• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.35-35
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the KSEEG Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.286-289
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• 2002

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.131-141
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• 2014

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a powerful and well established microwave remote sensing technique which enables high resolution measurements of the Earth surface independent of weather conditions and sunlight illumination. In this study, this paper first summarizes the basic SAR theory and the history of the SAR satellites. The second part of this paper gives an overview of new technologies for future SAR systems. New innovative concepts and technologies for SAR satellites will be digital beamforming, High Resolution Wide Swath (HRWS), Waveform Encoding, Terrain Observation by Progressive Scan (TOPS), and so on. These technologies will play an important role for future spaceborne SAR satellites.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.38 no.6_2
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• pp.1589-1605
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• 2022

Phase unwrapping is an essential procedure for interferometric synthetic aperture radar techniques. Accordingly, a lot of phase unwrapping methods have been developed. Deep-learning-based unwrapping methods have recently been proposed. In this paper, we reviewed state-of-the-art deep-learning-based unwrapping approaches in terms of 1) the approaches to predicting unwrapped phases, 2) deep learning model structures for phase unwrapping, and 3) training data generation. The research trend of the approaches to predicting unwrapped phases was introduced by categorizing wrap count segmentation, phase jump classification, phase regression, and deep-learning-assisted method. We introduced the case studies of deep learning model structure for phase unwrapping, and model structure optimization to relate the overall phase information. In addition, we summarized the research trend of the training data generation approaches in the views of phase gradient and noise in the main. And the future direction in deep-learning-based phase unwrapping was presented. It is expected that this paper is used as guideline for exploring future direction of deep-learning-based phase unwrapping research in Korea.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.389-397
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• 2013

Recently high spatial resolution space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems have launched and have been operated successfully. Interferometric SAR (InSAR) processing with the space-based high resolution observations acquired by these systems can provide more detail information for various geodetic applications. Coherence is regarded as a critical parameter in the evaluating the quality of an InSAR pair. In this study, we evaluate the coherence characteristics of high-resolution data acquired by TerraSAR-X (X-band) and ALOS PALSAR (L-band) and intermediate-resolution data acquired by Envisat ASAR (C-band) over western Texas, U.S.A. Our coherence analysis reveals that the high-resolution X-band TSX (3.1 cm) data has a high coherence level (0.3-0.6), similar to that of the L-band ALOS PALSAR data (23.5 cm) in short temporal baselines. Further more, the TSX coherence values are significantly higher than those of the C-band (5.6 cm) Envisat ASAR data. The higher coherence of the TSX dataset is a surprising result, because common scattering theories suggest that the longer wavelength SAR data maintain better coherence. In vegetated areas the shorter wavelength radar pulse interacts mostly with upper sections of the vegetation and, hence, does not provide good correlation over time in InSAR pairs. Thus, we suggest that the higher coherence values of the TSX data reflect the data's high-resolution, in which stable and coherent scatters are better maintained. Although, however, the TSX data show a very good coherence with short temporal baseline (11-33 days), the coherences are significantly degraded as the temporal baselines are increased. This result confirms previous studies showing that the coherence has a strong dependency on the temporal baseline.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.581-591
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• 2010

In this paper, we proposed a new wavelet-based image fusion algorithm, which has advantages in both frequency and spatial domains for signal analysis. The developed algorithm compares the ratio of SAR image signal to optical image signal and assigns the SAR image signal to the fused image if the ratio is larger than a predefined threshold value. If the ratio is smaller than the threshold value, the fused image signal is determined by a weighted sum of optical and SAR image signal. The fusion rules consider the ratio of SAR image signal to optical image signal, image gradient and local variance of each image signal. We evaluated the proposed algorithm using Ikonos and TerraSAR-X satellite images. The proposed method showed better performance than the conventional methods which take only relatively strong SAR image signals in the fused image, in terms of entropy, image clarity, spatial frequency and speckle index.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.155-168
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• 1996

