Application of Sentinel-1 SAR Data for Detecting a Nuclear Test Location in North Korea

Application de données SAR de Sentinel-1 pour détecter un lieu d’essai nucléaire en Corée du Nord
Akhmadiya A.A. Moldamurat K. Jamshidi M. Brimzhanova S. Nabiyev N. Kismanova A.
2022 Cogent OA

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
2022 #48 Issue 2 327 - 335 pp.

Sentinel-1 C-band radar data were applied for the first time to determine a nuclear test, its underground H-bomb explosion location and the affected zone in North Korea on September 3, 2017. The nuclear test location was found according to line-of-sight displacement images via its maximum value. In this research, three scenes of Sentinel-1B data acquired in descending orbits, one after and two before the event (the nuclear test date), were used to detect the nuclear test location. The nuclear test location was found northeast of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site (8 km) with the following geographic coordinates: 41°11′1.85″N, 129°13′28.86″E. It was revealed that only a pair of Sentinel-1В radar scenes from August 17 and September 10 have been successfully applied to detect nuclear test zones. ©, Copyright

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Radio Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications Department, S Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Space Engineering and Technology Department, Eurasian State University L N Gumilev, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
Kostanay Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after Shrakbek Kabylbaev, Kostanay, Kazakhstan

Radio Engineering
Space Engineering and Technology Department
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kostanay Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after Shrakbek Kabylbaev

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