His interest in turbulence-degraded imagery was first published in a journal paper in 1999 (Fraser, Thorpe, Lambert, JOSA A v16 no.7), with a body of work spanning almost 3 decades exposing turbulence-induced super-resolution in imagery, turbulence characterization and mitigation using digital image restoration, real-time image processing, and adaptive optics. He has served on various SPIE conference program committees, such as the Image Reconstruction from Incomplete Data series, and related conferences. His research enables astronomical image processing, space situational awareness, space-based and ground-based surveillance imaging, and machine vision guidance of UAVs.