• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.68-79
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• 2018

In general, Top Of Atmosphere(TOA) brightness temperature is closely related to air temperature. Brightness temperature can be derived from the Thermal Infra-Red Sensors (TIRS) of the earth observation satellites such as the Landsat series. The TIRS instrument of the Landsat-8 satellite collects the two spectral bands (Bands 10 and 11) that measure brightness temperature. In this research, the relationship between the air temperature data measured by the weather stations in Seoul, South Korea and the brightness temperature data separately derived from Bands 10 and 11 of the Landsat-8 satellite were assessed in the different seasons through the correlation analysis. The statistical results led to the following conclusions. First, brightness temperature is closely related to air temperature in order of Spring, Autumn, Winter and Summer. Second, when air temperature increases, brightness temperature also increases in Spring, Autumn and Winter but decreases in Summer. Third, Band 10 has a closer relationship to air temperature than Band 11.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.48 no.12
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• pp.977-985
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• 2020

KOMPSAT-3A launched in 2015 provides Middle InfraRed(MIR) images with 3.3~5.2㎛. Though the satellite provide high resolution images for estimating bright temperature of ground objects, it is different from existing satellites developed for natural science purposes. An atmospheric compensation process is essential in order to estimate the surface brightness temperature from a single channel MIR image of KOMPSAT-3A. However, even after the atmospheric compensation process, there is a brightness temperature error due to various factors. In this paper, we analyzed the cause of the brightness temperature estimation error by tracking signal flow from camera physical characteristics to image processing. Also, we study on possibility of improvement of MIR brightness temperature bias error of KOMPSAT-3A using GEOKOMPSAT-2A. After bias compensation of a real nighttime image with a large bias error, it was confirmed that the surface brightness temperature of KOMPSAT-3A and GEOKOMPSAT-2A have correlation. We expect that the GEOKOMPSAT-2A images will be helpful to improve MIR brightness temperature bias error of KOMPSAT-3A.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.19-28
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• 2014

The radiative transfer for TIROS operational vertical sounder (RTTOV) and the community radiative transfer model (CRTM) are two fast radiative transfer models (RTM) that are used as observation operators in numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems. This study compares the basic structure and input data of the two models. With data from Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A), which has channels of various frequencies, observed brightness temperature ($T_B$) and simulated $T_B$s from the two models are compared over the ocean surface in two cases-one where cloud information is included and the other without it. Regarding AMSU-A sounding channels (5-14), the two models produce no large significant differences in their calculated $T_B$, but RTTOV produces smaller first guess (FG) departures (i.e., better results) in window and near-surface sounding channels than does CRTM. When adding cloud water and ice particles from Unified Model (UM), the $T_B$ bias between observations and simulations are reduced in both models and the bias at 31.4 and 89 GHz is substantially decreased in CRTM compared to those of RTTOV.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2004.03a
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• pp.449-454
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• 2004

심각한 환경문제인 적조 피해를 줄이기 위해서 효과적인 모니터링 기술이 절실히 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 초고주파 라디오미터 센서를 이용한 효과적인 적조 모니터링에 대한 가능성을 조사하였다. 초고주파 라디오미터를 이용해 관측되는 밝기 온도의 차이로 적조 해수를 모니터링 할 수 있다는 아이디어에 기반하여 연구를 수행하였다. 본문에서는 이론적인 배경과 가능성 확인을 위한 실험과정, 결과가 서술되어 있다 실제 해양에서의 측정 실험에서 적조지역의 밝기 온도가 청정지역의 밝기 온도보다 높게 측정되었다. 결론으로, 본 연구를 통하여 초고주파 라디오미터를 이용한 적조 모니터링이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.571-581
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• 2008

The sea fog occurs frequently in the west coast of Korea in spring and summer. This study focused on the detection of sea fog using MODIS satellite images. We presented a method for sea fog detection based on the homogeneity level between low stratus and sea fog, which was that the top surface of sea fog had a homogeneous aspect while that of low stratus had a heterogenous aspect. The results showed that the both homogeneity of $11{\mu}m$ brightness temperature (BT) and brightness temperature difference (BTD, $BT_{3.7{\mu}m}-BT_{11{\mu}m}$) were available to discriminate sea fog from low stratus. The frequency of difference between BT in fog/stratus area and BT in clear area provided reasonable result. In addition, the threshold values of standard deviations of BT and BTD in the fog/stratus area were applicable to differentiate fog from low stratus.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.250-252
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• 2004

