• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.189-198
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• 2000

This study introduces the CEOS (Committee for Earth Obseuing Satellites) standard format structure that is applicable to image formats of Earth observation systems, and describes several important parameters for post-process applications, especially in precise SAR geocoding and terrain correction application. ERS and RADARSAT were chosen as a representative case and the meaning and usage of various fields in LEADER file were investigated in detail from the viewpoint of SAR geocoding and terrain correction applications.

• 한국지형공간정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.03a
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• pp.150-155
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• 2002

SAR 시스템은 능동적 센서로 마이크로파라 불리우는 전자기파를 직접 지상에 보내고 돌아오는 신호의 위상과 진폭을 이용하여 영상으로 나타내는 간섭성 시스템이다. 이러한 영상의 특성으로 인해 날씨나 태양의 유 무에 상관없이 영상을 취득할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 또한, 최근에는 기존의 다중분광 위성영상과의 SAR 영상의 Data Fusion을 통해 지상의 새로운 정성적 정보를 취득하려는 시도 등 나날이 그 활용성이 증대되고 있는 상황이다. 그러나 SAR 영상의 광범위한 활용을 위해서는 먼저 영상의 지형보정이 선행되어야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 SAR 영상의 활용을 위해서 선행되어야 할 지형보정의 알고리즘을 컴포넌트 기반의 프로그램으로 구현하고 대상연구지역에 대한 적용을 통해 그 활용성과 가능성을 보여주고자 한다. 연구대상지역은 ERS-1, ERS-2 SAR로 촬영된 대전광역시와 그 주변지역으로 해당 SAR 영상에 대하여 엄밀지형보정 알고리즘과 경사거리 영상을 지상거리 영상으로 변환하는 알고리즘을 개발하여 적용하였다. 실험결과 공칭해상도 30m의 ERS 영상에 대하여 39.7m(X방향으로 24.5m, Y방향으로 31.3m)의 수평오차를 나타내었으며 경사거리 영상의 지상거리 영상으로의 변환도 원활하게 수행됨을 알 수 있었다. 마지막으로 본 연구를 통해 연구된 모든 알고리즘은 컴포넌트 기반으로 설계하고 구현되어 향후 국내 SAR 처리기술 개발에 있어서 공유할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1124-1126
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• 2003

The processes of regional scales in the East Korean coastal waters were investigated by analysis of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken by the European Research Satellites ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat. More than 500 quick look frames taken in 1991-2003 were examined to detect the frames with clearly surface expressions of oceanic phenomena. 26 ERS-1/2 SAR and 11 Envisat wide swath Advanced SAR (ASAR) frames were selected and obtained from the European Space Agency in a form of the precision high-resolution images. The following oceanic phenomena and processes were evident in the radar imagery through the Korean costal waters: fronts, currents, eddies, internal waves, island and ship wakes, oil pollution, etc. They manifested themselves in the field of sea surface roughness, their scale ranged from several tens meters to about 100 km. The most common morphology of these phenomena was a series of contrast dark or light curvilinear lines and bands. The joint analysis of the discussed SAR images with other satellite and in situ data supported and enhanced our interpretation of SAR signatures.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.65-69
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• 2007

The processes of regional scales in the East Korean coastal waters were investigated by analysis of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken by the European Research Satellites ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat. More than 500 quick look frames taken in 1991-2003 were examined to detect the frames with clearly surface expressions of oceanic phenomena. 26 ERS-1/2 SAR and 11 Envisat wide swath Advanced SAR (ASAR) frames were selected and obtained from the European Space Agency in a form of the precision high-resolution images. The following oceanic phenomena and processes were evident in the radar imagery through the Korean costal waters: fronts, currents, eddies, internal waves, island and ship wakes, oil pollution, etc. They manifested themselves in the field of sea surface roughness, their scale ranged from several tens meters to about 100 km. The most common morphology of these phenomena was a series of contrast dark or light curvilinear lines and bands. The joint analysis of the discussed SAR images with other satellite and in situ data supported and enhanced our interpretation of SAR signatures.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.431-439
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• 2010

Cross-interferometic synthetic aperture radar (CInSAR) technique from ERS-2 and Envisat images is capable of generating submeter-accuracy digital elevation model (DEM). However, it is very difficult to produce high-quality CInSAR-derived DEM due to the difference in the azimuth and range pixel size between ERS-2 and Envisat images as well as the small height ambiguity of CInSAR interferogram. In this study, we have proposed an efficient method to overcome the problems, produced a high-quality DEM over northern Alaska, and compared the CInSAR-derived DEM with the national elevation dataset (NED) DEM from U.S. Geological Survey. In the proposed method, azimuth common band filtering is applied in the radar raw data processing to mitigate the mis-registation due to the difference in the azimuth and range pixel size, and differential SAR interferogram (DInSAR) is used for reducing the unwrapping error occurred by the high fringe rate of CInSAR interferogram. Using the CInSAR DEM, we have identified and corrected man-made artifacts in the NED DEM. The wave number analysis further confirms that the CInSAR DEM has valid Signal in the high frequency of more than 0.08 radians/m (about 40m) while the NED DEM does not. Our results indicate that the CInSAR DEM is superior to the NED DEM in terms of both height precision and ground resolution.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.17-24
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• 2018

