• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.37-45
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• 2021

Flooding damage may occur due to an unexpected increase in rainfall in summer. Previously, the roughness coefficient, which is a major factor of conveyance, was calculated through on-site measurement, but in case of on-site measurement, there are many limits in accurately grasping changes in vegetation. In this study, the vegetation index (NDVI) was calculated using the Sentinel-2 optical images, and the modified roughness coefficient was calculated through the density and distribution area of the vegetation. Then the calculated roughness coefficient was applied to HEC-RAS 1D model and verified by comparing the results with the water level at the water level station directly downstream of the Soyang River dam. As a result, the error rate of the water level decreased about 14% compared to applying the previous roughness coefficient. Through this, it is expected that it will be possible to refine the flood level of rivers in consideration of seasonal flood characteristics and to efficiently maintain rivers in specific sections.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

This study measures the change of ice flow velocity of David Glacier, one of the fast-moving glaciers in East Antarctica that drains through Drygalski Ice Tongue. In order to effectively observe the rapid flow velocity, we applied the offset tracking technique to Sentinel-1A SAR images obtained from 2016 to 2020 with 36-day temporal baseline. The resulting velocity maps were averaged and the two relatively fast points (A1 and A2) were selected for further time-series analysis. The flow velocity increased during the Antarctic summer (around December to March) over the four years' observation period probably due to the ice surface melting and reduced friction on the ice bottom. Bedmap2 showed that the fast flow velocities at A1 and A2 are associated with a sharp decrease in the ice surface and bottom elevation so that ice volumetric cross-section narrows down and the crevasses are being created on the ice surface. The local maxima in standard deviation of ice velocity, S1 and S2, showed random temporal fluctuation due to the rotational ice swirls causing error in offset tracking method. It is suggested that more robust offset tracking method is necessary to incorporate rotational motion.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.114-114
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 Sentinel-1 SAR 센서 기반 이미지자료와 딥러닝기법을 이용하여 고해상도 토양수분을 산정하였다. 입력자료는 지표특성(모래함량, 점토함량, 경사도), 인공위성 기반의 강우와 LANDSAT 기반의 이미지자료(NDVI, LST, 공간분포 토양수분)를 사용하였다. 강우자료의 경우 GPM(Global Precipitation Measurement) 일강우 자료를 사용하였으며, 관측일 기준으로 5일전까지의 강우자료와 5일평균강우를 구분하여 사용하였다. LANDSAT 기반의 토양수분 이미지자료와 지점관측 토양수분을 이용하여 검·보정 이후 딥러닝 모형의 입력자료로 사용하였다. 입력자료는 30m × 30m 해상도로 Resample 하여 딥러닝 모형의 학습을 진행하였으며, 학습에 사용된 모형을 이용하여 Sentinel-1 기반의 고해상도(10m × 10m) 토양수분이미지를 산정하였다. 검증지점은 거창군 거창읍, 계룡시 두마면, 장수군 장수읍 및 무주군 무주읍 토양수분 관측지점을 선정하였다. 거창군 거창읍의 산정결과, LANDSAT 기반의 토양수분 이미지와 DNN 기반의 토양수분 이미지가 매우 유사하게 나타났으며, 모의값(DNN 기반 토양수분)이 실측값(LANDSAT 기반의 토양수분)을 잘 반영한 것(R: 0.875 ; RMSE: 0.013)으로 나타났다. 또한 학습모형을 토지피복이 유사한 지역에 적용하여 토양수분을 산정한 결과 검증지점 계룡시(R: 0.897 ; RMSE: 0.014), 장수군(R: 0.770 ; RMSE: 0.024) 및 무주군(R: 0.909 ; RMSE: 0.012)의 모의값이 실측값과 매우 유사한 것으로 나타났다. 이를 바탕으로 Seninel-1 SAR센서 이미지자료와 딥러닝기법을 연계한 고해상도 토양수분자료가 농업, 수문, 환경 등 다양한 분야에서 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.37 no.5_1
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• pp.939-946
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• 2021

Monitoring of post wildfire provides important information for vegetation restoration. In particular, remote sensing data are known to provide useful information necessary for monitoring. However, there are insufficient research results which is monitoring the vegetation recovery using remote sensing data. This study is directed to monitoring post-wildfire vegetation restoration. It proposes a method for monitoring vegetation restoration using Sentinel-2 satellite data by compositing Tasseled Cap linear regression trend in a post wildfire study sites. Although it is a simple visualization technique using satellite images, it was able to confirm the possibility of effective monitoring.

