• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.31-45
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• 1995

The values of brightness temperature difference (BTD) between 11um and 12um infrared channels may reflect amounts of low-level water vapor and cloud types due to the different absorptivity for water vapor between two channels. A simple method of classifying cloud types at night was proposed. Two-dimensional histograms of brightness temperature of the 11um channel and the BTD between the split window data over subareas around characteristic clouds such as Cb(cumulonimbus), Ci(cirrus), and Sc(stratocumulus) was constructed. Cb, Ci and Sc can be classified by seleting appropriate thresholds in the two-dimensional histograms. And we can see amounts of low-level water vapor in clear area as well as cloud types in cloudy area in the BTD image. The map of cloud types and low-level water vapor generated by this method was compared with 850hPa and 1000hPa relative humidity(%) of numerical analysis data and nephanalysis chart. The comparisons showed reasonable agreement.

• 대기
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.137-147
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• 2012

The technique of Brightness Temperature Difference (BTD) between 11 and $12{\mu}m$ separates yellow sand dust from clouds according to the difference in absorptive characteristics between the channels. However, this method causes consistent false alarms in many cases, especially over the desert. In order to reduce these false alarms, we should eliminate the background noise originated from surface. We adopted the Background BTD (BBTD), which stands for surface characteristics on clear sky condition without any dust or cloud. We took an average of brightness temperatures of 11 and $12{\mu}m$ channels during the previous 15 days from a target date and then calculated BTD of averaged ones to obtain decontaminated pixels from dust. After defining the BBTD, we subtracted this index from BTD for the Yellow Sand Index (YSI). In the previous study, this method was already verified using the geostationary satellite, MTSAT. In this study, we applied this to the polar orbiting satellite, MODIS, to detect yellow sand dust over Northeast Asia. Products of yellow sand dust from OMI and MTSAT were used to verify MODIS YSI. The coefficient of determination between MODIS YSI and MTSAT YSI was 0.61, and MODIS YSI and OMI AI was also 0.61. As a result of comparing two products, significantly enhanced signals of dust aerosols were detected by removing the false alarms over the desert. Furthermore, the discontinuity between land and ocean on BTD was removed. This was even effective on the case of fall. This study illustrates that the proposed algorithm can provide the reliable distribution of dust aerosols over the desert even at night.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.193-203
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• 2009

적설은 지표 에너지수지를 결정하는 중요한 변수중의 하나이다. 위성자료를 이용하여 지면 정보를 산출함에 있어서 적설과 구름을 구분하는 것은 매우 중요한 위성전처리 과정이다. 일반적으로 잘못된 적설과 구름의 분류는 위성자료를 이용한 지면 정보 산출에 있어서 직접적인 오차 요인이 된다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 원격탐사 자료를 이용하여 적설 지역을 탐지하는 알고리즘에 대해서 연구하고자 한다. 적설역을 탐하지 하기 위해서, 가장 많이 사용되는 정규화 적설 지수(NDSI: Normalized Difference Snow Index)를 사용하지 않고 가시채널과 적외 채널을 이용한 방법을 제시하였다. COMS 기상영상기 (MI: Meteorological Imager) 채널에서는 정규적설 지수 산출 시 요구되는 근적외 채널을 탑재하지 않기 때문이다. 가시 채널을 이용한 적설 탐지는 구름이 혼재되어 있지 않은 지역에서는 잘 탐지하였으나 구름과 혼재되어 있는 지역에서는 어려움이 있다. 이러한 어려움을 보완하기 위해 적외채널 온도차 ($11{\mu}m\;-\;3.7{\mu}m$)를 이용하는 방법을 수행하였다. 온도차를 이용하는 방법은 가시채널만을 적용했을 때 보다는 향상된 탐지 능력을 보인다.