• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.8-16
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• 2022

This paper presents the orbital control for positioning micro synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites for all-weather monitoring around the Korean Peninsula. In Small SAR technology experimental project (S-STEP) developed in Korea, multiple satellites are placed at equal intervals in multiple orbital planes to secure an average revisit period for the region around the Korean Peninsula. Satellites entering the same orbital plane use ion thrusters to control their orbits and the separation velocity from the launch vehicle to distribute them evenly across the orbit. For an orbital that places the satellites equally spaced in the same orbital plane, the shape of the satellite constellation is formed by adjusting the difference in drift rates between the satellites. This paper presents, different types of satellite constellations, and the results of satellite constellation placement according to launch strategies are presented. In addition, a method and limitations in shortening the duration of orbital deployment are presented.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.667-676
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• 2009

The payload can be classified as a passive and active type. Generally radar satellite to acquire specific information through various radar images will use the SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) as active type payload. the principal of SAR satellite is to receive the signal returned from certain objects and/or surfaces in order to construct an radar image. The data acquired from the satellite in its real orbit shall be needed to perform successful CAL/VAL (Calibration & Validation) because the SAR satellite have to receive the returned signal for SAR image construction. In order to do the above, the returned signal shall be related to ground targets. Especially ground target is the corner reflector (CR) for CAL/VAL. Generally the reflector has various types and shapes. Their selection can be dependent on characteristics and mission objectives of SAR satellite. In this paper, reflector focused on the optimal case and effective case has been studied and then the trihedral corner reflector under this study has been designed and its performance also analyzed.

• 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.

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.133-133
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• 2010

인공위성 SAR센서는 기존 산란계 해상풍 자료의 낮은 해상도로 인한 여러 한계를 극복함으로써 다양한 해양연구에 있어 필요성과 활용영역이 넓어지고 있다. 이러한 추세에 따라 전세계적으로 다파장 SAR 센서들이 운용 또는 발사 예정에 있음에도 불구하고 현재까지 한반도 주변해에 대한 SAR 해상풍 산출 연구는 C밴드에만 한정되어왔다. 본 연구에서는 L밴드 해상풍 추출알고리즘을 적용하여 L밴드 SAR 영상으로부터 한반도 주변해의 해상풍을 추출하고 산란계 해상풍 자료와 비교 분석을 통해 정확도 특성을 제시하고자 하였다. 2007년 8월 우리나라 동해 지역을 관측한 L밴드 ALOS PALSAR 영상에 대해 L밴드 HH편광 GMF 알고리즘을 적용하여 해상풍을 산출하였다. 산출 해상풍은 동일시점의 산란계 QuikSCAT 자료와 공간적으로 유사한 패턴을 보였으며 두 자료 간의 풍속오차는 3.45m/s로 나타났다. 연구 해역과 같이 강한 바람 범위에서는 산출 해상풍 간의 차이가 크게 나타나며 풍향으로 인한 오차특성이 보인다. 특히 풍속의 경우, 산란계 해상풍이 중간바람 범위에 집중된 것에 비해 L밴드 SAR 산출 해상풍은 강한 바람 범위까지 포함하는 넓은 풍속값 범위를 나타냈다.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.26-67
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• 2020

Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) is able to photograph the earth's surface regardless of weather conditions, day and night. Because of its possibility to search for hydrological factors such as soil moisture and groundwater, and its importance is gradually increasing in the field of water resources. SAR began to be mounted on satellites in the 1970s, and about 15 or more satellites were launched as of 2020, which around 10 satellites will be launched within the next 5 years. Recently, various types of SAR technologies such as enhancement of observation width and resolution, multiple polarization and multiple frequencies, and diversification of observation angles were being developed and utilized. In this paper, a brief history of the SAR system, as well as studies for estimating soil moisture and hydrological components were investigated. Up to now hydrological components that can be estimated using SAR satellites include soil moisture, subsurface groundwater discharge, precipitation, snow cover area, leaf area index(LAI), and normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI) and among them, soil moisture is being studied in 17 countries in South Korea, North America, Europe, and India by using the physical model, the IEM(Integral Equation Model) and the artificial intelligence-based ANN(Artificial Neural Network). RADARSAT-1, ENVISAT, ASAR, and ERS-1/2 were the most widely used satellite, but the operation has ended, and utilization of RADARSAT-2, Sentinel-1, and SMAP, which are currently in operation, is gradually increasing. Since Korea is developing a medium-sized satellite for water resources and water disasters equipped with C-band SAR with the goal of launching in 2025, various hydrological components estimation researches using SAR are expected to be active.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.431-444
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• 2014

