• Spatial Information Research
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.27-36
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• 2010

This study observed distribution of vegetation to confirm change of tundra-taiga boundary. Tundra-taiga boundary is used to observe the transfer of vegetation pattern because it is very sensitive to human activity, natural disturbances and climate change. The circumpolar tundra-taiga boundary could observe reaction about some change. Reaction and confirmation about climate change were definite than other place. This study used Leaf Area Index(LAI) 8-Day data in August from 2000 to 2009 that acquire from Terra satellite MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer(MODIS) sensor and used K$\"{o}$ppen Climate Map, Global Land Cover 2000 for reference data. This study conducted analysis of spatial distribution in low density vegetated areas and inter-annual / zonal analysis for using the long period data of LAI. Change of LAI was confirmed by analysis based on boundary value of LAI in study area. Development of vegetation could be confirmed by area of grown vegetation($730,325km^2$) than area of reduced vegetation ($22,372km^2$) in tundra climate. Also, area was increased with the latitude $64^{\circ}$ N~$66^{\circ}$ N as the center and around the latitude $62^{\circ}$ N through area analysis by latitude. Vegetation of tundra-taiga boundary was general increase from 2000 to 2009. While area of reduced vegetation was a little, area of vegetation growth and development was increased significantly.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.195-200
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• 2016

Water vapor leading various scale of atmospheric circulation and accounting for about 60% of the naturally occurring warming effect is important climate variables. Using the Total Precipitable Water (TPW) from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) operating on both Terra and Aqua, we study long-term Variation of TPW and define relationship among TPW and climatic parameters such as temperature and precipitation to quantitatively demonstrate the impact on climate change over East Asia focusing on the Korea peninsula. In this study, we used linear regression analysis to detect the correlation of TPW and temperature/precipitation and harmonic analysis to analyze changeable aspects of periodic characteristics. A result of analysis using linear regression analysis between TPW and climate elements, TPW shows a high determination coefficient ($R^2$) with temperature and precipitation (determination coefficient between TPW and temperature: 0.94, determination coefficient between TPW anomaly and temperature anomaly: 0.8, determination coefficient between TPW and precipitation: 0.73, determination coefficient between TPW anomaly and precipitation anomaly: 0.69). A result of harmonic analysis of TPW and precipitation of two-year to five-year cycle, amplitude contribution ratio of 3.5-year cycle are much higher and two phases are similar in 3.5-year cycle.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.257-266
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• 2017

In this study, the dust/smoke detection algorithm was developed with a multi-spectral satellite remote sensing method using Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Level 1B (L1B) data and the results were validated as RGB composite images of red(R; band 1), green(G; band 4), blue(B; band 3) channels using MODIS L1B data and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization Satellite Observations(CALIPSO) Vertical Feature Mask (VFM) product. In the daytime on March 30, 2007 and April 27, 2012, the consistencies between the dust/smoke detected by this algorithm and verification data were approximately 56.4 %, 72.0 %, respectively. During the nighttime, the similar consistency was 40.5 % on April 27, 2012. Although these results were analyzed for limited cases due to the spatiotemporal matching for the MODIS and CALIPSO satellites, they could be used to utilize the aerosol detection of geostationary satellites for the next generations in Korea through further research.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.38 no.6_1
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• pp.1301-1314
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• 2022

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is utilized as an indicator to represent the vegetation condition on the land surface in various applications such as land cover, crop yield, agricultural drought, soil moisture, and forest disaster. However, satellite optical sensors for visible and infrared rays cannot see through the clouds, so the NDVI of the cloud pixel is not a valid value for the land surface. This study proposed a real-time correction of the underestimation noise for GEO-KOMPSAT-2A (GK2A) daily NDVI and made sure its feasibility through the quantitative comparisons with Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) NDVI and the qualitative interpretation of time-series changes. The underestimation noise was effectively corrected by the procedures such as the time-series correction considering vegetation phenology, the outlier removal using long-term climatology, and the gap filling using rigorous statistical methods. The correlation with MODIS NDVI was higher, and the difference was lower, showing a 32.7% improvement compared to the original NDVI product. The proposed method has an extensibility for use in other satellite products with some modification.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.56 no.11
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• pp.721-728
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• 2023

Agricultural drought is triggered by a depletion of moisture content in the soil, which hinders photosynthesis and thus increases carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations in the atmosphere. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between soil moisture (SM) and vegetation activity toward quantifying CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere. To this end, the MODerate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS), an optical multispectral sensor, was used to evaluate two regions in South Korea for validation. Vegetation activity was analyzed through MOD13A1 vegetation indices products, and MODIS gross primary productivity (GPP) product was used to calculate the CO₂ flux based on its relationship with respiration. In the case of SM, it was calculated through the method of applying apparent thermal inertia (ATI) in combination with land surface temperature and albedo. To validate the SM and CO₂ flux, flux tower data was used which are the observed measurement values for the extreme drought period of 2014 and 2015 in South Korea. These two variables were analyzed for temporal variation on flux tower data as daily time scale, and the relationship with vegetation index (VI) was synthesized and analyzed on a monthly scale. The highest correlation between SM and VI (correlation coefficient (r) = 0.82) was observed at a time lag of one month, and that between VI and CO₂ (r = 0.81) at half month. This regional study suggests a potential capability of MODIS-based SM, VI, and CO₂ flux, which can be applied to an assessment of the global view of the agricultural drought by using available satellite remote sensing products.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.73-86
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• 2016