Speckle noise has been a primary concern to many applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. In recent years, several satellites with radar imaging systems were launched and the use of SAR data are expected to be increased rapidly The objectives of this study are to provide introductory understanding on radar speckle filtering and to compare the effects of several filtering methods that are relatively unknown to user community. Two study sites were extracted from the RADARSAT SAR data obtained over the suburban areas near Seoul. The study sites include relatively homogeneous cover types, such as reservoir, parking lot, rice pad, and deciduous forest. Five filters (mean filter, median filter, sigma filter, local statistics filter, and autocorrelation filter) were applied to the SAR imagery and their effects were evaluated from the aspects of both image smoothing and edge preservation. In overall, the evaluation results indicate that the local statistics filter and autocorrelation filter, that are based on a speckle model, are more effective to suppress speckle within homogeneous cover type while maintaining the edge sharpness between cover types.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.35 no.5_2
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• pp.773-779
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• 2019

We developed the automatic ground deformation monitoring system using Sentinel-1 satellites which is operating by European Space Agency (ESA) for the Korea Peninsula's ground disaster monitoring. Ground deformation occurring over a long-term period are difficult to monitoring because it occurred in a wide area and required a large amount of satellite data for analysis. With the development of satellites, the methods to regularly observe large areas has been developed. These accumulated satellite data are used for time series ground displacement analysis. The National Disaster Management Research Institute (NDMI) established an automation system for all processes ranging from acquiring satellite observation data to analyzing ground displacement and expressing them. Based on the system developed in this research, ground displacement data on the Korean Peninsula can be updated periodically. In the future, more diverse ground displacement information could be provided if automated small regional analysis systems, multi-channel analysis method, and 3D analysis system techniques are developed with the existing system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.192-192
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• 2023

우량계는 강우 자료를 수집하는 전통적인 방법 중 하나로, 연속적이고 직접적인 설치가 가능하다. 하지만 지형적 특성에 영향을 받아 강우량을 과소 측정하는 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 국지적인 호우, 강우 이동 및 강우 상황 등을 파악할 수 있는 레이더를 이용한 강우 측정이 활용된다. 하지만 레이더 기반 측정 또한 우량계와 마찬가지로 과소 측정하는 문제점이 있다. 측정 한계를 극복하기 위해 최근에는 위성 기반 강우 자료를 사용하고 있다. 위성 기반의 강우 자료는 측정이 어려운 장소에서도 강우량의 수집이 가능하며, 지표 변화를 관측하여 강우 측정의 정확도를 높일 수 있다. 고화질 위성 자료인 CHIRPS (Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations) 자료는 미국 국제개발처, 항공우주국, 해양 대기청의 지원으로 1980년부터 현재까지 전 지구적 (50°S-50°N, 180°E-180°W) 0.05° × 0.05°의 해상도를 가진 강우량 데이터를 개발하였다. 본 연구에서는 전국 54개 ASOS (Automated Synpotic Observing System)에서 관측한 월 단위 및 일 단위 강우 자료를 기준으로 CHIRPS 강우 자료를 비교하였다. 또한, 다른 위성 강우 자료들 (APHRODITE (Asian Precipitation Highly Resolved Observation Data Integration Towards Evaluation), CMORPH (Climate Prediction Cneter morphing method))과도 비교하여 국내 적용성을 확인하였다. 강우 자료의 정확도를 비교하기 위해서 Box-plot, RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error) 등을 산정하였으며, 강우 발생 일을 비교하고자 오차 행렬을 활용하였다. 비교 결과를 통해서 CHIRPS 강우 자료가 다른 위성 강우 자료들에 비해서 국내 적용성이 높은 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 추후 국내 수문학 연구에서 기초자료로서 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.487-495
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• 2022

This paper describes the design and development of a high-power transmit receive module(TRM) for mounting on X-band synthetic aperture radar(SAR) of the NEXTSat-2. The TRM generates a high-power pulse signal with a bandwidth of 100 MHz in the target frequency range of X-band and amplifies a low-noise on the received signal. Tx. path of the TRM has output signal level of more than 200 watts (53.01 dB), pulse droop of 0.35 dB, signal strength change of 0.04 dB during transmission signal output, and phase change of 1.7 ˚. Rx. path has noise figure of 3.99 dB and gain of 37.38 ~ 37.46 dB. It was confirmed the TRM satisfies all requirements. The TRM mounted on the NEXTSat-2 flight model(FM) which will be launched using the KSLV-II (Nuri).