A long range eye-safe laser radar (LADAR) system for use in an environment
where real-time non-cooperative identification of an object is required.
In particular, a laser beam is aimed at an object, the laser energy
reflected from the object is collected by a detector array for use in
generating a composite of both a high resolution 3-Dimensional (3D) shape
of the object and the object's high resolution micro-Doppler vibration
spectrum, a characteristic of the object as unique as a fingerprint. The
composite is then used to automatically identify the object by comparison
to a database of similar composite sets of 3D shape and vibration
spectrum information with the results of the identification conveyed to
the user.