• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.328-331
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• 2008

It is possible to extract qualified ground control points (GCPs) solely from SAR data without published maps. TerraSAR-X is now in orbit and provides valuable data that have one of the highest spatial resolutions among civilian SAR systems. In this study, a sophisticated method for GCP coordinate extraction from TerraSAR-X stripmap mode data with a 3 m resolution was tested and the quality of the extracted GCPs was evaluated. An inverse-geolocation algorithm was applied to obtain GCPs from TerraSAR-X data. SRTM 90m DEM was used as an auxiliary data set for azimuth time correction of the SAR data. Mean values of the distance errors were 0.11 m and -3.96 m with standard deviations of 6.52 m and 5.11 m in easting and northing, respectively. The result is one of the best among GCPs possibly extracted from current civilian remote sensing systems. The extracted GCPs were used for geo-rectification of an IKONOS image, which demonstrated the applicability of the GCPs to geo-rectification of high resolution optic image. The method used in this study can be applied to KOMPSAT-5 for geo-rectification of high-resolution optic images acquired by KOMPSAT-2 or follow-up missions.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.621-626
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• 2006

Today's commercial high resolution satellite imagery such as IKONOS and QuickBird, offers the potential to extract useful spatial information for geographical database construction and GIS applications. Extraction of 3D building information from high resolution satellite imagery is one of the most active research topics. There have been many previous works to extract 3D information based on stereo analysis, including sensor modelling. Practically, it is not easy to obtain stereo high resolution satellite images. On single image performance, most studies applied the roof-bottom points or shadow length extracted manually to sensor models with DEM. It is not suitable to apply these algorithms for dense buildings. We aim to extract 3D building information from a single satellite image in a simple and practical way. To measure as many buildings as possible, in this paper, we suggested a new way to extract building height by triangular vector structure that consists of a building bottom point, its corresponding roof point and a shadow end point. The proposed method could increase the number of measurable building, and decrease the digitizing error and the computation efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2004.03a
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• pp.347-347
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• 2004

임상도는 항공사진을 판독하여 얻어진 산림에 관한 정보를 지형도(1/25,000)에 도화 작성한 도면으로 전국 산림조사와 연계하여 10년을 주기로 순환제작 되며, 현재 제 4차 수치임상도가 제작 중에 있다 임상도는 여러 산림관련 주제도 중 가장 많이 활용되는 도면으로 산림 분야뿐만 아니라 다른 분야에서도 널리 활용되고 있다. 그러나 10년을 주기로 제작되므로 부분적으로 현실과 부합하지 않는 내용이 포함되어 있어 각종 계획수립 및 활용에 장애요인으로 작용하고 있다. 따라서 실제 임상정보를 획득할 수 있도록 지속적인 갱신이 필요하다. 그러나 임상도의 부분적 갱신을 위하여 별도의 항공사진을 촬영하는 것은 현실적인 어려움이 있으며, 최근 고해상도 위성영상이 활용 가능하게 됨에 따라 임상도의 갱신에도 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고해상도 위성영상인 IKONOS를 이용하여 수치임상도를 갱신하는 방법을 제시하였다. 연구대상지는 제 4차 임상도의 수치화가 완료된 전라북도 완주 지역으로 1:25000 지형도의 도엽명 대아와 읍내의 일부지역이다. 영상자료는 2001년 8월 18일에 촬영된 IKONOS Multispectral 자료를 이용하였다. 영상의 기하보정을 위하여 RPC Model과 1:25000 수치지형도로부터 만들어진 DEM을 사용하였다. 기하보정된 영상을 이용하여 영상분할(Segmentation)을 실시하여 서로 중복되지 않는 동질한 지역으로 구분하였다. 이때 기존의 수치임상도를 Super-Object로 사용하여 영상을 분할할 때 형성될 수 있는 가장 큰 Segment로 제한하였으며 Super-Object의 경계를 벗어나지 않는 보다 작은 Sub-Object를 만들도록 하여 분할영상의 계층적 구조를 형성하였다. 어느 한 임상내에서 변화가 발생하면 변화가 발생한 지역은 변화가 발생하지 않은 지역과 서로 다른 분광특성을 나타내므로 별도의 Segment를 형성하게 된다. 따라서 임상도의 경계선으로부터 획득된 Super-Object의 분광반사 값과 그 안에서 형성된 Sub-Object의 분광반사값의 차이를 이용하여 임상도의 갱신을 위한 변화지역을 탐지하였다.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.3-17
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• 2004

Space-borne Earth observation technique is one of the most cost effective and rapidly advancing Earth science research tools today and the potential field and micro-wave radar applications have been leading the discipline. The traditional optical imaging systems including the well known Landsat, NOAA - AVHRR, SPOT, and IKONOS have steadily improved spatial imaging resolution but increasing cloud covers have the major deterrent. The new Earth observation satellites ENVISAT (launched on March 1 2002, specifically for Earth environment observation), ALOS (planned for launching in 2004 - 2005 period and ALOS stands for Advanced Land Observation Satellite), and RADARSAT-II (planned for launching in 2005) all have synthetic aperture radar (SAR) onboard, which all have partial or fully polarimetric imaging capabilities. These new types of polarimetric imaging radars with repeat orbit interferometric capabilities are opening up completely new possibilities in Earth system science research, in addition to the radar altimeter and scatterometer. The main advantage of a SAR system is the all weather imaging capability without Sun light and the newly developed interferometric capabilities, utilizing the phase information in SAR data further extends the observation capabilities of directional surface covers and neotectonic surface displacements. In addition, if one can utilize the newly available multiple frequency polarimetric information, the new generation of space-borne SAR systems is the future research tool for Earth observation and global environmental change monitoring. The potential field strength decreases as a function of the inverse square of the distance between the source and the observation point and geophysicists have traditionally been reluctant to make the potential field observation from any space-borne platforms. However, there have recently been a number of potential field missions such as ASTRID-2, Orsted, CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE. Of course these satellite sensors are most effective for low spatial resolution applications. For similar objects, AMPERE and NPOESS are being planned by the United States and France. The Earth science disciplines which utilize space-borne platforms most are the astronomy and atmospheric science. However in this talk we will focus our discussion on the solid Earth and physical oceanographic applications. The geodynamic applications actively being investigated from various space-borne platforms geological mapping, earthquake and volcano .elated tectonic deformation, generation of p.ecise digital elevation model (DEM), development of multi-temporal differential cross-track SAR interferometry, sea surface wind measurement, tidal flat geomorphology, sea surface wave dynamics, internal waves and high latitude cryogenics including sea ice problems.