The World and Israel

Shimon Peres 고려대학교 일민국제관계연구원 1997 국제관계연구 Vol.2 No.1

Initial interaction of oxygen with annealed and ion irradiated gadolinium surfaces

Shimon ZALKIND,Alex ABARAMOVICH,Shmuel BARZILAI,Shai COHEN,Moshe MINTZ,Noah SHAMIR 한국진공학회 2016 한국진공학회 학술발표회초록집 Vol.2016 No.8

Human Body Position Estimation System using Electric Field Resonance Coupling

Shimon Ajisaka,Sousuke Nakamura,Kiyoaki Takiguchi,Akira Hirose,Hideki Hashimoto 제어로봇시스템학회 2010 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집 Vol.2010 No.10

Today in terms of security and caring, more various and robust information system about human existence in indoor environment (ex. rooms, buildings) are needed. Especially, human position estimation system in such kinds of spaces is basic. Generally, such kind of systems use radiowave devices, cameras and ultrasonic devices to estimate human position. But these kind of systems have some weakpoint when the system tries to estimate position. A purpose of this paper is to propose novel human position estimating system using electric field resonance coupling and validate the evidence for possibility of human position sensing system using resonance coupling by simulation experiment. In simulation experiment results using Gabriel"s human phantom, relation between electric field strength and distance between sensor and human are confirmed. In conclusion, feasibility of the proposed human position estimation system is shown.

The World and Israel : 세계와 이스라엘

Peres, Shimon 고려대학교 一民국제관계연구원 1997 국제관계연구 Vol.2 No.2

Improved Water Classification Using an Application-oriented Processing of Landsat ETM+ and ALOS PALSAR

Xiaohong Xiao,Shimon Wdowinski,Yonggang Wu 보안공학연구지원센터 2014 International Journal of Control and Automation Vol.7 No.11

The aim of this study is to extract water body using the integrated features of Landsat ETM+ and ALOS PALSAR data. Water body extracted from Landsat ETM+ tends to lose smaller water bodies like small rivers and ponds. Besides, water area with plant (lotus) is difficult to recognize. ALOS PALSAR data have a much higher resolution, capable of extracting almost all the water bodies without confusion with other surface features, but leave some holes in water bodies due to its speckles. As a consequence, there is a significant interest in the development of fusion methods that are able to take advantage of the complementary nature of Landsat ETM+ and ALOS PALSAR data. A new combination method of integrating band 3, band 7 of Landsat ETM+ with a modified HH polarization of ALOS PALSAR is proposed, which well combine the complementary water information from each source compared to the standard image fusion methods. Experimental outcomes of the proposed combination B37ModHH shows great enhancement in water classification accuracy compared to Landsat ETM+ and ALOS PALSAR alone.

Electric-field Resonance Coupling between Human and Transmitter for Human Position Estimation System

Sousuke Nakamura,Shimon Ajisaka,Kiyoaki Takiguchi,Akira Hirose,Hideki Hashimoto 제어로봇시스템학회 2010 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집 Vol.2010 No.10

In this paper, a novel human position estimation system using electric-field resonance coupling is proposed. There are various advantages of using electric-field for human position estimation system. The system is robust to illumination change, body-worn tags are not required and sensors could be hidden since electric-field can path through an insulator. Tags are not required because the system estimates the position by measuring the electric field transmitted along the human body which acts as an electric-field coupler. Moreover, the proposed system has wider sensing range and higher expandability to position estimation of multiple humans compared to the current system. Unlike the current system which only measures the electric-field coupled between human and transmitter, the proposed system measures the electric-field amplified by the resonance occurring inside the human (equivalent to giant antenna) to achieve wider sensing range. Meanwhile, the proposed system is also designed carefully to maintain the expandability to multiple humans position estimation. Based on the simulation results, it is verified that the sensing range could be up to 50[cm] with less than 5[cm] error. In the future, the proposed system could be a powerful alternative for the current system.

A Review on Monitoring the Everglades Wetlands in the Southern Florida Using Space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Observations

Hong, Sang-Hoon,Wdowinski, Shimon The Korean Society of Remote Sensing 2017 大韓遠隔探査學會誌 Vol.33 No.4

Space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations have been widely and successfully applied to acquire invaluable temporal and spatial information on wetlands, which are unique environments and regarded as important ecosystems. One of the best studied wetland area is Everglades, which is located in southern Florida, USA. As a World Heritage Site, the Everglades is the largest natural and subtropical wilderness in the United States. The Everglades wetlands have been threatened by anthropogenic activities such as urban expansion and agricultural development, as well as by natural processes, as sea level changes due to climate change. In order to conserve this unique wetland environment, various restoration plans have been implemented. In this review paper, we summarize the main studies using space-based SAR observations for monitoring the Everglades. The paper is composed of the following two sections: (1) review of backscattered amplitude analysis and observations, and (2) review of interferometric SAR (InSAR) analysis and applications. This study also provides an overview of a wetland InSAR technique and space-based SAR sensors. The goal of this review paper is to provide a comprehensive summary of space-based SAR monitoring of wetlands, using the Everglades wetlands as a case study.

