• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
• /
• v.23 no.1
• /
• pp.69-76
• /
• 2019

In this paper, a design method for an enhanced-sensitivity microwave sensor based on microstrip defected ground structure was studied for the permittivity measurement of planar dielectric substrates. The proposed sensor was designed by modifying the ridge structure of an H-shaped aperture into the shape of a capacitor symbol. The sensitivity of the proposed sensor was compared with that of a conventional sensor based on a double-ring complementary split ring resonator(DR-CSRR). Two sensors were designed and fabricated on a 0.76-mm-thick RF-35 substrate so that the transmission coefficient would resonate at 1.5 GHz in the absence of the substrate under test. Five types of taconic substrates with a relative permittivity ranging from 2.17 to 10.2 were selected asthe substrate under test. Experiment results show that the sensitivity of the proposed sensor, which is measured by the shift in the resonant frequency of the transmission coefficient, is 1.31 to 1.62 times higher than that of the conventional DR-CSRR-based sensor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
• /
• 2022.04a
• /
• pp.61-62
• /
• 2022

The unit quantity is an important factor influencing the durability, workability, and quality of concrete. Methods for measuring the unit quantity include a high frequency heating method, a unit volume mass method, a capacitance method, and a microwave method. However, these methods have disadvantages of poor measurement method, time required, and accuracy, and a relatively experimental method compensating for these disadvantages was used to measure the unit quantity using a high frequency main sensor (FDR) capable of simple and fast measurement. In addition, the unit quantity was evaluated by analyzing the measurement data through deep learning.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
• /
• v.28 no.4
• /
• pp.291-298
• /
• 2011

The atmospheric infrared sounder (AIRS) sensor loaded on the Aqua satellite observes the global vertical structure of atmosphere and enables verification of the water vapor distribution over the entire area of South Korea. In this study, we performed a comparative analysis of the accuracy of the total precipitable water (TPW) provided as the AIRS level 2 standard retrieval product by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) over the South Korean area using the global positioning system (GPS) TPW data. The analysis TPW for the period of one year in 2008 showed that the accuracy of the data produced by the combination of the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit sensor with the AIRS sensor to correct the effect of clouds (AIRS-X) was higher than that of the AIRS IR-only data (AIRS-I). The annual means of the root mean square error with reference to the GPS data were 5.2 kg/$m^2$ and 4.3 kg/$m^2$ for AIRS-I and AIRS-X, respectively. The accuracy of AIRS-X was higher in summer than in winter while measurement values of AIRS-I and AIRS-X were lower than those of GPS TPW to some extent.

• Journal of IKEEE
• /
• v.19 no.2
• /
• pp.160-167
• /
• 2015

We present an experimental implementation of the inexpensive microwave security sensor that can detect both static and slowly moving objects in cluttered environment. The prototype consists of a frequency-modulated continuous wave radar sensor, control board or computer and software. The prototype was tested in a cluttered indoor environment. In case of intrusion or change of environment the sensor will give an alarm, determine the location of new object, change in its location and can detect a slowly moving target. To make a low-cost unit we use commercially available automotive radar and own signal processing techniques for object detection and tracking. The intruder detection is based on a comparison between current 'image' in memory and 'no-intrusion' reference image. The main challenge is to develop a reliable technique for detection of a relatively low-magnitude object signals hidden in multipath clutter echo signals. Various experimental measurements and computations have shown the feasibility and performance of the system.

• Water for future
• /
• v.24 no.3
• /
• pp.36-41
• /
• 1991

1960년대 초부터 미 국립항공우주국(NASA)에서 기상위성을 지구궤도에 올리면서 시작되고 우주개발 선도국들에 의해 수 없이 발사되어 지구상공을 선회하고 있는 각종 실험위성, 자원탐사위성들로부터 이전까지만해도 지엽적이고 단편적인으로 알려지던 지구환경현황들이 이제는 지구전체에 대한 시시각각의 정보로 확대되고 있다. 기상위성들에 장착된 Sensor들로는 구름과 기상현상의 분포는 물론이고 각 대양의 해수면 온도 분포들이 파악되고 있으며 식물지수에 의한 지상의 식물분포의 계절적 변화양상에서 열대림의 사막화 추세들까지도 분석된다. 특히 위성탐사에 의한 남극 오존홀 (Ozone Hole)의 확인은 최근악화 되고 있느 swlrnchs 환경문제에 대한 커다란 주의를 환기시켜 주었다. 대양의 Phytoplankton 분포가 계절에 따라 위성자료에 의해 분석되므로서 해양의 생산능력(Productivity)의 변화도 알게되고 있다. 해양수면의 높이를 측정했던 초단파(microwave)영역의 SAR 자료는 구름을 투과하여 지구표면을 전천후 Monitoring할 수 있는 다음 세대의 Sensor로 각광을 받고 있으며 앞으로 유럽과 일본, 카나다, 소련 등에서 이들 새로운 Sensor들이 탑재 될 자원탐사 위성(ERS)과 RADASAT 등의 위성이 계속해서 개발되고 있어 이들에 의한 지구환경상태 진단은 크게 각광받게 될 것이다. 그외에도 해면풍 운량, 총강우량 분포, 대기 투명도, 대기의 열수지등의 계절적 변화에 대한 인공위성자료 해석을 통하여 지구의 온난화nas제가 본격적으로 ud가되고 있다. 또한 자원탐사위성인 Landsat 과 SPOT 등의 위성에 의해서는 각대륙의 토지 이용도 변화, 토사의 이도, 지질도 작성, 입체도 제착등과 농산물수확량의 예측있어서 괄목할 만한 발전이 계속되고 있다. 더욱이 NASA와 일본, 유럽등에서 지구관측을 위해서 준비하고 있는 각종 지구관측위성(EOS)들이 실용화 될 2000년 대에는 일반 지구환경감시는 물론 수계환경 감시 체계구축에 획기적인 진전이 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
• /
• v.19 no.2
• /
• pp.33-39
• /
• 2015

