• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.404-407
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• 2008

Because of directly receiving the thing in which a microwave is reflected and comparing the frequency, the microwave sensor with doppler effect completely overcomes the problem of the passive infrared sensor. The microwave sensor with doppler effect well operates about a temperature, the dust, and the peripheral noise because of being dull in the most of ambient conditions. The system developed in this research is the electricity saving detection sensor which it senses the real time action of a man as the microwave sensor and automatically turns on the electric lamp and turns off, minimizes the electrical energy consumption. Since the microwave sensor is not influenced in the light, the dust, and the natural element like the ambient temperature, the effectiveness is considered to be superior to the passive infrared sensor being used currently. There was the energy reduction effect more than about 60% in the performed example which established this system. When this was compared with the construction cost, the cost of establishing payback period was about 1-1.5 year. The microwave sensor with doppler effect developed from this research result is convinced in the future to do enough for the electric energy saving.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.305-311
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• 2016

The spatial size and variation of Arctic sea ice play an important role in Earth's climate system. These are affected by conditions in the polar atmosphere and Arctic sea temperatures. The Arctic sea ice concentration is calculated from brightness temperature data derived from the Defense Meteorological Satellite program (DMSP) F13 Special Sensor Microwave/Imagers (SSMI) and the DMSP F17 Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) sensors. Many previous studies point to significant reductions in sea ice and their causes. We investigated the variability of Arctic sea ice using the daily sea ice concentration data from passive microwave observations to identify the sea ice melting regions near the Arctic polar ice cap. We discovered the abnormal melting of the Arctic sea ice near the North Pole during the summer and the winter. This phenomenon is hard to explain only surface air temperature or solar heating as suggested by recent studies. We propose a hypothesis explaining this phenomenon. The heat from the deep sea in Arctic Ocean ridges and/or the hydrothermal vents might be contributing to the melting of Arctic sea ice. This hypothesis could be verified by the observation of warm water column structure below the melting or thinning arctic sea ice through the project such as Coriolis dataset for reanalysis (CORA).

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.403-406
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 인체 감지용 수동형 마이크로파 센서의 실용화를 위한 소형 수신기의 설계, 제작에 관해 기술한다. 먼저 기존의 5.1 GHz 센서에 의한 인체 감지 측정 실험 데이터를 이용하여 센서 수신기의 요구사항 및 설계 사양을 도출하였으며, 이를 토대로 소형 수신기를 설계, 제작하였다. 제작한 소형 수신기 센서로 실험실에서의 인체 감지 측정 실험 결과, 안테나로부터 4 m 거리에 있는 인체까지 감지가 확인되었다. 제작된 소형 수신기는 기존 수신기에 비해 크기는 약 60 %, 소비전력은 40 % 감소된 소형경량 저소비전력으로 구현함으로써 실용성을 높였다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.333-340
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 마이크로파 라디오미터의 기술을 응용한 수동형 마이크로파 인체 감지 센서를 제안한다. 제안된 센서는 고정된 배경 물체로부터 수신되는 복사전력의 인체에 의한 미약한 변화를 측정하여 감시 공간내의 인체를 감지한다. C-band 마이크로파 라디오미터를 설계 제작하여 인체에 의한 수신 복사전력의 변화를 측정하고 그 결과를 분석하여 제안한 센서의 유효성을 평가한다.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.270-274
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• 2008

The microwave sensor in which the sensitivity was excellent and a structure is simple was developed and it manufactured. And the sensing range that uses the developed product was confirmed. When the developed microwave sensor was set up in the ceiling of a building, we confirmed that the amplitude of the sensitive area increased as the tilting angle was enlarged. The sensitive area became a greatest in case the tilting angle was 65 degree. According to the height of a ceiling, because the sensing range is determined, in case of using in the building in which the height of a ceiling is enough secured it is determined to secure the more wide sensitive area. Moreover, the configuration of the circuit having the simple structure makes the miniaturization of a product, and the light weight possible. It is considered to have the price competitive power which it reduces the manufacturing cost, is sufficient.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.93-105
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• 2011

This paper presents a flexible low-profile antenna sensor for fatigue crack detection and monitoring. The sensor was inspired by the sense of pain in bio-systems as a protection mechanism. Because the antenna sensor does not need wiring for power supply or data transmission, it is an ideal candidate as sensing elements for the implementation of engineering sensor skins with a dense sensor distribution. Based on the principle of microstrip patch antenna, the antenna sensor is essentially an electromagnetic cavity that radiates at certain resonant frequencies. By implementing a metallic structure as the ground plane of the antenna sensor, crack development in the metallic structure due to fatigue loading can be detected from the resonant frequency shift of the antenna sensor. A monostatic microwave radar system was developed to interrogate the antenna sensor remotely. Fabrication and characterization of the antenna sensor for crack monitoring as well as the implementation of the remote interrogation system are presented.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2004