In this study, an algorithm to estimate Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) over small cities during nighttime has been developed by using the radiance from artificial light sources in small cities measured from Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor's Day/Night Band (DNB) aboard the Suomi-National Polar Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite. The algorithm is based on Beer's extinction law with the light sources from the artificial lights over small cities. AOT is retrieved for cloud-free pixels over individual cities, and cloud-screening was conducted by using the measurements from M-bands of VIIRS at infrared wavelengths. The retrieved nighttime AOT is compared with the aerosol products from MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard Terra and Aqua satellites. As a result, the correlation coefficients over individual cities range from around 0.6 and 0.7 between the retrieved nighttime AOT and MODIS AOT with Root-Mean-Squared Difference (RMSD) ranged from 0.14 to 0.18. In addition, sensitivity tests were conducted for the factors affecting the nighttime AOT to estimate the range of uncertainty in the nighttime AOT retrievals. The results of this study indicate that it is promising to infer AOT using the DNB measaurements over small cities in Korea at night. After further development and refinement in the future, the developed retrieval algorithm is expected to produce nighttime aerosol information which is not operationally available over Korea.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.265-277
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• 2012

This paper is primarily intended to present quantitative evidences for land surface albedo difference among seven metropolitan cites in South Korea. An empirical study for experimental sites was conducted to confirm how a standard MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument offers the viable method of measuring and comparing the regional heterogeneity of albedo among administrative districts. The metropolitan cities like Seoul located in dense building environment do result in much lower albedo than those exposed in much more sub-urban surface (e.g KwangJoo). These experimental results indicate that an urban surface such as building and road is a crucial explanatory variable for lower albedo. It is confirmed that the urban surface such as building and road could be employed as a proxy of the lower albedo burden in the metropolitan area. It is anticipated that this research output could be used as a valuable reference to confirm the potential of introducing the new concept of "administrative districts specific albedo management" to support more scientific and objective decision-making in the process of GHG (Greenhouse Gas) reduction project.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.55 no.6
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• pp.47-55
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• 2013

The objective of this study is to evaluate the applicability of Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite (COMS) Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) vegetation indices on a quantitative analysis. For evaluation, the vegetation indices such as RVI, NDVI and SAVI were extracted by using COMS GOCI and Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) imageries. The 4,000 points using simple random sampling (SRS) method were randomly extracted from land areas except ocean to compare the vegetation indices from two images. The results of linear regression showed that the regression coefficients of RVI, NDVI, and SAVI between COMS GOCI and Terra MODIS were 0.66~0.82, 0.71~0.83, and 0.71~0.83, respectively. Especially, the regression coefficients of RVI (r=0.85), NDVI (r=0.91) and SAVI (r=0.91) were strongly related from September 2011 to January 2012. Thus, COMS GOCI can be substituted for particular periods and it needs to verify additionally.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.116-120
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• 2009

원격탐사 기술은 사람이 직접 방문하여 조사하기 힘든 극지라든가 농업환경에 대한 자료 요구도가 높으면서도 직접 수집이 어려운 비접근 지역에 대한 정보를 추출하는데 유용한 관측수단이다. 본 연구는 MODIS(Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) 제공 산출물 중 16일 단위로 작성되는 NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, MOD13)를 이용하여 북한의 벼 수량을 추정하는 것을 목적으로 하였고, 그 가능성과 한계에 대하여 알아보았다. 2000년부터 2008년까지 촬영된 MODIS MOD13 자료를 미국 NASA로부터 제공받아 좌표체계를 우리나라에 맞게 투영하고 NDVI를 추출하여 자료분석에 사용하였다. 통계청에서 발표한 벼 수량 및 생산량 통계자료를 이용하였다. 농촌진흥청 국립농업과학원에서 작성한 북한의 토지피복분류도를 이용하여 서해안 평야지대에 위치한 논을 위도별로 네군데 정하여 관심지역(area of interest)으로 설정하였다. 이 관심지역에 대한 시계열 값을 추출하여 연중 연간 변화를 분석하고 2000년부터 2007년까지 수잉기의 NDVI 값을 이용하여 수량에 대한 상관계수(r)는 $0.77^*$로 5%에서 유의하여 NDVI 값에 따라 벼 수량에 큰 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 수잉기의 NDVI 값과 벼 수량에 대해 회귀분석한 결과($R^2=0.591^*$), NDVI에 따른 벼 수량의 변이를 59.1% 설명할 수 있었다. 이와 같이 회귀식을 이용하여 2008년 북한의 벼 수량은 약 2.80 ton/ha로 추정되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.256-256
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• 2012

2011년 태국 차오프라야 강 유역($160,813km^2$)에서 발생한 홍수에 의해 많은 피해가 발생했다. 태국 홍수는 2011년 7월 말부터 3개월간 내린 집중호우로 중부지방에 50년 만에 최악의 자연재해를 맞이하였다. 태국 북쪽 지역에서 난 강과 핑 강의 범람을 시작으로 태국 중앙 지역을 흐르는 차오프라야 강의 수위는 상류의 홍수가 하류로 내려옴에 따라 범람하여 수도 방콕까지 침수되었다. 본 연구에서는 홍수범람시 시공간적 침수상황이 파악 가능한 Terra MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) 영상을 이용하여 태국 차오프라야 강 유역의 홍수에 의한 침수지역을 추정하고자 하였다. 2011년 7월 29일에서 2012년 1월 9일까지의 500 m 해상도인 MODIS product MOD09 (Surface Reflectance) 8일 합성 영상을 수집하고 식생지수 (EVI; Enhanced Vegetation Index), 지표수분지수 (LSWI; Land Surface Water Index))와 DVEL지수 (Difference Value between EVI and LSWI)를 이용하여 홍수범람 지역과 수역관련지역을 정보화 기법을 제시하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 홍수 범람지역의 자료를 정보화하고 그 결과를 정량적으로 제시하는 방법으로 활용될 수 있으며, MODIS 자료의 이용은 시공간적 하천 홍수범람지역 탐지의 가능성을 알 수 있었다.