• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.453-460
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• 2010

For high quality image acquisition, compensating air-vehicle motion is essential for airborne SAR system. This paper describes a timing control based motion compensation method for airborne SAR system. Efficient timing control is critical for SAR system since it maintains many timing signals and timing setting for the signals should be updated frequently. This paper proposes Timing Cluster method as an efficient means for timing control of SAR system. Moreover, this paper suggests a simple and efficient method to compensate air-vehicle motion based on the Timing Cluster method. Timing Cluster method enables SAR system to control the timing in a timing noncritical way just maintaining little amount of information.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.135-138
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• 2007

A novel technique to estimate the dielectric constant of ground material by means of air launching GPR is proposed. The technique is an application of SAR algorithm. A laboratory experiment was conducted to examine the technique.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.129-134
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 지표면 산란에 대한 모델을 개발하였고 이를 JPL AirSAR 측정데이터와 비교하였다. 식물이 없는 토양에서의 레이더 산란에 대해 새로 개발된 polarimetric empirical model(PEM)을 바탕으로, radiative transfer 이론을 이용하여 숲, 논, 밭 등 식물이 있는 토양에서의 레이더 산란 모델을 개발하였다. 지표면에서의 산란에 대해 개발된 이 모델을 AirSAR PACRIM-2 실험에서 얻은 측정 데이터와 비교하였다. 논, 채소밭, 풀 없는 토양, 소나무 숲 등에 대해 그 지역에서 얻은 지표면 변수를 이용한 산란모델 계산 결과를 측정 데이터와의 비교함으로써 이 산란모델의 사용가능 범위에 대한 논의가 이루어졌다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.237-243
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• 2012

In this paper, an atmospheric effect of repetitive measurements of X-band (9.65 GHz) arc-rail type GB-SAR (ArcSAR) system was quantitatively analyzed. Four artificial triangular trihedral corner reflectors as stationary targets for getting stable back scattered signal during 43 hours continually. The results of the analysis showed that the phase of those stationary targets had changed maximum of 5 radian (12.4 mm) and total RMS error had was 1.62 radian (4 mm) during 65 repeated measuring time. The refractive index of air which was calculated using the temperature;humidity and pressure of atmosphere showed very close relationship with the phase difference. We could check the atmospheric correction was fulfilled by the correction of an atmospheric effect using refractive index during the selected 16 hours period showed that RMS error was dropped from 1.74 radian (4.3 mm) to 0.10 radian (0.24 mm).

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.265-272
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• 2023

In this paper, a GPU-accelerated kernel of range Doppler algorithm (RDA) was developed for real-time image formation based on frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) synthetic aperture radar (SAR). A pinned memory was used to minimize the data transfer time between the host and the GPU device, and the kernel was configured to perform all RDA operations on the GPU to minimize the number of data transfers. The dataset was obtained through the FMCW drone SAR experiment, and the GPU acceleration effect was measured in an intel i7-9700K CPU, 32GB RAM, and Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU environment. Including the data transfer time between host and devices, it was measured to be accelerated up to 3.41 times compared to the CPU, and when only the acceleration effect of operation was measured without including the data transfer time, it was confirmed that it could be accelerated up to 156 times.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.163-170
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• 2011

In this paper, we analyzed the phase change of 5-triangular trihedral comer reflectors by using X-band Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GB-SAR) system. Each reflector was set as a stationary target at a different distance from the system. We obtained total 123 full-polarization images during 40 hours continuously at 20 minute interval. Results of SAR interferometric analysis showed phase changes of maximum 2 radians and followed similar pattern with atmospheric data. Through a GB-SAR phase formula that includes refractive index in the air, we performed regression analysis for refractive index as a function of atmospheric humidity, temperature and pressure. As a result, refractive index of air in X-band showed relatively high coefficient of determination with humidity and temperature (0.72 and 0.76 on average, respectively) but not so with pressure (0.34). The refractive index of air in X -band changed by 3.14\;{\times}\;10^{-5}$ during the measuring time with a humidity range of 50% ~ 90% and a temperature range of $-1^{\circ}C$ ~ $9^{\circ}C$. We expect that a total expression of refractive index of air including humidity, temperature and pressure can be calculated when more extensive data would be collected at various atmospheric conditions.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.144-151
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 IEC 61000-3-2와 같은 고조파 전류 국제규제에 만족하기 위해서 인버터 에어컨을 위한 고역률 단상능동정류가(SAR) [4-6]를 적용하였다. 입력전류의 왜곡을 최소화하고 FA5331, UC3854, ML4821 등과 같은 제어IC를 적용하기 위해서 입력전압 및 전류에 대한 새롭고 적절한 검출회로를 제안하였다. 효율 및 가격의 관점에서 SAR를 인버터 에어컨에 적용하기 위한 두가지 방법이 있다. 이런 두가지 방식에 대해서 수동소자의 선정방법을 제시하였다. 결정된 소자들을 사용하여 SAR 효율의 증가 여부를 확인하기 위해서 손실분석을 행하였다. 3kW급의 이러한 두가지 방식에 대한 프로트형 SAR회로를 제작하고 실험결과를 통해서 역률제어능력을 갖는 회로의 동작과 성능을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.07a
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• pp.31-34
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• 1998

In this paper, a Single-phase Active Rectifier(SAR) with high power factor capability for inverter air-conditioner is adopted for satisfying the international standards of input current harmonics, IEC 1000-3-2. Comparing the conventional boost power factor correction circuit, one diode drop is reduced in the power flow path of the SAR circuit, so the system efficiency is improved. To apply the control IC, such as UC3854, ML4821 and so forth, to the SAR, the adequate sensing circuits are proposed. The design rules of passive components and two control loops are also presented. The prototype SAR circuit with 3㎾ power consumption is builted and tested to verify the operation of the proposed circuit.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.255-261
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• 2009

A new polarimetric SAR image classification technique based on the degree of polarization (DoP) and the co-polarized phase-difference (CPD) is presented in this paper. Since the DoP and the CPD of a scattered wave provide information on the randomness of the scattering and the type of scattering mechanisms, at first, the statistics of the DoP and CPD are examined with measured polarimetric SAR image data. Then, a DoP-CPD diagram with appropriate boundaries between six different classes is developed based on the SAR image. The classification technique is verified using the JPL AirSAR and ALOS PALSAR polarimetric data. The technique may have capability to classify an SAR image into six major classes; a bare surface, a village, a crown-layer short vegetation canopy, a trunk-layer short vegetation canopy, a crown-layer forest, and a trunk-dominated forest.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.599-607
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• 2018

This paper presents a ground-to-air bistatic radar system and its implementation algorithm, which resembles an SAR(synthetic aperture radar) reconstruction algorithm. Via cooperative working between a standoff transmitting radar and an array of ground based receiving radars, it detects and images moving targets under clutter in the air. In the proposed system, the whole receiving antenna aperture is synthesized by physical ground based radars, and thus, unlike conventional SAR, it does not require long illumination time of the target area. The reconstruction algorithm uses planewave approximation based polar format processing, which alleviates the requirement of positioning the receiving radars, which can cause grating lobes if not chosen properly. We derive a reconstruction algorithm including clutter suppression and discuss implementation issues, such as the resolution of a reconstructed image and the method of compensation for the irregularity of the receiving radars' positions. A simulation that validates the proposed algorithm is also shown.