• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.71-74
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to extract agriculture-related information from high-resolution satellite imageries. Calendar of cropping pattern for crops detected on the image was diagrammed, and field investigation was done to check crop status, agricultural facilities and structures. As a result, high-resolution agricultural land cover map from IKONOS imageries was made out.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.775-779
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• 2002

Currently, high-resolution satellite imagery such as KOMPSAT and IKONOS has been tentatively utilized to various types of urban engineering problems such as transportation planning, site planning, and utility management. This approach aims at software development and followed applications of remotely sensed imagery to transportation geographic analysis. At first, GDPA (Gradient Direction Profile Algorithm) and main modules in it are overviewed, and newly implemented results under MS visual programming environment are presented with main user interface, input imagery processing, and internal processing steps. Using this software, road network are automatically generated. Furthermore, this road network is used to transportation geographic analysis such as gamma index and road pattern estimation. While, this result, being produced to do-facto format of ESRI-shapefile, is used to several types of road layers to urban/transportation planning problems. In this study, road network using KOMPSAT EOC imagery and IKONOS imagery are directly compared to multiple road layers with NGI digital map with geo-coordinates, as ground truth; furthermore, accuracy evaluation is also carried out through method of computation of commission and omission error at some target area. Conclusively, the results processed in this study is thought to be one of useful cases for further researches and local government application regarding transportation geographic analysis using remotely sensed data sets.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.106-118
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• 2009

Satellite imagery with high resolution of about one meter is used widely in commerce and government applications ranging from earth observation and monitoring to national digital mapping. Due to the expensiveness of IKONOS Pro and Precision products, it is attractive to use the low-cost IKONOS Geo product with vendor-provided rational polynomial coefficients (RPCs), to produce highly accurate mapping products. The imaging geometry of IKONOS high-resolution imagery is described by RFs instead of rigorous sensor models. This paper presents four different polynomial models, that are the offset model, the scale and offset model, the Affine model, and the 2nd-order polynomial model, defined respectively in object space and image space to improve the accuracies of the RF-derived ground coordinates. Not only the algorithm for RF-based ground coordinates but also the algorithm for accuracy improvement of RF-based ground coordinates are developed which is based on the four models, The experiment also evaluates the effect of different cartographic parameters such as the number, configuration, and accuracy of ground control points on the accuracy of geopositioning. As the result of a experimental application, the root mean square errors of three dimensional ground coordinates which are first derived by vendor-provided Rational Function models were averagely 8.035m in X, 10.020m in Y and 13.318m in Z direction. After applying polynomial correction algorithm, those errors were dramatically decreased to averagely 2.791m in X, 2.520m in Y and 1.441m in Z. That is, accuracy was greatly improved by 65% in planmetry and 89% in vertical direction.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.1D
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• pp.153-160
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• 2009

In relation to digital elevation model(DEM) production using high resolution satellite imagery, existing studies present that DEM accuracy differently show according to land cover property. This study therefore proposes auto-selection method of window size for correlation matching according to land cover property of IKONOS Geo-level stereo image. For this, land cover classified image is obtained by IKONOS color image with four bands. In addition, correlation-coefficients are computed at regular intervals in pixels of the window-search area to shorten of matching time. As the results, DEM by the proposed method showed more accurate than DEM using the fixed window-size matching. We estimate that accuracy of the proposed DEM improved more than DEM by digital map and ERDAS in agricultural land.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.369-374
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• 2005

