Proceedings will be available on-site.

Abstracts for this conference are due by  3 October 2005.

Manuscripts are due by 23 January 2006.

Call for Papers and Announcement
ThermoSense XXVIII (OR32)
Part of SPIE's International Symposium on Defense and Security
17-21 April 2006 • Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center • Orlando (Kissimmee) FL, USA

Conference Chairs:

Jonathan J. Miles, James Madison Univ.
G. Raymond Peacock, Temperatures.com, Inc.
Kathryn M. Knettel,, United Space Alliance

Program Committee: Lee R. Allen, Allen Applied Infrared Technology; Nicolas P. Avdelidis, Univ. of Reading (United Kingdom); Douglas D. Burleigh, Surfside Consulting; Anthony Colantonio, Public Works and Government Services (Canada); Fred Colbert, Colbert Infrared Services, Inc.; K. Elliott Cramer, NASA Langley Research Ctr.; Ralph B. Dinwiddie, Oak Ridge National Lab.; Ermanno G. Grinzato, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy);Sheng-Jen (Tony) Hsieh, Texas A&M Univ.;  Herbert Kaplan, Honeyhill Technical Co.; Timo T. Kauppinen, VTT Elektroniikka (Finland); Jack M. Kleinfeld, Kleinfeld Technical Services, Inc.; Dennis H. LeMieux, Siemens AG.; Sven-Åke Ljungberg,Univ. of Gävle (Sweden); Robert P. Madding, FLIR Systems, Inc.; Xavier P. Maldague, Univ. Laval (Canada); Pierre Potet, CEDIP (France); Piotr Pregowski, Pregowski Infrared Services (Poland); Austin A. Richards, FLIR Systems, Indigo Operations.; Andres E. Rozlosnik, SI Termografia Infrarroja (Argentina); Morteza Safai, Boeing Co.;Takahide Sakagami, Osaka Univ. (Japan); R. James Seffrin, The Infraspection Institute; Steven M. Shepard, Thermal Wave Imaging, Inc.; John R. Snell, Jr., Snell Infrared; Gregory R. Stockton, Stockton Infrared Thermographic Services Inc.; Vladimir Vavilov, Tomsk Polytechnic University (Russia);  ); Lisa West Åkeblom, FLIR Systems, Inc. (Sweden).

Papers are being solicited in the following and related areas:

Aerospace Applications
• aging aircraft
•corrosion/FOD/fatigue
• NDT & quality control
• spacecraft and satellites.
Automotive Industry
• manufacturing/process applications
• process monitoring/automation
• predictive maintenance
• testing, measurement QA, R&R
  and validation
Environmental & Resource Monitoring
• agriculture & water conservation
• fish & wildlife migration
• geology.
• pollution & stormwater outflow
• remotedetection & environmental sensing
Food Processing and Agriculture
• foreign object detection and characterization
• process monitoring and automation
• quality assurance
Power Generation and Distribution
• predictive maintenance
• field measurement issues
• plant heat-rate efficiency
• safety
• records
Manufacturing and Processing Industries
• metals processing
• glass and ceramics
• pulp and paper
• plastics
• composites industries
• petroleum and chemistry
• predictive maintenance applications
• quality assurance applications.
• semiconductors & microelectronics
Infrastructure
• airports and harbor
• building surveys: historic studies
• roads and bridges
• thermal performance of buildings IR Image Fusion Applications
• biological & medical
• field/security
• process
• structural.

Manufacturing and Processing Industries
• composites industries
• glass & ceramics
• metals processing
• petroleum & chemical
• plastics
• predictive maintenance applications
• pulp & paper
• quality control applications
• semiconductors & microelectronics.


 Materials Evaluation & NDT
• fatigue analysis
• sonic IR
• thermal properties of materials
• thermal stress analysis (TSA).
Medical
• calibration of IR thermometers
• screening for human body temperature
• veterinary applications of IR.
Miscellaneous
• resource & maintenance management
• economic impact, justifications studies
• equipment, software & practices guides
• professionalism, standards &
certification.
NDT (Nondestructive Testing)
• subsurface flaws
• composite materials & structures
• metallic structures
• underground anomalies
• electronic components.
Power Generation and Distribution
• field measurement issues
• plant heat-rate efficiency
• predictive maintenance
• safety & records.
Research & Development
• animal applications
• enhanced spatial resolution
• enhanced time resolution
• image interpretation
• medical applications
• microscopy
• new methods.
• thermal modeling & FEA.
Security
• disease screening
• fire & rescue
• law enforcement
• surveillance in civilian applications.

