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CONFERENCE SCOPE
Spectroscopic Sensing Science & Electronic Technology with a Special Emphasis
Here the goal is to leverage both the evolving multispectral/hyperspectral science & technology base and
newly emerging algorithmic methodologies (both software & hardware) to create new technology-program oriented networks that will serve as accelerated research and development
vehicles for the advancement of the state-of-the-art in spectroscopic-based early-warning sensor capabilities. The motivation for this focus is the fact that
spectral sensing has experienced rapid technical advancement in recent years that has led to the demonstration of numerous practical field sensors.
Therefore spectral-based techniques exhibit the clear potential for providing more effective, economical and supportable (i.e., reagentless) solutions to
military and homeland defense early-warning monitoring requirements within land, sea and air related sensing application scenarios.
on Enhancement Algorithms for Land, Sea and Air Threat-Agent Detection. An increased emphasis on reagentless spectroscopy combined with algorithmic enhancement is motivated primarily by negative performance issues associated with traditional chemical and biological (CB) point and standoff techniques. In particular, sensors have been previously developed and fielded that rely heavily on reagents and/or burdensome support structures that are expensive and difficult to maintain and that have serious false alarm issues. Examples of previously implemented technologies include biological assays, mass spectrometry and ion mobility. Other explored methodologies include novel materials (mips, smart ligands, amino acid sequences, aptamers, sol gel, aerogel, electro-conducting polymers, etc.) or bulk property interactions (electrochemistry, surface acoustic wave, surface plasmon resonance, thermal capacity) and combinations of the two. At this time, extensive expertise exists in the multispectral/hyperspectral community for applications such as airborne and space-based sensing and imaging which has proved effective in monitoring weather, resource management (agriculture, forestry), oil/mineral deposits and CB detection in air releases. Furthermore, there is a rapidly growing interest in the development of post-acquisition (software based) algorithmic or signal-processing based strategies to enhance and aid the functionality of spectral sensors as well as novel acquisition-phase architectures (hardware based) that enable extended functionality and greatly enhanced data processing capabilities. Hence, spectral-based techniques clearly have potential for providing near to mid-term solutions for many of the monitoring problems associated with chemical, biological, radiological & explosive (CBR&E) threats on the land, sea and in the air. However, the ultimate realization of such spectroscopic techniques will probably require the fusion of many types of spectral-sensing techniques and modality along with the leveraging of advanced algorithmic strategies. Therefore, standoff and point interrogation sensors are now sought that can provide for extremely high confidence in CBR&E detection and monitoring scenarios and the goal of the 2008 ISSSR is to organize and focus the science and technology base algorithm development community towards these important challenges. Contributed papers and exhibitor participation are welcome to the 2008 ISSSR for the following multispectral/hyperspectral major sensing topical related areas:
I. Software & Hardware Algorithms for Enhanced Sensing & Monitoring
Note that the entire first day of the Conference will be dedicated to this
subject and an afternoon Roadmap Session is planned for open discussion,
with the special subcategories for this area including but are not limited to:
Image Resolution Enhancement 3-D Imaging Enhancement 2-D LIDAR Image Enhancement Polarization Image Enhancement Dynamic-Range, Contrast & Ranging Enhancement Spatio-Spectral Resolution Enhancement Nonuniformity Noise Correction Spectral Unmixing Spectral Tuning Feature Extraction, Classification & Anomaly Detection II. Science & Technology for Sea (& Water) Sensing & Monitoring III. Science & Technology for Land (& Surface) Sensing & Monitoring IV. Science & Technology for Air (& Atmospheric) Sensing & Monitoring V. Frontier (& Emerging) Spectroscopic Science & Technology For each of the major technical categories given above papers that address the following aspects associated with CBR&E threats are encouraged for submission:
a) Agent Detection and Identification Applications
b) Sensor Methodologies, Technologies and Instrumentation c) Phenomenology and Signature Development d) Detection and Identification Algorithms e) Data Reduction, Analysis and Interpretation f) Sensing and Sensors Modeling and Simulation g) Test and Validation Methodology |
