• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.1349-1351
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• 2003

In this paper, theoretical channels model of Synthetic Aperture Radiometer is presented. Based on this model, how amplitude imbalance, phase imbalance and mutual coupling between the different channels effect brightness temperature image retrieving is analyzed. The computer simulation results are also presented to find out the cause of the along-track streaks usually appeared in the retrieved brightness temperature image. In addition, a new system calibration approach is introduced to solve this problem.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.673-675
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• 2003

The image restoration algorithm for microwave imaging radiometer is proposed. A blind deconvolution method was proposed. A point spread function was identified and three deconvolution schemes were employed, Wiener filtering, Lucy- Richardson deconvolution, and Maximum Likelihood blind deconvolution. The experimental data is illustrated with restored image.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.587-592
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• 2002

A new digital correlator fur an airborne synthetic aperture radiometer was designed in order to replace the conventional analog correlator unit which will become very complicated while the number of channels is increasing. The digital correlator uses digital IQ demodulator instead of the intermediate frequency (IF) phase shifter to make the correlation processing performed digitally at base band instead of analogly at IF. This technique has been applied to the digital receiver in softradio. The down-converted IF signals from each pair of receiver channels become low rate base-band digital signals after under-sampled, Digitally Down-Converted (DDC), decimated and filtered by FIR filters. The digital signals are further processed by two digital multipliers (complex correlation), the products are integrated by the integrators and finally the outputs from the integrators compose of the real part and the imaginary part of a sample of the visibility function. This design is tested by comparing the results from digital correlators and that from analog correlators. They are agreed with each other very well. Due to the fact that the digital correlators are realized with the help of Analog-Digital Converter (ADC) chips and the FPGA technology, the realized volume, mass, power consumption and complexity turned out to be greatly reduced compared with that of the analog correlators. Simulations show that the resolution of ADC has an influence on the synthesized antenna patterns, but this can be neglected if more than 2bit is used.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 원격탐사자료인 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer E (AMSR-E) 토양수분자료의 시간적 변통성 검증을 위해 해남 플럭스 지점에서 관측된 2년간의 (2004년과 2006년) 토양수분자료를 이용하였다. 지상관측 토양수분자료에 비해 상대적으로 큰 공간해상도를 가진 원격탐사자료(AMSR-E)는 2년간의 비교/검증에서 지상관측토양수분자료와 시간적 상관성이 있는 것으로 파악되었으며, 차후에 보다 다양한 식생조건과 현장조건에서 심도 있는 검증연구가 이루어져야 할 것으로 판단된다. 이를 위해서는 보다 다양한 지역에서 현장측정이 이루어져야할 것으로 사료된다. 이를 통하여 보다 정확한 비교/검증 연구가 수행된다면, 원격탐사 토양수분자료의 활용성을 기대할 수 있으며 또한 수문기상학적 관점에서 지표면 대기의 상호작용에 대한 올바른 이해를 향상시킬 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 대기
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.441-458
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• 2008

A TP/WVP-3000A, ground-based microwave radiometer, that was first introduced to South Korea has been operated since August 22, 2007 at the National Center for Intensive Observation of Severe Weathers (NCIO). Using the dual-band, the radiometer provides temperature and humidity soundings from the surface up to 10 km height with the high-temporal resolution of a few minutes. In this study, the performance of the radiometer on the predictability of the high impact weathers was evaluated and various practical applications were investigated. To verify the retrieved profile data from the radiometer, temperature and relative humidity soundings are compared with those from the rawinsonde launched at the NCIO and Gwangju station. The root mean squared errors for temperature and relative humidity soundings were smaller under rainy weather conditions. The correlation coefficient between PWVs (Precipitable Water Vapors) obtained from the radiometer and Global Positioning System satellite at Mokpo station is 0.92 on average. In order to investigate the structure and characteristics of precipitation, stability indexes related to rainfall such as the Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE), K-index, and Storm RElative Helicity (SREH) were calculated using windprofiler at the NCIO from 14 to 16 September, 2007. CAPE and K-index tended to be large when the thermodynamic unstability was strong. On the other hand, SREH index was dominantly large when the dynamic unstability was strong due to the passage of the typhoon 'Nari'.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2012

In this study, global positioning system (GPS)-derived precipitable water vapor (PWV) and microwave radiometer (MWR)-measured integrated water vapor (IWV) were compared and their characteristics were analyzed. Comparing those two quantities for two years from August 2009, we found that GPS PWV estimates were larger than MWR IWV. The average difference over the entire test period was 1.1 mm and the standard deviation was 1.2 mm. When the discrepancies between GPS PWV and MWR IWV were analyzed depending on season, the average difference was 0.7 mm and 1.9 mm in the winter and summer months, respectively. Thus, the average difference was about 2.5 times larger in summer than that in winter. However, MWR IWV measurements in the winter months were over-estimated than those in the summer months as the water vapor content got larger. The results of the diurnal analysis showed that MWR IWV was underestimated in the daytime, showing a difference of 0.8 mm. In the early morning hours, MWR IWV has a tendency to be over-estimated, with a difference of 1.3 mm with respect to GPS PWV.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume I
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• pp.146-149
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• 2006

