Planetary Defense

We aim to fill the gaps in current understanding of the distributions and properties of near-Earth objects (NEOs), including potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs). We focus on the development of new strategies to improve the discovery, precovery, and follow-up of NEOs as well as methodologies to characterize their properties through remote and proximity sensing. Our approach includes enhancing the performance of existing and upcoming sensor systems through detection algorithm development and data fusion as well as developing new sensing concepts to enable new capabilities.