• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.257-268
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• 2024

Drone-mounted hyperspectral sensors (DHSs) have revolutionized remote sensing in agriculture by offering a cost-effective and flexible platform for high-resolution spectral data acquisition. Their ability to capture data at low altitudes minimizes atmospheric interference, enhancing their utility in agricultural monitoring and management. This study focused on addressing the challenges of radiometric and geometric distortions in preprocessing drone-acquired hyperspectral data. Radiometric correction, using the empirical line method (ELM) and spectral reference panels, effectively removed sensor noise and variations in solar irradiance, resulting in accurate surface reflectance values. Notably, the ELM correction improved reflectance for measured reference panels by 5-55%, resulting in a more uniform spectral profile across wavelengths, further validated by high correlations (0.97-0.99), despite minor deviations observed at specific wavelengths for some reflectors. Geometric correction, utilizing a rubber sheet transformation with ground control points, successfully rectified distortions caused by sensor orientation and flight path variations, ensuring accurate spatial representation within the image. The effectiveness of geometric correction was assessed using root mean square error(RMSE) analysis, revealing minimal errors in both east-west(0.00 to 0.081 m) and north-south directions(0.00 to 0.076 m).The overall position RMSE of 0.031 meters across 100 points demonstrates high geometric accuracy, exceeding industry standards. Additionally, image mosaicking was performed to create a comprehensive representation of the study area. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of the applied preprocessing techniques and highlight the potential of DHSs for precise crop health monitoring and management in smart agriculture. However, further research is needed to address challenges related to data dimensionality, sensor calibration, and reference data availability, as well as exploring alternative correction methods and evaluating their performance in diverse environmental conditions to enhance the robustness and applicability of hyperspectral data processing in agriculture.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.375-387
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• 2019

The use of drone-based hyperspectral image offers considerable advantages in high resolution remote sensing applications. The primary objective of this study was to select the optimal bands based on hyperspectral image for the estimation yield of the chinese cabbage. The hyperspectral narrow bands were acquired over 403.36 to 995.19 nm using a 3.97 nm wide, 150 bands, drone-based hyperspectral imaging sensor. Fresh weight data were obtained from 2,031 sample for each field survey. Normalized difference vegetation indices were computed using red, red-edge and near-infrared bands and their relationship with quantitative each fresh weights were established and compared. As a result, predominant proportion of fresh weights are best estimated using data from three narrow bands, in order of importance, centered around 697.29 nm (red band), 717.15 nm (red-edge band) and 808.51 nm (near-infrared band). The study determined three spectral bands that provide optimal chinese cabbage productivity in the visible and near-infrared portion of the spectrum.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.259-261
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 RGB-IR 이미징 센서가 탑재된 드론을 사용하여 태양광 발전소의 태양광(PV) 패널을 탐지하는 방법을 제안한다. 태양광 발전소에서 드론에 설치된 IR 영상의 활용은 PV 패널의 결함 여부를 판단하는데 큰 도움이 된다. 그러나 IR 영상만을 사용해서 태양광 패널을 탐지하고 결함 여부를 판단하는 것은 태양광에 의해 생긴 정반사로 인해 정확도가 떨어진다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 시스템은 드론을 이용해서 IR 영상과 RGB 영상을 동시에 획득하고 활용하는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템으로부터 IR 영상과 RGB 영상으로 패널 탐지의 정확도를 향상시키고, 태양광에 의한 정반사와 같이 오검출 될 수 있는 문제를 극복할 수 있다.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.3-19
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• 2018