As applications of spaceborne SAR imagery are extended, there are increased demands for accurate registrations for better understanding and fusion of radar images. It becomes common to adopt multi-resolution SAR images to apply for wide area reconnaissance. Geometric correction of the SAR images can be performed by using satellite orbit and attitude information. However, the inherent errors of the SAR sensor's attitude and ground geographical data tend to cause geometric errors in the produced SAR image. These errors should be corrected when the SAR images are applied for multi-temporal analysis, change detection applications and image fusion with other sensor images. The undesirable ground registration errors can be corrected with respect to the true ground control points in order to produce complete SAR products. Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF) technique is an efficient algorithm to extract ground control points from images but is considered to be inappropriate to apply to SAR images due to high speckle noises. In this paper, an attempt is made to apply SURF algorithm to SAR images for image registration and fusion. Matched points are extracted with respect to the varying parameters of Hessian and SURF matching thresholds, and the performance is analyzed by measuring the imaging matching accuracies. A number of performance measures concerning image registration are suggested to validate the use of SURF for spaceborne SAR images. Various simulations methodologies are suggested the validate the use of SURF for the geometric correction and image registrations and it is shown that a good choice of input parameters to the SURF algorithm should be made to apply for the spaceborne SAR images of moderate resolutions.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.624-631
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• 2018

To meet the requirements of various satellite synthetic aperture radar(SAR) system performance parameters, the characteristics of the antenna pattern should be analyzed. In this paper, we propose a method to improve the SAR system performance using an effective technique for optimizing antenna pattern synthesis in the presence of element failure. The desired antenna pattern can be synthesized by referring to the optimized antenna mask templates using the particle swarm optimization algorithm. In the simulation, the performance of the proposed method is verified by analyzing characteristics related to the SAR system performance parameters using antenna pattern regeneration.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.29-38
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• 2012

Nowadays, most remote sensing image processing systems are on client-based ones. But in the view of information technology, a web-based system is predominant, being closely related to cloud computing and services. The web-based system in remote sensing is somewhat limited in the area of data sharing or dissemination, but it is necessary to extend. This study is to implement a web-based system and its component modules for SAR data processing. First, the previous cases dealt with both web computing and SAR information are investigated. InSAR information processing and concerned modules for a web-based system among SAR research domains are the main points in this work. It is expected that this approach contributes to the first attempt to link web computing technology such as HTML5 and satellite image processing.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.55-67
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• 2022

In this paper, fundamentals and recent development of the interferometric synthetic aperture radar, known as InSAR, technique for measuring ground deformation through satellite image analysis are presented together with case histories illustrating its applicability to urban ground deformation monitoring. A study area in Korea was selected and processed based on the muti-temporal time series InSAR analysis, namely SBAS (Small Baseline Subset)-InSAR and PS (Persistent Scatterers)-InSAR using Sentinel-1A SAR images acquired from the year 2014 onward available from European Space Agency Copernicus Program. The ground settlement of the study area for the temporal window of 2014-2022 was evaluated from the viewpoint of the applicability of the InSAR technique for urban infrastructure settlement monitoring. The results indicated that the InSAR technique can reasonably monitor long-term settlement of the study area in millimetric scale, and that the time series InSAR technique can effectively measure ground settlement that occurs over a long period of time as the SAR satellite provides images of the Korean Peninsula at regular time intervals while orbiting the earth. It is expected that the InSAR technique based on higher resolution SAR images with small temporal baseline can be a viable alternative to the traditional ground borne monitoring method for ground deformation monitoring in the 4^th industrial era.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.35-41
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• 2007

인공위성영상을 이용한 해양정보 추출을 위하여 SAR 위성영상을 이용한 해수유통 정보 추출을 연구하였다. SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) 위성영상의 도플러 쉬프트 정보를 이용한 해수유동 정보 추출은 적용기술의 근본적 한계로 인하여 실제 유속이 아니라 위성궤도의 법선방향에 대한 유속강도만을 제시하는 문제가 있다. 이러한 한계 및 문제점을 극복하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 위성영상 촬영과 통일한 시간에 동일한 해역에서 해수유통을 관측하고, 관측된 해수유통 정보를 이용하여 위성영상에서 추출된 해수유동 정보를 보완 검증 하였다. 위성영상 추출 해수유통정보의 위성궤도 법선방향 유속강도는 관측된 해수유통 유향분포도에 근거하여 실제 해수유동 유향에 맞게 보정될 수 있었으며, 보정된 해수유통 정보는 실제 해수유동 분포를 잘 반영할 수 있었다.