• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.03a
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• pp.267-270
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• 2007

눈은 지표면의 물리과정에서 중요한 요소 중의 하나로 짧은 시간 동안에 많은 변화를 유도할 있다. 본 연구에 MODIS 채널자료를 이용하여 적설역에서 나타나는 단파적외 채널과 반사도 특성을 알아보았다 일반적으로 MODIS 위성자료를 이용한 적설연구는 근적외 채널을 활용한 NOSI (Normalized Difference of Snow Index)를 주로 사용한다. 하지만 본 연구는 정지기상 위성의 적셜 탐지 능력을 시험하기 위한 연구이다. 따라서 정지 기상 위성 탑재되어 있는 채널의 특성과 비슷한MODIS 가시 채널과 단파 적외 채널 자료를 이용하여 적설지역을 분석하였다단일 가시 채널을 이용하여 적설을 탐지 하는 것은 청천역일 경우 큰 어려움이 없으나 반면 구름과 적설이 혼재되어 있는 지역에서는 탐지 능력이 떨어진다.반면 BID 값을 활용한 적설지역 탐지는 단일 가시 채널을 활용한 방법보다 좋은 결과를 가지지만 하층운이 존재할 때는 여전히 적설과 구름을 명확히 구분하기는 어렵다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.355-359
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 퍼지 기법을 이용하여 구름의 종류를 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 가시 영상과 적외 영상을 대상으로 육지 영역은 RGB 컬러 정보 중에 G 채널 값의 수치가 높고, 바다영역에서는 B 채널 값의 수치가 높다는 정보를 이용한다. 이 정보를 이용하여 육지 영역에서는 R과 B 채널 값을 적용하고, 바다 영역에서는 R과 G 채널 값을 적용한다. 가시 영상과 적외 영상에서 임계치를 적용하여 잡음(구름 이외의 영역)을 제거하고, 잡음을 제거한 영상에서 육지 영역과 바다 영역을 구분한 후, 각 R, G, B 채널 정보를 퍼지 기법에 적용하여 구름 영역을 판별한다. 그리고 가시영상과 적외 영상에 모두 포함된 구름 영역에 대해서는 두 영상을 합성하여 구름을 판별한다. 제안된 기법을 구름 분류에 적용한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 양자화를 적용한 방법보다 구름의 분류 성능이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.261-263
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 퍼지 기법을 이용하여 구름의 종류를 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 각각 영상에 대해 R채널의 임계치를 적용하여 잡음을 제거하며, 잡음 영역이 제거된 각각의 근적외 영상과 가시 영상의 반사 특성 및 근적외 영상과 적외 영상의 방출 특성의 특징을 구한 후, 각각의 임계치를 적용하여 1차적으로 구름을 판별한다. 1차적으로 구름 판별에서 제외된 영역에 대해서는 가시 및 적외 영상의 R 채널 값을 퍼지 기법에 적용하여 2차적으로 구름의 종류를 판별한다. 1차적으로 판별된 구름 영역과 2차적으로 판별된 구름 영역을 합성하여 최종 구름 영역을 도출한다. 제안된 방법을 실험한 결과, 기존의 구름 분류 방법보다 제안된 방법이 구름 분류의 성능이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.193-203
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• 2009

Snow cover is one of the important parameters since it determines surface energy balance and its variation. To classify snow and cloud from satellite data is very important process when inferring land surface information. Generally, misclassified cloud and snow pixel can lead directly to error factor for retrieval of surface products from satellite data. Therefore, in this study, we perform algorithm for detecting snow cover area with remote sensing data. We just utilize visible reflectance, and infrared channels rather than using NDSI (Normalized Difference Snow Index) which is one of optimized methods to detect snow cover. Because COMS MI (Meteorological Imager) channels doesn't include near infra-red, which is used to produce NDSI. Detecting snow cover with visible channel is well performed over clear sky area, but it is difficult to discriminate snow cover from mixed cloudy pixels. To improve those detecting abilities, brightness temperature difference (BTD) between 11 and 3.7 is used for snow detection. BTD method shows improved results than using only visible channel.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.12-18
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• 2012

In this paper, impacts on the COMS MI images during the COMS eclipse period were analyzed and the method to eliminate the contaminated area was investigated. Main effect on the meteorological images during the eclipse is a stripping effect due to a strong stray light. The quantitative analyses were conducted during the COMS In-Orbit-Test period and the impacts of the stray light on the four infrared channels of the COMS MI according to the distance with respect to the Sun were examined. Based on the typical case of the stray light influence on the infrared channel of the MI, the intensity of contamination due to the stray light was investigated for each channel using the computed COMS eclipse information. The effectiveness of removal of a contaminated area by replacing the SWIR with the combined WINDOW channels was promising.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.147-155
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• 2013

