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Phased Array Antenna Using Active Device

  • Seo, Chul-Hun
    • KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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    • v.4C no.6
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    • pp.306-309
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents a new active antenna consisting of a microstrip patch for the passive radiator, a mixer for frequency conversion, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and a phase detector for phase control. The microwave signal frequency has been converted into intermediate frequency (IF) on the antenna elements by the mixer. The active antenna consists of two ports, the IF port has a transmitted IF signal via power combined to the baseband and the dc control port is under the control of the phase-detector. The input voltage of the VCO is controlled by the phase detector. The scan range of the array is determined by the phase detector and the VCO and is obtained between 30$^{\circ}$ and - 30$^{\circ}$

RAINFALL FROM TRMM-RADAR AND RADIOMETER

  • Park, K.W.;Kim, Y.S.;Gairola, R.M.;Kwon, B.H.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.528-530
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    • 2003
  • We present here, some of the studies carried for estimation of rainfall over land and oceanic regions in and around South Korea. We use active and passive microwave measurements from TRMM ? TMI and Precipitation Radar (PR) respectively during a typhoon even named ? RUSA that took place during 30 Aug. 2002. We have followed due approach by Yao at. all (2002) and examined the performance of their algorithm using two main predictor variable, named as Scattering Index (SI) and Polarization Corrected Brightness Temperature (PCT) while using TMI data. The rainfall fnus estimated using PST and SI shows some Underestimation as compared to the 2A25 rainfall products from the PR in common area of overlap. A larger database thus would be used in future. To establish a new rain rate algorithm over Korean region based on the present case study.

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The study on the development of directional coupler of DCS band using a Low Temperature Co-fire dielectric material (저온 소성 유전체 재료를 이용한 DCS 대역 방향성 결합기 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, J.K.;Yoo, Joshua;Kim, Erick;Lee, W.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.317-320
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    • 2003
  • Nowadays, the study on the ceramic components and modules used in telecommunication system is being performed. Coupler is a microwave passive component used for power coupling or dividing and directional coupler is designed to be possible optional dividing percentage. In our research, We developed 14dB and 19dB directional couplers of DCS band. The good characteristics, the target insertion loss and high isolation, of couplers is obtained by LTCC processing using a ceramic material.

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The study on the development of directional coupler of EGSM band using a Low Temperature Co-fire dielectric material (저온 소성 유전체 재료를 이용한 EGSM 대역 directional coupler 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Yoo, Joshua;Kim, Erick;Lee, W.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.288-291
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    • 2003
  • Nowadays, the study on the ceramic components and modules used in telecommunication system is being performed. Coupler is a microwave passive component used for power coupling or dividing and directional coupler is designed to be possible optional dividing percentage. In our research, We developed 14dB and 19dB directional couplers of EGSM band. The good characteristics, the target insertion loss and high isolation, of couplers is obtained by LTCC processing using a ceramic material.

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Revising Passive Satellite-based Soil Moisture Retrievals over East Asia Using SMOS (MIRAS) and GCOM-W1 (AMSR2) Satellite and GLDAS Dataset (자료동화 토양수분 데이터를 활용한 동아시아지역 수동형 위성 토양수분 데이터 보정: SMOS (MIRAS), GCOM-W1 (AMSR2) 위성 및 GLDAS 데이터 활용)

  • Kim, Hyunglok;Kim, Seongkyun;Jeong, Jeahwan;Shin, Incheol;Shin, Jinho;Choi, Minha
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.132-147
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    • 2016
  • In this study the Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) sensor onboard the Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) sensor onboard the Global Change Observation Mission-Water (GCOM-W1) based soil moisture retrievals were revised to obtain better accuracy of soil moisture and higher data acquisition rate over East Asia. These satellite-based soil moisture products are revised against a reference land model data set, called Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS), using Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) matching and regression approach. Since MIRAS sensor is perturbed by radio frequency interferences (RFI), the worst part of soil moisture retrieval, East Asia, constantly have been undergoing loss of data acquisition rate. To overcome this limitation, the threshold of RFI, DQX, and composite days were suggested to increase data acquisition rate while maintaining appropriate data quality through comparison of land surface model data set. The revised MIRAS and AMSR2 products were compared with in-situ soil moisture and land model data set. The results showed that the revising process increased correlation coefficient values of SMOS and AMSR2 averagely 27% 11% and decreased the root mean square deviation (RMSD) decreased 61% and 57% as compared to in-situ data set. In addition, when the revised products' correlation coefficient values are calculated with model data set, about 80% and 90% of pixels' correlation coefficients of SMOS and AMSR2 increased and all pixels' RMSD decreased. Through our CDF-based revising processes, we propose the way of mutual supplementation of MIRAS and AMSR2 soil moisture retrievals.

