• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.253-259
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• 2016

The typical method for performing an absolute radiometric calibration of a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) System is to analyze its response, without interference, to a target with a known Radar Cross Section (RCS). To minimize interference, an error-free calibration site for a Corner Reflector (CR) is required on a wide and flat plain or on an area without disturbance sources (such as ground objects). However, in reality, due to expense and lack of availability for long periods, it is difficult to identify such a site. An alternative solution is the use of a Triangular Trihedral Corner Reflector (TTCR) site, with a surrounding protection wall consisting of berms and a hollow. It is possible in this scenario, to create the minimum criteria for an effectively error-free site involving a conventional object-tip reflection applied to all beams. Sidelobe interference by the berm is considered to be the major disturbance factor. Total interference, including an object-tip reflection and a sidelobe interference, is analyzed experimentally with SAR images. The results provide a new guideline for the minimum criteria of TTCR site design that require, at least, the removal of all ground objects within the fifth sidelobe.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.332-335
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• 2008

Newly developing SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) sensors commonly include high resolution X-band those data are expected to contribute various applications. Recent few studies are presenting potential of X-band SAR data in forest related application. This study tried to investigate the relationship between forest stand parameters and multi-band SAR normalized backscattering. Multi-band SAR data was radiometric corrected to compare signal from different forest stand condition. Then correlation coefficients were estimated between attribute of forest stand map and normalized backscattering coefficients. Although overall correlation coefficients are not high, only X-band shows strong relationship with DBH class than other bands. The signal of C- and L-band is composed of a large number of discrete tree components such as leaves, stems, even background soil. In forest, strength of radar backscattering is affected by complex parameters. Further study might be considered more various forest stand parameters such as canopy density, stand height, volume, and biomass.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.475-482
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• 2023

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which provides images of targets using radio signals, enables monitoring at all times regardless of weather conditions. In this paper, the SAR system was installed on the test aircraft to collect SAR raw data on the ground and the sea, and the results of image formation using the backprojection algorithm were presented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.164-169
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• 2010

Since the range and Doppler resolution of the synthetic aperture radar(SAR) image becomes very high, the target detection accuracy can be significantly increased, but the computational burden is also increased. The conventional single-cell based CFAR detector performs the target detection on every single cell basis, thus it causes the serious increment of the computational load. In this paper, the improved two-step MCA-CFAR detector is proposed for the improvement of the target detection as well as the reduction of computational load: the first step is to use the MCA-CFAR, and the second step is to use the single-cell based CFAR detection in the expected target area for final decision. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with the conventional single-cell based CFAR and MCA-CFAR on SAR images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.128-129
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• 2010

기존의 고도계는 레이더 특성에 의해 직하부의 높이 값을 정밀하게 관측할 수 없었다. 그러나 레이더 간섭 고도계는 SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) 영상의 칩 펄스(Chirp Pulse)를 이용한 고정밀 경사거리(Slant Range Distance)관측, 도플러 효과를 이용한 고정밀 경사각(Squint Angle)의 관측 및 레이더 간섭기법(SAR Interferometry)을 이용한 고정밀 관측각(Look Angle)의 관측을 가능하게 하였다. 이 연구의 목적은 레이더 간섭 고도계의 효율적인 신호처리 기법의 개발에 있다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.266-269
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• 2007

This paper reports the preliminary results on the study of radargrammetry especially for a high-resolution satellite synthetic aperture radar system. Theoretical configurations for radargrammetry in terms of coverage, orbit selection, incidence angles, height sensitivity of parallax and height resolution of DEM were calculated according to the proposed orbit characteristics and the imaging modes of KOMPSAT-5 SAR. Possible imaging strategies and mission scenarios for coverage versus rapidity are suggested for a future mission dedicated to radargrammetry.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.4-16
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• 2011

영상 레이다(Synthetic Aperture Radar: SAR)는 기상조건이나 주야에 관계없이 전천후로 광범위한 지역의 영상을 고해상도로 얻을 수 있는 능동형 전자파 레이다 센서이다. 최근 세계적으로 위성 SAR는 2010년을 기점으로 최근 3~4년 사이에 유사이래 가장 많은 13개 이상의 저궤도 소형 SAR 위성들을 발사함에 따라 비로소 "저궤도 위성 SAR 전성기"로 진입하게 되었다. 우리나라에서도 아리랑위성 5호(KOMPSAT-5)에 SAR를 탑재하는 최초의 레이다 위성을 올해 2011년에 발사할 계획을 가지고 있으나 아직 발사가 지연되고 있다. 본 기고에서는 2011년 9월 27~30일 서울에서 개최된 국제 영상 레이다 학술 대회 APSAR 2011(Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar)의 성공을 기념하여 마련된 SAR 기술 특집호에 최신 위성 SAR 개발 동향을 중심으로 기술 발전 추세와 전망에 대하여 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.66-69
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 깊은 합성 곱 신경망 (Deep Convolutional Neural Network) 를 이용해서 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) 영상의 반전 잡음 (speckle noise) 성분을 제거하는 기법을 제안하고자 한다. Deep Convolutional Neural Network는 이미지의 데이터 특성에 적합한 딥 러닝 방법이고, 이는 SAR 위성영상의 반전 잡음 제거에 사용해도 효과적이다. 반전 잡음 필터 모델 추정을 위한 학습은 임의로 반전 잡음을 합성한 트레이닝 이미지들과 원본 트레이닝 이미지들을 이용한 회귀모델을 통해 진행된다. 학습을 통해 얻은 반전 잡음 필터는 기존 알고리즘에 비해 우수한 외곽선 보존 성능을 나타냄을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.103-112
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• 2012

We demonstrate the preliminary results of ship detection application using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and automatic identification system (AIS) together. Multi-frequency and multi-temporal SAR images such as TerraSAR-X and Cosmo-SkyMed (X-band), and Radarsat-2 (C-band) are acquired over the West Sea in South Korea. In order to compare with SAR data, we also collected an AIS data. The SAR data are pre-processed considering by the characteristics of scattering mechanism as for sea surface. We proposed the "Adaptive Threshold Algorithm" for classification ship efficiently. The analyses using the combination of the SAR and AIS data with time series will be very useful to ship detection or tracing of the ship.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.997-1004
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• 2007

High resolution synthetic aperture radar image could be sensitive to the various parameters of the payload, platform, and ground system. In this paper, a parameter based SAR simulator is presented for two-dimensional image formation and image quality analysis. Functional modules are implemented by Matalb code and GUI for the flexibility and expandability. Main function of this simulator includes the SAR input signal generation, range-doppler algorithm(RDA) based SAR image formation, and the SAR image quality analysis which is relevant to the SAR system design parameters. This simulator can effectively be used for the SAR image quality performance evaluation, which can be applicable to the airborne as well as spaceborne SAR system design and analysis.