The nominal radiometric calibration equation and additional five algorithms are applied in the infrared channel radiometric calibration for the COMS (Communication, Ocean, Meteorological Satellite) MI (Meteorological Imager). The processing end time of the radiometric calibration is directly related with the start time of geometric calibration processing since the geometric calibration processing is followed by that of the radiometric calibration. This paper describes comparison and analysis results for geometric calibration processing using two types of the radiometric calibration results, outputs from only the nominal radiometric calibration equation and outputs from the complete one (the nominal radiometric calibration equation with additional five algorithms), to propose a method with the earlier start time of the geometric calibration processing. Experimental results show that both of radiometric calibration results, from the nominal radiometric calibration equation with a fast processing speed and from the complete one with accurate radiometric values, can be used in the geometric calibration as the appropriate inputs because those processing results satisfied the requirements of geometric calibration processing accuracy. Thus the radiometric calibration results from the nominal radiometric calibration equation can be used to improve geometric calibration processing time.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1181-1187
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed a method to analyze kind of clouds using a fuzzy reasoning method. In the proposed method, we used the clues that G channel value is dominant from RGB color values in land areas and B channel value is dominant in the sea areas discovered by the analyses of both visible images and infrared images. By these information, R and B channel values are applied to land areas and R and G channel values are applied to the sea areas. Noise areas(areas except cloud areas) are removed from a visible image and an infrared image by a threshold value, and then land areas and the sea areas are discriminated from the noise removed image. Cloud areas are extracted from discriminated areas using R, G, B channel values and a fuzzy reasoning method, and finally kind of clouds is decided by combining same cloud areas included in both the visible image and the infrared image. In comparison with a conventional quantization method, we verified that the performance of cloud analysis by the proposed method is more efficient through experiments.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.387-394
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• 2010

There has been an increasing trend in damaging by the Asian dust in spring. The continuous monitoring of the dust event with IR channels in geostationary satellite is very useful for forecasting and preventing the event. However, the monitoring with the IR channels revealed various problems associated with sensitivity. To eliminate these problems, we introduced a new concept of monitoring by constructing the background threshold values (BTV) and aerosol index (AI). This paper is about to test the reliability of this concept by applying to geostationary satellite, MTSAT-1R.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.115-121
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• 2013

The first geostationary satellite in Korea, COMS (Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite), has been operating properly since its successful completion of the IOT (In Orbit Test). COMS MI (Meteorological Imager) acquires Earth observation images from visible and infrared channels. This paper describes a method to compute the degradation of the COMS visible detectors and the result of the degradation during the two years of the operation. The visible channel detectors' performance was determined based on the comparison between the instrument-based measurements and ROLO model-based values. The degradation rate of the visible channel detectors of COMS MI showed a normal condition.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.165-173
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• 2010

A cloud detection method is introduced to improve the reliability of NOAA/AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data processed during the daytime and nighttime in the TeraScan System. In daytime, the channels 2 and 4 are used to detect a cloud using the three tests, which are spatial uniformity tests of brightness temperature (infrared channel 4) and channel 2 albedo, and reflectivity threshold test for visible channel 2. Meanwhile, the nighttime cloud detection tests are performed by using the channels 3 and 4, because the channel 2 data are not available in nighttime. This process include the dual channel brightness temperature difference (ch3 - ch4) and infrared channel brightness temperature threshold tests. For a comparison of daytime and nighttime SST images, two data used here are obtained at 0:28 (UTC) and 21:00 (UTC) on May 13, 2009. 6 parameters was tested to understand the factors that affect a cloud masking in and around Korean Peninsula. In daytime, the thresholds for ch2_max cover a range 3 through 8, and ch4_delta and ch2_delta are fixed on 5 and 2, respectively. In nighttime, the threshold range of ch3_minus_ch4 is from -1 to 0, and ch4_delta and min_ch4_temp have the fixed thresholds with 3.5 and 0, respectively. It is acceptable that the resulted images represent a reliability of SST according to the change of cloud masking area by each level. In the future, the accuracy of SST will be verified, and an assimilation method for SST data should be tested for a reliability improvement considering an atmospheric characteristic of research area around Korean Peninsula.