• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.37 no.6_3
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• pp.1923-1929
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• 2021

Earth observation satellites are being used in various field and are being developed in many countries due to their high utility and marketability. Korea is developing various Earth observation satellites according to National Space Development Plan. Among them, the Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite(KOMPSAT) series is the most representative low-orbit satellite. So far, a total of five KOMPSAT have been launched to meet the national image demand and have been used in various fields, including national institutions. This special issue introduces research related to data processing, analysis, and utilization using various image data from the KOMPSAT series. Meanwhile, for the uninterrupted utilization of the subsequent KOMPSAT image data, data processing and utilization research suitable for high-resolution images must be continued, and related research contents will be continuously shared through a special issue.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.280-289
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• 2008

An extensive set of both in-situ and satellite data regarding oceanic sea surface temperatures in Northeast Asian seas, collected over a 10-year period, was collocated and surveyed to assess the accuracy of satellite-observed sea surface temperatures (SST) and investigate the characteristics of satellite measured SST errors. This was done by subtracting insitu SST measurements from multi-channel SST (MCSST) measurements. 845 pieces of collocated data revealed that MCSST measurements had a root-mean-square error of about 0.89$^{\circ}C$ and a bias error of about 0.18$^{\circ}C$. The SST errors revealed a large latitudinal dependency with a range of $\pm3^{\circ}C$ around 40$^{\circ}N$, which was related to high spatial and temporal variability from smaller eddies, oceanic currents, and thermal fronts at higher latitudes. The MCSST measurements tended to be underestimated in winter and overestimated in summer when compared to in-situ measurements. This seasonal dependency was discovered from shipboard and moored buoy measurements, not satellite-tracked surface drifters, and revealed the existence of a strong vertical temperature gradient within a few meters of the upper ocean. This study emphasizes the need for an effort to consider and correct the significant skin-bulk SST difference which arises when calculating SST from satellite data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.112-115
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• 2012

현재 전 세계적으로 물 부족 현상이 대두되는 가운데 그 양상은 더욱 심해지고 있다. 이러한 물 부족 현상의 악화됨에 따라 수자원 관리의 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 효율적인 수자원의 관리를 위해서는 근본적으로 물 순환 과정인 수문현상의 이해가 필요하다. 수문현상은 증발산, 강우, 침투, 유출 등의 일련의 과정을 말하는 것으로 이를 해석하기 위해서는 많은 수문 인자들의 정확한 관측이 필요하다. 특히 지표와 대기간의 에너지 및 물의 교환에 대한 중요한 요소인 토양수분은 수문현상의 해석을 위해 필수적인 인자이다. 따라서 수문현상의 정확한 해석을 위해서는 토양수분의 관측이 필요하며, 이에 대한 많은 관측이 이루어져 왔다. 최근에는 원격탐사의 기술의 발달로 토양수분의 관측에 대해 시공간적인 장점을 가지는 인공위성을 이용하고 있다. 토양수분관측에 있어서 많은 위성들이 이용되고 있으나 대다수의 경우 발사시점이 오래되었으며, 현재 2009년 ESA (European Space Agency) 의 지구관측 미션의 일환으로 발사된 SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) 가 이용기간이 남아있다. 단, SMOS는 한국을 포함한 동아시아 및 유럽지역에 대해 RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) 의 전파방해로 우리나라의 경우 토양수분 Product의 직접적인 이용이 어려운 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 SMOS의 Product인 밝기온도를 이용하여 복원알고리즘을 통해 토양수분을 복원하였다. 또한 복원된 알고리즘의 정확성을 평가하기 위해 한반도의 지점관측된 토양수분 데이터를 이용하여 본 알고리즘을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.62-77
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• 2019

Open Data Cube(ODC) has been emerging and developing as the open source platform in the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites(CEOS) for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems(GEOSS) deployed by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), ODC can be applied to the deployment of scalable and large amounts of free and open satellite images in a cloud computing environment, and ODC-based country or regional application services have been provided for public users on the high performance. This study first summarizes the status of ODC, and then presents concepts and some considering points for linking this platform with Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite (KOMPSAT) images. For the reference, the main contents of ODC with the Google Earth Engine(GEE) were compared. Application procedures of KOMPSAT satellite image to implement ODC service were explained, and an intermediate process related to data ingestion using actual data was demonstrated. As well, it suggested some practical schemes to utilize KOMPSAT satellite images for the ODC application service from the perspective of open data licensing. Policy and technical products for KOMPSAT images to ODC are expected to provide important references for GEOSS in GEO to apply new satellite images of other countries and organizations in the future.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.117-123
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• 2012

