• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.1503-1508
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• 2009

This study applied image processing techniques, constructed to real-time, to thermal infrared camera image. Thermal infrared image data was utilized for hot mapping, cool mapping, and rainbow mapping according to changing temperature. It was histogram image processing techniques so that detected shade contrast function of the thermal infrared image, and the thermal infrared image's edge was extracted to classification of object. Moreover, extraction of temperature from image was measured by using the image information program.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.106-117
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• 2016

Recently, solar power plants have spread widely as part of the transition to greater environmental protection and renewable energy. Therefore, regular solar plant inspection is necessary to efficiently manage solar-light modules. This study implemented a test that can detect solar-light module faults using an UAV based thermal infrared camera and GIS spatial analysis. First, images were taken using fixed UAV and an RGB camera, then orthomosaic images were created using Pix4D SW. We constructed solar-light module layers from the orthomosaic images and inputted the module layer code. Rubber covers were installed in the solar-light module to detect solar-light module faults. The mean temperature of each solar-light module can be calculated using the Zonalmean function based on temperature information from the UAV thermal camera and solar-light module layer. Finally, locations of solar-light modules of more than $37^{\circ}C$ and those with rubber covers can be extracted automatically using GIS spatial analysis and analyzed specifically using the solar-light module's identifying code.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2019

The intensity and the number of days of high temperature occurrence are also high and record heat occurred. In addition, the global warming phenomenon is intensifying globally, and especially in South Korea, the urban heat island phenomenon is also occurring due to rapid urbanization due to rapid industrial development. As the temperature of the city rises, it causes problems such as the comfort of the residential living and the cooling load. In this study, the cool roof performance is evaluated according to the roof color to reduce these problems. Unlike previous studies, UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) thermal infrared camera was used to obtain the surface temperature (white, grey, green, blue, brown, black) according to the rooftop color by remote sensing technique. As a result, the surface temperature of white color was $11{\sim}20^{\circ}C$ lower than other colors. Also air conditioning temperature of white color was $1.5{\sim}4.4^{\circ}C$ lower than other colors and the digital thermometer of white color was about $1.5{\sim}3.5^{\circ}C$ lower than other colors. It was confirmed that the white cool roof performance is the best, and the UAV and the thermal infrared camera can confirm the cool roof performa.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.346-346
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• 2020

홍수기 효과적인 하천관리를 위해서는 광역 모니터링을 위한 기술 확보가 매우 중요하며, 최근 드론을 활용한 하천 모니터링에 관한 관심이 점차 증가되고 있다. 하천관리에 필요한 드론 탑재용 센서는 기본적으로 RGB 광학센서를 비롯하여 근적외선(Nir) 및 열적외선 센서가 함께 운용되는 것이 효과적이다. 그러나 현재 판매되는 드론 카메라를 살펴보면 근적외선과 열적외선 센서가 별도로 분리되어 있고 광학센서에 비해 상대적으로 매우 고가로 판매되고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 하천 모니터링을 위해서는 광학(RGB), 근적외선 그리고 열적외선 센서가 통합된 저가의 탑재체 개발이 시급하고 이를 활용한 하천 모니터링 프로세스를 정립할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 일반 드론에 쉽게 탑재 가능한 하천 모니터링용 탑재체를 개발하였으며, 이를 기반으로 하천 홍수 및 부유사 모니터링에 활용하였다. 광학센서는 하천의 주요 형상을 확인하는데 이용하였으며, 근적외선 센서는 홍수 및 부유사 탐지에 활용하였다. 특히 본 연구에서는 비교적 넓은 하천 구역에 대한 공간정보를 구축하기 위해 75% 이상의 중복도를 가지고 촬영하도록 세팅하였으며 영상접합 SW를 활용하여 정사영상을 생성하였다. 구축한 근적외선 정사영상으로부터 영상분석 프로그램을 활용하여 홍수 및 부유사 영역을 추출하였으며 이를 통해 홍수기 하천 모니터링 및 치수 업무 의사결정을 위한 정보를 제공할 수 있었다. 저가용 드론 센서는 상용 SW와의 연계가 어렵기 때문에 자동비행 프로그램처럼 해당 위치별 영상 촬영이 어려운 한계가 있었으며, 본 연구에서는 센서의 제원특성을 활용하여 자동비행 SW에서도 일정 이상의 중복도를 확보할 수 있는 비행고도별 촬영시간 등을 종합적으로 설계하였다. 이를 통해 해당 지역에 대한 하천 모니터링용 정사영상을 구축할 수 있었으며 기존의 고가용 드론 센서와 유사한 효과를 가져올 수 있었다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.797-807
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• 2014

The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is one of the most important oceanic environmental factors in determining the change of marine environments and ecological activities. Satellite thermal infrared images can be effective for understanding the global trend of sea surface temperature due to large scale. However, their low spatial resolution caused some limitations in some areas where complicated and refined coastal shapes due to many islands are present as in the Korean Peninsula. The coastal ocean is also very important because human activities interact with the environmental change of coastal area and most aqua farming is distributed in the coastal ocean. Thus, low-cost airborne thermal infrared remote sensing with high resolution capability is considered for verifying its possibility to extract SST and to monitor the changes of coastal environment. In this study, an airborne thermal infrared system was implemented using a low-cost and ground-based thermal infrared camera (FLIR), and more than 8 airborne acquisitions were carried out in the western coast of the Korean Peninsula during the periods between May 23, 2012 and December 7, 2013. The acquired thermal infrared images were radiometrically calibrated using an atmospheric radiative transfer model with a support from a temperature-humidity sensor, and geometrically calibrated using GPS and IMU sensors. In particular, the airborne sea surface temperature acquired in June 25, 2013 was compared and verified with satellite SST as well as ship-borne thermal infrared and in-situ SST data. As a result, the airborne thermal infrared sensor extracted SST with an accuracy of $1^{\circ}C$.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.144-154
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• 2015

