Compressive LADAR in realistic environments

We present a LADAR system concept based on Compressive Sensing principles and show simulated performance for realistic scenes containing buildings and trees. This system substantially reduces the number of measurements required to recover range and intensity information compared to scanning LADAR. The proposed architecture facilitates the parallel and adaptive recovery of intensity at all ranges in a scene. Experiments using natural-looking simulated scenes show average recovery improvements of 6 to 40 dB over measurement-constrained scanning LADAR.