• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.45-50
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• 2006

A satellite and ground stations which are developed in a program are tested whether the interface between the satellite and ground is well established before satellite operations. These compatibility tests are performed when the satellite is connected with the ground stations after all satellite and ground stations requirements are verified. The content of the RF compatibility test is to check whether the interface requirements which are described on the Interface Control Document are well developed. During the early operation phase and tentative contingency operations of the satellite, KARI ground station uses other oversea ground stations which are located worldwide according to contract between the KARI and the contractor. Since oversea ground stations were not developed for the designated space program, system integrator should check whether the oversea ground stations are satisfied with interface requirements. Using the RF suitcase, RF interface and the content of RF communication can directly be verified during RF compatibility test on oversea ground station without KARI ground station's support. The RF compatibility test using RF suitcase was performed oversea ground stations as well as KARI ground station located on Korea. The content of RF compatibility test was standardized in order to be used at any oversea ground stations, especially fitted for the operations concept of launch and early operations phase. The test content would be RF characteristics, protocol, command loop test, telemetry loop test, and ground station interface test.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.278-287
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• 2024

In this paper, telemetry link budget model for small launch vehicle is proposed, and telemetry link budget simulator is implemented. The proposed link budget model consist of geometry model and propagation loss model. The geometry model is calculation of look angle between ground station and small launch vehicle. The propagation loss model consist of free space loss, polarization loss, and de-pointing loss which are appropriate to the small launch vehicle flight environment. The proposed propagation loss model can be calculate propagation loss without complex calculation of propagation environments. The link budget simulator is implemented in MATLAB. The simulator calculate look angle, free space loss, polarization loss parameter, de-pointing loss and received signal level in ground station by using position of ground station, routing of small launch vehicle, 3-D radiation patterns of antennas.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.616-624
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• 2019

In order to understand flying aircraft, satellite, missile, etc, a telemetry ground system is used to receive, record, and process the transmitted radio signal from vehicles. In some cases, a line-of-sight communication is not possible along to the trajectory of vehicles, and multipath fading result in a shade area of communication. A number of telemetry ground systems are installed to overcome this limitation, and acquire the transmitted signal seamlessly. The telemetry signals received by multiple independent ground systems have independent probability of errors since they experienced their own communication channels. In other words, we can exploit the independent error characteristics of received signals by processing them in a hybrid method. The optimum hybrid post-process method is proposed in this study, and applied to process telemetry signals acquired from flight tests.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.293-302
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• 2014

Radar systems are used in remote sensing mainly as space-borne, airborne and ground-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), scatterometer and Doppler radar. Those systems are composed of expensive equipments and require expertise and professional skills for operation. Because of the limitation in getting experiences of the radar and SAR systems and its operations in ordinary universities and institutions, it is difficult to learn and exercise essential principles of radar hardware which are essential to understand and develop new application fields. To overcome those difficulties, in this paper, we present the construction and experiment of a low-cost educational radar system based on the blueprints of the MIT Cantenna system. The radar system was operated in three modes. Firstly, the velocity of moving cars was measured in Doppler radar mode. Secondly, the range of two moving targets were measured in radar mode with range resolution. Lastly, 2D images were constructed in GB-SAR mode to enhance the azimuth resolution. Additionally, we simulated the SAR raw data to compare Deramp-FFT and ${\omega}-k$ algorithms and to analyze the effect of antenna positional error for SAR focusing. We expect the system can be further developed into a light-weight SAR system onboard a unmanned aerial vehicle by improving the system with higher sampling frequency, I/Q acquisition, and more stable circuit design.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.398-404
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• 2015

In this paper, we describe the design and performance of a prototype multi-rotor unmaned aerial vehicle( UAV) platform featuring an inertial measurement unit(IMU) based autonomous-flying for use in bluetooth communication environments. Although there has been a fair amount of study of free-flying UAV with multi-rotors, the more recent trend has been to outfit hexarotor helicopter with gimbal to support various services. This paper introduces the hardware and software systems toward very compact and autonomous hexarotors, where they can perform search, rescue, and surveillance missions without external assistance systems like ground station computers, high-performance remote control devices or vision system. The proposed system comprises the construction of the test hexarotor platform, the implementation of an IMU, mathematical modeling and simulation in the helicopter. Furthermore, the hexarotor helicopter with implemented IMU is connected with a micro controller unit(MCU)(ARM-cortex) board. The micro-controller is able to command the rotational speed of the rotors and to get the measurements of the IMU as input signals. The control simulation and experiment on the real system are implemented in the test platform, evaluated and compared against each other.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2006.03a
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• pp.381-385
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• 2006

