• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.352-361
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• 2017

This paper proposes a design and fabrication of the test equipment that is implemented as a part of the airborne tracking radar inspection under the environment of indoor simulation. This test equipment provides controlling the operation status of airborne tracking radar and replicating the velocity and range information of target by generating a variety of target signal. This is mainly composed of radar operation controller, target signal generator, horn antenna driving devices. Radar operation controller is able to perform the controlling of radar operation mode and monitoring in real time by serial communication. Target signal generator is generated doppler signal and range delayed signal using virtual target of RF-band. Horn antenna driving devices perform a role of target simulating exercise. In the end, the performance is demonstrated using experiment results of test equipment for airborne tracking radar.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose the track initiation algorithm based on the weighted score for TWS radar tracking. This algorithm utilizes radar velocity information to calculate the probabilistic track score and applies the Non-Maximum-Suppression(NMS) to confirm the targets to track. This approach is understood as a modification of a conventional track initiation algorithm in a probabilistic manner. Also, we additionally apply the weighted Hough transform to compensate a measurement error, and it helps to improve the track detection probability. We designed the simulator in order to demonstrate the performance of the proposed track initiation algorithm. The simulation result show that the proposed algorithm, which reduces about 40 % of a false track probability, is better than the conventional algorithm.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.171-181
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• 2012

As a sub-system of an air traffic control system, SDP(Surveillance Data Processor) provides with the system tracks of aircraft using the surveillance sensor data from various air traffic surveillance sensors, such as radars. Therefore, the high accuracy of tracking results is a crucial requirement for safe flights, and verification of the required system performance of SDP is an essential step in development. Moreover, the quantitative evaluation of target tracking accuracy is important for newly developed SDP, since there are several tracking methods for Multi-Sensor Multi-Target Tracking, such as MRT(Multi Radar Tracking), inevitably required as the main function of SDP. In this study, definition of required system performances, establishment of test environment, and test results for MRT performance evaluation of SDP, which is being developed in KARI(Korea Airspace Research Institute) are presented.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.29 no.12 s.331
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• pp.67-70
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• 1996

전파의 반사로 대상체의 위치를 측정하는 레이더는 2차대전 이래 사용되어 온 오랜 기술이다. 본시 적의 항공기나 선박을 탐지하는 군사용으로 개발된 레이더는 차츰차츰 민생용으로 전환되면서 항공기와 선박들은 이 기술을 이용하여 충돌을 피하는가 하면 천문학자들은 천체의 표면을 그리는데 사용하고 기상전문가들은 이 기술을 이용하여 폭풍을 추적한다. 그러나 몇해 전만해도 담배값 크기의 싼 개인용레이더가 등장하여 인간활동의 구석구석까지 침투할 것이라고 예상한 사람은 거의 없었다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.2_2
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• pp.313-326
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• 2018

This paper introduces core techniques on ship detection and tracking based on a compact HF radar platform which is necessary to establish a wide-area surveillance network. Currently, most HF radar sites are primarily optimized for observing sea surface radial velocities and bearings. Therefore, many ship detection systems are vulnerable to error sources such as environmental noise and clutter when they are applied to these practical surface current observation purpose systems. In addition, due to Korea's geographical features, only compact HF radars which generates non-uniform antenna response and has no information on target information are applicable. The ship detection and tracking techniques discussed in this paper considers these practical conditions and were evaluated by real data collected from the Yellow Sea, Korea. The proposed method is composed of two parts. In the first part, ship detection, a constant false alarm rate based detector was applied and was enhanced by a PCA subspace decomposition method which reduces noise. To merge multiple detections originated from a single target due to the Doppler effect during long CPIs, a clustering method was applied. Finally, data association framework eliminates false detections by considering ship maneuvering over time. According to evaluation results, it is claimed that the proposed method produces satisfactory results within certain ranges.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.198-206
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• 2013

This paper presents the improvement of tracking performance using fuzzy inference system based task prioritizations for multi-function radars. The presented technique calculates elemental priorities using track information of a target and obtain the total priority from fuzzy inference system of each fuzzy set's membership function. In this paper, we proposed the task prioritization algorithms based on fuzzy inference system, and evaluated the tracking performance on multi-function radar scenario using it. As a result, we confirmed that excellent performance could be achieved when using the proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.151-154
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• 2013

We typically have a variety of equipment that can detect and track targets, and detect and track target quickly and accurately through the exchange of the information between each piece of equipment. These equipments have similar detection area(FOV), but some are different due to the limits of the resolution of the equipments. In this paper, we studied the method of reducing time to search and detect target, and also did the method of tracking automatically it.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2013

This study focuses on a ship detection and tracking method using Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar used for horizontal surveillance. In general, FMCW radar can play an important role in maritime surveillance, because it has many advantages such as low warm-up time, low power consumption, and its all weather performance. In this paper, we introduce an effective method for data and signal processing of ship's detecting and tracking using the X-band radar. Ships information was extracted using an image-based processing method such as the land masking and morphological filtering with a threshold for a cycle data merged from raw data (spoke data). After that, ships was tracked using search-window that is ship's expected rectangle area in the next frame considering expected maximum speed (19 kts) and interval time (5 sec). By using this method, the tracking results for most of the moving object tracking was successful and those results were compared with AIS (Automatic Identification System) for ships position. Therefore, it can be said that the practical application of this detection and tracking method using FMCW radar improve the maritime safety as well as expand the surveillance coverage cost-effectively. Algorithm improvements are required for an enhancement of small ship detection and tracking technique in the future.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.3023-3029
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• 2013

This is an example we generally have a variety of equipment that can detect and track the targets and track them quickly and accurately through the information exchange among each piece of equipment. These equipment have similar detection areas (FOV), but some are different due to the limit of the resolution of the equipment. In this paper, we studied the method of reducing detection time and tracking the targets automatically.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.158-160
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• 2010

해상관제시스템에서 다양한 레이더 정보는 선박관제에 있어서 안전운항에 매우 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 하지만 각 로컬 사이트에서 운영되는 레이더 시스템들은 별도의 시스템으로 운영되거나 이를 통합한 시스템은 대부분 완제품 위주의 수입으로 기술경쟁력이 매우 취약한 상황이다. 특히, 최근에 융합기술수요가 전통산업을 중심으로 급격히 증가하면서 레이더 정보의 융합기술은 자동차/항공/해양/환경 등 다양한 산업분야에 매우 중요한 기술로써 부각되고 있다. 이 연구에서는 이러한 배경하에 다양한 레이더 정보 융합을 효율적으로 수행하기 위한 체계적 접근 방안과 고려사항들에 대해 논의한다.