We have constructed a level-1 processor to generate brightness temperatures using the direct-broadcast data from the passive microwave radiometer onboard Aqua satellite. Although 50-minute half-orbit data, called a granule, are being routinely produced by global data centers, to our knowledge, this is the first attempt to process 10-minute long direct-broadcast (DB) data. We found that the processor designed for a granule needs modification to apply to the DB data. The modification includes the correction to path number, the selection of land mask and the manipulation of dummy scans. Pixel-to-pixel comparison with a reference indicates the difference in brightness temperature of about 0.2 K rms and less than 0.05 K mean. The difference comes from the different length of data between 50-minute granule and about 10-minute DB data. In detail, due to the short data length, DB data do not always have correct cold sky mirror count. The DB processing system is automated to enable the near-real time generation of brightness temperatures within 5 minutes after downlink. Through this work, we would be able to enhance the use of AMSR-E data, thus serving the objective of direct-broadcast.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2008년도 한국우주과학회보 제17권2호
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• pp.31.4-32
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• 2008

The microwave instruments are used many areas of the space remote sensing and space science applications. The imaging radar of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is well known microwave radar sensor for earth surface and ocean research. Unlike radar, microwave radiometer is passive instrument and it measures the emission energy of target, i.e. brightness temperature BT, from earth surface and atmosphere. From measured BT, the geophysical data like cloud liquid water, water vapor, sea surface temperature, surface permittivity can be retrieved. In this paper, the radiometer characteristics, system configuration and principle of BT measurement are described. Also the radiometer instruments TRMM, GPM, SMOS for earth climate, and ocean salinity research are introduce. As first korean microwave payload on STSAT-2, the DREAM (Dual-channels Radiometer for Earth and Atmosphere Monitoring) is described the mission, system configuration and operation plan for life time of two years. The main issues of DREAM unlike other spaceborne radiometers, will be addressed. The calibration is the one of main issues of DREAM mission and how it contribute on the space borne radiometer. In conclusion, the radiometer instrument to space science application will be considered.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2008년도 International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.301-304
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• 2008

Since longer wavelength microwave radiation can penetrate clouds, satellite passive microwave sensors can observe sea ice of the entire polar region on a daily basis. Thus, it is becoming popular to derive sea ice motion vectors from a pair of satellite passive microwave sensor images observed at one or few day interval. Usually, the accuracies of derived vectors are validated by comparing with the position data of drifting buoys. However, the number of buoys for validation is always quite limited compared to a large number of vectors derived from satellite images. In this study, the sea ice motion vectors automatically derived from pairs of AMSR-E 89GHz images (IFOV = 3.5 ${\times}$ 5.9km) by an image-to-image cross correlation were validated by comparing with sea ice motion vectors manually derived from pairs of cloudless MODIS images (IFOV=250 ${\times}$ 250m). Since AMSR-E and MODIS are both on the same Aqua satellite of NASA, the observation time of both sensors are the same. The relative errors of AMSR-E vectors against MODIS vectors were calculated. The accuracy validation has been conducted for 5 scenes. If we accept relative error of less than 30% as correct vectors, 75% to 92% of AMSR-E vectors derived from one scene were correct. On the other hand, the percentage of correct sea ice vectors derived from a pair of SSM/I 85GHz images (IFOV = 15 ${\times}$ 13km) observed nearly simultaneously with one of the AMSR-E images was 46%. The difference of the accuracy between AMSR-E and SSM/I is reflecting the difference of IFOV. The accuracies of H and V polarization were different from scene to scene, which may reflect the difference of sea ice distributions and their snow cover of each scene.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.677-686
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• 2014

2014년에 완공된 남극 장보고 과학기지 주변 테라노바 만은 연중 해빙이 넓게 분포하고 있어 쇄빙선의 항해에 매우 큰 영향을 미치고 있다. 이 연구에서는 수동 마이크로파 센서인 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) 및 Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS)의 최근 10년간 해빙 면적비 자료와 우리나라의 쇄빙 연구선인 아라온호의 2010-2012년 항해 경로를 이용하여 장보고 과학기지 방문을 위한 쇄빙선의 최적 항로와 항해 가능 기간을 분석하였다. 아라온호는 최대 78%의 해빙 면적비를 보이는 지역까지 항해가 가능하였다. 아라온호의 항해속도는 해빙 면적비가 높을수록 감소하였으나, 70%의 해빙 면적비까지는 전체 항로에 대한 평균속도(~11 kn)에 근접한 속도를 나타냈다. 이에 따라 아라온호는 70% 이하의 해빙 면적비까지 일반적 운항이 가능하다고 판단하였다. 2010-2012년에 아라온호가 항해한 경로에 대해, 최근 10년 동안의 해빙 면적비 자료로부터 70% 이하의 해빙 면적비를 나타내는 연중 항해가능 기간을 도출하였다. 2010년과 2011년의 항로에 대한 10년 동안의 연중 최대 항해 가능 기간은 각각 연 61일과 62일이었으나, 70% 이하의 해빙 면적비가 관찰되지 않아 일반적인 항해가 어려운 연도가 일부 관찰 되었다. 반면 2012년의 아라온호 항해 경로는 매년 70% 이하의 해빙 면적비를 나타내는 항해 가능 기간이 존재하였으며, 이는 최소 연 15일에서 최대 연 89일로 분석되었다. 이를 통해 2012년에 운항한 아라온호의 항로가 장보고 과학기지 방문을 위한 쇄빙선의 최적 항로임을 제시할 수 있었다. 하지만 수 십 km의 해상도를 가지는 해빙 면적비 자료로는 장보고기지 연안에 근접한 해빙 상태를 알 수 없기 때문에, 고해상도의 광학 및 SAR 자료를 이용한 연구가 필요할 것으로 보인다.