• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.24.2-24.2
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• 2011

천리안위성은 2010년 6월 27일에 발사되어 성공적으로 In Orbit Test (IOT)를 수행하고 있다. 천리안 위성을 지상에서 컨트롤 하기 위하여 ETRI 에서는 위성관제시스템을 개발하였으며, 현재 KARI에서 위성관제시스템을 운영중이다. 위성관제시스템의 일부인 임무계획 시스템은 기상/해양 이미지 촬영에 관한 임무요청, 위성체 기동 요청, 각동 이벤트 등을 종합하여 충돌 없는 임무스케줄을 만들어내게 되는데 이에 복잡한 스케줄링 기법이 요구된다. 천리안 위성의 임무 스케줄링 기법은 CPU 연산을 기본으로 하고 있으나, 이 논문에서는 Graphics Processing Units(GPU) 를 통한 임무 스케줄링 기법의 적용에 따르는 고려사항을 설명한다. 그리고 CPU 기반의 임무 스케줄링 기법과 GPU 기반의 임무 스케줄링 기법의 장단점을 분석한다.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.12-16
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• 2013

This paper we introduce operated public test-bed satellite system configuration for satellite communications and usage for services via COMS(Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite). According to trial public test-bed operation, the broadband multimedia services are expected to be available at the next generation VSAT services due to the increasing of Ka-band utilization. In addition, UHD broadcasting services via satellite is expected to improve the universal accessibility of broadcast services.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.3-16
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• 2011

천리안 위성은 4개 정부 부처 공동 사업으로, 통신 서비스, 해양 기상 관측 서비스 제공을 목적으로 개발된 복합 위성으로, 그중 통신 서비스를 담당하는 통신 탑재체는 방송통신위원회 출연으로 한국전자통신연구원(ETRI)가 주관, 개발하여 성공한 순수 국산 개발품으로, 위성 발사 성공 후 시험 검증을 거쳐 현재 정상 운용 중에 있다. 우주 인증 획득을 목적으로 개발한 통신 탑재체는 위성 스위칭 중계기와 다중 빔 안테나로 구성되었으며, 구성 부품들인 능동 부품과 수동 부품들은 대부분 국내 연구진에 의해 설계, 제작 시험 검증되어 중계기 및 안테나 시스템 종합화, 통신 탑재체 및 위성체 우주 환경 시험을 성공적으로 수행되었다. 위성 발사 성공 후에, 정지 궤도상에서의 통신 탑재체 궤도내 시험을 완료를 통해 순수국산 개발된 통신 탑재체의 설계 제작 기술에 대한 정지 궤도 우주환경에서도 정상 동작됨을 입증하였다. 통신 탑재체는 다양한 우주 조건에서의 다양한 기술 확보와 차세대 멀티미디어 위성 서비스 개발에 활용하고자 한다. 본 논문은 통해기 통신 탑재체 설계 제작 시험 기술을 소개하고, 활용 계획에 대해 언급하고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.359-365
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• 2021

GEO-KOMPSAT-2A (GK2A) AMI (Advanced Meteorological Imager) Best Detector Select (BDS) map is pre-determined and uploaded before the satellite launch. After the launch, there is some possibility of a detector performance change driven by an abrupt temperature variation and thus the status of BDS map needs to be evaluated and updated if necessary. To investigate performance of entire elements of the detectors, AMI BDS analyses were conducted based on a technical note provided from the AMI vendor (L3HARRIS). The concept of the BDS analysis is to investigate the stability of signals from detectors while they are staring at targets (deep space and internal calibration target). For this purpose, Long Time Series (LTS) and Output Voltage vs. Bias Voltage (V-V) methods are used. The LTS for 30 secs and the V-V for two secs are spanned respectively for looking at the targets to compute noise components of detectors. To get the necessary data sets, these activities were conducted during the In-Orbit Test (IOT) period since a normal operation of AMI is stopped and special mission plans are commanded. With collected data sets during the GK2A IOT, AMI BDS map was intensively examined. It was found that about 1% of entire detector elements, which were evaluated at the ground test, showed characteristic changes and those degraded elements are replaced by alternative best ones. The stripping effects on AMI raw images due to the BDS problem were clearly removed when the new BDS map was applied.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.2373-2379
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• 2015

