• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.193-203
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• 2018

The operational aerosol retrieval algorithm for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) measurements was recently updated and named collection 6 (C6). The C6 MODIS aerosol algorithm, a substantially improved version of the collection 5 (C5) algorithm, uses an enhanced aerosol optical thickness(AOT) retrieval process consisting of new surface reflection and aerosol models. This study reports on the estimation and validation of the two latest versions, the C5 and C6 MODIS aerosol products over the East Asian region covering $20^{\circ}N$ to $56^{\circ}N$ and $80^{\circ}E$ to $150^{\circ}E$. This study also presents a comparative validation of the two versions(C5 and C6) of algorithms with different methods(Dark Target(DT) and Deep Blue (DB) retrieval methods) from the Terra and Aqua platforms to make use of the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) sites for the years 2000-2016. Over the study region, the spatially averaged annual mean AOT retrieved from C6 AOT is about 0.035 (5%) less than the C5 counterparts. The linear correlations between MODIS and AERONET AOT are R = 0.89 (slope = 0.86) for C5 and R = 0.95 (slope = 1.00) for C6. Moreover, the magnitude of the mean error in C6 AOT-the difference between MODIS AOT and AERONET AOT-is 40% less than that in C5 AOT.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.107-107
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• 2011

최근 기후변화로 야기되는 식생의 변화는 수문기상인자인 증발산과 토양수분에 많은 영향을 끼친다. 본 연구의 목적은 식생의 변화가 수문기상인자인 토양수분에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 분석하고자 하는데 있다. 식생인자와 수문기상 인자와의 상관관계를 알아보기 위해 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer(MODIS) 위성 이미지 데이터를 연구에 적용하였으며, 식생인자는 MODIS 13 Vegetation Indices Product에서 추출한 정규식생지수 Normalized Difference Vegetation Index(NDVI)를 이용하였다. 식생인자와 토양수분의 상관관계를 분석하기 위해 농업기상정보시스템(Rural Development Administration, RDA)에서 측정한 군위, 논산, 옥천, 예산 지역의 토양수분 관측값 및 Aqua 위성에 탑재된 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer E(AMSR-E)를 이용하여 측정한 토양수분 관측값을 MODIS-NDVI와 비교 분석하였다. 식생인자와 수문기상인자의 시계열 자료를 이용하여 변화하는 양상을 알아내고자 하였고 상관성을 분석하여 식생인자가 수문인자에 어떠한 영향을 주는지 파악하였다. 그 결과 RDA 토양수분 관측값은 MODIS-NDVI와 거의 비슷한 경향을 나타남을 확인 할 수 있었으며, 이는 RDA와 AMSR-E의 토양수분의 관측 깊이에 따른 차이로 이 같은 현상이 나타난다고 사료된다, 또한 MODIS-NDVI, AMSR-E, RDA가 가지고 있는 각기 다른 공간 해상도(1km, 25km, point scale)가 반영된 결과라 할 수 있겠다, 추후 이를 보완한다면 보다 식생변화가 토양수분에 미치는 영향분석을 명확히 할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.45-56
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• 2014

Data composite methods have been typically applied to satellite-based vegetation index(VI) data to continuously acquire vegetation greenness over the land surface. Data composites are useful for construction of long-term archives of vegetation indices by minimizing missing data or contamination from noise. In addition, if multi-sensor vegetation indices that are acquired during the same composite periods are used interchangeably, data stability and continuity may be significantly enhanced. This study evaluated the influences of sensor geometry on MODIS vegetation indices and investigated data compatibility of two difference vegetation indices, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index(NDVI) and the Enhanced Vegetation Index(EVI), for potential improvement of long-term data construction. Relationships between NDVI and EVI turned out statistically significant with variations among vegetation covers. Due to their curvilinear relationships, NDVI became saturated and leveled off as EVI reached high ranges. Correlation coefficients between Terra- and Aqua-based vegetation indices ranged from 0.747 to 0.963 for EVI, and from 0.641 to 0.880 for NDVI, showing better compatibility for EVI compared to NDVI. In-depth analyses of VI outliers that deviated from regression equations constructed from the two different sensors remain as a future study to improve their compatibility.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.513-521
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• 2015