2008년 발사를 목표로 개발되고 있는 통신해양기상위성(COMS: Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite)는 기상 관측과 해양 관측 임무 및 통신 임무까지 수행하는 정지궤도 위성이다. 통신해양기상위성은 크게 탑재체와 지상국으로 나눌 수 있고 지상국은 다시 통신 임무를 위한 CTES(Communication Test Earth Station), 해양/기상 임무를 위한 IDACS(Image Acquisition and Control System), 그리고 위성 관제와 운영을 위한 SGCS(Satellite Ground Control System)로 구분된다. 이 중 IDACS의 서브시스템 중 하나인 LHGS(LRIT/HRIT Generation Subsystem)는 LRIT/HRIT(Low Rate Information Transmission/High Rate Information Transmission)를 생성하고 배포하는 기능을 가지고 있다. 관측 종료 후 LRIT/HRIT 전송 완료까지 15분 이내로 이루어져야 한다는 기상청의 요구사항을 만족하기 위해서 JPEG 압축 시간도 중요한 요소로 고려되어야 한다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 MTSAT에서 받은 LRIT/HRIT의 자료 처리를 바탕으로 lossless JPEG와 lossy JPEG의 압축 시간을 측정하여 압축률을 비교하여 성능 분석을 해보기로 한다. 이렇게 도출해낸 수치자료는 COMS LHGS 설계에 활용할 수 있다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.237-245
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• 2007

GB-SAR (Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar) system is an imaging radar that obtains high resolution 2-D image through a synthetic aperture effect from the accurate linear-motion control of antenna on the ground. The highly versatile system configurations and accurate repeatability of GB-SAR operation allow one to accurately monitor the stability of surface scatterers with millimeter accuracy by SAR interferometry. In this paper we introduce the development of a GB-SAR system and show the possibilities of SAR polarimetry and interferometry such as DInSAR, Cross-Track InSAR, Delta-f InSAR, and PSInSAR.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1741-1742
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• 2008

위성을 이용한 통신 및 방송은 양방향 서비스 시대를 맞이하고 있으며, 위성 인프라는 통신망 back-up 개념을 벗어나 이동 휴대 그리고 지상 인프라 구축 및 운영이 어려운 지역 및 시설을 중심으로 광역 통신 및 방송의 근간 망 구성으로 나아가고 있다. 또한, 위성 통신 및 방송은 재난 방재 및 긴급 복구, 산업 시설 감시 및 측정데이터 모니터링 등 지상 인프라와 상호 보완적인 2 중망 또는 기간 망으로 활용되고 있다. 한국수자원공사에도 수문관측망 및 감시제어를 포함한 원격 데이터 취득 및 정보제공 등 많은 부분에 위성통신망이 적용되고 있으며, 수문관측망에 사용중인 위성통신망의 주파수 임대기간과 위성통신장비의 내용년수 도래에 따른 시스템 개선 및 대체방안 모색이 필요한 실정으로이다. 또한 수위, 우량과 같은 기존의 저속 위성망에 비하여 기술발전 및 데이터의 다양화에 따른 화상, 동영상과 같은 멀티미디어 데이터 등 초고속, 광대역 위성통신망을 구축할 수 있는 방안에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.42-44
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• 1998

위성 시스템은 전력 분배, 자세 제어, 열 제어 및 임무 수행에 필요한 탑재체 지원과지상과의 명령 수신 및 측정데이터의 수집을 위해서 프로세서를 내장하고 있다. 임무 수행 및 시스템의 복잡성 여부에 따라서 하나의 프로세서만을 탑재하기도 하지만 여러 개의 프로세서를 탑재하여 기능에 적합하게 분배하여 운용하기도 한다. 아리랑위성은 3개의 프로세서사 탑재되며, 크게 나누어 원격 측정 명령계, 자세 제어계 그리고 전력계에 기능을 담당하게 된다. 하나 이상의 프로세서를 탑재하게 되면 프로세서간의 동기화가 요구되며 프로세서간의 정보 전달을 위해서 통신 채널이 필요하게 된다. 실제로 프로세서간의 동기화는 상호 통신에 있어서 기준 점을 제공하므로 매우 중요한 의미를 가진다. 본 논문에서는 아리랑위성의 동기화는 어떤 방식으로 설계되었으며, 어떻게 운영되는지에 대해 설명한다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.593-603
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• 2010

Most spatial data acquisition systems employing a set of frame cameras may have suffered from their small fields of view and poor base-distance ratio. These limitations can be significantly reduced by employing an omni-directional camera that is capable of acquiring images in every direction. Bundle Block Adjustment (BBA) is one of the existing georeferencing methods to determine the exterior orientation parameters of two or more images. In this study, by extending the concept of the traditional BBA method, we attempt to develop a mathematical model of BBA for omni-directional images. The proposed mathematical model includes three main parts; observation equations based on the collinearity equations newly derived for omni-directional images, stochastic constraints imposed from GPS/INS data and GCPs. We also report the experimental results from the application of our proposed BBA to the real data obtained mainly in urban areas. With the different combinations of the constraints, we applied four different types of mathematical models. With the type where only GCPs are used as the constraints, the proposed BBA can provide the most accurate results, ${\pm}5cm$ of RMSE in the estimated ground point coordinates. In future, we plan to perform more sophisticated lens calibration for the omni-directional camera to improve the georeferencing accuracy of omni-directional images. These georeferenced omni-directional images can be effectively utilized for city modelling, particularly autonomous texture mapping for realistic street view.