• 한국측량학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국측량학회 2010년 춘계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.221-224
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• 2010

When the image registration methods which were generally used to the low medium resolution satellite images is applied to the high spatial resolution images, some matching errors or limitations might be occurred because of the local distortions in the images. This paper, therefore, proposed the automatic image-to-image registration of high resolution satellite images using local properties of control points to improve the registration result.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.137-143
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• 2013

고해상도 위성영상은 기상관측, 지형관측, 원격탐사, 군사시설감시, 문화재보호 등 많은 분야에서 이용된다. 위성영상은 동일한 위성영상 시스템에서 획득한 영상이라 할지라도 하드웨어(광학장치, 위성의 운용고도, 영상 센서 등)의 조건에 따라서 해상도가 저하된 영상들이 발생한다. 따라서 위성이 발사된 이후에는 이러한 해상도가 저하된 영상들의 해상도 향상을 위해서 영상시스템의 하드웨어를 변경하는 것은 불가능하므로 위성영상 자체를 이용하여 해상도를 향상시키는 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 저해상도 위성영상을 이용하여 해상도를 향상시키는 방법으로 SR(Super Resolution) 알고리즘을 사용하였다. SR 알고리즘은 다수의 저해상도 영상들의 정합을 통해 영상의 해상도를 향상시키는 알고리즘이다. 하지만 위성영상에서는 동일 지역에 대한 여러 장의 영상을 획득하기 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 어파인 변환(Affine Transform)및 투영 변환(Projection Transform)을 적용 후 영상에 대한 기하학적 변화를 보정하여 SR 알고리즘을 수행하였다. 그 결과 SR 알고리즘만 적용한 영상보다 어파인 변환과 투영 변환을 거친 후 SR 알고리즘을 적용한 영상에서 해상도가 확실하게 더 증가되는 것을 확인하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.393-402
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• 2003

In times of the civil uses of commercialized high-resolution satellite imagery, applications of remote sensing have been widely extended to the new fields or the problem solving beyond traditional application domains. Transportation application of this sensor data, related to the automatic or semiautomatic road extraction, is regarded as one of the important issues in uses of remote sensing imagery. Related to these trends, this study focuses on automatic road extraction using Gradient Direction Profile Algorithm (GDPA) scheme, with IKONOS panchromatic imagery having 1 meter resolution. For this, the GDPA scheme and its main modules were reviewed with processing steps and implemented as a prototype software. Using the extracted bi-level image and ground truth coming from actual GIS layer, overall accuracy evaluation and ranking error-assessment were performed. As the processed results, road information can be automatically extracted; by the way, it is pointed out that some user-defined variables should be carefully determined in using high-resolution satellite imagery in the dense or low contrast areas. While, the GDPA method needs additional processing, because direct results using this method do not produce high overall accuracy or ranking value. The main advantage of the GDPA scheme on road features extraction can be noted as its performance and further applicability. This experiment study can be extended into practical application fields related to remote sensing.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.517-529
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• 2009

Many satellite image fusion techniques have been developed in order to produce a high resolution multispectral (MS) image by combining a high resolution panchromatic (PAN) image and a low resolution MS image. Heretofore, most high resolution image fusion techniques have used IKONOS and QuickBird images. Recently, GeoEye-1, offering the highest resolution of any commercial imaging system, was launched. In this study, we have experimented with GeoEye-1 images in order to evaluate which fusion algorithms are suitable for these images. This paper presents compares and evaluates the efficiency of five image fusion techniques, the $\grave{a}$ trous algorithm based additive wavelet transformation (AWT) fusion techniques, the Principal Component analysis (PCA) fusion technique, Gram-Schmidt (GS) spectral sharpening, Pansharp, and the Smoothing Filter based Intensity Modulation (SFIM) fusion technique, for the fusion of a GeoEye-1 image. The results of the experiment show that the AWT fusion techniques maintain more spatial detail of the PAN image and spectral information of the MS image than other image fusion techniques. Also, the Pansharp technique maintains information of the original PAN and MS images as well as the AWT fusion technique.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.35-44
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• 2023

Surveillance and reconnaissance intelligence in the space domain will become increasingly important in future battlefield environments. Moreover, to assimilate the military provocations and trends of hostile countries, imagery intelligence of the highest possible resolution is required. There are many methods for improving the resolution of optical satellites when observing the ground, such as designing satellite optical systems with a larger diameter and lowering the operating altitude. In this paper, we propose a method for improving ground observation resolution by using an optical system for a previously designed low orbit satellite and lowering the operating altitude of the satellite. When the altitude of a satellite is reduced in a circular orbit, a large amount of thrust fuel is required to maintain altitude because the satellite's altitude can decrease rapidly due to atmospheric drag. However, by using the critical inclination, which can fix the position of the perigee in an elliptical orbit to the observation area, the operating altitude of the satellite can be reduced using less fuel compared to a circular orbit. This method makes it possible to obtain a similar observational resolution of a medium-sized satellite with the same weight and volume as a small satellite. In addition, this method has the advantage of reducing development and launch costs to that of a small-sized satellite. As a result, we designed an elliptical orbit. The perigee of the orbit is 300 km, the apogee is 8,366.52 km, and the critical inclination is 116.56°. This orbit remains at its lowest altitude to the Korean peninsula constantly with much less orbit maintenance fuel compared to the 300 km circular orbit.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2014

