• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.2_2
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• pp.327-338
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• 2018

The possibility of ship detection monitoring at operational level using KOMPSAT-5 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) data is investigated. For the analysis, the KOMPSAT-5 SLC images, which are collected from the west coast of Shinjin port and the northern coast of Jeju port are used along with portable AIS data from near the coast. The ship detection algorithm based on HVAS (Human Visual Attention System) was applied, which has significant advantages in terms of detection speed and accuracy compared to the commonly used CFAR (Constant False Alarm Rate). As a result of the integrated analysis, the ship detection from KOMPSAT-5 and AIS were generally consistent except for small vessels. Some ships detected in KOMPSAT-5 but not in AIS are due to the data absence from AIS, while it is clearly visible in KOMPSAT-5. Meanwhile, SAR imagery also has some false alarms due to ship wakes, ghost effect, and DEM error (or satellite orbit error) during object masking in land. Improving the developed ship detection algorithm and collecting reliable AIS data will contribute for building wide integrated surveillance system of marine territory at operational level.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.497-510
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• 2010

In this study, comparisons of the backscattering coefficients and the coherence values which had been extracted from SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images such as JERS-1, ENVISAT and ALOS satellites with surface roughness, surface geometric and soil moisture content were carried out. As the results of analysis using the backscattering coefficient and coherence values from SAR images, the coherence was shown high in the region containing more of mud fraction due to higher viscosity of fine grain-size. A lot of tidal channels were well developed in the Ganghwa tidal flat, affecting the drainage of seawater and subsequent soil moisture content by exposure time of tidal flat. The backscattering coefficient. consequently, appeared to be lower in sand flat and mix flat with decrease of soil moisture. In contrast, most mud flats were distributed at high elevation so that soil moisture was not much influenced by seawater. The backscattering coefficient in mud flat seemed to have a relationship with the density of tidal channel. In addition, lowering backscattering coefficients in the all Ganghwa tidal flat was observed when surface remnant water increased according to the amount of rainfall. The correlation between backscattering coefficient, coherence and sediment environment factors in the Ganghwa tidal flat was investigated. In the future, more quantitative spatial analysis will be helpful to well understand the sedimentary influence of various sediment environment factors.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.54-62
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• 2017

China has invested for military satellite technology development to construct the space-based surveillance system from existing land-based and aerostat surveillance system since 1960s to react rapidly for deployment of marine force of United States and surrounding nations in west Pacific, south China sea and Indian ocean. China has also launched about 40 the Yaogan military intelligence satellites series for EO, SAR and ELINT fields since 2006 after the required technique with several technical experiment satellites launch and operational test. ELINT satellites transmit data from satellite to earth station in real time with construction space-based network around it. Those data are simultaneously delivered to Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile(ASBM) connected land-based C4ISR network for marine target attack. Therefore China has enhanced surveillance and attack capability to the surrounding marine nations with space-based network around it. In the future, It is considered that China will increase accurate location search, signal processing and analysis ability through a further study on its technology.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.337-344
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• 2002

In general, in order to obtain position information from satellite images, satellite sensor model which represents the geometric relationship between sensor and targeted area should be established in the first place. However, it is not simple for modelling pushbroom satellite sensor due to the image capturing process. In recent development of new generation imaging sensors, a generic sensor model, which is applicable to all types of sensors such as frame, pushbroom, whiskbroom, and SAR is in great need to the remote sensing and photogrammetry community. In this paper, the RFM as sensor model was implemented with KOMPSAT EOC and SPOT satellite images and analyzed in cases where the number and distribution of ground control points were varied. The test results of RFM were presented and compared with those of Direct Linear Transformation(DLT).

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.111-114
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• 2004

Object-based segmentation is the first essential step for image processing applications. Recently, SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) segmentation techniques have been developed, however not enough to preserve the significant information contained in the small regions of the images. The proposed method is to partition an SAR image into homogeneous regions by using a fuzzy hit-or-miss operator with an inherent spatial transformation, which endows to preserve the small regions. In our algorithm, an iterative segmentation technique is formulated as a consequential process. Then, each time in iterating, hypothesis testing is used to evaluate the quality of the segmented regions with a homogeneity index. The segmentation algorithm is unsupervised and employed few parameters, most of which can be calculated from the input data. This comparative study indicates that the new iterative segmentation algorithm provides acceptable results as seen in the tested examples of satellite images.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.03a
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• pp.188-191
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• 2007

