• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.1239-1249
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• 2013

기상레이더의 발전과 더불어 국내외적으로 정밀한 기상레이더를 이용한 토네이도, 돌발홍수 등의 돌발적인 기상현상에 대한 기상데이터 분석 및 기상현상 예측 기술 등의 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 그에 반해 레이더 자료에 대한 시각화 및 표출 방법에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있지만, 현재까지의 기상과 관련한 각 국가 기관 등에서는 단순히 표출된 레이더영상을 GIS 데이터에 사상하여 해석하는 데 급급한 실정이다. 본 논문은 저고도에서 일어나는 국지성, 기습성 기상변화를 관측하고 효과적으로 대응하기 위해, 시 공간적고해상도를 갖는 기상레이더로부터 관측된 데이터 자료를 효과적으로 표현하기 위해 다양한 GIS 플랫폼에서 서비스할 수 있는 고해상도 기상관측 데이터의 표현 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법에서는 기상레이더로부터 획득된 데이터를 이용하여 래스터 및 벡터 형태의 고해상도 자료구조로 변환하여 GIS 플랫폼 상에서 정확한 좌표위치와 고도에 직관적으로 인지할 수 있도록 하기 위한 방법을 제시하였다. 실험결과 GIS 플랫폼과 융합된 고해상도 기상데이터를 이용함으로써 돌발성 기후변화, 국지성 폭우, 토네이도 등의 정확한 위치와 고도 등의 정보를 포함하여 기상상황을 직관적으로 인지하고, 상세히 분석할 수 있는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.245-256
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• 2018

This study estimated rainfall information more effectively by image signals through the information system of weather radar. Based on this, we suggest the way to estimate quantitative precipitation utilizing overlapped observation area of radars. We used the overlapped observation range of ground hyetometer observation network and radar observation network which are dense in our country. We chose the southern coast where precipitation entered from seaside is quite frequent and used Sungsan radar installed in Jeju island and Gudoksan radar installed in the southern coast area. We used the rainy season data generated in 2010 as the precipitation data. As a result, we found a reflectivity bias between two radar located in different area and developed the new quantitative precipitation estimation method using the bias. Estimated radar rainfall from this method showed the apt radar rainfall estimate than the other results from conventional method at overall rainfall field.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.190-201
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• 2023

Securing transportation safety infrastructure technology for Lv.4 connected autonomous driving is very important for the spread of autonomous vehicles, and the safe operation of level 4 autonomous vehicles in adverse weather has limitations due to the development of vehicle-only technology. We developed the radar-enabled AI convergence transportation entities detection system. This system is mounted on fixed and mobile supports on the road, and provides excellent autonomous driving situation recognition/determination results by converging transportation entities information collected from various monitoring sensors such as 60GHz radar and EO/IR based on artificial intelligence. By installing such a radar-enabled AI convergence transportation entities detection system on an autonomous road, it is possible to increase driving efficiency and ensure safety in adverse weather. To secure competitive technologies in the global market, the development of four key technologies such as ① AI-enabled transportation situation recognition/determination algorithm, ② 60GHz radar development technology, ③ multi-sensor data convergence technology, and ④ AI data framework technology is required.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2021년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.43-45
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• 2021

초단기 강수예측 시스템은 단시간 발생하는 집중호우와 같은 위험기상에 대응하기 위해 사회·경제적으로 중요하다. 최근 국내·외에서 심층신경망을 활용한 초단기 강수예측 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 심층신경망을 이용한 강수예측 모델은 훈련 데이터를 만들 때 기상데이터의 구조와 종류가 복잡하고 방대하므로 기상학적 이해를 바탕으로 복잡한 전처리 과정이 필요하다. 또한, 비선형적인 패턴의 강수 현상을 예측하기 위하여 기상의 상호작용에 대한 이해를 바탕으로 입력 데이터를 구성해야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 다음과 같은 접근법을 제안하고자 한다. i) 기상레이더 합성 강수장과 강수발달에 영향을 줄 수 있는 주요 인자(레이더, 지형, 온도, 등)를 훈련 데이터 구축을 위해 패턴 분석에 적합한 형태로 정제하고 이를 구조화하여 통합한다. ii) 합성곱 신경망과 합성곱 장단기 기억 신경망을 접목하여 초단기 예측 강수장을 산출한다. 2020년 강수 사례를 이용하여 제안한 모델의 정확성을 검증하였다. 제안한 모델은 비선형적인 패턴의 강수 현상을 잘 모의하였고, 강수의 규모 및 강도에 대한 예측성능이 향상되었다. 이는 강수를 동반한 초단기 위험기상의 방재에 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2021년도 학술발표회
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• pp.132-132
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• 2021

