• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2008년도 공동학술대회
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• pp.145-148
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• 2008

2003년 1월에 발사된 ICESat 인공위성은 극지방 전 지역을 거의 관측할 수 있는 극궤도 위성으로 극지방 빙하 변화 연구에 많은 기여를 하고 있다. ICESat은 GLAS(Geoscience Laser Altimetry System) 센서를 이용하여 지형의 변화를 정밀 관측함으로써 빙하의 고도 변화 탐지에 매우 유용하다. 이는 기존의 SAR 위성을 이용한 빙하 연구의 단점을 보완할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. ICESat의 정밀 빙하 고도 관측을 이용하여 Amery 빙붕의 속도 변화를 파악할 수 있는 새로운 방법을 제시하였다. 시간의 변화에 따라 수평적으로 이동하는 빙붕의 변화를 ICESat 위성 자료를 통해 확인할 수 있었으며 이를 통해 빙붕의 속도 분포를 계산할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 본 연구를 통해 개발된 방법은 남극의 다른 빙붕 연구에도 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2005년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2005
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• pp.683-686
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• 2005

This study addresses a photogrammetric approach to generate Mars topographic products from mapping data of Mars Global Surveyor (MGS). High-resolution stereo images and laser altimetry data collected from the MGS mission are combined and processed to produce Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and orthoimages. First, altimeter data is registered to high resolution images and considerable registration offset (around 325 m) is discovered on high resolution stereo images. Altimetry data, exterior orientation elements of the camera and conjugate points are used for bundle adjustment to solve this mis-registration and detennine the ground coordinates. The mis-registration of altimetry data are effectively eliminated after the bundle adjustment. Using the adjusted exterior orientation the ground coordinates of conjugate points are detennined. A sufficient number of corresponding points collected through image matching and their precise 3-D ground coordinates are used to generate DEM and orthoimages. A posteriori standard deviations of ground points after bundle adjustment indicate the accuracy of OEM generated in this study. This paper addresses the photogrammetric procedure: the registration of altimetry data to stereo pair images, the bundle adjustment and the evaluation, and the generation of OEM and orthoimages.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2005

We construct improved geocentric digital elevation model (DEM), estimate tidal dynamics and ice stream velocity over Sulzberger Ice Shelf, West Antarctica employing differential interferograms from 12 ERS tandem mission Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images acquired in austral fall of 1996. Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) laser altimetry profiles acquired in the same season as the SAR scenes in 2004 are used as ground control points (GCPs) for Interferometric SAR (InSAR) DEM generation. 20 additional ICESat profiles acquired in 2003-2004 are then used to assess the accuracy of the DEM. The vertical accuracy of the OEM is estimated by comparing elevations with laser altimetry data from ICESat. The mean height difference between all ICESat data and DEM is -0.57m with a standard deviation of 5.88m. We demonstrate that ICESat elevations can be successfully used as GCPs to improve the accuracy of an InSAR derived DEM. In addition, the magnitude and the direction of tidal changes estimated from interferogram are compared with those predicted tidal differences from four ocean tide models. Tidal deformation measured in InSAR is -16.7cm and it agrees well within 3cm with predicted ones from tide models. Lastly, ice surface velocity is estimated by combining speckle matching technique and InSAR line-of-sight measurement. This study shows that the maximum speed and mean speed are 509 m/yr and 131 m/yr, respectively. Our results can be useful for the mass balance study in this area and sea level change.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.363-370
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• 2015

The current waveform model of a laser altimeter is based on a Gaussian laser beam of fundamental mode, while the flattened Gaussian beam has many advantages such as nearly constant energy distribution on the center of the cross-section. Following the theory of the flattened Gaussian beam and the waveform theory of the laser altimeter, some of the primary parameters of the received waveform were derived, and a laser altimetry waveform simulator and waveform processing software were programmed and improved under the circumstance of a flattened Gaussian beam. The result showed that the bias between theoretical and simulated waveforms was less than 3% for every order mode, the waveform width and range error would increase as target slope or order number rose. Under higher order mode, the shapes of the received waveforms were no longer Gaussian, and could be fitted more precisely as a generalized Gaussian function with power bigger than 2. The flattened beam got much better performance for a multi-surface target, especially when the small surface is far from the center of the laser footprint. This article provides the waveform theoretical basis for the use of a flattened Gaussian beam in a laser altimeter.

• Korean Journal of Geomatics
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2002

LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) system has a profound impact on geoinformatics. The laser mapping system is now recognized as being a viable system to produce the digital surface model rapidly and efficiently. Indeed the number of its applications and users has grown at a surprising rate in recent years. Interest is now focused on the reconstruction of buildings in urban areas from LiDAR data. Although with present technology objects can be extracted and reconstructed automatically using LiDAR data, the quality issue of the results is still major concern in terms of geometric accuracy. It would be enormously beneficial to the geoinformatics industry if geometrically accurate modeling of topographic surface including man-made objects could be produced automatically. The objectives of this study are to reconstruct buildings using airborne LiDAR data and to evaluate accuracy of the result. In these regards, firstly systematic errors involved with ALS (Airborne Laser Scanning) system are introduced. Secondly, the overall LiDAR data quality was estimated based on the ground check points, then classifying the laser points was performed. In this study, buildings were reconstructed from the classified as building laser point clouds. The most likely planar surfaces were estimated by the least-square method using the laser points classified as being planes. Intersecting lines of the planes were then computed and these were defined as the building boundaries. Finally, quality of the reconstructed building was evaluated.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.1374-1376
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• 2003

