• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
• /
• v.54 no.12
• /
• pp.1329-1338
• /
• 2021

Rain radar provides high spatio-temporal radar rainfall that can be used as input data to short-term precipitation forecasting models. Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has developed a flash flood forecasting system that is providing flash flood forecasting based on short-term rainfall forecasts estimated by the radar rainfall. Accuracy of the radar rainfall as well as the short-term rainfall forecasts, however, can deteriorate when radar polarimetric variables have error. In this study, we develope real-time program that can correct the error inherent in the radar polarimetric variables. First, effect according to the correction of the error was verified using 363 rainfall events on non real-time. The accuracy (1-NE) of the radar rainfall was approximately 70% and correlation coefficient was higher than 0.8 after correcting the error on non real-time. The accuracy (1-NE) using the real-time program was also approximately 70% after correcting the error.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
• /
• 2021.05a
• /
• pp.43-45
• /
• 2021

The short-term quantitative precipitation prediction (QPF) system is important socially and economically to prevent damage from severe weather. Recently, many studies for short-term QPF model applying the Deep Neural Network (DNN) has been conducted. These studies require the sophisticated pre-processing because the mistreatment of various and vast meteorological data sets leads to lower performance of QPF. Especially, for more accurate prediction of the non-linear trends in precipitation, the dataset needs to be carefully handled based on the physical and dynamical understands the data. Thereby, this paper proposes the following approaches: i) refining and combining major factors (weather radar, terrain, air temperature, and so on) related to precipitation development in order to construct training data for pattern analysis of precipitation; ii) producing predicted precipitation fields based on Convolutional with ConvLSTM. The proposed algorithm was evaluated by rainfall events in 2020. It is outperformed in the magnitude and strength of precipitation, and clearly predicted non-linear pattern of precipitation. The algorithm can be useful as a forecasting tool for preventing severe weather.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
• /
• 2023.05a
• /
• pp.277-277
• /
• 2023

최근 기후변화의 영향으로 호우의 발생빈도가 증가하고 있는 추세이며, 도시지역의 호우는 돌발적이고 국지적인 특성을 가지고 있어 인명과 재산피해 역시 증가하고 있으며, 급격한 도시화로 인한 구조적으로 홍수에 취약한 실정이다. 국지성 도시호우는 저층(1 km 내외)에서 형성되는 강우가 지배적이며, 기존의 대형레이더는 높은 산 정상에 설치되어 1.5 km 이상의 강우관측을 중심으로 운영됨에 따라 저층강우의 탐지 및 변동성 관측에 취약하여, 이에 대형 레이더에서 뿐만 아니라 도시단위의 국지성 호우관측에 대응할 수 있는 소형 레이더 기반 고정밀 강우관측 마련 및 운영 기술이 필요하다. 현재 K-water는 부산 에코델타 스마트시티에 도시 물재해 플랫폼 구현의 일환으로 돌발강우사전 탐지 및 도시의 신속·정확한 강우 관측을 위하여 높은 시공간 해상도를 제공하는 이중편파X 밴드 소형 강우레이더를 설치하고, 효율적 운용을 위해 각 고도각에서의 빔 차폐율을 확인하고 이를 고려한 최적 관측전략을 수립하였다. 또한 Z-Phi 방법을 이용한 반사도 감쇠 보정 기술을 개발하였으며, 강우 추정을 위해 하이브리드 고도면 합성 기법(HSR) 기법을 적용하고 검증하였다. 이후 소형 레이더의 정량적 추정강수를 이용하여 강우예측 정보를 생산하기 위해 이류모델을 적용하고, 비슬산과 소형 합성 레이더 추정강수로 선행 10분에서 180분까지 예측할 수 있도록 개발하였다. 또한, 지상강우관측 자료와의 정확도 비교 평가를 수행하고, 행정구역 및 표준유역의 예측 평균강우량을 생산하여 부산 에코델타 스마트시티 도시 물재해 통합관리 시스템과 연계운영을 위한 후속 과업을 수행중에 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
• /
• v.47 no.6
• /
• pp.27-32
• /
• 2010

77GHz FMCW(Frequency Modulation Continuous Wave) radar system has been used for automotive active safety systems. In typical automotive radar, the moving target detection and clutter cancellation including stationary targets are very important signal processing algorithms. This paper proposed the moving target detection algorithm which improve the detection probability and reduce the false alarm rate. First, the proposed moving target beat-frequency extraction filter is used in order to suppress clutter, and then the data association is applied by using the extracted moving target beat-frequency. Then, the zero-Doppler target is eliminated to remove the rest of clutter.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
• /
• v.50 no.12
• /
• pp.849-862
• /
• 2017

The increased frequency of meteorological disasters has been observed due to increased extreme events such as heavy rainfalls and flash floods. Numerous studies using high-resolution weather radar rainfall data have been carried out on the hydrological effects. In this study, a conditional merging technique is employed, which makes use of geostatistical methods to extract the optimal information from the observed data. In this context, three different techniques such as kriging, inverse distance weighting and spline interpolation methods are applied to conditionally merge radar and ground rainfall data. The results show that the estimated rainfall not only reproduce the spatial pattern of sub-hourly rainfall with a relatively small error, but also provide reliable temporal estimates of radar rainfall. The proposed modeling framework provides feasibility of using conditionally merged rainfall estimation at high spatio-temporal resolution in ungauged areas.

