• Title/Summary/Keyword: Sensor and instruments

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Efficiency of Superconducting Gravimeter Observations and Future Prospects

  • Neumeyer Juergen
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.15-29
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    • 2005
  • Superconducting Gravimeters (SG) are the most sensitive instruments for measuring temporal gravity variations. The gravimeter is an integrating sensor therefore the gravity variations caused by different sources must be separated for studying a special effect by applying different models and data analysis methods. The present reduction methods for gravity variations induced by atmosphere and hydrosphere including the ocean and the detection and determination of the most surface gravity effects are shown. Some examples demonstrate the combination of ground (SG) and space techniques especially the combination of SG with GRACE satellite derived temporal gravity variations. Resulting from the performance of the SG and the applied data analysis methods some proposals are made for future SG applications.

Design and Evaluation of Digital Inclinometer for Measuring Postural Balance (자세 균형 측정을 위한 디지털 경사계 설계 및 평가)

  • Myoung, Hyoun-Seok;Lee, Hyo-Ki;Lee, Kyoung-Joung;Kwon, Oh-Yun
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.64-66
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, a digital inclinometer to measure the angle and acceleration signals of subject laid on Roll was designed. The designed system consists of a tilt sensor, biaxial accelerometer, microcontroller and BlueTooth module. The designed digital inclinometer was easy to handle and easy to wear. To evaluate the performance of the system, we measured simultaneously the angle and acceleration signals from the 3 subjects on the Roll with two instruments which are ZEBRIS and our system. The measured signals were processed by statistical method and then the correlation coefficient of 0.93 was shown. From the results, the designed digital inclinometer is shown to be useful in assessment of body movement.

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Position Recognition and User Identification System Using Signal Strength Map in Home Healthcare Based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) (무선 센서네트워크 기반 신호강도 맵을 이용한 재택형 위치인식 및 사용자 식별 시스템)

  • Yang, Yong-Ju;Lee, Jung-Hoon;Song, Sang-Ha;Yoon, Young-Ro
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.494-502
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    • 2007
  • Ubiquitous location based services (u-LBS) will be interested to an important services. They can easily recognize object position at anytime, anywhere. At present, many researchers are making a study of the position recognition and tracking. This paper consists of postion recognition and user identification system. The position recognition is based on location under services (LBS) using a signal strength map, a database is previously made use of empirical measured received signal strength indicator (RSSI). The user identification system automatically controls instruments which is located in home. Moreover users are able to measures body signal freely. We implemented the multi-hop routing method using the Star-Mesh networks. Also, we use the sensor devices which are satisfied with the IEEE 802.15.4 specification. The used devices are the Nano-24 modules in Octacomm Co. Ltd. A RSSI is very important factor in position recognition analysis. It makes use of the way that decides position recognition and user identification in narrow indoor space. In experiments, we can analyze properties of the RSSI, draw the parameter about position recognition. The experimental result is that RSSI value is attenuated according to increasing distances. It also derives property of the radio frequency (RF) signal. Moreover, we express the monitoring program using the Microsoft C#. Finally, the proposed methods are expected to protect a sudden death and an accident in home.

Research Trend of Calibration Methods on the Satellite Visible and Infrared Sensors (지구관측용 가시광선 및 적외선 위성센서의 검보정 연구 동향)

  • Jin, Kyoung-Wook;Ju, Gwang-Hyeok;Yang, Koon-Ho
    • Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.89-96
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    • 2009
  • The calibration methods of satellite visible and infrared sensors for earth observations are ummarized in this paper. Commonly used instruments for the Earth observation and their calibration ethods were briefly introduced. The optical sensors (visible and infrared) and the calibration of these nstruments were focused. With the basic principles of the calibration methods, the instrument-level alibration, which are the essential calibration process for level 1 data generation, were presented.

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Optical Setup for Full-Field Imaging Test of MATS Limb Telescope

  • Lee, Sunwoo;Hammar, Arvid;Park, Woojin;Chang, Seunghyuk;Pak, Soojong
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.68.3-68.3
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    • 2018
  • The MATS (Mesosphere Airglow / Aerosol Tomography Spectroscopy) satellite is a Swedish scientific microsatellite which Kyung Hee University participates in developing. The limb telescope of the MATS satellite is designed with linear astigmatism-free off axis optical configuration which allows wide field of view ($5.67^{\circ}{\times}0.91^{\circ}$). Here we present the full-field optical performance test setup that consists of a point source, a collimator, the limb telescope and a CCD (Charged Coupled Device). The incidence angle of the collimator was carefully controlled by the rotary stage under the limb telescope. The imaging tests represent expected results without dominant aberrations.

