Advance Program Now Online | Radar, ISR, Displays, Laser Sensors, Unmanned Systems, Sensor and Data Analysis

The Advance Program is now available for SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2012. Check out the details on more than 2,400 technical presentations and plan to join more than 6,000 people in Baltimore this April at the world's largest unclassified event for defense, security, and sensing applications for industry and the environment.

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PROGRAM INFORMATION
•	Advance program (PDF)
•	Advance program online
•	Preview of all available courses (PDF)

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS IN:

Sensor systems and platforms

•	IR, radar, passive millimeter-wave, and terahertz
•	Imaging and spectroscopy
•	CBRNE / Persistent ISR
•	Acquisition and tracking
•	Energy harvesting
•	Biometrics
•	Laser sensors and systems
•	Micro-nanotechnology sensors
•	Unmanned, robotic, and layered systems
•	Displays
•	Space technologies and operations
•	Wireless sensing
•	Scanning microscopy

Sensor and data analysis

•	Image and data processing
•	Visual analytics
•	Information fusion
•	Target and pattern recognition
•	Synthetic aperture and vision algorithms
•	Multi, hyper, and ultra spectral analysis
•	Situational awareness
•	Information and sensor systems and networks
•	Sensing technologies for global health and military medicine

New for 2012

•	Full-motion video workflows and technologies for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and situational awareness
•	Compressive sensing
•	Cyber sensing

SYMPOSIUM-WIDE PLENARY SPEAKER
	Bruce Carlson Director, National Reconnaissance Office 5 p.m., Monday, 23 April 2012
Panels, workshops, networking receptions and other special events

THE DEFENSE, SECURITY, AND SENSING EXHIBITION
The industry's leading event features top defense, security, and sensing contractors, suppliers, and integrators.
•	Learn more on the Exhibition website
•	Become an Exhibitor: View 2012 Exhibitor Contract (PDF)

BALTIMORE, APRIL 2012

For the first time, this leading event will be held in the Baltimore Convention Center at Baltimore, Maryland's, charming, vibrant, Inner Harbor.
The location promises the biggest and best SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing ever, with more than 6,000 attendees, 500 exhibiting companies, and better networking and business connections for defense, security, and environment industries and researchers.

Defense, Security, and Sensing in Baltimore:

•	Access to top research institutions, industry leaders and innovators, military installations, and key decision-makers in research and development funding for defense, security, and sensing.
•	A growing set of conferences and exhibitions covering all the latest in technological research.
•	A world-class city just outside the convention center doors, with dozens of hotels and restaurants, and scores of entertainment options within walking distance - from Baltimore Orioles baseball to the National Aquarium to Fort McHenry to the clubs of Power Plant Live! and Fells Point to the charm of Little Italy.