Monday Evening Vendor Session
What's new in Infrared Imaging Hardware and Software (Presentations by equipment providers).

This session is a new feature at Thermosense meetings and was very popular in 2005. Defense and Security Symposium exhibitors are invited to break from travel and setting up Monday evening to present to the Thermosense community their new products and services before the conference and show begin. Many Thermosense attendees arrive by Monday evening, especially those from overseas.

This venue provides an early opportunity for vendors to showcase the features and benefits they wish to communicate during the meeting week. This is a casual meeting with ample time for questions and detailed answers.

Vendors who wish to participate are invited to submit a descriptive title and tentative presenter identification to Ray Peacock (rpeacock@temperatures.com) by 3 October 2005. The listing of vendors participating will appear in the Thermosense advance and final programs.

An abstract of the presentation may be submitted by 23 January 2006 and will be published in the SPIE Proceedings of the Thermosense conference.

6th Annual Infrared Imaging Gallery Authors are invited to bring thermograms within the professional and artistic categories. Chair: Ralph B. Dinwiddie, Oak Ridge National Lab.

Student Poster and Poster Briefing Session

Chairs: Jonathan J. Miles, James Madison Univ. &
Morteza Safai, Boeing, Co.

Thermosense XXVIII will again feature a Student Poster Session. The purpose of this session is to promote awareness of and encourage undergraduate and graduate research pertaining to the Thermosense conference. The oral sessions are always open to students who wish to present their work as a manuscript for oral presentation.

In order to take part in the Student Poster Session:
(1) an abstract must be submitted electronically to SPIE via the web on or before the SPIE abstract due date of 03 October 2005 (a Tracking Number will be forwarded after submission); then
(2) the abstract must be emailed to the session chair, Jonathan Miles, at milesjj@jmu.edu, with the paper tracking/confirmation number (i.e.OR05-OR33-1234);
(3) the lead author must be a student; and
(4) the student author must commit to attending the symposium and presenting his or her poster. __________________________________________
In case of multiple submissions, the Program Committee reserves the right to allow only one oral presentation per author group while transferring the others to the poster session. During the Symposium, authors are expected to attend their respective sessions to enable interaction with the audience. Unless otherwise requested by authors, authors and abstracts will be posted at http://www.thermosense.org.

Up-to-date and Session Chair information is available on the World Wide Web at http:// www.thermosense.org.
________________________________________

IMPORTANT!


Submissions imply the intent of at least one author
to register, attend the symposium, present the
paper (either orally or in poster format), and
submit a full-length manuscript for publication in
the conference Proceedings.


All authors (including invited or solicited speakers), program committee members, and session chairs are responsible for registering and paying the reduced author, session chair, program committee registration fee. (Current SPIE Members receive a discount on the registration fee.)

Presentation Content:
Papers should cover proven field techniques for sensor usage, the interpretation of data collected by the sensor, and/or the basis of any quantitative conclusions that can be drawn from the sensor readout. Papers that pertain to fundamental new developments concerning practices or instrumentation, and tutorial or review papers for each of the session topics are welcome. Papers with quantitative content are encouraged.

Topical Workshops:
• Building and Infrastructure
• Products and Processes
• Predictive Maintenance
• Materials NDT
• R&D Applications

Related Tutorial Short Courses (To be announced-Several new Courses are in development)

Invited Papers are expected in the following areas:
• Overview presentation on the development and history of the use of
IR technology for major applications such as NDT, Process Monitoring,
Night Vision, etc.


Submission of Abstracts

Abstract Due Date: 3 October 2005 Manuscript Due Date: 23 January 2006

Instructions for Submitting Abstracts

  • You are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to submit abstracts using the "submit an abstract" link at: www.spie.org/events/dss Important: to ensure receipt and proper processing of your abstract, the Subject line must include only the conference code. Example: Subject: OR 32
  • Submitting directly on the Web ensures that your abstract will be immediately accessible by the conference chair for review through MySPIE, SPIE's author/chair web site.
  • Please note! When submitting your abstract you must provide contact information for all authors, summarize your paper, and identify the contact author who will receive correspondence about the submission and who must submit the manuscript and all revisions. Please have this information available before you begin the submission process.
    First-time users of MySPIE can create a new account by clicking on the create new account link. You can simplify account creation by using your SPIE ID# which is found on SPIE membership cards or the label of any SPIE mailing.
    If you do not have web access, you may E-MAIL each abstract separately to: abstracts@spie.org in ASCII text (not encoded) format. There will be a time delay for abstracts submitted via e-mail as they will not be immediately processed for chair review.
    IMPORTANT! To ensure proper processing of your abstract, the SUBJECT line must include only:
    SUBJECT: OR32, Miles, Peacock, Knettel

