathered soil boundary within the active layer, and frozen rock-fracture-filled ice boundary within the permafrost. The base of the imaged sorted circle possesses a convex-down shape in the central silty zone, which is typical for the pattern associated with convection-like soil motion within the active layer. The boundary between the central fine-silty domain and coarse-grained stone border is effectively identified in a radar amplitude contour at the assumed active layer depth, and is further examined in the frequency spectra of the near- and far-offset traces. The far-offset traces and the traces from the lower frequency components dominant on the far-offset traces would be associated with rapid absorption of higher frequency radiowave due to the voids in gravel-rich zone. The presented correlation strategies for analyzing very shallow, thin-layered GPR reflection data can potentially be applied to the various types of patterned ground, particularly for acquiring time-lapse imaging, when electric resistivity tomography is incorporated into the analysis.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.104-123
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• 2001

Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) can provide radar imagery in all weather, day and night situations. Recently SAR system consisted of several imaging modes, has been used for not only military purpose, but also commercial and scientific applications. This paper firstly reviews spaceborne SAR theory, specially scansar principle, and secondly the theories and the design procedures of system performance analysis in the scansar mode, which are different from the ones in the conventional stripmap mode. Based on the SAR-related knowledge, it lastly derives the results of performance analysis in wide swath mode using the scansar technique at the design phase. It shows that these results can meet the system requirements as given the customer. In future, they will continuously be updated using the real measurement data, in connection with the development of a spaceborne SAR system.