정사영상 생성, 도시 공간의 모형화 등 도면화의 다양한 응용분야에 적용을 위해서는 위성 영상으로부터 수치고도모형을 생성하는 것은 중요하며, SPOT-5, IKONOS, QUICKBIRD, ORBVIEW 등의 고해상도 위성영상은 효율적이고 경제적으로 수치고도모형을 생성할 수 있는 정보를 제공하고 있다. 그러나, 이들 고해상도 위성영상으로부터 수치고도모형을 생성하기 위해서는 센서모형화, 에피폴라 영상 생성 그리고 영상정합에 대한 사전지식이 필요하다. 이들 중 에피폴라 영상생성은 중요한 인자이며 이에 대한 연구는 아직 미흡한 실정이다. 뿐만 아니라, IKONOS 위성영상으로부터 수치고도모형을 생성하는 연구는 다항식비례모형에 기반한 연구가 주로 이루어졌다. 이에 본 연구에서는 센서 독립적이면서 적은 수의 기준점만으로 센서모형화와 에피폴라 영상생성이 가능한 평행투영모형을 이용하여 수치고도모형을 생성하는 일련의 처리과정을 새롭게 제안하였다. 제안된 방법론은 IKONOS 위성영상을 이용하여 적용하고 평가하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.139-144
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• 2003

수종, 영급, 밀도 등과 같은 산림의 특성을 나타내는 임상구분은 주로 항공사진 육안판독을 통하여 이루어져 왔다. 최근 항공사진과 유사한 공간해상도를 갖춘 고해상도 위성영상이 제공되면서 이를 이용한 임상구분의 가능성에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 울산 인근 산림지역의 1m 공간해상도의 IKONOS 입체쌍 영상을 이용하여 임상 판독의 가능성을 분석하였다. IKONOS영상은 기존의 수치임상도와의 중첩을 위하여 수치고도자료(DEM)를 이용한 정사보정을 수행하였으며, 분광밴드의 조합을 통한 칼라영상을 이용하여 육안판독을 시도하였다. 육안판독결과 IKONOS 칼라합성영상에서 천연 소나무림과 활엽수림의 육안구분이 흑백항공사진에 비해 뚜렷하게 나타나는 것을 볼 수 있었으며, 임분의 밀도가 영상에서 나타나는 질감과 패턴의 차이로 구분이 가능하였다. 또한 기존의 임상도를 중첩하여 최근 산지개발, 산불 등으로 훼손된 지점에 대한 구분이 용이하기 때문에 기존의 수치임상도를 화연상에서 직접 갱신함으로써 최근의 산림현황정보의 유지를 하는데 적합한 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.423-423
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• 2004

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.507-515
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• 2008

Many studies have generally used a large number of pure pixels as an approach to training set design. The training set are used, however, varies between classifiers. In the recent research, it was reported that small mixed pixels between classes are actually more useful than larger pure pixels of each class in Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification. We evaluated a usability of small mixed pixels as a training set for the classification of high-resolution satellite imagery. We presented an advanced approach to obtain a mixed pixel readily, and evaluated the appropriateness with the land cover classification from IKONOS satellite imagery. The results showed that the accuracy of the classification based on small mixed pixels is nearly identical to the accuracy of the classification based on large pure pixels. However, it also showed a limitation that small mixed pixels used may provide insufficient information to separate the classes. Small mixed pixels of the class border region provide cost-effective training sets, but its use with other pixels must be considered in use of high-resolution satellite imagery or relatively complex land cover situations.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.14 no.1 s.35
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• pp.21-27
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• 2006

Among various image fusion methods, intensity-hue-saturation(IHS) technique is capable of quickly merging the massive volumes of data. For IKONOS imagery, IHS can yield satisfactory 'spatial' enhancement but may introduce 'spectral' distortion, appearing as a change in colors between compositions of resampled and fused multispectral bands. To solve this problem a fast IHS fusion technique with spectral adjustment is presented. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can provide better performance than the conventional IHS method, in both processing speed and image quality.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.14-16
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• 2004

Although there have been wide range of studies to characterize forest stands based upon spectral information of satellite image, it was not fully understood the texture information of forest stand using high resolution data. The objective of this study is to evaluate several texture measures for characterizing forest stand structure, such as species composition, diameter at breast height(DBH), stand density, and age. High resolution IKONOS satellite imagery data were acquired in August 200 lover the forested area near Ulsan, Korea. Primary forest types were plantation pine, mixed forest, and natural deciduous forest of stand age ranging from 10 to 50 years old. Several GLCM-based texture measures were compared with forest stand characteristics. In overall, a texture measure (contrast) calculated using red band were better to differentiate species and age group than other texture measures and near infrared bands.