• Journal of Gastric Cancer
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2012

More than ten years have passed since the sentinel node (SN) concept for gastric cancer surgery was first discussed. Less invasive modified surgical approaches based on the SN concept have already been put into practice for malignant melanoma and breast cancer, however the SN concept is not yet placed in a standard position in gastric cancer surgery even after two multi-institutional prospective clinical trials, the Japan Clinical Oncology Group trial (JCOG0302) and the Japanese Society for Sentinel Node Navigation Surgery (SNNS) trial. What is the problem in the clinical application of the SN concept to gastric cancer surgery? There is no doubt that we need reliable indicator(s) to determine with certainty the absence of metastasis in the lymph nodes in order to avoid unnecessary lymphadenectomy. There are several matters of debate in performing the actual procedure, such as the type of tracer, the site of injection, how to detect and harvest, how to detect metastases of SNs, and learning period. These issues have to be addressed further to establish the most suitable procedure. Novel technologies such as indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence imaging and one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) may overcome the current difficulties. Once we know what the problems are and how to tackle them, we can pursue the goal.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.6_1
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• pp.1341-1352
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• 2023

The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) derived from satellite images is a crucial tool to monitor forests and agriculture for broad areas because the periodic acquisition of the data is ensured. However, optical sensor-based vegetation indices(VI) are not accessible in some areas covered by clouds. This paper presented a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based approach to retrieval of the optical sensor-based NDVI using machine learning. SAR system can observe the land surface day and night in all weather conditions. Radar vegetation indices (RVI) from the Sentinel-1 vertical-vertical (VV) and vertical-horizontal (VH) polarizations, surface elevation, and air temperature are used as the input features for an automated machine learning (AutoML) model to conduct the gap-filling of the Sentinel-2 NDVI. The mean bias error (MAE) was 7.214E-05, and the correlation coefficient (CC) was 0.878, demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed method. This approach can be applied to gap-free nationwide NDVI construction using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images for environmental monitoring and resource management.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.37 no.5_1
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• pp.1207-1214
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• 2021

In thisletter, we developed technology which can exclude effect of cloudsto perform remote waterbody detection based on Sentinel-2 optical satellite imagery to calculate the area of ungauged reservoirs and applied to the Hwanggang dam reservoir, a representative ungauged reservoir, to verify usability. The remote waterbody detection technology calculates the cloud blocking ratio by comparing the cloud boundary in the Sentinel-2 imagery and the reservoir boundary first. Next, itselects data whose cloud blocking ratio does not exceed a specific value and calculates NDWI (Normalized Difference Water Index) with selected imagery. In last, it calculatesthe area of the reservoir by counting the number of grids which have NDWI value considered as waterbody within the boundary of the target reservoir and correcting with cloud blocking ratio. To determine cloud blocking ratio threshold forselecting image, we performed the area calculation of Hwanggang dam reservoir from July 2018 to October 2021. As a result, when the cloud blocking ratio threshold wasset 10%, we confirmed that the result with large error due to clouds were filtered well and obtained 114 results that can show changes in Hwanggang dam reservoir area among 220 images.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.38 no.5_1
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• pp.545-557
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• 2022

This study used high-resolution satellite images and supervised classification technique based on machine learning method in order to detect the areas affected by wildfires in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) where direct access is difficult. Sentinel-2 A/B was used for high-resolution satellite images. Land cover map was calculated based on the SVM supervised classification technique. In order to find the optimal combination to classify the DMZ wildfire damage area, supervised classification according to various kernel and band combinations in the SVM was performed and the accuracy was evaluated through the error matrix. Verification was performed by comparing the results of the wildfire detection based on satellite image and data by the wildfire statistical annual report in 2020 and 2021. Also, wildfire damage areas was detected for which there is no current data in 2022. This is to quickly determine reliable results.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.56 no.8
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• pp.497-508
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• 2023

