• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.6-11
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• 2011

Launch of the first Quasi-Zentih Satellite System (QZSS) satellite, dubbed Michibiki, took place September 11, 2010 and technical and application verification of the satellite is being carried out. This paper presents the results obtained from processing of the L5 signal transmitted from the QZSS satellite. The QZSS L5 signal is collected in ETRI, Korea. And then, the acquisition and tracking are performed by the L5 software receiver implemented by ETRI. The tracking loop of FLL, PLL, and DLL, the EPL correlator output, and the C/No output results show that the QZSS L5 signal is normally processed. Finally, the paper demonstrates that the QZSS L5 signal could be used as GPS satellite based augmentation system in Korea as well as Japan.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• v.2
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• pp.303-306
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• 2006

A roll rate estimation method is proposed using the GPS measurement for spinning vehicles such as guided munitions and smart bombs. Before designing the roll rate estimator, the carrier phase and the carrier frequency deviation caused by spinning have been observed. Based on the observation, the spinning frequency is estimated using I and Q value from the correlator. The proposed method is evaluated through computer simulations using a software defined receiver and a GPS IF signal generator.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.173-180
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• 2015

In this study, an algorithm that detects a spoofing signal for a GPS L1 signal was proposed, and the performance was verified through RF spoofing signal simulation. The proposed algorithm determines the reception of a spoofing signal by detecting a correlation distortion of GPS L1 C/A code caused by the spoofing signal. To detect the correlation distortion, a detection criterion of a spoofing signal was derived from the relationship among the Early, Prompt, and Late tap correlation values of a receiver correlator; and a detection threshold was calculated from the false alarm probability of spoofing signal detection. In this study, an RF spoofing environment was built using the GSS 8000 simulator (Spirent). For the RF spoofing signal generated from the simulator, the RF spoofing environment was verified using the commercial receiver DL-V3 (Novatel Inc.). To verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, the RF signal was stored as IF band data using a USRP signal collector (NI) so that the data could be processed by a CNU software receiver (software defined radio). For the performance of the proposed algorithm, results were obtained using the correlation value of the software receiver, and the performance was verified through the detection of a spoofing signal and the detection time of a spoofing signal.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.175-181
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a design method for a digital filter using software in order to analyze the radio astronomy observation data. Recently the analysis method for radio astronomy observing system is transferring from hardware to software by developing of state-of-the-art of computer system. The existing hardware system is not able to easily change the specification because it is implemented to meet special requirements and it takes a high cost and time. In case of software, however, it has an advantage to implement with small cost if open software is used, and flexibly changes to satisfy the desired specification. But, in order to analyze the massive data like radio astronomy with software, the good performance system is needed for computer. Therefore, this paper proposes a digital filter design method using software with the same performance as that of digital filter implemented with hardware in observation system which is operated by the KVN(Korean VLBI Network). To design a digital filter, the proposed method is performed with standard C language and the simulation is conducted with GNU(GNU's Not Unix) Octave and investigated to show its effectiveness. In addition, for the high speed operation of the designed digital filter, the SSE(Streaming SIMD Extensions) library is adopted for available parallel operation. By the proposed digital filter, the digital filtering is performed for the wide band observation data in the KVN observation mode, the filtering result of narrow band observation has no ripple inside of stop band, and confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.45.2-45.2
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• 2010

한국천문연구원은 한국우주전파관측망(Korean VLBI Network, KVN)에서 시험 운영 중인 한일공동VLBI상관기(Korea-Japan VLBI Correlator, KJJVC)의 핵심인 VLBI상관 서브시스템(VLBI Correlation Subsystem, VCS)을 제어하기 위해 CCS(Correlation Control Software)를 개발하였다. CCS는 명령어의 문법 검사를 하고, VCS와 TCP/IP 소켓으로 통신하여 명령어와 응답(reply)을 주고받으며, VCS의 실시간 요청에 대응하여 입력 지연 파라미터(delay parameter)를 자동으로 전달하는 소프트웨어이다. CCS는 사용자의 명령어를 local UNX FIFO를 통하여, 명령줄(Command Line)로 전달받고, 이러한 명령어들의 조합을 쉘 스크립트로 묶는 형태로 구성 되어있다. 그러나, 이렇게 명령어의 조합을 직접 편집하여 구성할 때, 입력할 명령어나 지연 파라미터의 구성이 복잡해지면, 스크립트에 필요한 명령이 문법에 맞지 않게 사용되거나, 일부 명령어가 누락될 수 있는 위험이 있다. 이러한 오류를 차단하고 작업 효율을 높이기 위하여, 상관 처리의 전체 운용 및 제어를 통합적으로 할 수 있는 사용자 인터페이스가 필요하다. 이를 위하여 KJJVC의 운용 및 제어를 위한 GUI를 설계하고 제작하였다. 개발된 GUI는 Python 언어를 기반으로 하는 wxPython 패키지를 사용하였으며, 사용자(Operator)가 명령어 문법이나 순서를 확인할 필요 없이, 관측 정보와 관측국 정보, 기록 매체 정보만 가지고 손쉽게 명령어의 조합을 생성해 주며, 시스템 초기화와 각종 정보의 입력이 직관적으로 이루어질 수 있도록 해 준다. 본 연구에서는 개발된 GUI의 설계 및 개발 과정과 시험운영에 대해 소개한다.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.77-81
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• 2008

As a continuation of a previous work by Park et al. (2006), we have developed a two-element radio interferometer that can measure both the phase and amplitude of a visibility function. Two small radio telescopes with diameters of 2.3 m are used as before, but this time an external reference oscillator is shared by the two telescopes so that the local oscillator frequencies are identical. We do not use a hardware correlator; instead we record signals from the two telescopes onto a PC and then perform software correlation. Complex visibilities are obtained toward the sun at ${\lambda}\;=\;21\;cm$, for 24 baselines with the use of the earth rotation and positional changes of one element, where the maximum baseline length projected onto UV plane is ${\sim}\;90{\lambda}$. As expected, the visibility amplitude decreases with the baseline length, while the phase is almost constant. The image obtained by the Fourier transformation of the visibility function nicely delineates the sun, which is barely resolved due to the limited baseline length. The experiment demonstrates that this system can be used as a "toy" interferometer at least for the education of (under)graduate students.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.297-302
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• 2002

The subsystems of two channel correlation radiometer such as RF front-end, IF and LF unit, LO unit, software based I/Q demodulator and complex correlator are characterized and their performance is analyzed in this paper. The limited hardware calibration method and receiver design consideration are discussed. The receiver architecture of 37GHz correlation radiometer is integrated. The designed radiometer employs a single-sideband superheterodyne receiver. The center frequency of the radiometer is 37 GHz and IF center frequency is 1.95 GHz with the equivalent noise bandwidth of 79.6 MHz. The receiver has less than 4.2 dB noise figure which is calculated by the Y-factor method and its gain can be adjusted from 60 dB to 80 dB.