고해상도 위성영상의 등장과 공간분해능의 발전은 위성영상을 활용한 다양한 연구들을 가능하게 하였다. 그 중에서도 고해상도 위성영상을 이용한 표적 탐지 기술은 광범위한 지역의 차량, 항공기, 선박 등의 탐지를 가능하게 하여 교통류 모델링, 군사적 목적의 감시 정찰을 효과적으로 수행하게 한다. 최근 다양한 국가에서 여러 위성을 발사함에 따라 위성영상 선택의 폭이 증가하였으나 고해상도 위성영상을 이용한 공간해상도 비교 연구는 많지 않으며 더욱이 표적 탐지에 미치는 공간 해상도의 영향에 관한 연구는 국내외로 매우 부족한 상황이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 PSO 기반의 표적 탐지 연구를 바탕으로 공간해상도가 항공기 및 선박 표적 탐지에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 원영상에 대한 재배열 보간 기법을 통해 0.5m, 1m, 2m, 4m의 다양한 공간해상도의 시뮬레이션 영상을 생성하고 이때 최근린보간, 양선형보간, 3차회선보간과 같이 다양한 재배열 보간 기법을 적용하였다. 표적 탐지 정확도는 공간해상도 뿐만 아니라 보간 기법에 따라 비교 분석되었다. 연구 결과 0.5m의 고해상도 영상에서 그리고 최근린보간 기법을 이용한 재배열 영상에서 더 높은 표적 탐지 정확도를 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 50% 이상의 표적 탐지 정확도를 얻기 위해서는 항공기의 경우 2m, 선박의 경우 4m 이상의 영상이 필요하며 항공기의 형태적 특이성은 더 높은 공간 해상력을 필요로 함을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 항공기 및 선박 표적 탐지에 적합한 적정 공간분해능을 제안하고 위성 센서 설계의 기준을 제시하는데 큰 기여를 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.303-314
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• 2011

Surface albedo is an important parameter of the surface energy budget, and its accurate quantification is of major interest to the global climate modeling community. Therefore, in this paper, we consider the direct solution of kernel based bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) models for retrieval of normalized reflectance of high resolution satellite. The BRD effects can be seen in satellite data having a wide swath such as SPOT/VGT (VEGETATION) have sufficient angular sampling, but high resolution satellites are impossible to obtain sufficient angular sampling over a pixel during short period because of their narrow swath scanning when applying semi-empirical model. This gives a difficulty to run BRDF model inferring the reflectance normalization of high resolution satellites. The principal purpose of the study is to estimate normalized reflectance of high resolution satellite (RapidEye) through BRDF components from SPOT/VGT. We use semi-empirical BRDF model to estimated BRDF components from SPOT/VGT and reflectance normalization of RapidEye. This study used SPOT/VGT satellite data acquired in the S1 (daily) data, and within this study is the multispectral sensor RapidEye. Isotropic value such as the normalized reflectance was closely related to the BRDF parameters and the kernels. Also, we show scatter plot of the SPOT/VGT and RapidEye isotropic value relationship. The linear relationship between the two linear regression analysis is performed by using the parameters of SPOTNGT like as isotropic value, geometric value and volumetric scattering value, and the kernel values of RapidEye like as geometric and volumetric scattering kernel Because BRDF parameters are difficult to directly calculate from high resolution satellites, we use to BRDF parameter of SPOT/VGT. Also, we make a decision of weighting for geometric value, volumetric scattering value and error through regression models. As a result, the weighting through linear regression analysis produced good agreement. For all sites, the SPOT/VGT isotropic and RapidEye isotropic values had the high correlation (RMSE, bias), and generally are very consistent.

• 항공우주산업기술동향
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.90-98
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• 2008

최근 고해상도위성의 개발 및 활용이 활발해지면서, 데이터 전송 및 처리를 위한 영상압축의 중요성이 대두되고 있다. 이에 발맞추어 CCSDS (Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems)에서는 고해상도위성의 영상압축권 고안인 CCSDS 122.0-B-1을 2005년 말에 발표했으며, 이는 향후 고해상도 위성의 영상압축에 널리 적용될 것으로 기대된다. 본 논문에서는 고해상도위성의 최근 동향을 알아보고, CCSDS 122.0-B-1 기반의 고해상도위성 영상압축 기술에 대해 설명하며, JPEG과 성능을 비교한 결과를 기술한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.497-505
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• 2011

Image fusion is a technical method to integrate the spatial details of the high-resolution panchromatic (HRP) image and the spectral information of low-resolution multispectral (LRM) images to produce high-resolution multispectral images. The most important point in image fusion is enhancing the spatial details of the HRP image and simultaneously maintaining the spectral information of the LRM images. This implies that the physical characteristics of a satellite sensor should be considered in the fusion process. Also, to fuse massive satellite images, the fusion method should have low computation costs. In this paper, we propose a fast and efficient satellite image fusion method. The proposed method uses the spectral response functions of a satellite sensor; thus, it rationally reflects the physical characteristics of the satellite sensor to the fused image. As a result, the proposed method provides high-quality fused images in terms of spectral and spatial evaluations. The experimental results of IKONOS images indicate that the proposed method outperforms the intensity-hue-saturation and wavelet-based methods.

• 한국측량학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국측량학회 2003년도 추계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.379-384
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• 2003

In this paper, we introduce a change detection system that can extract and analyze change elements from high-resolution satellite imagery as well as low- or middle-resolution satellite imagery. The developed system provides not only 7 pixel-based methods that can be used to detect change from low- or middle-resolution satellite images but also a float window concept that can be used in manual change detection from high-resolution satellite images. This system enables fast process of the very large image, because it is constituted by OGC grid coverage components. Also new change detection algorithms can be easily added into this system if once they are made into grid coverage components.