• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.448-453
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• 2002

Remote sensing technology is one of the most powerful tools for human to know the nature and their living environment. However, before microwave remote sensing was developed and applied, remote sensing application was limited strongly by weather and time. Microwave remote sensing technology solves the problem. It makes us to have the capability to acquire information at all time of the day and under all weather condition, and make remote sensing technology be used in more wider area. Microwave remote sensing system include mainly Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Microwave Radiometer, Microwave Scatterometer, and Altimeter (ALT). As SAR can acquire image whose spatial resolution is similar with visible and infrared image, it is paying much attention to and playing a more and more important role in earth observation. In recent year, the development of new SAR technology (multi-band and multi-polarization technology, InSAR technology, D-InSAR technology, and so on) makes SAR remote sensing go to an new stage, and its application area become more and more widely. The first Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in the world appeared in 1960. After that, SAR and its application all developed very fast. Some radar satellites launched and run (include Seasat-A in 1978, ERS-1 in 1991, JERS-1 in 1992, Radarsat in 1995, and so on) promote SAR research and application in world greatly. China began to develop its SAR sensor and research SAR application in 1970s. After more than 30 years' research, it get some important development in sensor development data processing method, and application. Some operational systems have been used and play an important role. This paper will introduce the development of SAR technology and its application in China.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.453-454
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• 2003

Most research materials (data), which are used for the study of digital mapping and digital elevation model (DEM) in the field of Remote Sensing and Aerial Photogrammetry are aerial photographs and satellite images. Additionally, they are also used for National land mapping, National land management, environment management, military purposes, resource exploration and Earth surface analysis etc. Although aerial photographs have high resolution, the data, which they contain, are not used for environment exploration that requires continuous observation because of problems caused by its coastline, as well as single - spectral and long-term periodic image. In addition to this, they are difficult to interpret precisely because Satellite Images are influenced by atmospheric phenomena at the time of photographing, and have by far much lower resolution than existing aerial photographs, while they have a great practical usability because they are mulitispectral images. The PKNU 2 is an aerial photographing system that is made to compensate with the weak points of existing aerial photograph and satellite images. It is able to take pictures of very high resolution using a color digital camera with 6 million pixels and a color infrared camera, and can take perpendicular photographs because PKNU 2 system has equipment that makes the cameras stay level. Moreover, it is very cheap to take pictures by using super light aircraft as a platform. It has much higher resolution than exiting aerial photographs and satellite images because it flies at a low altitude about 800m. The PKNU 2 can obtain multispectral images of visible to near infrared band so that it is good to manage environment and to make a classified diagram of vegetation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.305-316
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• 2015

The GPS signal delays in troposphere, which are along the signal path between a transmitting satellite and GPS permanent station, can be used to retrieve the precipitable water vapor. The GPS remote sensing technique of atmospheric water vapor is capable of monitoring typhoon and detecting long term water vapor for tracking of earth’s climate change. In this study, we analyzed GPS precipitable water vapor variations during the heavy snowstorm event occurred in the Yeongdong area, 2014. The results show that the snowfall event were occurring after the GPS precipitable water vapor were increased, the maximum fresh snow depth was recorded after the maximum GPS precipitable water vapor was generated, in Kangneug and Wuljin, respectively. Also, we analyzed that the closely correlation among the GPS precipitable water vapor, the K-index and total index which was acquired by the upper air observation system during this snowstorm event was revealed.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.167-173
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• 2010

This paper introduces Geostationary Ocean Color Imager, IMage Pre-processing Subsystem (GOCI IMPS) of Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite (COMS), and describes its functions, development states, and operational concepts. The primary and backup systems of GOCI IMPS have been installed in Korea Ocean Satellite Center (KOSC) and Satellite Operation Center (SOC) and the system are the prelaunch test phase after completing all required tests. It is expected that the GOCI data observed continuously over the Korea Peninsular in the geostationary orbit will be usefully utilized in marine environment research fields such as sea surface temperature changes or marine ecosystems.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.232-249
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• 1998

The first Korean remote sensing satellite, Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite (KOMPSAT-1), is going to be launched in 1999. This will carry a 7m resolution Electro-Optical Camera (EOC) for earth observation. The primary mission of the KOMPSAT-1 is to acquire stereo imagery over the Korean peninsular for the generation of 1:25,000 scale cartographic maps. For this mission, research is being carried out to assess the possibilities of automated or semi-automated mapping of EOC data and to develop, if necessary, such enabling tools. This paper discusses the issue of automated digital elevation model (DEM) generation from EOC data and identifies some important aspects in developing a DEM generation system from EOC data. This paper also presents the current status of the development work for such a system. The development work will be described in three pares of sensor modelling, stereo matching and DEM interpolation. The performance of the system is shown with a SPOT stereo pair. A DEM generated from commercial software is also presented for comparison. The proposed system seems to generate promising results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.77-77
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• 2015