Design of Lossy Matching Network for Microwave Broadband Amplifier Using the Relationship Between Gain and Reflection Coefficients (이득-반사계수 관계를 이용한 마이크로파 광대역 증폭기용 유손실 정합회로의 설계)

  • Koo, Kyung-Heon;Lee, Choong-Woong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 1989
  • A new design method of lossy matching network for the microwave broadband ampilfier is presented by using seattering parameters instead od modeling of transistor. A lossy matching network is represented as the combination of 2 lossless networks between which lossy serial or parallel immittance is inserted without using specific topology, and so many useful matching cireuits can be realized. Also it is shown that linear transforming relation exists between gain and reflection coefficient of the amplifier, and the transforming equation is derived using scattering parameters. With this equation some constant gain circles can be drawn on reflection coefficient plane to get adequate reflection coefficient and gain. And since the relations between amplifier gain/reflection coefficient and the immittance of passive element are bilinear transformations. constant gain or reflection coefficients circles. Illustrative examples are presented to show the usefulness of proposed method.

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The Compact Hairpin-Shaped Duplexer using a BMT Substrate with a High Dielectric Constant (고유전율의 BMT 기판을 이용한 소형 헤어핀 구조의 듀플렉서 설계)

  • Kwon, Koo-Hyung;Han, Sang-Min;Nahm, San;Kim, Young-Sik
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.1044-1051
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, a compact planar microwave duplexer on the high dielectric substrate is presented. As the Ba(Mg$\sub$1/3/Ta$\sub$2/3/)O$_3$(BMT) has good dielectric performances with a high dielectric constant of $\varepsilon$$\sub$r/=23, it is suitable to apply to a printed circuit board fur reducing its circuit size. The BMT substrate is fabricated by using a tape casting fabrication process, and circuit patterns are screen-printed on it by suing silver paste. The open-loop ring type duplexer is designed and implemented on the BMT substrate, and it achieves the smaller size by 80% than one on a commercial substrate($\varepsilon$$\sub$r/=6.15) without degenerating its performance. Therefore the proposed BMT substrate has provided the miniaturization of the duplexer, moreover it can make a contribution towards reducing the size of microwave passive circuits.

An inversion algorithm for estimating soil moisture using satellite-based microwave observation (마이크로파 위성관측자료를 이용한 토양수분 산출 알고리즘)

  • Suh, Ae-Sook;Shin, In-Chul;Park, Jong-Seo;Hong, Sung-Wook
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.95-95
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    • 2011
  • 토양수분은 전 지구 및 기후 모델 연구, 전 지구 환경 감시, 기후변화, 대기-지표의 물과 에너지 상호교환 등 중요한 역할을 한다. 최근에는 수동형 마이크로웨이브 센서를 이용하여 토양수분을 탐지하고 있으며, NASA는 공식적인 전구 토양수분을 제공하고 있다. 특히, AMSR-E(Advandced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on EOS)의 6 GHz 영역에서 산출된 토양수분은 지표 토양층(0~5 cm)의 높으 정확도의 토양 수분 정보를 제공하고 있다. 지금까지의 위성관측을 이용한 토양 수분 알고리즘은 복잡한 선행모델과 관측된 경험식을 바탕으로 한다. 이 연구의 제안한 알고리즘은 위성에서 관측된 휘도온도 정보를 이용하여 역변환 방법을 이용하여 토양수분을 산출할 수 있기에, 복잡한 선행모델 사용을 최소화하는 장점이 있다. 본 연구에서 제시한 토양수분 산출 알고리즘은 각 채널(6.9 및 37 GHz)의 특성을 이용하여 거친 표면의 반사도를 산출한 후, 편광비율 특성을 이용한다. 아울러 반사도는 Hong 근사식을 이용하여 지표면 거칠기, 물질의 특성을 나타내는 유전상수를 산출하고 두 변수 사이의 관측된 경험적 관계식를 이용하여 전 지구적인 토양수분이 산출한다. 이 결과는 NASA에서 산출한 토양 수분과 현장관측 (SMEX03)의 오클라호마, 조지아 지역 관측 결과와 비교하였을 때, 사용자들이 요구하는 수준 (<0.06g/$cm^3$)의 정확도를 만족시킨다. 본 연구에서 제시된 토양수분 알고리즘은 단순성, 정확성, 물리적 기반을 바탕으로 하기에 현업용으로 그 활용 가치가 높다. 본 연구 결과는 향후 국외 토양수분산출 전용 위성들인 SMOS(Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity)와 SMAP(Soil Moisture Active/Passive) 자료들을 생산하는데 활용된다면, 전 지구적 토양수분 정보제공에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 예산된다.

