At SPIE Defense, Security+Sensing (DSS) 2014, an expected crowd of 6000 attendees will have the chance to interact with more than 450 suppliers of precision optics, lasers, sensors, optical materials, infrared (IR) imaging, optoelectronics, and data analysis components in Baltimore, MD, from May 5-9.
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SPIE DSS 2014 consists of more than 55 conferences covering the latest research in defense and commercial sensing technologies, as well 40 courses developed by industry experts. This year, the conference has reorganized into two technical symposia, each of which will have conferences covering a number of topics:
Sensing Technology + Applications: Hyperspectral imaging, IR sensors and systems, imagery and pattern analysis, sensors and systems, ocean monitoring, fiber-optic sensors, wireless sensing, terahertz devices and systems, sensing for agriculture and food safety, thermosensing, energy harvesting, 3D imaging, and robotics.
Defense + Security: Aerospace, border protection, laser technologies, C3I (Command, control, communications, and intelligence), military medicine, first responders, heads-up and other displays, system/network integrator, VAR, instrumentation and control, UAVs, IR imaging, and communications/networking.
Courses being offered at DSS 2014 include:
- Infrared sensors and systems
- Defense, homeland security, and law enforcement
- Laser sensors and systems
- Displays
- Sensor data and information exploitation
- Information systems and networks: Processing, fusion, and knowledge generation
- Imaging and sensing technologies
- Sensing for industry, environment, and health
- Emerging technologies
- Optical and optomechanical engineering
Attendees of the SPIE DSS Expo, which will take place May 6-8, can expect to see robotics and unmanned systems; chemical and biological sensing; IR detectors and systems; cameras and CCD components; displays; optical components; high-speed imaging and sensing; and law enforcement technologies on the show floor. The following is a cross-section of the products being showcased by exhibitors at the Expo, broken down by category:
Detectors & Imaging
e2v to display CMOS camera line at SPIE DSS 2014
Gentec-EO to show detector/meter combos and USB 3.0 large-format camera at SPIE DSS 2014
Hamamatsu to show InGaAs image sensor for NIR imaging at SPIE DSS 2014
Ophir Photonics to showcase pyroelectric camera for 2D/3D laser diagnostics at SPIE DSS 2014
Photron to display high-speed CMOS imaging system at SPIE DSS 2014
Sensors Unlimited - UTC Aerospace Systems to showcase miniature SWIR camera at SPIE DSS 2014
Lasers & Sources
Laser Quantum to display femtosecond, CW lasers at SPIE DSS 2014
Optical components & Systems
DSI to debut thin-film face metallization and solderable coatings at SPIE DSS 2014
JML Optical to showcase custom optics at SPIE DSS 2014
LightWorks Optical Systems to display LWIR/MWIR objective lenses at SPIE DSS 2014
Moulded Optics to show molded glass and plastic optical components at SPIE DSS 2014
Raicol Crystals to showcase rubidium titanyl phosphate crystals and devices for electro-optics at SPIE DSS 2014
Sydor Optics to display silicon and germanium IR windows at SPIE DSS 2014
Positioning, Support, & Accessories
Analog Modules to showcase laser rangefinder receiver/processor at SPIE DSS 2014
Opto-Alignment Technology to showcase MWIR laser alignment station at SPIE DSS 2014
Test & Measurement
Duma Optronics to showcase position and power measuring device at SPIE DSS 2014
Ocean Optics to showcase handheld Raman, NIR spectrometers at SPIE DSS 2014
For more information, please visit http://spie.org/x6765.xml.
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