Laboratory for Advanced Spectral Sensing (LASS)

Sponsors: Boeing, ITT, LANL, Lockheed-Martin, NRO

Project Scope: The LASS was established to conduct research aimed at improving multidimensional remote sensing. The goal is to study the end-to-end process with an emphasis on looking at fundamental phenomenology and new sensing techniques.

Because of the fundamental nature of this work the participants share in the funding and the results are shared with all sponsors.

Project Status: This year saw the continuation of several multiyear efforts including many which seek to improve the DIRSIG modeling environment and the initiation of some new thrusts in areas such as the role of spectral analysis in persistent surveillance and spectral quality metrics. The extensive range of LASS research tasks are summarized below.

Subtopics

Megascene 2

Polarimetric Imaging

LIDAR Modeling and Application

Persistence Surveillance

Spectral Target Detection Algorithm Comparison

Environmental Effects Research

Background Texture Research (visible and thermal)

DIRSIG Plume/Sensor Integration (QUIC and PIMS)

NetDIRSIG

Modeling and Assessment of Phase Diversity Approach to Characterize Position Misalignment in a Sparse or Segmented Aperture System

Thermal Polarimetric Imaging BRDF Measurement

Spectral Quality Metrics