Access to accurate spatial precipitation in many hydrological studies is necessary. Existence of many mountains with diverse topography in South Korea causes different spatial distribution of precipitation. Rain gauge stations show accurate precipitation information in points, but due to the limited use of rain gauge stations and the difficulty of accessing them, there is not enough accurate information in the whole area. Weather radars can provide an integrated precipitation information spatially. Despite this, weather radar data have some errors that can not provide accurate data, especially in heavy rainfall. In this study, some location-based variable like aspect, elevation, plan curvature, profile curvature, slope and distance from the sea which has most effect on rainfall was considered. Then Automatic Weather Station data was used for spatial training of variables in each event. According to this, K-fold cross-validation method was combined with Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System. Based on this, 80% of Automatic Weather Station data was used for training and validation of model and 20% was used for testing and evaluation of model. Finally, spatial distribution of precipitation for 1×1 km resolution in Gwangdeoksan radar station was estimates. The results showed a significant decrease in RMSE and an increase in correlation with the observed amount of precipitation.

• 대기
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.173-188
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• 2014

The KMA has cooperated with the Oklahoma University in USA to develop a Polarimetric Radar Data (PRD) simulator to improve the microphysical processes in Korea Local Analysis and Prediction System (KLAPS), which is critical for the utilization of PRD into Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) field. The simulator is like a tool to convert NWP data into PRD, so it enables us to compare NWP data with PRD directly. The simulator can simulate polarimetric radar variables such as reflectivity (Z), differential reflectivity ($Z_{DR}$), specific differential phase ($K_{DP}$), and cross-correlation coefficient (${\rho}_{hv}$) with input of the Drop Size Distribution (DSD) and scattering calculation of the hydrometeors. However, the simulator is being developed based on the foreign observation data, therefore the PRD simulator development reflecting rainfall characteristics of Korea is needed. This study analyzed a potential application of the 2-Dimension Video Disdrometer (2DVD) data by calculating the raindrop axis ratio according to the rain-types to reflect Korea's rainfall characteristics into scattering module in the simulator. The 2DVD instrument measures the precipitation DSD including the fall velocity and the shape of individual raindrops. We calculated raindrop axis ratio for stratiform, convective and mixed rainfall cases after checking the accuracy of 2DVD data, which usually represent the scattering characteristics of precipitation. The raindrop axis ratio obtained from 2DVD data are compared with those from foreign database in the simulator. The calculated the dual-polarimetric radar variables from the simulator using the obtained raindrop axis ratio are also compared with in situ dual-polarimetric observation data at Bislsan (BSL). 2DVD observation data show high accuracies in the range of 0.7~4.8% compared with in situ rain gauge data which represents 2DVD data are sufficient for the use to simulator. There are small differences of axis ratio in the diameter below 1~2 mm and above 4~5 mm, which are more obvious for bigger raindrops especially for a strong convective rainfall case. These differences of raindrop axis ratio between domestic and foreign rainfall data base suggest that the potential use of disdrometer observation can develop of a PRD simulated suitable to the Korea precipitation system.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2021년도 학술발표회
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• pp.136-136
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• 2021

In this study, a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) model is proposed for short-term precipitation forecasting using weather radar-based images. The DCNN model is a combination of convolutional neural networks, autoencoder neural networks, and U-net architecture. The weather radar-based image data used here are retrieved from competition for rainfall forecasting in Korea (AI Contest for Rainfall Prediction of Hydroelectric Dam Using Public Data), organized by Dacon under the sponsorship of the Korean Water Resources Association in October 2020. This data is collected from rainy events during the rainy season (April - October) from 2010 to 2017. These images have undergone a preprocessing step to convert from weather radar data to grayscale image data before they are exploited for the competition. Accordingly, each of these gray images covers a spatial dimension of 120×120 pixels and has a corresponding temporal resolution of 10 minutes. Here, each pixel corresponds to a grid of size 4km×4km. The DCNN model is designed in this study to provide 10-minute predictive images in advance. Then, precipitation information can be obtained from these forecast images through empirical conversion formulas. Model performance is assessed by comparing the Score index, which is defined based on the ratio of MAE (mean absolute error) to CSI (critical success index) values. The competition results have demonstrated the impressive performance of the DCNN model, where the Score value is 0.530 compared to the best value from the competition of 0.500, ranking 16^th out of 463 participating teams. This study's findings exhibit the potential of applying the DCNN model to short-term rainfall prediction using weather radar-based images. As a result, this model can be applied to other areas with different spatiotemporal resolutions.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권6C호
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• pp.398-402
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• 2011