Agricultural reservoirs are crucial structures for water resources monitoring especially in Korea where the resources are seasonally unevenly distributed. Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, being utilized as tools for monitoring the reservoirs, have unique limitations in that optical sensors are sensitive to weather conditions and SAR sensors are sensitive to noises and multiple scattering over dense vegetations. In this study, we tried to improve water body detection accuracy through optical-SAR data fusion, and quantitatively analyze the complementary effects. We first detected water bodies at Edong, Cheontae reservoir using the Compact Advanced Satellite 500(CAS500), Kompsat-3/3A, and Sentinel-2 derived Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), and SAR backscattering coefficient from Sentinel-1 by K-means clustering technique. After that, the improvements in accuracies were analyzed by applying K-means clustering to the 2-D grid space consists of NDWI and SAR. Kompsat-3/3A was found to have the best accuracy (0.98 at both reservoirs), followed by Sentinel-2(0.83 at Edong, 0.97 at Cheontae), Sentinel-1(both 0.93), and CAS500(0.69, 0.78). By applying K-means clustering to the 2-D space at Cheontae reservoir, accuracy of CAS500 was improved around 22%(resulting accuracy: 0.95) with improve in precision (85%) and degradation in recall (14%). Precision of Kompsat-3A (Sentinel-2) was improved 3%(5%), and recall was degraded 4%(7%). More precise water resources monitoring is expected to be possible with developments of high-resolution SAR satellites including CAS500-5, developments of image fusion and water body detection techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.400-400
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• 2023

급격한 기후변화로 인해 일사량, 지표면 온도 및 이산화탄소 농도가 꾸준히 상승함에 따라 수문 순환의 불균형을 초래함과 하천 및 호소 내 수질 또한 악화되고 있는 추세이다. 특히, 국내의 경우, 기후변화 및 인위적 요인에 의해 하천 및 호소에서의 수위 감소 및 수온 증가로 인해 부영양화가 증가되고 있고, 이로 인한 유해 녹조의 발생빈도를 높이는 결과를 초래한다. 현재 국내에서는 유인 수질 관측 및 자동 수질관측 시스템을 통해 주요 수질인자를 모니터링 하고 있으나 시·공간적인 변동성을 파악하는데 제한점이 있다. 이러한 한계점을 극복하기 위해 국·내외에서 광학위성을 이용한 수질인자 추정 알고리즘 개발과 관련된 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 이에 따라, 본 연구에서는 NASA에서 제공하는 Landsat-8 위성과 ESA에서 제공하는 Sentinel-2자료가 동화된 Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 위성자료를 활용한 클로로필-a (Chl-a)를 추정하고자 한다. 이를 위해, 본 연구에서는 1) 단순 회귀 분석, 2) Akaike information criteria (AIC) 기반 최적화 회귀 분석 및 3) Random forest (RF)를 활용하였다. 또한, HLS 위성 자료의 적용성을 평가하기 위해 미국 오하이오 주에 위치하고 있는 130여개의 중규모 및 대규모 호소에서 2000년부터 2021년까지 수집된 클로로필-a 관측치를 활용하였다. 두 가지 수질 추정 모형에 대한 정확도 검증에 앞서 오하이오 주 내에서의 클로로필-a의 시계열적 변동성에 대하여 분석하였다. 전반적으로, 2000년부터 2016년까지는 Chl-a가 꾸준히 증가하는 경향성을 나타내었으나, 그 이후로는 감소하는 추세를 나타내었다. 이를 기반으로, 각 방법론을 통해서 나온 Chl-a 추정치에 대해서 통계적 검증을 수행하였다. 결과, 단순 회귀 분석을 통해 추청된 Chl-a값의 결정계수는 0.34였지만, AIC 기반 모델과 RF모형을 사용한 결과 결정계수가 각각 0.82와 0.92로 향상된 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이와 더불어, spatial 및 temporal window와 더불어 호소의 크기에 따른 정확도 분석 또한 수행하였다. 그 결과, temporal window 가 정확도에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 호소의 크기가 작을수록 정확도가 낮아지는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과를 토대로 추후 국내 호소에 대해 상기 모형들의 적용성 평가를 수행하여 효율적인 수질 모니터링 시스템 구축으로 이어질 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.