IMPORTANT! To ensure proper processing of your abstract, the SUBJECT line must include only,

SUBJECT: OR32, MILES, PEACOCK, KNETTEL

 

  
1. PAPER TITLE
2. AUTHORS (principal author first) For each author: First (given)
name (initials not acceptable), Last (family) name, Affiliation,
Mailing address, Telephone, Fax, and Email address.
3. PRESENTATION PREFERENCE "Oral Presentation" or "Poster
Presentation."
4. PRINCIPAL AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY Approximately 50 words.
5. ABSTRACT TEXT Approximately 250 words.
6. KEYWORDS Maximum of five keywords.
Accepted Abstracts
A CD-Rom of accepted abstracts will be distributed to meeting
attendee’s onsite. Please submit only 250 word abstracts that are
suitable for publication.

Accepted abstracts for this conference will be included in the abstract digest which will be available at the meeting. Please submit only 250 word abstracts that are suitable for publication.


Conditions of Acceptance

  • Authors are expected to secure funding for registration fees,
    travel, and accommodations, independent of SPIE, through
    their sponsoring organizations before submitting abstracts.
  • Only original material should be submitted.
  • Commercial papers, papers with no new research/development
    content, and papers where supporting data or a technical
    description cannot be given for proprietary reasons will not be
    accepted for presentation in this symposium.
  • Abstracts should contain enough detail to clearly convey the
    approach and the results of the research.
  • Government and company clearance to present and publish
    should be final at the time of submittal. If you are a DoD
    contractor, allow at least 60 days for clearance. Authors are
    required to warrant to SPIE in advance of publication of the
    Proceedings that all necessary permissions and clearances
    have been obtained, and that submitting authors are authorized to transfer copyright of the paper to SPIE.

Publishing Policy

Manuscript due dates must be strictly observed. Whether the conference volume will be published before or after the meeting, late manuscripts run the risk of not being published in the Proceedings of SPIE. The objective of this policy is to better serve the conference participants and the technical community at large. Your cooperation is appreciated by all.

Abstracts will be published on the www.ThermoSense.Org web site.

Review, Notification, Program Placement

To ensure a high-quality conference, all abstracts and Proceedings manuscripts will be reviewed by the Conference Chair/Editor for technical merit and suitability of content. Conference Chair/Editors may require manuscript revision before approving publication, and reserve the right to reject for presentation or publication any paper that does not meet content or presentation expectations. SPIE's decision on whether to accept a presentation or publish a manuscript is final.

.§ Applicants will be notified of abstract acceptance by mail no later than 23 January 2006. Early notification of acceptance will be placed on SPIE Web the week of 26 December 2005 at www.spie.org/events/dssr

§ Final placement in an oral or poster session is subject to the Chairs' discretion. Instructions for oral and poster presentations will be sent to you by email. All oral and poster presentations require presentation at the meeting and submission of a manuscript to be included in the Proceedings of SPIE.

Proceedings of SPIE and SPIE Digital Library

  • These conferences will result in full-manuscript Chair/Editorreviewed volumes published in the Proceedings of SPIE and in the SPIE Digital Library.
  • Correctly formatted, ready-to-print manuscripts submitted in English are required for all accepted oral and poster presentations. Electronic submissions are recommended, and result in higher quality reproduction. Submission must be provided in PostScript created with a printer driver compatible with the SPIE online Electronic Manuscript Submission system. Instructions are included in the author kit and from the “Author Info” link at the conference website.
  • Authors are required to transfer copyright of the manuscript to SPIE or to provide a suitable publication license.
  • Papers published are indexed in leading scientific databases including INSPEC, Ei Compendex, Chemical Abstracts, International Aerospace Abstracts, Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings and NASA Astrophysical Data System, and are searchable in the SPIE Digital Library. Full manuscripts are available to Digital Library subscribers.
  • Late manuscripts may not be published in the conference Proceedings and SPIE Digital Library, whether the conference volume will be published before or after the meeting. The objective of this policy is to better serve the conference participants as well as the technical community at large, by enabling timely publication of the Proceedings.
  • Papers not presented at the meeting will not be published in the conference Proceedings, except in the case of exceptional circumstances at the discretion of SPIE and the Conference Chairs/Editors.

To receive a complete Call for Papers via postal mail, or to request an Advance Technical Program for any of these conferences (when available), please contact SPIE. Phone: +1 360/676-3290. Fax: +1 360/647-1445. E-mail: OR@spie.org

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