• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.291-295
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• 2001

지하탐사 레이더를 이용한 고 건축물의 목재 기등에 대한 비파괴 검사에 응용 가능성을 조사하였다. 실험실에 공동이 존재하는 목재 기둥을 마련하고, 자체 설계 및 제작한 안테나로 구성한 지하탐사 레이더 시스템을 이용하여 기둥 축 방향으로 안테나를 이동시키면서 펄스의 송수신 특성을 측정하였다. 측정에 사용한 펄스와 목재 기둥의 전기적 특성, 안테나, 급전선 등 레이더 시스템 전체를 3차원 FDTD로 모델링하였다. 측정과 동일한 상황에 대한 FDTD 해석결과와 측정자료가 부합됨을 입증하였다. 목재 기둥과 공동간의 낮은 유전율 차이도 쉽게 탐지할 수 있음을 보임으로써 향후 지하탐사 레이더를 고건축물의 비파괴 검사에 효과적으로 응용할 수 있음을 제시하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.435-444
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• 2015

This paper specifies on a virtual array design of a 77 GHz vehicle radar for detecting a moving target at a time division transmit and a near range. The virtual array designed reduces a hardware complexity, weight and price. However, a synthesized beam of the virtual array has a high side lobe by a phase distortion of receive signals when the moving target is detected at the time division transmit. For this, a subarray receive signal with a same phase is used and the side lobe of the synthesized beam is suppressed above at least 10 dB. Also the virtual array has a beam distortion by a spherical wave when the vehicle radar operates at near range. So a boresight receive signal of each target range is compensated at each receive signal. Therefore the synthesized beam with compensation recovers a normal main lobe and improves the side lobe about 10~15 dB.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.8-18
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• 2001

To delineate the inhomogeneities including fractures and to estimate the freshness of rock borehole radar consisting of the reflection and tomography methods, and GPR surveys were conducted at a granite quarry mine. The borehole reflection survey using the direction finding antenna was also conducted to get the spatial orientations of reflectors. 20 MHz was adopted as the central frequency for the borehole radar reflection and tomography surveys and 100 MHz was for GPR. Through the interpretation of borehole reflection data using dipole and direction finding antenna as well as GPR images, which are good agreement with each other, we could determine the orientation of the major fractures in three dimensional way. Parts of travel time curves of tomography data showed the anisotropy, which is uncommon in granite quarry. By comparing the tomography data and TeleViewer images, the anisotropy effect in this area are closely related to fine fissures aligned in the same direction. The area confined by the two fractures, MF2 and MF5, might consist of the most fresh granite in the surveyed area, which was concluded from the borehole radar tomography, and GPR images as well as the distribution of anisotropy.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.12
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• pp.2461-2468
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• 2015

Sinuous antenna is utilized in a number of application like direction-finding system that require ultra wideband, but because of high input impedance of the antenna, it is difficult to design low-profile antenna and balun. In this study, we used Babinet's principle and proposed linear 2-arm slot sinuous antenna that is divided sinuous 6 cell with equal spacing between the most largest radius $R_1=31.83mm$ and the smallest radius $R_p=1.7mm$ instead of exponential 2-arm strip sinuous antenna for 2-18[GHz] frequency band to obtain low input impedance, and we have studied -10dB bandwidth of antenna when has been fed by $80{\Omega}$ instead of $188{\Omega}$ at feeder point. As a result, we have obtained return loss below than -10dB for about 4-18[GHz] frequency range in the case of slot antenna, but at all frequency band, return loss was above -10dB in the case of strip antenna.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.1359-1369
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• 2007

This paper describes the technique of satellite direction finding and main beam steering of the adaptive array antenna system which is used for mobile TT&C(Tracking Telemetry&Command) system. To be able to control the satellite on mobile vehicle while moving, the relative directional information of the satellite to the mobile vehicle is necessary to make main beam to the direction of satellite. To do this MUSIC, which is one of the super-resolution algorithm of wave direction finding, is used and then the performance analysis and quantization problem of phase shifter are addressed. This paper is valuable in the respect of showing feasibility of designing the moble TT&C using adative array antenna system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.6-16
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• 2009

For the application to the direction finding(DF) antenna for V/UHF bands, circular active array composed of 9 dipole element has been investigate. For miniaturization of the overall size array, the element has been chosen to be of the top-hat dipole type. For the broadband operation over 20-1300MHz, some number of pin diodes have been inserted in each arms of each dipole element. By employing this type of each element dipole, the effective dipole length can be increased or decreased according as the inserted pin diodes is on or off. The active array antenna has been design to be directly connected to the balanced push full amplifier such that the amplifier may play a role as a balloon and may improve the sensitivity as a receiver as well. The active array antenna has been designed and fabricated. Some experimental results have been presented in comparison with simulated results.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1999.08a
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• pp.92-116
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• 1999

Tomographic approaches to image underground structure using electrical properties, can be divided into DC resistivity, electromagnetic, and radar tomography, based on the operating frequency. DC resistivity and radar tomography methods have been recently applied to site investigation for engineering purpose in Korea. This paper review these two tomography methods, through the case histories acquired in Korea. As another method of borehole radar survey, borehole radar reflection method is included, and its inherent problem and solution are discussed, how to find the azimuth angle of reflector using direction-finding-antenna. Since the velocity anisotropy of radar wave has been commonly encountered in field data, anisotropic radar tomography is discussed in this paper. In DC resistivity tomography, two subjects are focussed, electrode arrays, and borehole effect owing to the conductive fluid in borehole. Using the numerical modeling data, various kinds of electrode ways are compared, and borehole effect is illustrated. Most of the case histories presented in this paper are compared with known geology, core logging data, and/or Televiewer images.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.1 s.24
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• pp.33-40
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• 2006

A compact broadband active composite dipole antenna for direction finding system at the V/UHF-band is presented. It uses the composite structure which improves the antenna gain and the active circuit for broadband operation. This type of antenna has a high gain more than that of one dipole antenna within limited length(1m). The basic design and performance of both antenna structure and integrated active circuit are presented.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.669-675
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• 2011

In this paper, we present the AFP(antenna front plate)s which were designed to reduce the reflection for the sake of the improvement of DF(direction finding) accuracy. The AFP consists of front plate, absorber and radome. The AFPs were optimized respectively by real test and we performed the DF test using our AFPs in laboratory. The DF test shows that the DF accuracy is about 2 times better than the requirement capability. Then, the DF field test was executed using the AFPs, which were installed in helicopter in consideration of the reflection by platform. The result of the DF field test is superior to the requirement capability also, which shows the validity of our design method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.116-125
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• 1997

This paper presents a novel method, entitled Orthogonal Weights Searching(OWS), for the Direction-Of-Arrival(DOA) estimation. Utilizing the modified Conjugate Gradient Method(MCGM), the weight vector which is orthogonal to the signal subspace is directly computed from the signal matrix. The proposed method does not require the computation of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors. In addition, the new technique excludes the procedure for the detection of the number of signals under the assumption that the number of weights in the array is greater than the number of input signals. Since the proposed technique can be performed independently of the detection procedure, it shows a good performance in adverse signal environments in which the detection of the number of array inputs cannot be obtained successfully. The performance of the proposed technique is compared with that of the convectional eigen-decomposition method in terms of angle resolution for a given signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) and a required amount of computations.