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Analysis of an Altitude Detection Accuracy by a Weather Effect for Long Range and Multi Function Radar (장거리 다기능 레이더에서 기상에 의한 고도 탐지 정확도 영향 분석 연구)

  • Kwon, Sewoong;Lee, Jong-Hyun;Kwon, Yangwon;Lee, Kiwon;Kim, Han Seng;Sun, Woong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.123-129
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents an altitude detection accuracy for long range and multifunction radar. The accuracy is difficult to estimate because it is affected by an time varying atmosphere refractivity. We analyze altitude accuracy with a raytracing simulator with atmosphere refractivity. An altitude error is simulated with measured and modeled refractivity, and the modeled refractivity is used for compensate an altitude accuracy. As a result, the error is modeled with normal distribution function, and analyzed.

Development of Exponential Model of Korea for Improved Altitude Estimation Performance of High-Altitude Target at Radar System (레이더에서 고고도 표적물의 고도 예측 성능 향상을 위한 한국형 지수 모델 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Moon, Hyun-Wook;Jeon, Min-Hyun;Kim, Woo-Joong;Oh, Seong-Keun;Lee, Jong-Hyun;Kwon, Se-Woong;Yoon, Young-Joong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.23 no.7
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    • pp.831-839
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, an exponential model of Korea is proposed to minimize an altitude-error of high-altitude target due to atmosphere refraction at radar system. The relation between surface refractivity and refractivity gradient, which is extracted using the least square fit from the measured data at 7 weather stations, is applied to the exponential model. And in order to verify the proposed model, the altitude-errors for a standard atmosphere, a CRPL(Central Radio Propagation Lab.) exponential model, the proposed model are extracted and analyzed using a ray tracing. As a result, the proposed model can improve the altitude estimation performance of radar compared to conventional atmosphere refractive index models.

A Simulation Study on the Use of GPS Signals to Infer 3-D Atmospheric Wet Refractivity Structure

  • Chiang, Chen-Ching;Liou, Yuei-An
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.1021-1023
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    • 2003
  • Atmospheric water vapor is a key variable in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, but it is a crucial factor to limit the accuracy of high-precision GPS positioning technique. For both issues, knowledge about the amount of water vapor is extremely important. In this study, we perform a simulation study to utilize GPS signals through a developed tomographic scheme to retrieve 3D structure of atmospheric wet refractivity, which may be assimilated into NWP models for advancing forecasting or position calculation for improving GPS positioning accuracy. For the purpose of knowing the absolute accuracy of the developed tomographic method, a well-defined temporal and spatial varying state of atmospheric profile is utilized. Under such circumstance, several factors that may influence the retrievals can be easily examined and their impacts may be clearly quantified. They include the values of the positional dilution of precision (PDOP) factors of the GPS signals, ... etc. Based upon the use of a variety spectrum of adjustable factors, many interesting findings are obtained. For example, the more is the number of the observed GPS signals the better becomes the retrievals as expected. Also, the smaller is the PDOP value the better becomes the retrievals.

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Estimation of Water Vapor Vertical Profiles in the Atmosphere Using GPS Measurements (GPS 관측 자료를 이용한 대기 수증기 연직 분포 추정)

  • Ha, Jihyun;Park, Kwan-Dong
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.289-296
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    • 2009
  • Measurements of the three-dimensional water vapor distribution in the atmosphere are important for forecast and analysis of meteorological phenomenon. In this study, two Global Positioning System (GPS) campaign networks were installed in Jeju Island and Kangwon-do to construct the vertical water vapor profile solely based on GPS measurements. We implemented a layer model to get the wet refractivity profile and compared the result with radiosonde measurements. The result showed that the vertical profiles from GPS and radiosonde agree well. The bias, root-mean-square error (RMSE) and standard deviation of GPS wet refractivities compared with radiosonde measurements were in the range of 6.6~11.1 mm $km^{-1}$, 11.9~13.9 mm $km^{-1}$, and 4.3~12.3 mm $km^{-1}$, respectively.

A Study on the Retrieval Algorithms for Atmospheric Parameters from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Occultation Data

  • Yeh, Wen-Hao;Chiu, Tsen-Chieh;Huang, Cheng-Yung;Liou, Yuei-An
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.312-315
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    • 2006
  • Radio occultation technique has been used in planetary science to obtain reliable and accurate temperature profiles of the other planets' atmosphere for decades. It relies on the fact that radio waves are bent and delayed due to the gradient of atmospheric refractivity along-ray-path. With the advent of Global Positioning System (GPS), it becomes possible to retrieve the refractivity and temperature profiles of the Earth's atmosphere from the occultation data. We have developed a retrieval algorithm and compared the results of our algorithm with the data of CHAMP to verify the accuracy of our algorithm is good enough. In our algorithm, there are some smoothing steps when retrieving. We analysis the data of FORMOSAT-3 and compare the results with and without smoothing and the results of TACC to see is there any phenomenon deleted after smoothing.

