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Thermosense XXXI: Call for Papers

SPIE DSS Conference DS101

13 -- 17 April 2009 -- Orlando World Center Marriott Resort & Convention Center, Orlando, FL United States

Abstracts are due 29 September 2008 Part of the DSS program track on IR Sensors and Systems
See SPIE's submission guidelines for Authors & Presenters
Conference Chairs: Douglas D. Burleigh, Surfside Consulting (United States); Ralph B. Dinwiddie, Oak Ridge National Lab. (United States)
Program CommitteeNicolas P. Avdelidis, National Technical Univ. of Athens (Greece); Jeff R. Brown, Hope College (United States); Pierre G. Bremond, Cedip Infrared Systems (France); Antonio Colantonio, Public Works and Government Services Canada (Canada); Fred P. Colbert, Colbert Infrared Services (United States); K. Elliott Cramer, NASA Langley Research Ctr. (United States); Viki L. DeMars, Professional Thermographers Association (United States); Ermanno G. Grinzato, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy); Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M Univ. (United States); Herbert Kaplan, Honeyhill Technical Co. (United States); Timo T. Kauppinen, VTT (Finland); Kathryn M. Lee, United Space Alliance, LLC (United States); Dennis H. LeMieux, Siemens Corporate Research (United States); Robert P. Madding, FLIR Systems, Inc. (United States); Xavier P. V. Maldague, Univ. Laval (Canada); Jonathan J. Miles, James Madison Univ. (United States); Gary L. Orlove, FLIR Systems, Inc. (United States); G. Raymond Peacock, Temperatures.com, Inc. (United States); Piotr Pregowski, Pregowski Infrared Services (Poland); Andres E. Rozlosnik, SI Termografía Infrarroja (Argentina); Morteza Safai, The Boeing Co. (United States); Takahide Sakagami, Osaka Univ. (Japan); R. James Seffrin, Infraspection Institute (United States); Steven M. Shepard, Thermal Wave Imaging, Inc. (United States); Gregory R. Stockton, Stockton Infrared Thermographic Services, Inc. (United States); Vladimir P. Vavilov, Tomsk Polytechnic Univ. (Russia); Lisa West Åkerblom, FLIR Systems AB (Sweden)
Steering Committee Emeritus Members: Lee R. Allen, Allen Applied Infrared Technology; Sven-Åke Ljungberg, Univ. of Gävle, (Sweden): John R. Snell, Snell Infrared

On-site Proceedings Manuscript Due Date: 26 January 2009

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

Aerospace Applications
  • NDT & quality control (also see NDT)
  • corrosion/FOD/fatigue
  • aging aircraft
  • spacecraft & satellites Automotive Industry
  • manufacturing — process applications
  • predictive maintenance
  • process monitoring — automation
  • testing, measurement QA, R&R and validation.


    • Environmental and Resource Monitoring
  • agriculture & water conservation
  • fish & wildlife migration
  • geology
  • pollution & storm water outflow
  • remote detection & environmental sensing.


    • Food Processing and Agriculture
  • foreign object detection & characterization
  • process monitoring & automation
  • quality control
  • safety.


    • Infrastructure
  • airports & harbors
  • building surveys, historic studies
  • roads & bridges
  • thermal performance of buildings.


    • IR Image Fusion Applications
  • biological & medical
  • field/security
  • process
  • structural.


    • Manufacturing and Processing Industries
  • composites industry (also see NDT)
  • glass & ceramics
  • machine vision
  • metals processing
  • petroleum & chemical
  • plastics
  • predictive maintenance applications
  • pulp & paper
  • quality control applications
  • semiconductors & microelectronics.


    • Materials Evaluation and 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
  • aerospace applications
  • civil structures (infrastructure)
  • underground anomalies
  • electronic components.


    • Power Generation and Distribution
  • field measurement issues
  • power plant heat-rate efficiency
  • predictive maintenance
  • safety & records.


    • Research and 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.


    • 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 www.thermosense.org


    Monday Evening Exhibitor Vendor Session
    What's New in Infrared Imaging Hardware and Software
    (Presentations by equipment and service vendors)
    This session is now in its fifth year and has become very popular. This venue provides an early opportunity for exhibitors to showcase their latest technology and products to the ThermoSense and IR community prior to the opening of the exhibit. This is a casual meeting with ample time for questions and answers.

    Exhibiting vendors who wish to participate are invited to submit a descriptive title and tentative presenter identification by the Abstract Due Date of 20 October 2008. 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.


    8th 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.


    Student Poster and Poster Briefing Session:
    Chairs: Jonathan J. Miles, James Madison Univ. & Morteza Safai, Boeing Co.
    ThermoSense XXXI will again feature a Student Poster Session. The session 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 29 September 2008 (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 tracking number (i.e. DSS09-DS101-XX); (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.
    Submit Your AbstractAbstracts are due 29 September 2008 Submit Your Manuscript: Manuscript Due Date for On-site Proceedings: 26 January 2009
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