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A Study on the Allergenicity of Egg Protein (달걀 단백질의 Allergenicity에 관한 연구)

  • 정은자
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.228-236
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    • 1998
  • Egg is an important foods containing many good proteins. But it is well known that egg protein has a lot of allergenicity. The purpose of this study is to develop the methods to reduce the allergenicity of egg. I tried various experimental methods ; For example, heat treatment, irradiation with ultraviolet and microwaves, treatment with polyphosphate, enzyme hydrolysis and PCA inhibition test using guinea pigs and degrees of hydrolysis. The results obtained were as follows ; 1. Heat treatment reduced allergenicity of egg protein. The longer the heat time, the better the effect. 2. Irradiating with ultraviolet and microwave increased both the degree of protein hydrolysis and PCA inhibition reduced the allergenicity. Ultraviolet was more effective than microwaves on egg protein. Fertilized eggs did not reduce allergenicity. 3. Enzyme treatment increased the degree of hydrolysis and PCA inhibition, and reduced allergenicity considerably. Alcalase was more effective than neutrase. 4. Adding polyphosphate did not induced protein hydrolysis, but increased PCA inhibition and reduced allergenicity. 5. The picture of various treatments of egg gel by SEM showed a light surface which indicated that protein was desolved. Neutrase was lighter than alcalase, and the longer the heating time, the lighter the surface became. 6. Measurements of the hardness of egg gel by Instron showed that the longer the reaction time with enzyme, the softer it became.

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Estimation of spatiotemporal soil moisture distribution for Yongdam-dam watershed using Sentinel-1 C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar images (Sentinel-1 C-band SAR 영상을 이용한 용담댐 유역의 시공간 토양수분 산정)

  • Chung, Jeehun;Lee, Yonggwan;Jang, Wonjin;Kim, Seongjoon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2020.06a
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    • pp.162-162
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    • 2020
  • 토양수분은 TDR(Time Domain Reflectometry)이나 Tensiometer 등의 장비를 이용하여 측정을 시행하고 있으나, 이를 위해서는 많은 인력과 경제적 자원이 소비될 뿐만 아니라 시공간적으로 측정할 수 있는 범위에 한계가 있다. 지상 관측의 대안으로 MIRAS(Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis)나 SMAP(Soil Moisture Active Passive), AMSR2(Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2) 등의 수동 마이크로파 위성 센서를 이용한 공간 토양수분 관측이 수행되었으나, 낮은 공간 해상도(9~36km)는 지역 규모의 토양수분 분포를 나타내기 충분하지 않고, 높은 불확실성을 내포하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 금강 상류의 용담댐 유역(930.0㎢)을 대상으로 Sentinel-1 C-band SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) 영상을 이용한 토지 피복 및 토양 속성을 고려한 10m 해상도의 토양수분 산출을 수행하였다. 용담댐 유역은 산림 79.7%, 논 9.0%, 밭 5.4%, 주거지 2.9%의 토지 피복 비율을 가지며 토양은 사양토(66.6%)와 양토(20.9%)가 우세하다. Sentinel-1 C-band SAR 영상은 SeNtinel Application Platform(SNAP)을 이용하여 전처리 후, 후방산란계수로 변환하였다. 토양수분 알고리즘은 TU-Wien change detection algorithm과 Regression model을 활용하였고, 검증을 위한 실측 토양수분 자료는 한국수자원공사(K-water)에서 제공하는 5년(2014~2018)간의 토양수분 관측자료를 이용하였다. 산출된 토양수분은 결정계수(Coefficient of determination, R2) 및 평균제곱근오차(Root Mean Square Error, RMSE)를 이용하여 실측 토양수분과 비교하였다. Sentinel-1 C-band SAR 영상을 이용한 고해상도의 토양수분 산출은 토지 피복 및 토양 속성을 고려한 지역 규모의 공간 토양수분 분포 및 시간적 변화를 표현 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

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