NASA, NSF and USGS jointly conducted a LIDAR survey over several sites in the Antarctic Dry Valleys and its vicinity, acquiring numerous surface points by NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) conical laser scanning altimetry system. The data set have high blunder ratio, and the conical scanning pattern resulted large variation of the point densities. Hence, to reduce the undesirable effects due to these characteristics and process the huge number of points with reasonable time and resources, we developed a novel approach to generate large-scale and high-resolution DEMs in robust, efficient and nearly automatic manners. Based on this approach we produced DEMs and then verified them with reference data.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.307-318
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• 2012

To understand forest structures, the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) instrument have been employed to measure and monitor forest canopy with feasibility of acquiring three dimensional canopy structure information. This study tried to examine the potential of GLAS dataset in measuring forest canopy structures, particularly maximum canopy height estimation. To estimate maximum canopy height using feasible GLAS dataset, we simply used difference between signal start and ground peak derived from Gaussian decomposition method. After estimation procedure, maximum canopy height was derived from airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data and it was applied to evaluate the accuracy of that of GLAS estimation. In addition, several influences, such as topographical and biophysical factors, were analyzed and discussed to explain error sources of direct maximum canopy height estimation using GLAS data. In the result of estimation using direct method, a root mean square error (RMSE) was estimated at 8.15 m. The estimation tended to be overestimated when comparing to derivations of airborne LiDAR. According to the result of error occurrences analysis, we need to consider these error sources, particularly terrain slope within GLAS footprint, and to apply statistical regression approach based on various parameters from a Gaussian decomposition for accurate and reliable maximum canopy height estimation.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제37권5_1호
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• pp.1177-1186
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• 2021

북극의 융빙호(melt pond)는 해빙 면적 감소 및 북극 빙권 변화에 중요한 역할을 하기 때문에 융빙호의 정확한 관측이 필요하다. 미국 NASA의 차세대 고도계 위성인 Ice, Cloud, and Land elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2)는 532 nm의 녹색 레이저를 발사한 뒤 반사되는 광자(photon)의 이동 시간을 계산하여 전 지구적으로 고해상도 고도 정보를 관측한다. ICESat-2는 현재 널리 쓰이고 있는 고도계인 CryoSat-2에 비해 세밀한 관측이 가능하기 때문에, Cryosat-2에서 관측할 수 없는 작은 규모의 융빙호를 탐지할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. ICESat-2의 기본적인 정보로는 표면 높이(surface height)와 반사되는 광자의 수(photon count)가 있다. 본 연구에서는 각 ICESat-2 지점을 중심으로 10 m 길이의 segment를 생성하여 segment 내의 높이 표준편차와 총 광자 수를 활용한 융빙호 탐지 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 융빙호는 표면이 해빙에 비해 매끄러워서 높이의 분산이 적으므로 높이의 표준편차를 활용하여 일차적으로 융빙호와 해빙을 분류하였다. 그 다음으로는 융빙호 중에서 표면이 물인 융빙호와 얼음 표면인 융빙호를 분류하였다. 표면이 물인 융빙호는 광자를 많이 흡수하기 때문에 단위 segment 내에서 반사되어 수집된 광자의 수가 적으며, 반대로 얼음으로 덮인 융빙호는 반사되는 광자의 수가 많다. 결과적으로 본 연구에서 제시하는 융빙호 탐지 방법을 통해 물과 얼음으로 덮인 융빙호를 구별하여 탐지할 수 있다. Sentinel-2 광학 영상을 활용하여 융빙호 탐지 결과의 정성적인 분석을 하였다. 그 결과 Sentinel-2 광학 영상으로 구분하기 어려운 표면이 물인 융빙호와 얼음인 융빙호를 ICESat-2를 활용해 효과적으로 분류하였다. 마지막으로 고도계 위성 및 광학 영상을 활용한 융빙호 탐지의 고찰을 서술하였다.

• Spatial Information Research
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.59-65
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• 2014

최근 북극지역은 지구온난화에 따른 각종개발 및 기후변화 연구 등을 위하여 수치표고모델 수요가 증가되고 있기 때문에 수치표고모델을 활용하기 위해서는 정확도에 대한 검증이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 대부분이 빙하로 덮여 있는 그린란드에 구축된 수치표고모델 중 ASTER GDEM과 GIMP DEM을 검증하였다. 수치표고모델을 검증하기 위하여 토지피복도를 사용하여 그린란드를 내륙빙상지역과 해안비빙상지역으로 나누었으며, 두 수치표고모델과 ICESat 표고값과의 차를 비교하여 정확도를 검증하였다. 그 결과 내륙빙상지역에서는 GIMP DEM의 정확도가 더 높았으며, 해안비빙상지역에서는 ASTER GDEM의 정확도가 더 높은 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.445-458
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• 2021

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) gravimeter satellites observed the Earth gravity field with unprecedented accuracy since 2002. After the termination of GRACE mission, GRACE Follow-on (GFO) satellites successively observe global gravity field, but there is missing period between GRACE and GFO about one year. Many previous studies estimated terrestrial water storage (TWS) changes using hydrological models, vertical displacements from global navigation satellite system observations, altimetry, and satellite laser ranging for a continuity of GRACE and GFO data. Recently, in order to predict TWS changes, various machine learning methods are developed such as artificial neural network and multi-linear regression. Previous studies used hydrological and climate data simultaneously as input data of the learning process. Further, they excluded linear trends in input data and GRACE/GFO data because the trend components obtained from GRACE/GFO data were assumed to be the same for other periods. However, hydrological models include high uncertainties, and observational period of GRACE/GFO is not long enough to estimate reliable TWS trends. In this study, we used convolutional neural networks (CNN) method incorporating only climate data set (temperature, evaporation, and precipitation) to predict TWS variations in the missing period of GRACE/GFO. We also make CNN model learn the linear trend of GRACE/GFO data. In most river basins considered in this study, our CNN model successfully predicts seasonal and long-term variations of TWS change.