• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.19-24
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to estimate monthly Morton evapotranspiration (ET) using normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from MODIS satellite images. Morton ET for land surface conditions was evaluated by using daily meteorological data, and the monthly averaged Morton ETs for each land cover were compared with the monthly NDVIs of three years (2000-2002) at Chungjudam Watershed. There was a high correlation between monthly NDVI and Morton ET for the watershed with average coefficient of determination, 0.80. By comparing the MODIS NDVI ET with SLURP Morton ET, the SLURP ET was smaller than the MODIS NDVI ET. This was estimated from the consideration of soil moisture condition for the ET occurrence in the SLURP model, the limited information from the monthly NDVI values, and the errors from the derived regression equations.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.6_1
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• pp.1483-1490
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• 2023

We analyzed the potential for joint utilization of Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite imagery Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in crop assessment, considering the aging of MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellites. Over 11 years from 2012 to 2022, we examined the characteristics of NDVI changes in corn and soybean cultivation areas in Illinois, USA. VIIRS and MODIS satellite imagery NDVI exhibited a high correlation coefficient of over 0.98. However, during periods of rapid crop growth or decline, VIIRS NDVI showed values approximately 0.12 to 0.14 higher than MODIS. Estimating crop anomaly classes based on NDVI, we observed similar trends in corn and soybean crop anomaly classes in 2018 and 2019. However, in 2022, there appeared to be a significant divergence in crop anomaly classes, suggesting the need for further investigation. The correlation coefficients between MODIS and VIIRS satellite imagery NDVI and corn and soybean yields were consistently high, exceeding 0.8, indicating the potential for quantity estimation using both MODIS and VIIRS satellite imagery. Specifically, for VIIRS NDVI, excluding the increasing trend in crop quantity estimation for soybeans enhanced the correlation, and compared to MODIS, it showed a consistently high correlation with quantity from approximately 16 days earlier, indicating the potential for early estimation.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.28-37
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• 2008

In this study, we perform land surface monitoring of NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) variation by using remote sensing data during 1999-2005 over North Korea, which can't easily access to measure directly land surface characteristics due to one of the world's most closed societies. North Korea forest region has most abundant forest vegetation - so called Lungs of Korea in the Korea peninsula. NDVI represents vegetation activity used in many similar studies. In this study, we detect vegetation variation and analysis factors of the change over North Korea. By using variation of NDVI, we can infer that effect of drought over North Korea, and reduced vegetation indices by typhoon in North Korea. Land surface type except barren ground with decreased NDVI value is considered as when North Korea region was suffering from drought and typhoon effects, which show lower than mean of 7-year NDVI value. Especially, in recently, the food production of North Korea with political and economical issues can be inferred indirectly these trends by using estimated output data from this study.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.403-410
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• 2010

NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), which is broadly used as short-term data composite, is an important parameter for climate change and long-term land surface monitoring. Although atmospheric correction is performed, NDVI dramatically appears several low peak noise in the long-term time series. They are related to various contaminated sources, such as cloud masking problem and wet ground condition. This study suggests a simple method through harmonic analysis for reducing NDVI noise using SPOT/VGT NDVI 10-day MVC data. The harmonic analysis method is compared with the polynomial regression method suggested previously. The polynomial regression method overestimates the NDVI values in the time series. The proposed method showed an improvement in NDVI correction of low peak and overestimation.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.63 no.6
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• pp.101-115
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the compatibility of the vegetation index between the two satellites and the applicability of agricultural monitoring by comparing and verifying NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) based on Sentinel-2 and Terra MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer). Terra MODIS NDVI utilized 16-day MOD13Q1 data with 250 m spatial resolution, and Sentinel-2 NDVI utilized 10-day Level-2A BOA (Bottom Of Atmosphere) data with 10 m spatial resolution. To compare both NDVI, Sentinel-2 NDVIs were reproduced at 16-day intervals using the MVC (Maximum Value Composite) technique. As a result of time series NDVIs based on two satellites for 2019 and compare by land cover, the average R² (Coefficient of determination) and RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) of the entire land cover were 0.86 and 0.11, which indicates that Sentinel-2 NDVI and MODIS NDVI had a high correlation. MODIS NDVI is overestimated than Sentinel-2 NDVI for all land cover due to coarse spatial resolution. The high-resolution Sentinel-2 NDVI was found to reflect the characteristics of each land cover better than the MODIS NDVI because it has a higher discrimination ability for subdivided land cover and land cover with a small area range.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.84-88
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• 2009

토양수분은 물순환계통을 이해하기 위한 필수적인 수문학적 변수이나 설치비용과 인력부족으로 실측자료가 매우 부족한 실정이다. 많은 수문모형의 개발로 토양수분 또한 결과물로써 많이 이용되지만, 그 결과의 신뢰성을 판단하기가 쉽지 않다. 본 연구에서는 활용성이 높다고 판단되는 수문모형인 SWAT 모형을 통해 산림지역의 토양수분을 모의하고 MODIS NDVI와의 상관성을 분석하여, 모의된 토양수분의 신뢰성 판단을 위한 MODIS NDVI의 활용성을 파악하고자 하였다. 대상유역은 산림이 전체유역의 약 82%를 차지하고 있는 충주댐 유역으로 하였으며 NDVI 자료는 시간해상도 16일, 공간해상도 250m 인 MODIS 영상의 Product를 이용하였다. 보다 신뢰성 있는 자료를 얻기 위해 유역의 특성이 다른 두 지점을 선정하여 다지점 검보정을 수행하였으며, 2003년부터 2006년까지의 유출 자료를 이용하여 모형을 보정하고, 2000, 2001 그리고 2002년에 대하여 검증하였다. 검보정 결과 모형 효율성 계수는 상류와 하류에 대하여 각각 0.91, 0.87, 결정계수는 각각 0.90, 0.80으로 분석되었다. 본 연구에서는 NDVI 특성에 따라 봄 기간과 가을기간으로 나누어 분석을 수행하였으며, NDVI와 토양수분의 상관관계는 NDVI가 증가하는 봄 기간에 토양수분은 감소하며 역 관계로 나타났고 NDVI가 감소하는 가을 기간에 토양수분은 증가하는 순 관계를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.329-332
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• 2007

