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Current Trends of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Satellite Development and Future Strategy for the High Resolution Wide Swath (HRWS) SAR Satellite Development

SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) 위성 개발현황 및 향후 HRWS(High Resolution Wide Swath) SAR 위성 개발전략

  • Received : 2021.10.12
  • Accepted : 2021.11.05
  • Published : 2021.11.30
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Abstract

This paper is made to suggest a future strategy for the Korean High Resolution Wide Swath Synthetic Aperture Radar (HRWS SAR) satellite development by surveying the current trends for the SAR satellite technologies. From the survey, the latest SAR technology trends are revealed of using Digital Beam-Forming (DBF), SCan-On-Receive (SCORE), Displaced Phase Center Antenna (DPCA), interferometry, and polarimetry for exploiting the SAR imagery. Based on the latest SAR technology trends and the foreign HRWS SAR development cases, the strategy for the future HRWS Korean SAR satellite development is suggested to develop the DPCA and SCORE technologies by using the KOrea Multi-Purpose SATellite-6 (KOMPSAT-6) which is going to launch in a few years, and consequently to develop the HRWS SAR satellites which can monitor the whole Earth at weekly intervals.

본 논문은 SAR 위성 기술의 현황을 조사하여 향후 우리나라 HRWS SAR (High Resolution Wide Swath Synthetic Aperture Radar) 위성을 개발하기 위한 전략을 제안하기 위해 만들어졌다. 현황조사를 통해, 최신 SAR 기술 동향은 SAR 위성 영상을 보다 적극적으로 활용하기 위해 DBF(Digital Beam-Forming), SCORE(SCan-On-REceive), DPCA(Displaced Phase Center Antenna), 간섭계, 그리고 편파 기술을 사용하는 것이라는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이와 같은 최신 SAR 기술 동향 및 해외 HRWS SAR 개발 사례를 기반으로, 수년 내로 발사가 예정된 KOMPSAT-6(KOrea Multi-Purpose SATellite-6)를 사용하여 DPCA 및 SCORE 기술을 개발하고, 결국에는 전지구를 일주일 간격으로 관측할 수 있는 HRWS SAR 위성을 개발하는 것을 향후 우리나라 HRWS SAR 위성 개발을 위한 전략으로 제안하였다.

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부족한 논문의 완성을 위해 세심한 심사를 해주신 익명의 심사위원님들께 감사드립니다.

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