Projects
![Graphic showing a military servicemember on the left and a full hospital scenario on the right.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured/public/project/image/2024-07/Multimodal%20recovery%20lead%20image.png?itok=REuzZ1jF)
machine learning
Healthcare-Based Multimodal Recovery Prediction for the Servicemember
This machine learning model will help military and hospital personnel predict when servicemembers and patients may recover following an injury or surgery.
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![Six people work on radars at a naval air station.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-07/ATR_5044.jpg?itok=1ICIuSEu)
Wind Turbine Interference–Mitigation Study
A strategy for lessening wind turbines’ effects on the performance of an aircraft measurement system at a naval air station on the Chesapeake Bay could inform future research into interference mitigation for other radar applications.
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![An illustration of two self-driving cars detecting nearby objects and sharing sensor data using the same radio-frequency band.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-05/TVO_Concord_CarConceptGraphic_IanWTVO.png?itok=qgH5VXHi)
Dual-Use Waveforms for Radar Detection and Wireless Communication
New waveforms enable efficient spectrum sharing between radars sensing moving objects and wireless communications systems transmitting data.
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![A schematic showing optical ground terminals and satellites transmitting data via lasercom links across the Earth and to the Moon.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-05/Hollow-core%20fiber_1.jpg?itok=subVAkRi)
Guiding Light in Air-Filled Fibers for Long-Distance Lasercom
A new type of fiber could transmit the high-power light needed for future deep-space science and exploration missions.
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![A schematic of a plane equipped with a lidar detecting humans under dense tree canopy.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-04/Brightly_Final_TO.png?itok=LEgLkZo1)
Finding People Under the Rainforest Roof with Lidar
Lincoln Laboratory is exploring the feasibility of building an airborne sensing system to detect the presence of humans under dense tree canopy.
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![an illustration showing earth from space, with a drone, graphs showing data collection, and improved models overlaid on top.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-03/hydro-metrology.png?h=3958c5b9&itok=1OJWTJOX)
Advanced Sensing for Hydrological Metrology
With Alabama A&M University, we are identifying opportunities to apply new remote sensing concepts to improve groundwater measurements and models. These models can inform decisions related to agriculture, land use, human health and wellness, and geopolitical stability.
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![A screenshot over the florida panhandle and carribean, with dots in the ocean representing spare salinity monitors.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-03/Salinity%20Profile.png?h=e324ff38&itok=1RDxDNSd)
Compact Optical Salinity Sensor
We are developing a compact and encapsulated optical salinity sensor to enable more distributed and persistent monitoring of the ocean’s 3D structure.
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![A map of the United States with areas colored on a scale from yellow to dark red, indicating drought severity.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-03/Drought-map.png?itok=ZRd-kt68)
Artificial Intelligence–Based Drought Prediction
We are developing a neural network using data derived from satellite measurements of temperature and humidity to improve drought monitoring and forecasting.
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![A flow chart showing components of a radar open system architecture.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-12/ROSA.png?itok=5LQj-15l)
Kwajalein Modernization and Remoting Program Radar Open System Architecture
We developed an open system architecture that reduces the complexity and cost of operations at the Reagan Test Site.
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![A dozen operators sit in front of computer screens.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-12/RTS%20Automation%20Decision%20Support.jpg?itok=08DNIBrD)
Reagan Test Site Automation and Decision Support
New software tools provide test operators with automated decision support for directing sensors during increasingly complex tests conducted at the Reagan Test Site.
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