ISSSR 2008

IV. Science & Technology for Land (& Surface) Sensing & Monitoring

IV(A) Land Sensing: Standoff for Gases & Bioaerosols

Chair: Jean-Marc Theriault, Defence Research and Development Canada

Temporal-Spectral Detection in Long Wave
Infrared Hyperspectral Imagery
Daniel Heinz, Science and Technology Corp.
Invited
Remote Detection of Hard-Targets Based on Spectral Simulations
of Vehicle Exhaust Products
Eldon Puckrin, DRDC-Valcartier, Canada
Passive Standoff Detection and Identification of
Crowd Control Products with a LWIR Sensor
Hugo Lavoie, DRDC Valcartier, Canada
Dynamic Hyper-Spectral Thermal Signature Model (DHTSM)
Validation Analysis: LWIR Spectrum
Chen Lai, U.S. Army Material Systems Analysis Activity
FFI Standoff Biological Aerosol Detection Demonstrator
Based on UV Laser Induced Fluorescence
Oystein Farsund, FFI, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
Invited

IV(B) Land Sensing: Standoff for Surface Contaminations & Aerosols

Chair: Hugo Lavoie, Defence Research and Development Canada

Remote Detection of Gases and Liquids
by Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometry
Roland Harig, Instiut fur Messtechnik, Germany
Invited
Passive Standoff Detection of Surface Contaminants
by Differential Polarization FTIR Spectroscopy:
A Modeling and Simulation Study
Jean-Marc Theriault, DRDC Valcartier, Canada
Spectropolarimetric Imaging of Laser-Induced Fluorescence
Neelam Gupta, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Analysis of Laser Induced Fluorescence Data
in the Urban Environment
Pierre Lahaie, DRDC Valcartier, Canada
Near IR Spectroscopy: A Tool to Environmental TNT Detection
Miguel Gonzalez, UPR- Mayaguez

IV(B-P1) Land Sensing: Enhancement Technologies & Approaches

Chair: Radislav Potyrailo, GE Global Research

Terahertz Detection by Nanometer Scale Field Effect Transistors
Michael Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited
Magneto-Optically Enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing
Rosa A. Lukaszew, College of William and Mary
Highly Efficient Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
Substrates for Sensing of Chemical and Biological Agents
Anuj Dhawan, Duke University
Metal Enhanced Fluorescence for Increased Signal in Sensors
Julia J. Heetderks, University of Maryland
Raman Scattering Study of O-And P-Dinitrobenzenes
on the Surface of Cu Nanoparticles with Visible Excitation
and Density Functional Theory
Omar E. Rivera-Betancourt, UPR-Mayaguez

IV(C) Land Sensing(Frontier):
Technology Enabled Innovative Spectral Sensing

Chair: Janet Jensen, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Standoff Raman Detection of Explosives
Samuel P. Hernandez-Rivera, UPR-Mayaguez
Surface Enhanced Fluorescence (SEF)
Ruiqiong Li, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Multi-Spectral Microscope for Imaging Transmission
Spectroscopy Employing an Array of Light-Emitting Diodes
Mikkel Brydegaard, Lund University, Sweden
Student Paper
Collection and Detection of Airborne Microorganisms by Combining
Electrostatic Precipitation with Infrared Spectroscopy
Luke Doucette, Orono Spectral Solutions
Bio-Inspired Adaptive Hyperspectral Imaging for Target Tracking
Tao Wang, The City College of New York
Student Paper

IV(C-P1) Land Sensing: Hyperspectral & Imagery Processing

Chair: Kirkman Phelps, KRP Consulting

Anomaly Detection and Verification
via Airborne Hyperspectral and High Resolution
Imagery Processing and Fusion
Doron Bar, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., Israel
Airborne Measurements in the Longwave Infrared
Using an Imaging Hyperspectral Sensor
Vincent Farley, Telops, Inc.
Statistical Motivated Background Modeling
Michael Kirchhof, FGAN-FOM, Germany
Band Extraction for Face Recognition in Hyperspectral Data
Stefan Robila, Montclair State University