Jigsaw

Program Manager: Dr. Monte Turner (STO)

Mission:

Jigsaw will provide the warfighter unprecedented ability to identify targets through dense foliage and other obscurants. Before delivering munitions, warfighters need high confidence visual identification of targets. The Jigsaw mission is to develop sensor technologies needed to deliver this confidence.

An active Laser Radar (LADAR) system, when integrated on a platform that permits multiple viewpoints and combined with a processing chain that integrates this information, observation through porous obscurants, such as foliage and camouflage becomes possible. This type of system can support high confidence identification day or night. The figure below shows the process from collection to 3-D image formation.