In the processing of ocean color remote sensing data, spatio-temporal binning is crucial for securing effective observation area. The validity determination for given source data refers to the information in Level-2 flag. For minimizing the stray light contamination, NASA OBPG's standard algorithm suggests the use of large filtering window but it results in the loss of effective observation area. This study is aimed for quality improvement of ocean color remote sensing data by recovering/extending the portion of effective observation area. We analyzed the difference between MODIS/Aqua standard and modified product in terms of chlorophyll-a concentration, spatial and temporal coverage. The recovery fractions in Level-2 swath product, Level-3 daily composite product, 8-day composite product, and monthly composite product were $13.2({\pm}5.2)%$, $30.8({\pm}16.3)%$, $15.8({\pm}9.2)%$, and $6.0({\pm}5.6)%$, respectively. The mean difference between chlorophyll-a concentrations of two products was only 0.012%, which is smaller than the nominal precision of the geophysical parameter estimation. Increase in areal coverage also results in the increase in temporal density of multi-temporal dataset, and this processing gain was most effective in 8-day composite data. The proposed method can contribute for the quality enhancement of ocean color remote sensing data by improving not only the data productivity but also statistical stability from increased number of samples.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.301-304
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• 2008

Since longer wavelength microwave radiation can penetrate clouds, satellite passive microwave sensors can observe sea ice of the entire polar region on a daily basis. Thus, it is becoming popular to derive sea ice motion vectors from a pair of satellite passive microwave sensor images observed at one or few day interval. Usually, the accuracies of derived vectors are validated by comparing with the position data of drifting buoys. However, the number of buoys for validation is always quite limited compared to a large number of vectors derived from satellite images. In this study, the sea ice motion vectors automatically derived from pairs of AMSR-E 89GHz images (IFOV = 3.5 ${\times}$ 5.9km) by an image-to-image cross correlation were validated by comparing with sea ice motion vectors manually derived from pairs of cloudless MODIS images (IFOV=250 ${\times}$ 250m). Since AMSR-E and MODIS are both on the same Aqua satellite of NASA, the observation time of both sensors are the same. The relative errors of AMSR-E vectors against MODIS vectors were calculated. The accuracy validation has been conducted for 5 scenes. If we accept relative error of less than 30% as correct vectors, 75% to 92% of AMSR-E vectors derived from one scene were correct. On the other hand, the percentage of correct sea ice vectors derived from a pair of SSM/I 85GHz images (IFOV = 15 ${\times}$ 13km) observed nearly simultaneously with one of the AMSR-E images was 46%. The difference of the accuracy between AMSR-E and SSM/I is reflecting the difference of IFOV. The accuracies of H and V polarization were different from scene to scene, which may reflect the difference of sea ice distributions and their snow cover of each scene.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.318-318
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• 2016

위성은 준 실시간으로 국토 전체의 관측과 미계측/비접근 지역의 관측도 가능하여 가뭄, 홍수 등 수재해와 관련된 분석 자료로 활용되고 있으며, 위성 기반의 수재해 모니터링 적용성에 대한 연구 또한 수행되고 있다. 위성에서 관측된 자료는 NASA, JAXA 등의 위성 관리 센터에서 알고리즘을 적용하여 인터넷으로 제공하고, 최근 K-water에서는 수자원분야의 위성활용을 위해 위성 자료 수집 시스템을 갖추어 Aqua/Terra MODIS, GPM, GCOM-W1 등의 위성 자료를 수집하고 있다. 위성 자료는 5분~16일 등의 다양한 주기로 제공되고 있으며, 자료 타입, 측정 시간 등의 간단한 정보만 파일명으로 표시되어 위성의 위치(경위도) 및 해당 지점의 위성 자료를 얻기 위해서는 위성 자료를 확인해야만 하는 번거로움이 따른다. 본 연구에서는 순차적으로 관측된 위성 자료의 시 공간적 속성정보를 추출하고 해당 정보를 영상과 함께 맵핑하여, 시간의 흐름에 따른 위성 궤도의 시각화 방안을 제시하였다. 위성 궤도의 시각화 방안으로 사용된 위성 자료는 Terra MODIS의 'MOD02SSH', GPM GMI 센서의 'GPROF' 자료 타입을 사용하였다. 'MOD02SSH'는 5분 동안 5km의 공간해상도로 측정한 자료가 1개의 파일이며, 'GPROF'는 5분 동안 4km의 공간해상도로 측정한다. 공전 주기의 검증을 위해 케플러의 제3법칙을 적용한 Terra 위성의 공전주기는 98.75분으로 계산되며, 위성 자료의 공전주기는 98.87분으로 나타난다. 검증 결과 약 0.12초의 오차가 발생하며, 정확한 위성 고도와 높은 해상도의 위성 자료를 통해 오차의 감소가 가능하다. 이를 통해 시각화 된 동적 시계열 이미지는 시간에 따른 위성 궤도의 정보를 추출 할 수 있다. 이는 수재해 정보시스템의 모니터링을 위해 사용 가능하고, 시간에 따른 위성 궤도 정보를 통하여 필요한 시간대의 위성 위치 정보, 해당 지점의 관측 자료를 효율적으로 수집하여 자료 수집을 위한 시간 단축이 가능하며, 사용자 또는 관리자를 위한 모니터링 수행 또한 효율적인 운영이 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.03a
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• pp.131-136
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• 2008