나노 기술의 개발과 마이크로어레이(microarray)의 등장으로 생물학자동을 한번에 보다 라르고 신속하게, 대량의 실험을 처리할 수 있게 되었다. 이와 발 맞추어 마이크로어레이를 이용한 다양한 실험 방법들이 개발되었다. 형광 염료(fluorescence dye)를 이 용한 관찰 방법 이 널리 이용되고 있으나, 관찰되는 형광 염료의 밝기가 실험 환경(pH, 온도)에 매우 민감하게 반응하며, 단백질을 포함한 많은 분자 물질들이 형광을 내지 않기 때문에 마이크로어레이를 이용한 분석 대상 물질들의 개수가 제한을 받는다. 본 논문에서는 직접적인 형광 염료의 사용 없이, SPR(Surface Plasmon Resonance)을 이용한 마이크로어레이 분석 시스템에서 스팟(spot)의 밝기(intensity)를 측정하기 위한 효율적인 전처리 과정을 제안하고자 한다. 전처리 과정은 크게 프로젝티브 왜곡 효과 제거, 스팟의 위치 추적, 스팟의 영역 추출, 정규화 된 스팟의 밝기 측정으로 나누어진다. 특히, 이러한 과정을 거쳐서 측정된 밝기는 반응 유무의 관찰뿐만이 아니라, 실험 물질의 양적인 측정에도 이용되기 때문에 정확한 스팟의 밝기 측정에 중점을 두고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.583-598
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• 2015

This paper presents derivation of background temperature from geostationary satellite and its validation based on ground measurements and Geographic Information System (GIS) for future use in weather and surface heat variability. This study only focuses on daily and monthly brightness temperature in 2012. From the analysis of COMS Meteorological Data Processing System (CMDPS) data, we have found an error in cloud distribution of model, which used as a background temperature field, and in examining the spatial homogeneity. Excessive cloudy pixels were reconstructed by statistical reanalysis based on consistency of temperature measurement. The derived Brightness temperature has correlation of 0.95, bias of 0.66 K and RMSE of 4.88 K with ground station measurements. The relation between brightness temperature and both elevation and vegetated land cover were highly anti-correlated during warm season and daytime, but marginally correlated during cold season and nighttime. This result suggests that time varying emissivity data is required to derive land surface temperature.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.5
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• pp.163-167
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• 2016

We have developed a millimeter-wave radiometer system for applications in the fields of medical imaging. In this paper, we introduced the brightness temperature measurement in the human body using Millimeter-wave Radiometer. Calibration of sensitivity of the radiometer system is essential to measure equivalent temperature (brightness temperature) of objects. We have developed, as a calibration source, a new type of black body for the millimeter wave region with temperature control capability. The system noise figure and temperature sensitivity of the system measured using the blackbody are 3.3 dB and 0.1 K, respectively. The brightness temperature of human body through clothes was measured to be around $38^{\circ}$[C].

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.93-104
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• 1996

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.45-59
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• 2009

This research presents the effect of Asian dust on the derived sea surface temperature (SST) from measurements of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument flown onboard NOAA polar orbiting satellites. To analyze the effect, A VHRR infrared brightness temperature (TB) is estimated from simulated radiance calculated from radiative transfer model on various atmospheric conditions. Vertical profiles of temperature, pressure, and humidity from radiosonde observation are used to build up the East Asian atmospheric conditions in spring. Aerosol optical thickness (AOT) and size distribution are derived from skyradiation measurements to be used as inputs to the radiative transfer model. The simulation results show that single channel TB at window region is depressed under the Asian dust condition. The magnitude of depression is about 2K at nadir under moderate aerosol loading, but the magnitude reaches up to 4K at slant path. The dual channel difference (DCD) in spilt window region is also reduced under the Asian dust condition, but the reduction of DCD is much smaller than that shown in single channel TB simulation. Owing to the depression of TB, SST has cold bias. In addition, the effect of AOT on SST is amplified at large satellite zenith angle (SZA), resulting in high variance in derived SSTs. The SST depression due to the presence of Asian dust can be expressed as a linear function of AOT and SZA. On the basis of this relationship, the effect of Asian dust on the SST retrieval from the conventional daytime multi-channel SST algorithm can be derived as a function of AOT and SZA.