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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=OTTfzbBV)
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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![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=6ecbb600&itok=oVEwJ6XE)
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 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=FzV1TKVT)
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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![An illustration of data being sent across a laser from a small satellite to a ground station on Earth.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2022-11/tbird_conops_public_notext.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=FFp50AcU)
TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD)
The laser communications payload has delivered terabytes of data from a satellite to Earth at record-breaking rates that will transform future science missions.
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![a photo of a small satellite in a studio](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-08/TROPICS.png?h=5463d0de&itok=1Rk-6x3n)
TROPICS
A constellation of small satellites is collecting rapidly refreshed weather data to advance studies of hurricane structure and intensity and improve forecasts.
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![A rendition of a communications payload on its spacecraft host, with laser links over the Earth connecting Hawaii and California.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-06/LCRD%20schematic.png?itok=e8EDbJG0)
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration
Optical communications technologies decades in the making at Lincoln Laboratory were transferred to NASA for its first two-way laser relay communications system.
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![a screenshot of a user interface shows a world map with radar-like depictions of rain bands, colored blue, green, and yellow.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-10/GWSR.png?h=40ac80e7&itok=Z9X8TtBo)
Global Synthetic Weather Radar
By compiling lightning data, satellite imagery, and numerical weather models, the GSWR provides radar-like analyses and forecasts over regions not observed by actual weather radars.
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![an illustration of Earth from space with two lidar-housing satellites orbiting near eachother.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-04/Aull-no%20labels.png?h=9d71c5a3&itok=94jDD5S9)
Atmospheric Aerosol Characterization
We are designing a satellite-based lidar system to categorize aerosols in the atmosphere.
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![A graphic showing radar-like storm coverage over a Google map image of land, and red/yellow/green zones of predicated tornado path..](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-03/ITORPE-big.png?h=5d0c5926&itok=7JL1muD4)
Intelligent Tornado Prediction Engine
We compiled a massive open-source dataset to develop deep learning models capable of detecting and predicting tornadoes.
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![Imagery from the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2019-06/earth-2.jpg?h=6c8fd2c3&itok=xM8bx9T1)
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Series
The Laboratory's long-term collaboration with NOAA and NASA on environmental monitoring satellites has led to revolutionized weather imagery and products and improved detection for space and solar phenomena.
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