With the introduction of video cameras into law enforcement, a great deal of police organizations have adopted the technology in their routine crime prevention activities. The up-to-date systems of ambient surveillance energized by CCTV, police wearable cameras, drones, and thermal imaging devices enable the police to thoroughly monitor public spaces as well as to rigorously arrest on-scene criminals. These efforts to improve the level of surveillance are often met with public resistance raising concerns over citizens' rights to privacy. Recent studies on the use of police video equipment have constantly raised the issues related to the lack of applicable legal provisions, risk of personal information and privacy infringement as well as security vulnerabilities. In this regard, the present study attempted to review the public surveillance methods currently used by law enforcement agencies worldwide within the context of public safety and individual rights to privacy. Furthermore, the present study also discussed the legal boundaries of police use of video equipment to address public concerns over privacy issues.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1433-1435
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• 2003

Very decisive progress was made in advancing fundamental POL-IN-SAR theory and algorithm development during the past decade. This was accomplished with the aid of airborne & shuttle platforms supporting single -to-multi-band multi-modal POL-SAR and also some POL-IN-SAR sensor systems, which will be compared and assessed with the aim of establishing the hitherto not completed but required missions such as tomographic and holographic imaging. Because the operation of airborne test-beds is extremely expensive, aircraft platforms are not suited for routine monitoring missions which is better accomplished with the use drones or UAVs. Such unmanned aerial vehicles were developed for defense applications, however lacking the sophistic ation of implementing advanced forefront POL-IN-SAR technology. This shortcoming will be thoroughly scrutinized resulting in the finding that we do now need to develop most rapidly POL-IN-SAR drone-platform technology especially for environmental stress-change monitoring with a great variance of applications beginning with flood, bush/forest-fire to tectonic-stress (earth-quake to volcanic eruptions) for real-short-time hazard mitigation. However, for routine global monitoring purposes of the terrestrial covers neither airborne sensor implementation - aircraft and/or drones - are sufficient; and there -fore multi-modal and multi-band space-borne POL-IN-SAR space-shuttle and satellite sensor technology needs to be further advanced at a much more rapid phase. The existing ENVISAT with the forthcoming ALOSPALSAR, RADARSAT-2, and the TERRASAT will be compared, demonstrating that at this phase of development the fully polarimetric and polarimetric-interferometric modes of operation must be viewed and treated as preliminary algorithm verification support modes and at this phase of development are still not to be viewed as routine modes.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.182-194
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• 2017

Most of the drone (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) research in terms of traffic management involves detecting and tracking roads or vehicles. The purpose of analyzing image footage in the transportation sector is to overcome the limitations of the existing traffic data collection system (vehicle detectors, DSRC, etc.). With regards to this, drones are the good alternatives. However, due to limitation in their maximum flight time, they are appropriate to use as a complementary rather than replacing the existing collection system. Therefore, further research is needed for utilizing drones for transportation analysis purpose. Traffic problems often arise from one particular section or a point that expands to the whole road network and drones can be fully utilized to analyze these particular sections. Based on the study on the uses of traffic survey analysis, this study is conducted by extracting traffic flow parameters from video images(range 800~1000m) of highway unit segments that were taken by drones. In addition, video images were taken at a high altitude with the development of imaging technologies.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.101-111
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• 2022

This study analyzed the relationship between water turbidity and its reflectance, as measured using hyperspectral imaging. First, samples of turbid water were generated in boxes. This was followed by drone-based hyperspectral imaging and analysis of the correlation between the samples' measured turbidity and hyperspectral reflectance. The nine boxes for turbidity measurement were made of black acrylic that absorbed all light turbidity was induced using soil collected near Changhacheon, which causes turbidity in Imha Lake. The results indicate that the reflectance of wavelengths in the near-infrared region followed a pattern of increase with increasing soil content for each box. Analysis of this correlation between the turbidity and average reflectance measured in each box yielded a very high R² value of 0.8702, indicating that reflectance is a suitable proxy for turbidity.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.1777-1783
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• 2021