기상이변으로 인한 사회 경제적 피해의 증가로 기상정보에 대한 중요성이 커지면서 해외에서는 민간 기업이 기상 관측망을 구축하는 사례가 나타났다. 미국의 Earth Network은 전 세계에 1만개의 기상 관측센서를 설치하였고, 일본의 통신회사인 NTT DoCoMo는 일본에 4000여 개의 기상 및 환경관측 센서를 구축하였다. 국내에서는 SK플래닛이 자사의 플랫폼 기술과 SK텔레콤의 기지국 인프라를 활용하여 수도권 지역에 국지기상 관측망을 구축하였다. SK플래닛은 2013년 서울지역에 1km 간격으로 264개의 기상센서를 설치하고, 2014년 인천 경기지역에 3km 간격으로 825개의 기상센서를 추가 설치하여, 현재 1089개의 국지기상 관측망을 운용하고 있다. 관측에 사용한 센서는 우량계와 복합 기상센서로 강수량, 기온, 습도, 바람, 기압을 측정한다. 관측된 자료는 데이터로거에서 기상청의 자료처리 표준규격에 따라 처리한 후 M2M 모뎀을 통해 1분마다 서버로 전송한다. 전송된 자료는 기상정보 플랫폼의 수집 서버에서 프로토콜 변환 후 원본자료 DB에 저장하고, 실시간 품질관리를 마친 후 품질관리 자료 DB에 저장한다. 관측 지점의 기본정보 및 작업이력은 메타데이터 DB에 저장되고 관리자 페이지를 통해 조회 및 수정 된다. 관측 자료의 품질 보증은 제조사의 센서 Calibration부터 서비스 모니터링 까지 각 단계별로 체계적인 품질관리를 통해 이루어진다. 품질관리를 마친 국지기상 관측 데이터는 응용프로그램 개발자가 편리하게 사용할 수 있는 API(Application Programming Interface)형태로 제공된다. 2013년 여름부터 수집된 1~3km 해상도의 SK플래닛 국지기상 관측 자료를 통해 그 동안 정량적으로 확인하지 못한 국지성 호우 시의 강수량 편차에 대해 알 수 있었다. 2014년 7월 31일 양평지역에 내린 국지성 호우는 시간당 최대 90mm 이상의 비가 내린 사례로, 귀여리 관측소(SK 플래닛)에 시간당 93.1mm가 내리는 동안 퇴촌 관측소(기상청)에는 17.5mm의 비가 내려, 두 관측지점 간 거리가 3.4km 임에도 불구하고 시간당 75mm 이상의 강수량 차이를 보였다. 앞으로 SK플래닛의 국지기상 관측 자료가 국지성 호우의 조기 경보 및 예측 정확도 향상에 활용되어 재난으로부터 국민의 생명과 재산을 지키는데 많은 도움이 되기를 기대한다.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.329-337
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• 2019

Bottled water companies in Korea are required to conduct an environmental impact assessment of their drinking water supply at least six months before the expiration of their five-year marketing and production license. The water level drawdown, production well water quality, and monitoring well observation results are the most important items that are evaluated in the assessment report. Here we evaluate the relationship between well drawdown and pumping capacity with pumping time from the production wells of bottled water manufacturers located in Cretaceous granite (site A) and Precambrian gneiss (site B). The method to reduce the pumping capacity is more effective in decreasing the drawdown than the method to simultaneously control the pumping and recovery times. Furthermore, the monitoring data from the pH monitoring sensors that were installed in Precambrian gneiss (site C) yield pH values that increase with time and eventually plateau at a certain value. We therefore propose that pH monitoring is either discontinued or improved to provide more reliable and usable results.

• Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.77-86
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• 2006

Aplications of the real-time kinematic GPS surveying and inertial measurement unit have been beingRTK GPS allows the use of a static base station and remote rover unit to allow for data collectionwithin several seconds and in real time. It is useful for monitoring the behaviors of massive structureslike bridges. And this study purposed to implement a method of deciding the acurate dynaimc attitudeof structures by IMU. In this study, among GPS methods, we used RTK GPS to analyze the precisionof monitoring and then on the basis of it, we developed a monitoring system using RTK GPS anda deviation betwen observation values, X axis was 1mm, Y axis was 1mm and Z axis 2.2mm. I tturned out that it was possible to monitor and measure structures by RTK GPS and IMU.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.89-97
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• 2021

STEP Cube Lab-II (Cube Laboratory for Space Technology Experimental Project-II) is a 6U Cube satellite equipped with optical and infrared cameras for monitoring Mt. Paektu volcanic eruption signs and earth observation in the Korean peninsula. To guarantee successful mission operation of the cube satellite in orbit, thermal design is essential for the electronic equipment, and must be kept within the allowable temperature range during the mission period. Thus, it is necessary to analyze the predictable orbital thermal environment. The STEP Cube Lab-II is launched through the KSLV-II, however, the operation orbit has not been determined due to the unknown launch time. In this study, we performed a thermal analysis of the satellite and investigated the heat flux according to launch time to analyze the worst orbital conditions that could occur.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.26-36
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• 2019

The precise alignment between optical components is required in high-resolution earth observation satellites. However, the misalignment of optical components occurs due to external factors such as severe satellite launch environment and space environment. A satellite optical system with a focus mechanism is required to compensate for the image quality degraded by these misalignments. This study designed, fabricated, aligned precisely, and carried out a performance tests for the image quality of the system. The satellite optical camera performance tests were carried out to check the image quality change by operating the focus mechanism and to analyze the satellite optical system MTF by photographing USAF target using the autocollimator. According to the experimental results, the misalignments can be compensated sufficiently with the focus mechanism. Finally the basic data for re-focusing algorithm of the optical system was obtained through this study.