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Measured Kappa Angles by Photographing (사진촬영으로 측정한 카파각)

  • Shin, Hyung-Sup;Jang, Jun-Kyu
    • Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.485-489
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: The kappa angles of human eye were measured by photographs. The relationship between the dominant eye and far refractivity is studied. Methods: 112 adults participated in this study. The mean age was $22.54{\pm}5.90$ years. The kappa angles were measured by the deviation of the flash image in the photographs of eye. the dominant eye and the far refractivity were analyzed. Results: The distributions of kappa angles were 78.6% (176 eyes) in the positive angle, 15.2% (34 eyes) in the negative angle, and 6.2% (14 eyes) in the $0^{\circ}$. The kappa angles were $4.50{\pm}4.70^{\circ}$ for the dominant eye, $4.93{\pm}4.34^{\circ}$ for the non-dominant eye, $+6.00{\pm}2.22^{\circ}$ for the hypermetropia, $4.91{\pm}4.97^{\circ}$ for the emmetropia, and $+4.61{\pm}4.49^{\circ}$ for the myopia. The biggest kappa angles was odserved in the hypermetropia and the angles was getting smaller in the emmetropia, and the myopia. Conclusions: The kappa angle of the dominant eye was smaller than non-dominant eye. The kappa angle was smaller as the far refractivity is lower. The kappa angle can be directly measured by the photographic method.

Prediction of Tropospheric Amplitude Scintillation on Earth-Space Paths with High-Elevation Angle

  • Potilar, W.;Nakasuwan, J.;Griwan, J.;Sangaroon, O.;Janchitrapongvej, K.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.2078-2081
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents the studies on prediction models of tropospheric scintillation. The prediction scintillation models are Karasawa and ITU-R , which can be improved for different locations and circumstances. In this paper, the investigation of average time between variance ${\sigma}_n\;^2$ and the wet part of refractivity $N_{wet}$ under various conditions of meteorological parameters have been carried out at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Lankrabang , Bangkok , Thailand , in the range of Ku-band (12.260 GHz) on high elevation angle from Thaicom2 satellite. From the studies results shows that average period of time of 30 days are best suitable for find out the relation between average time variance ${\sigma}_n\;^2$ and the wet part of refractivity $N_{wet}$ according to Karasawa model, the average time variance is express as ${\sigma}_n\;^2=(0.003N_{wet}-0.1313)^2$ , the appropriation model for occurrence of scintillation has been analyzed and experimental results are carried out.

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Synthesis and Herbicidal Activities of N-Phenyl Oxadiazolidinedione Derivatives

  • Kim, Hyung-Jin;Hwang, Kwang-Jin;Park, Chong-Hoe;Lee, Jae-Hyun
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.717-722
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    • 1993
  • N-Phenyl oxadiazolidinedione derivatives II were synthesized and their herbicidal activities were measured against grass weeds. A parabolic relationship between molar refractivity (MR) of meta substituents of dione Ⅱ and their herbicidal activities was observed. With the substituents having MR value=${\sim}15$, the higher activities were obtained. Especially, the highest herbicidal activity (97% inhibition of weeds at 0.25 kg/ha) was observed by propyne IIr containing propargyloxy group as meta substituent.

The Range of Physicochemical Parameters for the Active Ingredients of Fungicides and Insecticides as Crop Protection Agents (작물 보호제로서 살균제와 살충제의 활성 성분에 대한 물리-화학 파라미터의 범위)

  • Song, Sun-Sup;Sung, Nack-Do
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.280-284
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    • 2003
  • To develope of diagnosis and estimation system for utility of fungicides and insecticides as crop protection agents, various 10 physicochemical parameters, hydrophobicity (LogP), dipole moment (DM), HOMO energy, LUMO energy, molar refractivity $(MR:\;cm^3/mol)$, polarizability $(Pol:\;A^3)$, van der Waals molecular surface area $(A^2)$, van der Waals molecular volume $(Vol:\;cm^3)$, molecular weight (amu), hydration energy (Kcal/mol) for the active ingredients of 133 fungicides and 152 insecticides were calculated. And then the distribution ranges for each of the physicochemical parameters in fungicides, sterol biosynthesis inhibitors (DMI: demethylation inhibitor), insecticides and acetylcholine esterase inhibitors (AChE) were confirmed. It is suggested that the various compounds based on the range of the physicochemical parametes could be predicted for possibilities as fungicides and insecticides.