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Ocean Feature Tracking Using Sequential SAR Images

  • Liu, Antony K.;Zhao, Yunhe;Hsu, Ming-Kuang
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.946-949
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    • 2006
  • With repeated coverage, spaceborne SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) instruments provide the most efficient means to monitor and study the changes in important elements of the marine environment. Due to highresolution of SAR data, the coverage of SAR sensor is always limited, especially for a repeat cycle. With more SAR sensors from various satellites, new data products such as ocean surface drift can be derived when two SARs' tracks overlap in a short time over coastal areas. Currently, there are two SAR sensors on different satellites with almost the exactly same path. That is, ERS-2 is following ENVISAT with a 30-minutes delay, which will be a good timing for ocean mesosclae feature tracking. For another application, a mystery ship near a big eddy with strong ship wake has been tracked between ERS-2 and ENVISAT SAR images to estimate its ship speed.

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Ballistocardiographical Heart Rate Measurement Using Head Mounted 6-axis Accelerometer (머리 착용형 6축 가속도계를 사용한 심탄도 심박수 측정)

  • Jinman Kim;Joongjin Kook
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 2024
  • Recently, wearable virtual reality devices are widely used. These instruments include a 3-axis accelerometer. User's heart rate information in virtual reality contents can be useful for measuring user experience. In this paper, we propose a method to measure the heart rate through a 3-axis accelerometer based on the principle of ballistocardiography without additional sensors. The angular velocity was successively measured in a time series by the 3-axis accelerometer mounted to the head. The frequency of the maximum magnitude is determined as the heart rate through frequency transform and band pass filtering of the time series signal. For verification, the heart rate calculated from photoplethysmography sensors acquired at the same time was compared as ground-truth. In the virtual reality, the user's heart rate information can be extracted without additional heart rate sensor, and the emotional state and fatigue can be measured.

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A Study on Development of Tire Identification System (ICCAS 2005)

  • Lee, Ki-Seong;Jeong, Tae-Woon
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1917-1921
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    • 2005
  • The Bar code, RFID in the standard recognition method for the goods automation of tire manufacture process, sometimes problem occurs with the damage due to a high tension, high fever. So it has problem that needs many instruments to attach it. In this paper, in the letter of tire's surface the Mold ID which has a specific feature it proposed the algorithm for the location detection of acquisition and Mold ID of the image which uses 3 dimension cameras.. It described the method which recognizes the each letter of Mold ID from the location which is detected.

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Research Trend of Calibration Methods on the Satellite Microwave Sensors (지구관측용 마이크로파 위성센서의 검보정 연구 동향)

  • Jin, Kyoung-Wook;Yang, Koon-Ho
    • Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.33-44
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    • 2010
  • Research trend of calibration methods on the satellite microwave sensors was summarized in this paper. In addition, current operational or following near-future Earth observing satellite missions were introduced. According to these missions, the particular calibration methods on the corresponding microwave instruments were described. The main characteristics of the sensors and their scientific missions were also briefly explained.

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Development of Ubiquitous Sensor Network Intelligent Bridge System (유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크 기반 지능형 교량 시스템 개발)

  • Jo, Byung Wan;Park, Jung Hoon;Yoon, Kwang Won;Kim, Heoun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.120-130
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    • 2012
  • As long span and complex bridges are constructed often recently, safety estimation became a big issue. Various types of measuring instruments are installed in case of long span bridge. New wireless technologies for long span bridges such as sending information through a gateway at the field or sending it through cables by signal processing the sensing data are applied these days. However, The case of occurred accidents related to bridge in the world have been reported that serious accidents occur due to lack of real-time proactive, intelligent action based on recognition accidents. To solve this problem in this study, the idea of "communication among things", which is the basic method of RFID/USN technology, is applied to the bridge monitoring system. A sensor node module for USN based intelligent bridge system in which sensor are utilized on the bridge and communicates interactively to prevent accidents when it captures the alert signals and urgent events, sends RF wireless signal to the nearest traffic signal to block the traffic and prevent massive accidents, is designed and tested by performing TinyOS based middleware design and sensor test free Space trans-receiving distance.