공간해상도에 따른 위성 영상레이더 위상간섭기법 긴밀도 분석

홍상훈 ( Sang Hoon Hong ),( Shimon Wdowinski ) 대한원격탐사학회 2013 大韓遠隔探査學會誌 Vol.29 No.4

최근 고해상도 영상레이더를 탑재한 위성이 성공적으로 발사, 운용되고 있다. 이들 위성에서 획득된 자료를 이용한 위상간섭기법의 활용은 다양한 지구과학적 분야에서 보다 자세한 정보를 제공하고 있다. 위상간섭기법 적용에서 긴밀도는 영상레이더 자료로부터 생성된 위상간섭도 질을 평가하는 매우 중요한 요소이다. 본 연구에서는 미국 서부 텍사스에 위치한 엘파소 지역에 대한 고해상도 X-밴드 TerraSAR-X(TSX), L-밴드 ALOS PALSAR와 중해상도 C-밴드 Envisat ASAR 위성 영상레이더 자료의 긴밀도 특성을 분석 평가하고자 한다. 짧은 시간기선거리(temporal baseline) 조건에서 X-밴드 TSX 자료의 긴밀도는 0.3~0.6으로 L-밴드 ALOS PALSAR 자료와 유사한 정도의 높은 긴밀도를 나타내었다. 이 수치는 C-밴드 Envisat ASAR 자료에 비해서는 상당히 높은 것이며 영상레이더 신호의 파장이 길수록 위상간섭도의 긴밀도 유지에 있어 보다 유리하다는 일반적인 산란 이론을 고려해 볼 때 의미있는 결과라 할 수 있다. TSX 자료가 높은 긴밀도를 갖는 이유는 안정적인 산란 특성을 잘 반영할 수 있는 높은 공간 해상력이 하나의 원인일 것으로 추정된다. 하지만 11~33일 정도의 짧은 시간기선거리에서는 비교적 높은 긴밀도를 유지하는 반면에 시간기선거리가 다소 길어질 경우 긴밀도가 크게 저하된다. 본 연구 결과를 통해 긴밀도가 시간기선거리와 매우 밀접한 관계에 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. Recently high spatial resolution space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems have launched and have been operated successfully. Interferometric SAR (InSAR) processing with the space-based high resolution observations acquired by these systems can provide more detail information for various geodetic applications. Coherence is regarded as a critical parameter in the evaluating the quality of an InSAR pair. In this study, we evaluate the coherence characteristics of high-resolution data acquired by TerraSAR-X (X-band) and ALOS PALSAR (L-band) and intermediate-resolution data acquired by Envisat ASAR (C-band) over western Texas, U.S.A. Our coherence analysis reveals that the highresolution X-band TSX (3.1 cm) data has a high coherence level (0.3-0.6), similar to that of the L-band ALOS PALSAR data (23.5 cm) in short temporal baselines. Further more, the TSX coherence values are significantly higher than those of the C-band (5.6 cm) Envisat ASAR data. The higher coherence of the TSX dataset is a surprising result, because common scattering theories suggest that the longer wavelength SAR data maintain better coherence. In vegetated areas the shorter wavelength radar pulse interacts mostly with upper sections of the vegetation and, hence, does not provide good correlation over time in InSAR pairs. Thus, we suggest that the higher coherence values of the TSX data reflect the data`s high-resolution, in which stable and coherent scatters are better maintained. Although, however, the TSX data show a very good coherence with short temporal baseline (11-33 days), the coherences are significantly degraded as the temporal baselines are increased. This result confirms previous studies showing that the coherence has a strong dependency on the temporal baseline.

A Review on Monitoring the Everglades Wetlands in the Southern Florida Using Space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Observations

( Sang-hoon Hong ),( Shimon Wdowinski ) 대한원격탐사학회 2017 大韓遠隔探査學會誌 Vol.33 No.4

Space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations have been widely and successfully applied to acquire invaluable temporal and spatial information on wetlands, which are unique environments and regarded as important ecosystems. One of the best studied wetland area is Everglades, which is located in southern Florida, USA. As a World Heritage Site, the Everglades is the largest natural and subtropical wilderness in the United States. The Everglades wetlands have been threatened by anthropogenic activities such as urban expansion and agricultural development, as well as by natural processes, as sea level changes due to climate change. In order to conserve this unique wetland environment, various restoration plans have been implemented. In this review paper, we summarize the main studies using space-based SAR observations for monitoring the Everglades. The paper is composed of the following two sections: (1) review of backscattered amplitude analysis and observations, and (2) review of interferometric SAR (InSAR) analysis and applications. This study also provides an overview of a wetland InSAR technique and space-based SAR sensors. The goal of this review paper is to provide a comprehensive summary of space-based SAR monitoring of wetlands, using the Everglades wetlands as a case study.

Measurements and predictions of subsidence induced by soil consolidation using persistent scatterer InSAR and a hyperbolic model : SUBSIDENCE FROM PSI AND HYPERBOLIC MODEL

Kim, Sang-Wan,Wdowinski, Shimon,Dixon, Timothy H.,Amelung, Falk,Kim, Jeong Woo,Won, Joong-Sun American Geophysical Union 2010 Geophysical research letters Vol.37 No.5