Grounding line of a glacier or ice shelf where ice bottom meets the ocean is sensitive to changes in the polar environment. Recent rapid changes of grounding lines have been observed especially in southwestern Antarctica due to global warming. In this study, ERS-1/2 and Sentinel-1A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image were interferometrically acquired in 1996 and 2015, respectively, to monitor the movement of the grounding line in the western part of Ronne Ice Shelf near the Antarctic peninsula. Double-Differential Interferometric SAR (DDInSAR) technique was applied to remove gravitational flow signal to detect grounding line from the interferometric phase due to the vertical displacement of the tide. The result showed that ERS-1/2 grounding lines are almost consistent with those from Rignot et al. (2011) which used the similar dataset, confirming the credibility of the data processing. The comparison of ERS-1/2 and Sentinle-1A DDInSAR images showed a grounding line retreat of $1.0{\pm}0.1km$ from 1996 to 2015. It is also proved that the grounding lines based on the 2004 MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA) images and digital elevation model searching for ice plain near coastal area (Scambos et al., 2017), is not accurate enough especially where there is a ice plain with no tidal motion.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.59-72
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• 2005

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a remote sensing technique capable of measuring ground surface deformation with sub-centimeter precision and spatial resolution in tens-of­meters over a large region. This paper describes basics of InSAR and highlights our studies of Alaskan volcanoes with InSAR images acquired from European ERS-l and ERS-2, Canadian Radarsat-l, and Japanese JERS-l satellites.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.49-62
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• 1994

Look direction bias in a single look SAR image can often be misinterpreted in the geological application of radar data. This paper investigates digital processing techniques for SAR image data integration and compensation of the SAR data look direction bias. The two important approaches for reducing look direction bias and integration of multiple SAR data sets are (1) principal component analysis (PCA), and (2) wavelet transform(WT) integration techniques. These two methods were investigated and tested with the ERS-1 (VV-polarization) and CCRS*s airborne (HH-polarization) C-SAR image data sets recorded over the Sudbury test site, Canada. The PCA technique has been very effective for integration of more than two layers of digital image data. When there only two sets of SAR data are available, the PCA thchnique requires at least one more set of auxiliary data for proper rendition of the fine surface features. The WT processing approach of SAR data integration utilizes the property which decomposes images into approximated image ( low frequencies) characterizing the spatially large and relatively distinct structures, and detailed image (high frequencies) in which the information on detailed fine structures are preserved. The test results with the ERS-1and CCRS*s C-SAR data indicate that the new WT approach is more efficient and robust in enhancibng the fine details of the multiple SAR images than the PCA approach.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.135-138
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• 2003

레이더 interferometry 기법을 이용하여 1995년 12월 11일과 12일에 획득된 ERS-1(orbit: 23180, frame 2853), ERS-2(orbit: 03507, frame: 2853) tandem 자료로부터 서해안(강화도-아산만) 지역의 조간대 DEM을 추출하였다. 사용된 SAR 자료는 영상획득 당시의 낮은 조위(ERS-1: 0.89 cm, ERS-2: -0.02 cm), 짧은 시간 간격(1일), 그리고 비교적 긴 기선 간격(270 m 수직 baseline)을 갖기 때문에 조간대 DEM 추출에 매우 적합하였다. 비록 추출된 DEM의 정확도 평가는 수행되지 않았지만 기존에 광학영상으로부터 추출된 남양만 지역의 waterline과 시각적으로 단순 비교될 수 있었다. 보다 정밀한 정확도 평가는 본 연구에서 사용한 자료와 같은 날 획득된 곰소만 지역의 자료(frame: 2886)를 사용하여 waterline 방법으로 추출된 DEM 및 현장 측량자료를 이용하여 수행될 것이다. Temporal 그리고 baseline decorrelation 등을 무시하고 SAR 영상의 위상측정 오차만을 이용하여 계산된 고도 정밀도는 SNR 20 dB에서 약 0.57 m이다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.355-365
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• 2000

The interferometric correlation, or coherence, is calculated to measure the variance of the interferometric phase and amplitude within the neighbourhood of any location within the image at a result of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferometric process which utilizes the phase information of the images. The coherence contains additional information that is useful for detecting point targets which change their location in an area of interest (AOI). In this research, a RGB colour composite image was generated with a intensity image (master image), a intensity change image as a difference between master image and slave image, and a coherence image generated as a part of SAR interferometric processing. We developed a technique performing detection of a point target movement using SAR interferometry and applied it to suitable tandem pair images of ERS-1 and ERS-2 as test data. The possibility of change detection of a point target in the AOI could be identified with the technique proposed in this research.