Mechanical energy is accumulated in the object when stress is exerted on rock specimens, and the failure is occurred when the stress is larger than critical stress. The accumulated energy is emitted as various forms including physical deformation, light, heat and sound. Uniaxial compression strength test and point load strength test were carried out in low temperature environment, and thermal variation of rock specimens were observed and analyzed quantitatively using thermal infrared camera images. Temperature of failure plane was increased just before the failure because of concentration of stress, and was rapidly increased at the moment of the failure because of the emission of thermal energy. The variations of temperature were larger in diorite and basalt specimens which were strong and fresh than in tuff specimens which were weak and weathered. This study can be applied to prevent disasters in rock slope, tunnel and mine in cold regions and to analyze satellite image for predicting earthquake in cold regions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.285-293
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• 2009

Thermal infrared cameras have been conducted actively in various application areas, such as military, medical service, industries and cars. Because of their characteristic of sensing the radiant heat emitted from subjects in the range of long-wavelength($3{\sim}5{\mu}m$ or $8{\sim}12{\mu}m$), and of materializing a vision system, when general optics materials are used, they don't react to the light in the range of long-wavelength, and can't display their optic functions. Therefore, the materials with the feature of higher refractive index, reacting to the range of long-wavelength, are to be used. The kinds of materials with the characteristic of higher refractive index are limited, and their features are close to those of metals. Because of these metallic features, the existing producing method of optical systems were direct manufacturing method using grinding method or CAD/CAM, which put limit on productivity and made it difficult to properly cope with the increasing demand of markets. GASIR, a material, which can be molded easily, was selected among infrared ray optics materials in this study, and the optical system was designed with two Aspheric lenses. Because the lenses are molded in the environment of high temperature and high pressure, they require a special metallic pattern. The metallic pattern was produced with materials with ultra hardness that can stand high temperature and high pressure. As for the lens mold, GMP(Glass Molding Press) of the linear transfer method was used in order to improve the productivity of optical systems for thermal infrared cameras, which was the goal of this paper.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1213-1218
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• 2018

Recently introduced Mask R - CNN presents a conceptually simple, flexible, general framework for instance segmentation of objects. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for efficiently searching objects of images, while creating a segmentation mask of heat generation part for an instance which is a heating element in a heat sensed image acquired from a thermal infrared camera. This method called a mask R - CNN is an algorithm that extends Faster R - CNN by adding a branch for predicting an object mask in parallel with an existing branch for recognition of a bounding box. The mask R - CNN is added to the high - speed R - CNN which training is easy and fast to execute. Also, it is easy to generalize the mask R - CNN to other tasks. In this research, we propose an infrared image detection algorithm based on R - CNN and detect heating elements which can not be distinguished by RGB images. As a result of the experiment, a heat-generating object which can not be discriminated from Mask R-CNN was detected normally.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.9-12
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• 2019

지난 수 년 동안 계속해서 일반 실상 카메라를 이용한 영상분석기술에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 최근에는 딥러닝 기술을 적용한 지능형 영상분석기술로 발전해 왔으며 국방기지방호, CCTV, 사용자 얼굴인식, 머신비전, 자동차, 드론 산업이 활성화되면서 많은 시너지를 효과를 일으키고 있다. 그러나 어두운 밤과 안개, 날씨, 연기 등 다양한 여건에서 따라서 카메라의 영상분석 정확성 감소와 오류가 수반될 수 있으며 일반적으로 딥러닝 기술을 활용하기 위해서는 고사양의 GPU를 필요로 하기 때문에 다른 추가적인 시스템이 요구된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 열적외선 영상의 객체 검출에 적용하기 위해 SSD(Single Shot MultiBox Detector) 기반의 경량적인 MobilNet 네트워크로 재구성하여, 모바일 기기 등 낮은 사양의 낮은 임베디드 시스템에서도 활용 할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 모의 실험결과 제안된 방식의 모델은 적외선 열화상 카메라에서 객체검출과 학습시간이 줄어든 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.226-235
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• 2023

This study aimed to supplement the shortcomings of the Multiple-sensor-based Frost Observation System (MFOS). The developed frost observation system is an improvement of the existing system. Based on the leaf wetness sensor (LWS), it not only detects frost but also functions to predict surface temperature, which is a major factor in frost occurrence. With the existing observation system, 1) it is difficult to observe ice (frost) formation on the surface when capturing an image of the LWS with an RGB camera because the surface of the sensor reflects most visible light, 2) images captured using the RGB camera before and after sunrise are dark, and 3) the thermal infrared camera only shows the relative high and low temperature. To identify the ice (frost) generated on the surface of the LWS, a LWS that was painted black and three sheets of glass at the same height to be used as an auxiliary tool to check the occurrence of ice (frost) were installed. For RGB camera shooting before and after sunrise, synchronous LED lighting was installed so the power turns on/off according to the camera shooting time. The existing thermal infrared camera, which could only assess the relative temperature (high or low), was improved to extract the temperature value per pixel, and a comparison with the surface temperature sensor installed by the National Institute of Meteorological Sciences (NIMS) was performed to verify its accuracy. As a result of installing and operating the MFOS v2, which reflects these improvements, the accuracy and efficiency of automatic frost observation were demonstrated to be improved, and the usefulness of the data as input data for the frost prediction model was enhanced.