The Han River is divided into North and South Korea by NLL(Northern Limit Line) and its area has been blocked by CCL(Civil Control Line) since the Korean War in 1950. Satellite remote sensing, therefore, is uniquely suited to monitoring bar transformation in the region. In river with bar, the characteristics of its physical conditions have a close relationship with bar morphology. In this paper, a monitoring approach of bar transformation in the Han River Estuary is presented using RADARSAT/SAR images from 2000 to 2005 and spatial patterns of bar morphology are presented. it could be said that in the estuary vegetated area and natural levees are developed well, but bars are shifted after an event like a flood. It is also showed that suspended solids such as silt transported through the estuary could contribute highly to a sedimentation environment around Incheon.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.03a
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• pp.63-66
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• 2008

2010년 5월에 발사 예정인 KOMPSAT-5(KOrea Multi-Purpose SATellite-5)는 KOMPSAT-1, 2호에 탑재된 광학센서와는 달리 기상상태와 태양고도에 제약을 받지 않고 자료 획득이 가능한 SAR 시스템이 탑재된다. 본 연구에서는 KOMPSAT-5의 SAR 시스템으로부터 radargrammetry 기법을 적용하기 위해 위성의 궤도와 영상 모드를 분석하였다. Radargrammetry 적용을 위한 SAR 영상 pair의 parallax의 height sensitivity를 이론상으로 계산하였다. 그리고 STK 소프트웨어를 사용하여 대전과 남극 세종기지에서의 최적 조건을 각각 예시하였다. 입사각이 20$^{\cric}$-45$^{\cric}$가 되는 nominal mode의 descending pass만을 사용하여 height sensitivity가 0.5-0.75 사이의 영상 조합을 찾았다. 그 결과 Pass Number 쌍으로서, 대전은 5-4, 7-5, 8-5의 영상 조합을 하였을 때 radargrammetry 적용이 용이하고, 남극 세종기지는 8-6, 9-7, 10-7, 11-8, 12-8, 13-9, 14-9, 15-9, 15-10, 15-11의 영상 조합을 하였을 때 radargrammetry 적용이 가능한 것으로 예측되었다.

• 한국지형공간정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.51-57
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• 2002

국내에서 활발하게 연구되고 있는 위성영상을 이용한 원격탐사는 매핑, 환경관리, 시설물 관리 등에 이용되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 날씨나 태양의 제약을 받지 않는 RADARSAT SAR 영상의 수계지역을 신경망 기법을 이용하여 분류하고자 하였다. RADARSAT은 경사관측을 통하여 영상을 취득하며 지형의 기복에 의한 음영효과(Shadow effect)로 인하여 수계지역 분류시 정확도를 감소시킨다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 본 연구에서는 RADARSAT SAR 영상의 역산란계수를 계산하고 음영효과에 의한 분류오류를 감소시키기 위하여 수치고도모형을 사용하였다. 지형의 기복이 작은 평지와 지형의 기복이 심한 산악지로 나누어 연구를 수행하여 각 지역별로 분류 정확도를 평가하였다. 연구결과로 역산란계수를 신경망기법의 단일 입력 자료로 사용한 경우보다 수치고도모형을 같이 사용한 것이 분류 정확도가 높았다. 또한, 수치고도모형을 역산란계수와 함께 입력 자료로 이용할 경우 평지보다 산악지에서 효율적이었다. 산악지역이 많은 국내에서는 SAR영상의 수계지역 추출을 신경망 기법으로 할 경우에는 수치고도모형을 함께 이용함으로써 분류정확도 향상을 시킬 수 있다고 사료된다.

• 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.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.2_1
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• pp.283-293
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• 2018

We applied PSInSAR to two SAR satellite (ALOS-1 and COSMO-SkyMed) images and analyzed the difference in displacement observation performance according to sensor characteristics. The building layer was extracted from the digital topographic map, and the PS extracted from the SAR image was classified into two groups(building structure and ground surface) for density analysis. The density of PS extracted from the research area was $0.023point/m^2$ for ALOS-1 PALSAR and $0.1point/m^2$ for COSMO-SkyMed, more than 4 times PS was extracted compared to ALOS-1. In addition, not only the PS density in the building, but also the density in the ground were greatly increased. The average displacement velocity of ALOS-1 PALSAR is within ${\pm}1cm/yr$, while for COSMO-SkyMed it is within ${\pm}0.3cm/yr$. Although it is difficult to make quantitative comparisons because it does not use the data for the same period, it can be said that the accuracy of X-band SAR system is very high compared to the L-band. In consideration of PS observation density and observation accuracy of displacement, X-band SAR data is very effective in research where it is important to acquire useful signals from the ground surface, such as ground subsidence and sinkhole.