COMS(Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite), the first Korean geostationary meteorological satellite, provides free meteorological information through HRIT/LRIT(High/Low Rate Information Transmission) service. This work presents the development of data receiver circuit that is essential to the implementation of a low-cost meteorological information receiver system. The data receiver circuit processes the data units according to the specification of physical layer and data link layer of HRIT/LRIT service. For this purpose, the circuit consists of a Viterbi decoder, a sync. word detector, a derandomizer, a Reed-Solomon decoder and so on. The circuit also supports PCI express interface to pass the information data on to the host PC. The circuit was implemented on an FPGA(field programmable gate array) and its function was verified through simulations and hardware implementation.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.59-66
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• 2011

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.94-100
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• 2011

This paper gives a brief overview of the COMS CPS development process from start to finish. The manufacturing techniques used for CPS were founded on established generic processes that have been developed and proven on previous satellite programs, and have used the expertise and facilities in the framework of international collaboration. Manufacture and testing of the CPS were successfully accomplished, and COMS CPS demonstrated good performance in the launch phase.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.7
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• pp.674-681
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• 2011

The increasing number of orbital debris objects is a risk for satellite operations due to space activities over past 50 years since launched Sputnik. The GEO (Geostationary Earth Orbit), where COMS-1 is being operated since last June 2010, has more and more risks that collide with space debris or another satellites. In this paper, as a preliminary study about GEO satellite collision probability and operations environment, collision probability between COMS-1 and RADUGA 1-7 that is one of Russian military communication satellites is investigated and analyzed. Indeed, the space environment including space debris of COMS-1 is presented. As a result, it is noted that collision probability between two satellites using NORAD TLEs on 14th Jan. 2011 was 2.8753E-07 in case that position uncertainty was assumed 10km. Particularly, the largest proportion of space debris around COMS-1's mission orbit is meteoroids.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.37 no.5_1
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• pp.885-901
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• 2021

This paper illustratesthe impact of the temporal gap between satellite images and targetsize in mesoscale atmospheric motion vector (AMV) algorithm. A test has been performed using GEO-KOMPSAT-2A (GK2A) rapid-scan data sets with a temporal gap varying between 2 and 10 minutes and a targetsize between 8×8 and 40×40. Resultsshow the variation of the number of AMVs produced, mean AMV speed, and validation scores as a function of temporal gap and target size. As a results, it was confirmed that the change in the number of vectors and the normalized root-mean squared vector difference (NRMSVD) became more pronounced when smaller targets are used. In addition, it was advantageous to use shorter temporal gap and smaller target size for the AMV calculation in the lower layer, where the average speed is low and the spatio-temporal scale of atmospheric phenomena is small. The temporal gap and the targetsize are closely related to the spatial and temporalscale of the atmospheric circulation to be observed with AMVs. Thus, selecting the target size and temporal gap for an optimum calculation of AMVsrequires considering them. This paper recommendsthat the optimized configuration to be used operationally for the near-real time analysis of mesoscale meteorological phenomena is 4-min temporal gap and 16×16 pixel target size, respectively.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.91-100
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• 2016

뉴스와 신문, 라디오, 인터넷에 이르기까지 기상정보를 제공하지 않는 매체가 없는 시대가 되었다. 그만큼 기상정보는 세계적이며 동시에 개인적인, 무엇보다 생활에 밀접한 정보이다. 국민은 보다 정확하며 신속한 정보를 요구하며, 이에 답하기 위해 국가기상위성센터에서는 유관기관들과 천리안의 뒤를 이을 후속 기상위성 개발에 착수하였다. 자연재해 대비에서부터 수많은 산업과 서비스업에 이르기까지, 기상정보는 관련 분야에 엄청난 영향을 끼친다고 볼 수 있다. 본고에서는 대한민국 최초의 기상위성 천리안과, 일본 Himawari-8호의 위성자료 서비스 현황을 소개한다.