The use of drones is gradually increasing for the efficient maintenance of large-scale renewable energy power generation complexes. For a long time, photovoltaic panels have been photographed with drones to manage panel loss and contamination. Various approaches using artificial intelligence are being tried for efficient maintenance of large-scale photovoltaic complexes. Recently, semantic segmentation-based application techniques have been developed to solve the image classification problem. In this paper, we propose a classification model using semantic segmentation to determine the presence or absence of failures such as arcs, disconnections, and cracks in solar panel images obtained using a drone equipped with a thermal imaging camera. In addition, an efficient classification model was implemented by tuning several factors such as data size and type and loss function customization in U-Net, which shows robust classification performance even with a small dataset.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.217-226
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• 2022

In the view of the application of high-precision spatial information production, UAV (Umanned Aerial Vehicle)-Photogrammetry has a problem in that it lacks specific procedures and detailed regulations for quantitative quality verification methods or certification of captured images. In addition, test tools for UAV image quality assessment use only the GSD (Ground Sample Distance), not MTF (Modulation Transfer Function), which reflects image resolution and contrast at the same time. This fact makes often the quality of UAV image inferior to that of manned aerial image. We performed MTF and GSD analysis simultaneously using a siemens star to confirm the necessity of MTF analysis in UAV image quality assessment. The analyzing results of UAV images taken with different payload and sensors show that there is a big difference in σ_MTF values, representing image resolution and the degree of contrast, but slightly different in GSD. It concluded that the MTF analysis is a more objective and reliable analysis method than just the GSD analysis method, and high-quality drone images can only be obtained when the operator make images after judging the proper selection the sensor performance, image overlaps, and payload type. However, the results of this study are derived from analyzing only images acquired by limited sensors and imaging conditions. It is therefore expected that more objective and reliable results will be obtained if continuous research is conducted by accumulating various experimental data in related fields in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.159-159
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• 2020

하천환경조사는 하천의 전반적인 특성을 조사 분석하는 것으로 하천환경 조사결과는 하천관련사업의 기초자료로 사용된다. 하천환경조사의 기초조사에서는 현장답사를 통해 하천의 특성을 대략적으로 판단하고 하천 전구간의 물리적 구조와 식생의 분포, 중요 서식처 정보를 포함하는 RCS 지도(River Corridor Survey)를 작성한다. 기초조사를 위해서는 하천 전 구간에 대한 현장답사가 필요하기 때문에 많은 시간, 비용 그리고 인력이 필요하고, 육안 또는 사진을 통한 스케치로 이루어져 조사 결과가 정성적이고 작업자의 경험이나 능력에 따라 결과가 좌우된다는 한계가 있다. 따라서 하천환경조사를 좀 더 간편하고 과학적이며 경제적으로 조사하기 위해 최근 드론 영상을 이용한 조사 기술 개발에 대한 연구들이 증가하고 있다. 하지만 드론을 이용한 하천환경조사의 대부분은 RGB 영상을 이용하기 때문에 정밀한 하천환경 변화를 정량적으로 분석하는데 한계가 있다. 이를 극복하기 위한 대안으로 사람이 감지할 수 있는 빛의 영역 뿐 아니라 자외선과 적외선 영역의 분광특성을 이용하여 하천환경의 특성을 세밀하게 분류하는 것이 가능한 초분광센서를 드론에 탑재하여 하천환경을 조사하기 위한 기초 연구들이 시작되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 line scan 방식의 초분광센서를 드론에 탑재하여 초분광영상을 촬영하기 위한 드론 시스템을 구성하였고, 하나의 사진과 같이 초분광영상을 제작하기 위해 다양한 기하보정 기술을 적용하여 최적의 기하보정 방법을 제시하였다. 이를 위해 초분광영상의 기하보정은 각각의 초분광영상의 GCP와 대응점을 이용한 2차원 변환 방법 및 비선형 변환 방법을 적용하여 보정을 수행하였으며, 각 방법에 따른 정사보정 영상의 위치정확도를 검증하였다. 연구 결과 드론 기반의 초분광영상 촬영 및 기하 보정 방법을 제시하였다. 향후 하천환경조사 뿐만 아니라 다양한 분야의 원격탐사에 초분광영상을 활용하는데 도움이 될 것으로 기대한다.