• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.379-385
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• 2020

The satellite employs an adaptive beamformer to efficiently detect various signals and to suppress multiple interference signals, simultaneously. Although the adaptive beamforming satellite system needs Angle-of-Arrival (AOA) information of the desired signal, it is difficult to estimate the signal AOAs on the satellite environment. However, the AOA estimation on the ground control tower is more efficient and accurate comparing to the satellite environment. In this paper, we propose an adaptive beamforming satellite system based on the signal location information on the ground, consisting on an angle estimator, an adaptive beamformer, and signal processing & D/B unit. The ground control tower estimates the accurate location of the signal source, and it sends the estimated coordinates of the desired signal to the satellite. The angle estimator mounted on the satellite calculates the desired signal AOA, based on the signal location information transmitted from the ground control center. The satellite beamformer detects the desired signal and suppresses unwanted signals based on the signal AOA calculated by the angle estimator. We provide computer simulation results to present the performance of the proposed satellite adaptive beamforming system based on the signal location information.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.343-348
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• 2023

The ionosphere acts as the largest error source in the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal transmission. Ionospheric total electron content (TEC) is also easily affected by changes in the space environment, such as solar activity and geomagnetic storms. In this study, we analyze changes in the regional ionosphere using the Qusai-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), a regional satellite navigation system. Observations from 9 GNSS stations in South Korea are used for estimating the QZSS TEC. In addition, the performance of QZSS TEC is analyzed with observations from day of year (DOY) 199 to 206, 2023. To verify the performance of our results, we compare the estimated QZSS TEC and CODE Global Ionosphere Map (GIM) at the same location. Our results are in good agreement with the GIM product provided by the CODE over this period, with an averaged difference of approximately 0.1 TECU and a root mean square (RMS) value of 2.89 TECU.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.155-158
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• 2024

Multipath, a major error source in urban GNSS positioning (global navigation satellite system), pose a challenge due to its site-dependent nature, varying with the user's signal reception environment. In our previous study, we introduced a technique generating GNSS multipath map in urban canyon. However, due to uncertainty in initial GNSS positions, applying multipath maps required generating multiple candidate positions. In this study, we present an efficient method for applying multipath maps by projecting the multipath correction in position domain. This approach effectively applies multipath maps, addressing the challenges posed by urban user position uncertainties.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.710-718
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• 2009

The time difference of arrival(TDOA) algorithm is being used widely for identifying the location of a source emanating either electrical or acoustic signal. It's application areas will not be limited to identifying the source at a fixed location, for example the origin of an earthquake, but will also include the trajectory monitoring for a moving source equipped with a GPS sensor. Most of the TDOA algorithm uses time correlation technique to find the time delay between received signals, and therefore difficult to be used for identifying the location of multiple sources. In this paper a TDOA algorithm based on cross-spectrum is developed to find the trajectory of two sound sources with different frequencies. Although its application is limited to for the sources on a disk plane, it can be applied for identifying the locations of more than two sources simultaneously.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제36권10호
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• pp.825-832
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• 2012

대류권의 건조가스 및 수증기에 의한 GPS 신호의 지연은 GPS 측위 정확도를 저하시키는 주요 원인으로 정밀 측위를 위해서 반드시 소거해야할 대상이다. 이 논문에서는 실시간으로 대류권 지연정보를 생성하여 GPS 측위에 적용하기 앞서, 대류권 지연정보 생성 알고리즘의 가용성을 파악하기 위해 후처리 기반으로 전국의 GPS 상시관측망을 이용하여 한반도 상공의 대류권 지연량 격자 지도를 생성하는 과정을 구현하였다. GPS 자료처리 소프트웨어는 GIPSY 5.0을 사용하였고, 건조지연량과 습윤지연량을 구분하여 산출하기 위해 전국의 AWS 관측망의 관측자료를 이용하였다. 대류권 지연정보에 대한 격자 지도를 생성한 후 격자 지도의 정확도를 검증한 결과, 격자 지도와 GPS 관측소 위치에서 산출된 대류권 지연량의 RMSE는 ZHD 0.7mm, ZWD 7.5mm, ZTD 8.7mm로 나타났다. 산출된 대류권 지연정보를 단일주파수 기반 상대 측위 알고리즘에 적용하여 대류권 지연정보 보정시 측위정확도 향상 정도를 분석하였다. 결과로 측위정확도는 기선거리가 약 297km인 수원(SUWN)과 목포(MKPO)의 상대처리 결과에서 최대 36%가 향상됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.295-305
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• 2018

Network RTK is a highly practical technology that can provide high positioning accuracy at levels between cm~dm regardless of user location in the network by extending the available range of RTK using reference station network. In particular, unlike other carrier-based positioning techniques such as PPP, users are able to acquire high-accuracy positions within a short initialization time of a few or tens of seconds, which increases its value as a future navigation system. However, corrections must be continuously received to maintain a high level of positioning accuracy, and when a time delay of more than 30 seconds occurs, the accuracy may be reduced to the code-based positioning level of meters. In case of SSR, which is currently in the process of standardization for PPP service, the corrections by each error source are transmitted in different transmission intervals, and the rate of change of each correction is transmitted together to compensate the time delay. Using these features of SSR correction is expected to reduce the performance degradation even if users do not receive the network RTK corrections for more than 30 seconds. In this paper, the simulation data were generated from 5 domestic reference stations in Gunwi, Yeongdoek, Daegu, Gimcheon, and Yecheon, and the network RTK and SSR corrections were generated for the corresponding data and applied to the simulation data from Cheongsong reference station, assumed as the user. As a result of the experiment assuming 30 seconds of missing data, the positioning performance compensating for time delay by SSR was analyzed to be horizontal RMS (about 5 cm) and vertical RMS (about 8 cm), and the 95% error was 8.7 cm horizontal and 1cm vertical. This is a significant amount when compared to the horizontal and vertical RMS of 0.3 cm and 0.6 cm, respectively, for Network RTK without time delay for the same data, but is considerably smaller compared to the 0.5 ~ 1 m accuracy level of DGPS or SBAS. Therefore, maintaining Network RTK mode using SSR rather than switching to code-based DGPS or SBAS mode due to failure to receive the network RTK corrections for 30 seconds is considered to be favorable in terms of maintaining position accuracy and recovering performance by quickly resolving the integer ambiguity when the communication channel is recovered.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.58-63
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• 2015