• Water for future
• /
• v.29 no.3
• /
• pp.187-195
• /
• 1996

In this study, a methodology for the hourly prediction of rainfall surfaces was applied to the Pyungchang river basin at the upstream of South Han river with meteorological radar and ground rainfall data. The methods for the exclusion of abnormal echoes, and suppression of ground clutter, and the augmentation of attenuation effects associated with rainfall phenomena were reviewed, and the relationship between radar reflectivity (Z) and rainfall rate (R) was analyzed. The transformation of augmented radar reflectivities into the rdar rainfall surfaces was carried out, and afterward they were synthesized with the ground rainfall data generating the hourly rainfall surfaces. For the prediction of hourly rainfall surface, the moving factors of rainfall field estimated by the cross correlation coefficient method and the temporal variation of radar rainfall intensities were considered. The synthesized hourly rainfall surfaces were used to predict the hourly rainfall surfaces up to 3 hours in advance and subsequently the results were compared with the measured and the synthesized. It seems that the prediction method need to be verified with more data and be complemented further to consider the physical characteristics of rainfall field and the topography of the basin.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
• /
• v.13 no.4
• /
• pp.695-704
• /
• 2018

The rainfall cases were identified by rainfall estimation techniques which were developed by using X - band marine radar. A digital signal converter was used to convert the signal received from the marine radar into digital reflectivity information. The ground clutter signal was removed and the errors caused by beam attenuation and beam volume changes were corrected. The reflectivity showed a linear relationship with the rain gauge rainfall. Quantitative rainfall was estimated by converting the radar signal into an cartesian coordinate system. When the rainfall was recorded more than $5mm\;hr^{-1}$ at three automatic weather stations, the rain cell distribution on the marine radar was consistent with that of the weather radar operated by Korea meteorological Adminstration.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
• /
• v.23 no.2
• /
• pp.79-85
• /
• 2023

To make normal operation of S-Band PSR(Primary Surveillance Radar) which are in operation near distance, Minimizing the mutual frequency interference was studied in this paper. First, the phenomenon of radar receiver was analyzed when the interference between PSR was occurred. And next, the proper S-Band Bandpass filter(BPF) was chosen to deal with the interference. And inhibition performance of BPF was verified by comparative analysis of Radar's RF reception characteristic before and after of BPF application. There is 6.4~7.7 dB passband attenuation when BPF was applied at Radar receiver. So the PSR probability of detection were compared and analyzed to check the radar detection performance was deteriorated or not, And this result proved the usefulness of this study.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
• /
• v.20 no.5
• /
• pp.71-77
• /
• 2020

Recently, the tracking radar has confirmed the necessity of developing a small tracking radar that can be operated without various restrictions in various environments. In addition, the performance of a small tracking radar requires equal to or higher than the existing tracking radar. Such a small tracking radar can be implemented through miniaturization and low power of existing tracking radar. In this paper, the role and function of a signal processor for a small tracking radar are defined and we proposed a method to increase the efficiency of power consumption and miniaturization by minimizing the use of devices required to implement a signal processor for a small tracking radar. Used as a method for miniaturization, a device processor such as DDC and communication controller was implemented in an FPGA to design a signal processor for a small tracking radar. In addition, a low-power signal processor was designed by a power supply using a highly efficient switching regulator. Finally, the signal processor was verified by the performance test of the signal processor for the small tracking radar implemented, the Doppler tracking test using the signal processor on the small tracking radar, and the distance tracking test.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
• /
• v.46 no.6
• /
• pp.517-524
• /
• 2022

This paper analyzes wave measurement using X-band navigation (ship) radar, changes in radar signal due to snowfall and precipitation, and factors that obstruct wave measurement. Data obtained from the radar installed at Sokcho Beach were used, and data from the Korea Meteorological Administration and the Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency were used for the meteorological data needed for comparative verification. Data from the Korea Meteorological Administration are measured at Sokcho Meteorological Observatory, which is about 7km away from the radar, and data from the Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency are measured at a buoy about 3km away from the radar. To this point, changes in radar signals due to rainfall or snowfall have been transmitted empirically, and there is no case of an analysis comparing the results to actual weather data. Therefore, in this paper, precipitation, snowfall data, CCTV, and radar signals from the Korea Meteorological Administration were comprehensively analyzed in time series. As a result, it was confirmed that the wave height measured by the radar according to snowfall and rainfall was reduced compared to the actual wave height, and a decrease in the radar signal strength according to the distance was also confirmed. This paper is meaningful in that it comprehensively analyzes the decrease in the signal strength of radar according to snowfall and rainfall.