Dr. Lauren Burrell has been a leader in advancing remote sensing and image processing capabilities at L3Harris for the past 15 years.

Her research and development work focused on electro-optical imaging, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), light detection and ranging (LiDAR), and other advanced technologies.

In the early part of her career, Dr. Burrell worked on improving imaging modalities, including SAR and LiDAR.

Currently, she is supporting the Rail Rider program as a phenomenology expert, developing state-of-the-art tools to perform automated processing and analysis of customer-driven capabilities in support of the Intelligence Community.

Phenomenology is concerned with the study of phenomena that arise from living experiences.

Thanks to her innovative and high-quality solutions, L3Harris’ Intelligence Community and defense department customers have been able to succeed in new mission spaces.

Dr. Burrell has a keen sense of what customers need to achieve their missions and provides innovative solutions to meet those needs.

Since 2015, Dr. Burrell has played a critical role at an Intelligence Community technology "think tank" customer lab.

Together with engineers at L3Harris, she has provided crucial mission support in remote sensing, image science, software development, and other advanced technologies.

Her leadership in developing advanced processing capabilities has earned recognition.

Dr. Burrell has been an integral part of focusing on product improvements, user engagement, and mission-critical support.

Her contributions included refining image registration algorithms, implementing rigorous sensor models for commercial satellite imagery, and developing LiDAR feature extraction algorithms and automated tools for creating high-resolution digital surface models.

In 2015, she supported the Advanced Campaign Cell (ACC) as an electro-optical imagery subject matter expert (SME), specifically in EO point cloud production and automated analysis of 3D content.

Her outreach efforts to the broader user community have helped share technical advances, demonstrate processing improvements, and mitigate roadblocks to obtaining necessary mission-critical data.

The customer has directly acknowledged her contributions, and she was part of a small team awarded the Site Team of the Quarter for their outstanding work.