중저해상도 영상으로서 공급되고 있는 MODIS영상은 높은 temporal resolution 특성을 가짐으로써 넓은 면적에 대한 토지 이용이나 토지 피복의 변화 탐지에 대한 장점을 제공한다. 또한, 고해상도 영상 자료 또는 관측 자료는 중저해상도 영상과는 비교할 수 없는 경제적인 비용이 필요하게 됨으로써 중저해상도에서 변화를 탐지하여 고해상도 관측 자료를 이용하여 갱신이나 변화의 속성에 대한 구체적인 정보를 추출하는 전략적인 토지 피복에 대한 모니터링 방법이 요구된다. 그러므로 중저해상도 영상 자료는 고해상도 관측 자료를 획득 할 수 있는 일종의 alarm system으로써의 역할을 수행 할 수 있다. 이 연구는 주기적으로 촬영된 MODIS의 영상 자료를 이용하여 한반도에서 일어나는 토지 피복의 변화에 대한 패턴을 알아보고자 한다. 즉, 한반도에서 일어나는 일 년 간의 토지 피복의 변화로 생각할 수 있는 예로는 계절이나 경작에 의한 식생의 변화가 영상에 나타나는 주기적인 패턴을 살펴봄으로써 인간의 개발이나 재해와 같은 영향으로 일어나는 지표면의 이상적인 변화를 탐지하고자 한다. 사용된 영상은 MODIS Lnad product 중 Surface reflectance 8day composite 영상이며, NIR과 RED 밴드에서 나타나는 광학적 특성을 살펴보았다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.309-324
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• 2008

In this study the retrieval algorithms have been developed to retrieve total precipitable water (TPW) from Terra/Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) infrared measurements using a physical iterative retrieval method and a split-window technique over East Asia. Retrieved results from these algorithms were validated against Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) over ocean and radiosonde observation over land and were analyzed for investigating the key factors affecting the accuracy of results and physical processes of retrieval methods. Atmospheric profiles from Regional Data Assimilation and Prediction System (RDAPS), which produces analysis and prediction field of atmospheric variables over East Asia, were used as first-guess profiles for the physical retrieval algorithm. We used RTTOV-7 radiative transfer model to calculate the upwelling radiance at the top of the atmosphere. For the split-window technique, regression coefficients were obtained by relating the calculated brightness temperature to the paired radiosonde-estimated TPW. Physically retrieved TPWs were validated against SSM/I and radiosonde observations for 14 cases in August and December 2004 and results showed that the physical method improves the accuracy of TPW with smaller bias in comparison to TPWs of RDAPS data, MODIS products, and TPWs from split-window technique. Although physical iterative retrieval can reduce the bias of first-guess profiles and bring in more accurate TPWs, the retrieved results show the dependency upon initial guess fields. It is thought that the dependency is due to the fact that the water vapor absorption channels used in this study may not reflect moisture features in particular near surface.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.19 no.E4
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• pp.149-155
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• 2003

In this study. the amounts of the total precipitable water (TPW) in both global and regional scale are estimated from the MODIS instrument, which is on-board the EOS satellites, Terra and Aqua. The estimation is made from the five near-infrared spectral bands, using a technique employing ratios of water- vapor absorbing channels centered at 0.905, 0.936, 0.940 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ with atmospheric window channels at 0.865 and 1.240 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. Through analyses of monthly and eight-days mean TPW, one can monitor characteristics of seasonal variations as well as amount and distribution (i.e., water resources) of TPW at both global and local regions. Long-term monitoring of TPW is essential to understand the regional variations of water resources in East Asia.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• v.1
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• pp.483-486
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• 2006

The study describes the monitoring of the Bay of Bengal as a ballast water exchangeable sea using MODIS/Aqua-derived diffuse attenuation coefficient (K(490)) synchronized with in situ ballast water sampling and analysis along the LNG carrier's route between Japan and Qatar from 2002 to 2005. Based on the relationship between K(490) and corresponding in situ plankton cell densities, the Bay of Bengal is recognized as a ballast water exchangeable sea to meet the regulation of ballast water performance standard of International Maritime Organization (IMO). Furthermore the Bay of Bengal with more than 200m depth and more than 200 nautical mile distance from shore is extracted based on the regulation of ballast water exchange area of IMO. However, an anomalously high K(490) area is found off the coast of Sri Lanka during the northeast monsoon in 2005, which corresponds higher cell densities than the criterion set by the regulation of IMO. The phenomenon of high cell density in the Bay of Bengal seems to be related with the phytoplankton bloom during the northeast monsoon. Seasonal and annual variability of phytoplankton bloom will be investigated to establish an early routing system for avoiding the high cell density area in advance.