Many nations have been launched their own earth observation satellites due to much interest in space exploration. Because of this, the number of high resolution satellite are increasing day by day. With the development of web environment, general users have easy access to satellite images. The research conducted a basic study about web-based satellite photogrammetry in order to determine three dimensional coordinates easily without having profound knowledge of satellite sensor modeling. Various element technologies were analyzed to decide three dimensional coordinates by using high resolution satellite images in web environment, and case studies were conducted by using IKONOS satellite images. By applying parallel projection model, which is one of sensor modeling methods, epipolar image was created and prototype form of program that can decide three dimensional location in web environment was implemented. Through this, general users could decide three dimensional location easily in web environment and knew that already existed spatial information can be renewed and used in service area.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.128-135
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• 2015

Currently we have an electro-optical space object monitoring system (OWL-Net) developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute as the only ground-based on orbit space object tracking capability in Korea. This system can produce the ephemeris of domestic satellites and survey the geosynchronous orbit region. As the number of observation objects increases and the operation condition get worse, a low budget dedicated monitoring telescope capable of full time geosynchronous orbit region survey can support an effect operation of the OWL-Net. In this study, we analyze the requirements of a low-budget dedicated optical monitoring system for geosynchronous orbit region without the degradation of observation quality to increase the risk of corrupted ephemeris.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.63-63
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• 2004

국가지정연구실 사업인 “인공위성 및 지구접근천체 감시연구(NEOPAT)”에서는 2001년부터 2004년까지 인공위성에 대한 광학관측을 추진하였다. 인공위성의 궤도에 관한 자료는 미국 NORAD에서 제공하는 TLE(Two Line Elements)를 이용하였으며, 한국천문연구원에서 개발한 KODAS(KAO Orbit Determination & Data Analysis System) 소프트웨어를 TLE에 사용하여 임의의 시각에서의 위성에 대한 위치 정보를 얻을 수 있었다. (중략)

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.7-10
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• 2004

KOMPSAT-2 needs fine accuracy attitude control when it is operated in Science mode. Reaction Wheel is a necessary part of fine controlling the attitude of satellite. The reaction Wheel Assembly(RWA) is a device which provides reaction torque for attitude-control of spacecraft. It consists of an electric motor, a rotating flywheel, motor control device electrics, commutation electronics and associated power converters. This document identifies what activities to be carried out to integrate the RW#1 for ETB tests.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.38 no.5_3
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• pp.953-966
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• 2022

Since aerosols adversely affect human health, such as deteriorating air quality, quantitative observation of the distribution and characteristics of aerosols is essential. Recently, satellite-based Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data is used in various studies as periodic and quantitative information acquisition means on the global scale, but optical sensor-based satellite AOD images are missing in some areas with cloud conditions. In this study, we produced gap-free GeoKompsat 2A (GK-2A) Advanced Meteorological Imager (AMI) AOD hourly images after generating a Random Forest based gap-filling model using grid meteorological and geographic elements as input variables. The accuracy of the model is Mean Bias Error (MBE) of -0.002 and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 0.145, which is higher than the target accuracy of the original data and considering that the target object is an atmospheric variable with Correlation Coefficient (CC) of 0.714, it is a model with sufficient explanatory power. The high temporal resolution of geostationary satellites is suitable for diurnal variation observation and is an important model for other research such as input for atmospheric correction, estimation of ground PM, analysis of small fires or pollutants.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.26-42
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• 1996

The CCD Earth Images Experiment(CEIE) is one of the main payload of the KITSAT-1. Since it was launched on Oct. 10, 1992, the CEIE has taken more than 500 images on the Earth surface world-wide so far. An image from the space is very different from a feature on the real Earth surface due to various radiometric and geometric distortions. Preprocessing to remove those distortions has to take place before the images data are processed and analyzed further for various applications. This paper describes the procedure to perform preprocessing including radiometric and geometric correction.e-processing system. The GCP marking using this technique showed a sufficient accuracy for KITSAT1,2 narrow camera images.