Part of the SPIE International Defense and Security Symposium 9-13 April 2007 • Orlando World Center Marriott Resort & Convention Center • Orlando, FL USA

Conference Chairs: Kathryn M. Knettel, United Space Alliance, LLC; Vladimir P. Vavilov, Tomsk Polytechnic Univ. (Russia); Jonathan J.Miles, James Madison Univ.

Program Committee: Lee R. Allen, Allen Applied Infrared Technology; Nicolas P. Avdelidis, IRT & Materials Consultancy (Greece); Pierre Bremond, Cedip Infrared Systems (France); Douglas D. Burleigh, Surfside Consulting; Antonio Colantonio, Public Works and Government Services Canada (Canada); Fred Colbert, Colbert Infrared Services; K. Elliott Cramer, NASA Langley Research Ctr.; Ralph B. Dinwiddie, Oak Ridge National Lab.; Ermanno G. Grinzato, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy); Sheng-Jen 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); G. Raymond Peacock, Temperatures.com, Inc.; Piotr Pregowski, Pregowski Infrared Services (Poland); Austin A. Richards,FLIR Systems, Inc.; Andrés E. Rozlosnik, SI TermografÌa Infrarroja (Argentina); Morteza Safai, The Boeing Co.; Takahide Sakagami, Osaka Univ. (Japan); R. James Seffrin, Infraspection Institute; Steven M. Shepard, Thermal Wave Imaging, Inc.; Gregory R. Stockton, Stockton Infrared Thermographic Services, Inc.; Lisa West Åkerblom, FLIR Systems, Inc. (Sweden)

Thermal/infrared related papers are solicited in the areas listed and are also welcome in other areas:

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Monday Evening Exhibitor Vendor Session --What's New in Infrared Imaging Hardware and Software (Presentations by providers of equipment):
Chairs: Andrés E. Rozlosnik, SI TermografÌa Infrarroja (Argentina) & G.Raymond Peacock, Temperatures.com, Inc.

This session was added in 2005, and has grown in popularity since. DSS exhibitors are invited to break from travel and setting up Monday evening to present to the ThermoSense community, before the conference and exhibition begin, their new products and services. 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 exhibition. This is a casual meeting with ample time for questions and detailed answers.

Exhibiting vendors who wish to participate are invited to submit a descriptive title and tentative presenter identification by the Abstract Due Date of 25 September 2006. An abstract of the presentation submitted by the Manuscript Due Date will facilitate publication of a Vendors Listing in the Program Summary and within the Proceedings of the ThermoSense conference.
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7th Annual Infrared Imaging Gallery

Chairs: Ralph B. Dinwiddie, Oak Ridge National Lab. and Nicolas P. Avdelidis, IRT & Materials Consultancy (Greece)

Authors and Thermographers are invited to post Professional, Artistic, Unique, or Interesting thermographs. All thermographs to be in presentation form. First, Second, and Third place winners are awarded ribbons. Categories include but are not limited to Aerial, Art and Portraiture,Medical, Military Applications, Surveillance, and Historical Structures.
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Up-to-date and Session Chair information is available at: http://www.thermosense.org
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Student Poster and Poster Briefing Session:

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

ThermoSense XXIX will again feature a Student Poster Session. This is intended to promote awareness of, and encourage undergraduate and graduate research pertaining to, the ThermoSense conference. The oral sessions are 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 25 September 2006 (a Tracking Number will be forwarded after submission); then (2) the abstract must be e-mailed to the session chair, Jonathan Miles, at milesjj@jmu.edu with the paper confirmation number (i.e. DSS07-DS37-XXX); (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.
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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

Abstract Due Date: 25 September 2006

Manuscript Due Date: 15 January 2007

Submission of Abstracts for SPIE Defense and Security Symposium

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.

By submitting your abstract you warrant that all clearances and permissions have been obtained, and authorize SPIE to circulate your abstract to conference committee members for review and selection purposes and if it is accepted, to publish your abstract in conference announcements and publicity.

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.)

Instructions for Submitting Abstracts via Web

You are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to submit abstracts using the “submit an abstract” link at: http:/spie.org/events/dss

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: DS37, Knettel, Vavilov, Miles

Your abstract submission must include all of the following:
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.
[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.]
6. KEYWORDS Maximum of five keywords.

Conditions of Acceptance

1. Authors are expected to secure funding for registration fees, travel, and accommodations, independent of SPIE, through their sponsoring organizations before submitting abstracts.

2. Only original material should be submitted.

3. 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.

4. Abstracts should contain enough detail to clearly convey the approach and the results of the research.

5. 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.

Review, Notification, Program Placement

1. 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.

2. Applicants will be notified of abstract acceptance and sent manuscript instructions by e-mail no later than 27 November 2006 Notification of acceptance will be placed on SPIE Web the week of 1 January 2007 at http://spie.org/events/dss

3. 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 e-mail. 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

1. These conferences will result in full-manuscript Chair/Editor reviewed volumes published in the Proceedings of SPIE and in the SPIE Digital Library.

2. 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 or MS Word. Instructions will be e-mailed to the contact author and are also available from the “Author Info” link at the conference website.

3. Authors are required to transfer copyright of the manuscript to SPIE or to provide a suitable publication license.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

ED. NOTE: The ThermoSense Conference is a part of the Defense & Security Symposium managed by SPIE International. A pdf version of this Call For Papers may be downloaded by clicking here(68k).