GPS(Global Positioning System는 지구상에서 약 2km 떨어진 위성으로부터 송신한 신호를 수신하므로 그 수신감도가 매우 낮아 재밍과 간섭에 매우 취약하다. 따라서 GPS 수신단에서 항재밍 능력에 대한 필요성은 점점 증가하고 있다. 이러한 GPS의 취약성을 이용하여 전시 상황에서 적군은 재밍 기법을 이용하여 수신단에서 아군의 GPS 신호를 이용한 정확한 측위를 방해한다. 따라서 전시상황에 대비하여 재밍 환경에 대응하고, 측위 정보를 획득할 수 있는 방법이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 재밍 환경에서의 측위 정확도를 향상시키기 위해 BSS(Blind Source Separation) 기법을 사용하여 GPS 신호와 재밍 신호를 분리하는 방법을 제안한다. 또 재밍신호와 분리된 GPS 신호에는 여전히 잡음(noise)이 존재해 정확한 측위 정보를 획득하기 어렵다. 따라서 잡음을 효과적으로 제거하기 위해 웨이블릿 임계화 기법을 사용한다. 실험 결과는 본 연구실에서 수행한 GPS/QZSS/Wi-Fi 밀결합 측위기법의 테스트 결과를 이용하여 재밍 환경에서의 BSS 와 웨이블릿 임계화 기법을 통한 정확도 향상을 보이며 제안한 시스템 모델의 우수성을 입증한다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.113-119
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• 2023

Satellite navigation systems, with the exception of the GLObal NAvigation Satellite System (GLONASS), adopt ionosphere models and provide ionospheric coefficients to single-frequency users via navigation messages to correct ionospheric delay, the main source of positioning errors. A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) mostly has its own ionospheric models: the Klobuchar model for Global Positioning System (GPS), the NeQuick-G model for Galileo, and the BeiDou Global Ionospheric delay correction Model (BDGIM) for BeiDou satellite navigation System (BDS)-3. On the other hand, a Regional Navigation Satellite System (RNSS) such as the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) and BDS-2 uses the Klobuchar Model rather than developing a new model. QZSS provides its own coefficients that are customized for its service area while BDS-2 slightly modifies the Klobuchar model to improve accuracy in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, BDS broadcasts multiple ionospheric parameters depending on the satellites, unlike other systems. In this paper, we analyzed the different ionospheric models of GPS, QZSS, and BDS in Korea. The ionospheric models of QZSS and BDS-2, which are based in Asia, reduced error by at least 25.6% compared to GPS. However, QZSS was less accurate than GPS during geomagnetic storms or at low latitude. The accuracy of the models according to the BDS satellite orbit was also analyzed. The BDS-2 ionospheric model showed an error reduction of more than 5.9% when using GEO coefficients, while in BDS-3, the difference between satellites was within 0.01 m.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.206-221
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• 2019

Source localization in three-dimensional (3-D) wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is becoming a major research focus. Due to the complicated air-ground environments in 3-D positioning, many of the traditional localization methods, such as received signal strength (RSS) may have relatively poor accuracy performance. Benefit from prior learning mechanisms, fingerprinting-based localization methods are less sensitive to complex conditions and can provide relatively accurate localization performance. However, fingerprinting-based methods require training data at each grid point for constructing the fingerprint database, the overhead of which is very high, particularly for 3-D localization. Also, some of measured data may be unavailable due to the interference of a complicated environment. In this paper, we propose an efficient kernel based 3-D localization algorithm via tensor completion. We first exploit the spatial correlation of the RSS data and demonstrate the low rank property of the RSS data matrix. Based on this, a new training scheme is proposed that uses tensor completion to recover the missing data of the fingerprint database. Finally, we propose a kernel based learning technique in the matching phase to improve the sensitivity and accuracy in the final source position estimation. Simulation results show that our new method can effectively eliminate the impairment caused by incomplete sensing data to improve the localization performance.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1996년도 영남지부 학술발표회 논문집 Acoustic Society of Korean Youngnam Chapter Symposium Proceedings
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• pp.30-34
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 광대역 소음원의 위치를 탐지하여 2차원 영상면에 소음원을 영상화할수 있는 3차원 배열을 제안하였다. 배열 요소간의 상호상관함수가 2차원 영상면의 화소의 밝기에 대응되도록 영상함수를 유도하였으며 영상면은 사각면 및 원통면등으로 선택가능 하도록 하여 소음원의 위치동정 해석이 용이하도록 하였다. 몇가지 소음원에 대한 수치 모의실험결과는 제안된 배열이 소음원의 3차원적인 동정 해석 등에 응용될 수 있음을 보인다.