Recently, the event of slope failure has been occurring frequently due to rapid climate changes and broad development of infrastructures, and the research for establishment of monitoring and prevention system has been an attentive issue. The major influence factors of slope failure mechanism can be considered moisture and temperature in soil, and the slope failure can be monitored and predicted through the trend of moisture-temperature change. Therefore, the combined sensing technology for the continuous measurement of moisture-temperature with different soil depths is needed for the slope monitoring system. The various independent sensors for each item (i.e. temperature and moisture respectively) have been developed, however, the research for development of combined sensing system has been hardly carried out. In this study, the high-fidelity sensor combing temperature-moisture measurement by using the minimized current consuming temperature circuit and the microwave emission moisture sensor is developed and applied on the slope failure monitoring system. The feasibility of developed monitoring system is verified by various experimental approaches such as standard performance test, mockup test and long-term field test. As a result, the developed temperature-moisture combined measurement system is verified to be measuring and monitoring the temperature and moisture in soil accurately.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
• /
• 2003.11a
• /
• pp.1421-1423
• /
• 2003

Ultra Wideband is a new technology from commercial or civilian application viewpoint. It uses already allocated radio spectrum without causing significant interference to other users. It uses very low power, which is below the thermal noise of the receiver and is inherently difficult to detect by un-intentional users. Since, FCC approved the regulation for the commercial use of UWB in February 2002, the development of UWB technology is drastically gaining momentum. However, the technology itself is not new. It has already been used in military applications. UWB has three basic areas of applications, which are communication, positioning and imaging (UWB Microwave). The main commercial application will be for communication since it has very high data transfer rate for short distance. It can also be used for both indoor and outdoor 3-D positioning. Another important application is imaging like microwave remote sensing. An UWB sensor can pass through doors and walls and hence detect the objects inside the room. In this paper, we will introduce about UWB technology along with it’s various possible applications. We will also present some models to generate UWB signal and it’s analysis using signal-processing tools.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
• /
• v.17 no.4
• /
• pp.191-196
• /
• 2017

Microwave wireless power transmission (MWPT) is a promising technique for low and medium power applications such as wireless charging for sensor network or for biomedical chips in case with long ranges or in dispersive media such. A key factor of the MWPT technique is its efficiency, which includes the wireless power transmission efficiency and the radio frequency (RF) to direct current (DC) voltage efficiency of RF-DC converter (which transforms RF energy to DC supply voltage). The main problem in designing an RF-DC converter is the nonlinear characteristic of Schottky diodes; this characteristic causes low efficiency, higher harmonics frequency and a change in the input impedance value when the RF input power changes. In this paper, rather than using harmonic termination techniques of class E or class F power amplifiers, which are usually used to improve the efficiency of RF-DC converters, we propose a new method called "optimal input impedance" to enhance the performance of our design. The results of simulations and measurements are presented in this paper along with a discussion of our design concerning its practical applications.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
• /
• v.2
• /
• pp.892-895
• /
• 2006

The atmospheric effects on the retrieval of sea ice concentration from passive microwave sensors are examined using simulated data typical for the Arctic summer. The simulation includes atmospheric contributions of cloud liquid water and water vapor and surface wind on surface emissivity on the microwave signatures. A plane parallel radiative transfer model is used to compute brightness temperatures at SSM/I frequencies over surfaces that contain open water, first-year (FY) ice and multi-year (MY) ice and their combinations. Synthetic retrievals in this study use the NASA Team (NT) algorithm for the estimation of sea ice concentrations. This study shows that if the satellite sensor’s field of view is filled with only FY ice the retrieval is not much affected by the atmospheric conditions due to the high contrast between emission signals from FY ice surface and the signals from the atmosphere. Pure MY ice concentration is generally underestimated due to the low MY ice surface emissivity that results in the enhancement of emission signals from the atmospheric parameters. Simulation results in marginal ice areas also show that the atmospheric and surface effects tend to degrade the accuracy at low sea ice concentration. FY ice concentration is overestimated and MY ice concentration is underestimated in the presence of atmospheric water and surface wind at low ice concentration. In particular, our results suggest that strong surface wind is more important than atmospheric water in contributing to the retrieval errors of total ice concentrations over marginal ice zones.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
• /
• v.14 no.1
• /
• pp.1-16
• /
• 1998

Microwave brightness temperature data measured from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) aboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite are used to investigate the characteristics of hydrological features of the East Asian summer monsoon during 1994 and 1995. The analyzed parameters include total columnar water vapor, cloud liquid water, and rain rate. These are estimated from SSM/I brightness temperature data for the two summer seasons (June, July, August) of 1994 and 1995 over the Asian monsoon region (0$^{\circ}$-60$^{\circ}$N, 45$^{\circ}$-180$^{\circ}$E). Results indicate that there are periodic westward movement of dry air over the 20$^{\circ}$-30$^{\circ}$N latitudinal belt with about 20-30 day period. Considering that the location of the North Pacific high is closely linked to the evolution of the monsoon activities over East Asia, the westward expansion of the North Pacific high may be the one important element modulating the monsoon intensity.