Annual vegetation growth patterns are determined by the intrinsic phenological characteristics of each land cover types. So, if typical growth patterns of each land cover types are well-estimated, and a NDVI time-series data of a certain area is compared to those estimated patterns, we can implement more advanced analyses such as a land surface-type classification or a land surface type change detection. In this study, we utilized Terra MODIS NDVI 250m data and compressed full annual NDVI time series data into several indices using the Harmonic Analysis of Time Series(HANTS) algorithm which extracts the most significant frequencies expected to be presented in the original NDVI time-series data. Then, we found these frequencies patterns, described by amplitude and phase data, were significantly different from each other according to vegetation types and these could be used for land cover classification. However, in spite of the capabilities of the HANTS algorithm for detecting and interpolating cloud-contaminated NDVI values, some distorted NDVI pixels of June, July and August, as well as the long rainy season in Korea, are not properly corrected. In particular, in the case of two or three successive NDVI time-series data, which are severely affected by clouds, the HANTS algorithm outputted wrong results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.396-396
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• 2018

우리나라의 가뭄은 통계적으로 5~6년 주기로 발생해 왔으나 최근에는 가뭄의 발생 빈도가 점점 증가하고 주기 또한 짧아지는 경향을 보이고 있다. 가뭄의 패턴 또한 지속적이고 국지적으로 강하게 나타내는 경향이 있어 피해가 심각해지고 있다. 2017년도에는 모내기가 시작되어야 할 시기에 극심한 물 부족으로 이앙시기가 지연되고 밭작물이 마르는 피해를 겪었다. 국가가뭄정보센터의 2017년 가뭄예경보 자료에 따르면, 1~7월에는 안성, 서산, 홍성 지역을 중심으로, 7~9월에는 남해안지역을 중심으로, 10월~12월에는 울주, 경주, 밀양 지역을 중심으로 가뭄이 나타났음을 확인 할 수 있다. 가뭄 파악을 위한 방법 중 하나로 인공위성영상을 활용한 원격탐사 기법이 있으며, 국내에서는 관측주기가 짧고 관측폭이 넓은 Terra MODIS 영상을 활용하는 연구 사례를 다수 찾아볼 수 있다. 최근에는 드론에 NIR, 열화상, 초분광 카메라 등을 탑재하여 탐지범위가 국소적이지만 가뭄에 따른 작물의 상태를 보다 상세하게 파악하기 위한 연구가 시도되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 드론을 이용한 가뭄지역의 영상특성을 분석하는 기초자료를 구축하기 위하여 2017년 극심한 가뭄이 발생하였던 안성지역을 대상으로 Terra MODIS NDVI를 이용한 식생상태지수(VCI), 정규식생지수(SVI)를 분석하여 가뭄으로 추정되는 드론촬영 대상지역을 파악하였으며, 선정된 지역을 대상으로 R-G-NIR 카메라를 탑재한 드론 촬영을 실시하였다. 드론영상의 전처리를 통하여 고해상도 NDVI영상을 작성하고 지상의 작물 및 토지이용 상태에 따른 NDVI 분포특성과 Terra MODIS NDVI와의 차이점을 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.24-33
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• 2017

Multitemporal MODIS vegetation index (VI) data are widely used in vegetation monitoring research into environmental and climate change, since they provide a profile of vegetation activity. However, MODIS data inevitably contain disturbances caused by the presence of clouds, atmospheric variability, and instrument problems, which impede the analysis of the NDVI time series data and limit its application utility. For this reason, preprocessing to reduce the noise and reconstruct high-quality temporal data streams is required for VI analysis. In this study, a data reconstruction method for MODIS NDVI is proposed to restore bad or missing data based on the statistical properties of the oscillations in the NDVI temporal dynamics. The first derivatives enable us to examine the monotonic properties of a function in the data stream and to detect anomalous changes, such as sudden spikes and drops. In this approach, only noisy data are corrected, while the other data are left intact to preserve the detailed temporal dynamics for further VI analysis. The proposed method was successfully tested and evaluated with simulated data and NDVI time series data covering Baekdu Mountain, located in the northern part of North Korea, over the period of interest from 2006 to 2012. The results show that it can be effectively employed as a preprocessing method for data reconstruction in MODIS NDVI analysis.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.13-19
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• 2017

This paper analyzed MODIS data from 2006 to 2013 to determine relationship between meteorological changes and vegetation index. The experimental area was divided into the northern, central and southern regions according to the regional characteristics, and the smoothed MODIS LAI and NDVI were obtained using Timesat. In the case of precipitation, MODIS NDVI had correlation coefficients of 0.66, 0.44 and 0.35 in the northern, central and southern regions and the correlation was the highest in the northern region. In the case of temperature, MODIS LAI had correlation coefficients of 0.66, 0.64 and 0.68, and MODIS NDVI had 0.89, 0.89 and 0.80. The correlation of MODIS NDVI was higher and showed similar positive correlation regardless of region. In addition, The accuracy between Timesat plant seasonal start and actual plant seasonal start in MODIS NDVI was higher than MODIS LAI. The average error in MODIS LAI was 19 days in the central region and 20 days in the southern region. And the average error in MODIS NDVI was 6 days in the central region and 8 days in the southern region.