기상 레이다에서 급변하는 기상 상황에 관한 신뢰성 있는 정보를 추출하기 위해서는 해당 영역에서 높은 해상도를 갖는 풍속 측정이 필요하다. 그러나 정확한 펄스 페어 추정치를 얻기 위해서는 상대적으로 강력한 고정 및 이동 클러터들을 매우 효과적으로 제거하여야만 한다. 이러한 클러터 제거상의 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 간단한 위상배열 안테나를 적용할 수 있다. 모의 구현한 클러터 및 기상신호들을 이용하여 적응배열 안테나를 이용한 기상 레이다에서의 클러터 제거 능력을 분석하였다. 또한 적응배열 기상 레이다에서 얻은 펄스 페어 추정치와 원래의 추정치 값을 비교 분석하였다.

• 대기
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.433-444
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• 2014

Although the Radar-AWS Rainrate (RAR) calculation system operated by Korea Meteorological Administration estimated precipitation using 2-dimensional composite components of single polarization radars, this system has several limitations in estimating the precipitation accurately. To to overcome limitations of the RAR system, the Korea Meteorological Administration developed and operated the RMQ (Radar-based Multi-sensor Quantitative Precipitation Estimation) system, the improved version of NMQ (National Mosaic and Multi-sensor Quantitative Precipitation Estimation) system of NSSL (National Severe Storms Laboratory) for the Korean Peninsula. This study introduced the RMQ system domestically for the first time and verified the precipitation estimation performance of the RMQ system. The RMQ system consists of 4 main parts as the process of handling the single radar data, merging 3D reflectivity, QPE, and displaying result images. The first process (handling of the single radar data) has the pre-process of a radar data (transformation of data format and quality control), the production of a vertical profile of reflectivity and the correction of bright-band, and the conduction of hydrid scan reflectivity. The next process (merger of 3D reflectivity) produces the 3D composite reflectivity field after correcting the quality controlled single radar reflectivity. The QPE process classifies the precipitation types using multi-sensor information and estimates quantitative precipitation using several Z-R relationships which are proper for precipitation types. This process also corrects the precipitation using the AWS position with local gauge correction technique. The last process displays the final results transformed into images in the web-site. This study also estimated the accuracy of the RMQ system with five events in 2012 summer season and compared the results of the RAR (Radar-AWS Rainrate) and RMQ systems. The RMQ system ($2.36mm\;hr^{-1}$ in RMSE on average) is superior to the RAR system ($8.33mm\;hr^{-1}$ in RMSE) and improved by 73.25% in RMSE and 25.56% in correlation coefficient on average. The precipitation composite field images produced by the RMQ system are almost identical to the AWS (Automatic Weather Statioin) images. Therefore, the RMQ system has contributed to improve the accuracy of precipitation estimation using weather radars and operation of the RMQ system in the work field in future enables to cope with the extreme weather conditions actively.

• 대기
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.197-211
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• 2019

The observational sensitivity of dual-polarization weather radar was quantitatively analyzed by using two different pulse widths. For this purpose, test radar scan strategy which consisted of consecutive radar scan using long (LP: $2{\mu}s$) and short (SP: $1{\mu}s$) pulses at the same elevation angle was employed. The test scan strategy was conducted at three operational S-band dual-polarization radars (KSN, JNI, and GSN) of Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). First, the minimum detectable reflectivity (MDR) was analyzed as a function of range using large data set of reflectivity ($Z_H$) obtained from JNI and GSN radars. The MDR of LP was as much as 7~22 dB smaller than that of SP. The LP could measure $Z_H$ greater than 0 dBZ within the maximum observational range of 240 km. Secondly, polarimetric observations and the spatial extent of radar echo between two pulses were compared. The cross-polar correlation coefficient (${\rho}_{hv}$) from LP was greater than that from SP at weak reflectivity (0~20 dBZ). The ratio of $Z_H$ (> 0 dBZ) and ${\rho}_{hv}$(> 0.95) bin to total bin calculated from LP were greater than those from SP (maximum 7.1% and 13.2%). Thirdly, the frequency of $Z_H$ (FOR) during three precipitation events was analyzed. The FOR of LP was greater than that of SP, and the difference in FOR between them increased with increasing range. We conclude that the use of LP can enhance the sensitivity of polarimetric observations and is more suitable for detecting weak echoes.