Marine surface winds observed by two microwave sensors, SeaWinds and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR), on the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II (ADEOS-II) are evaluated by comparison with off-shore moored buoy observations. The wind speed and direction observed by SeaWinds are in good agreement with buoy data with root-mean-squared (rms) differences of approximately 1 m $s^{-1}$ and $20^{\circ}$, respectively. No systematic biases depending on wind speed or cross-track wind vector cell location are discernible. The effects of oceanographic and atmospheric environments on the scatterometry are negligible. The wind speed observed by AMSR also exhibited reasonable agreement with the buoy data in general with rms difference of 1.2 m $s^{-1}$. Systematic bias which was observed in earlier versions of the AMSR winds has been removed by algorithm refinements. Intercomparison of wind speeds globally observed by SeaWinds and AMSR on the same orbits also shows good agreements. Global wind speed histograms of the SeaWinds data and European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) analyses agree precisely with each other, while that of the AMSR wind shows slight deviation from them.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.233-241
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• 2012

가강수량과 구름물량의 시공간적 분포와 특성을 분석하기 위해 청주, 합천, 대관령에서 마이크로웨이브 라디오미터의 관측을 수행하였다. 각 지역에서 관측된 가강수량을 검증하기 위해 고층자료에서 산출된 가강수량과 비교하였으며 그 결과 상관계수가 0.8 이상으로 좋은 상관도를 보인다. 청주, 합천, 대관령 지역의 가강수량의 계절적인 변동과 일변화는 유사하게 나타났으며 일반적으로 1000 LST부터 증가하기 시작하여 1900 LST에 극대 값을 보인다. 반면에 구름물량은 지역적으로 계절적인 차이를 보인다. 이는 평지에 위치한 청주, 소백산맥으로 인한 편서풍 구름 차폐가 발생하기 쉬운 합천, 안개 및 구름이 잦은 대관령(834 m 해발고도) 등 각기 다른 지형 및 지리적 영향에 기인한 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.633-633
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• 2002

We investigated the distributions of sea ice using various microwave remote sensing techniques in the part of Drake passage, Antarctica, between the area 45-75$^{\circ}$W and 55-66$^{\circ}$S. We used Topex/Poseidon(T/P) radar altimeter, ERS-1 altimeter, ERS-2 scatterometer, Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR), and DMSP Special Sensor Microwave/Imager(SSM/I) data. The sea ice distributions were estimated between May and Jun., 1995 and Oct. and Nov., 1998. The two altimeter measurements (T/P and ERS-1) showed good coherence with the results from the radiometer data in the given period when the ice concentration of 20% and greater was selected. The scatterometer data also showed good correlation with altimetry-implied sea ice surface. The maximum and minimum values of sea ice distribution were appeared in Aug. and Feb., respectively. In general, the sea ice distributions estimated from radar altimeter, radioneter, and scatterometer are well correlated.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.141-148
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• 2003

남극 드레이크해협(45$^{\circ}$~75$^{\circ}$W 55$^{\circ}$~66$^{\circ}$S)의 해빙분포를 연구하기 위해 인공위성 레이더 고도계, 복사계, 및 산란계 자료글 이용하였다. 레이더 고도계 자료는 Topex/poseidon MGDR을 사용하였고, Geo_bad_1 flag를 이용하여 1992년부터 1999년 동안 연구지역내 해빙면적을 계산하여 월별 분포를 구하였다. DMSP의 SSM/I 인공위성 복사계 자료를 이용하여 1993년부터 1996년 사이 연구지역의 해빙의 면적비(ice concentration)를 추출하였다. 0에서 100% 로 나타나는 해빙 면적비를 고도계로부터 관측된 해빙의 면적과 대비함으로써 해빙의 유무를 결정할 수 있는 해빙 면적비를 20%로 결정하였고, 이를 이용하여 복사계로부터 추출된 해빙 분포를 인공위성 고도계 및 ERS-1/2 인공위성 산란계의 자료와 통합하였다. 추출된 해빙 분포를 간접적으로 검증하기 위해 지난 20년 동안의 연구지역내 해빙 면적비를 인접한 Esperanza 관측지점의 월평균 기온 자료와 대비하여 검증하였다. 그 결과 두 자료는 0.86의 높은 상관관계를 보였다 이로부터 해빙 분포와 온도 변화가 매우 밀접한 관계를 가지며 변화한다는 사실을 알 수 있고, 해빙 의 증감과 기온의 밀접한 관계를 감안할 때 본 연구 결과를 간접적으로 입증한다. 본 연구의 결과로부터 인공위성 복사계 자료로부터 해빙의 유무를 직접 판단 할 수 있는 근거를 마련하였고, 인공위성 고도계, 복사계 및 산란계의 자료를 통합함으로써 보다 상세한 해빙의 시간적 공간적 분포변화를 관측할 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다.