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SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 23 - 27 April 2012
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Infrared, ISR, Optics, Lasers, Sensors, Homeland Security, Robotics, UAV Systems, Optoelectronics

Read the news | What is happening at SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing 2012

Thanks for attending SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2012: This year's event was the largest in Defense, Security, and Sensing history, with 6,700 registered attendees, 2,450 technical presentations, 540 exhibitors on the show floor and an 18 percent increase in exhibit visitors.

The week in Baltimore also included about 50 courses, workshops, panel discussions, networking events, and notable plenary speakers.

Read the onsite news from five great days in Baltimore.

Event Information
Final Technical Program | PDF
Technical Abstracts | PDF
Course preview | PDF, online
Exhibition preview | PDF
Technical program topics
IR, radar, passive millimeter-wave, and terahertz
Imaging and spectroscopy
Biometrics
Laser sensors and systems
Micro-nanotechnology sensors
Unmanned, robotic, and layered systems
Displays
Space technologies and operations
Scanning microscopy
Image and data processing
Sensing technologies for global health and military medicine
Cyber sensing
And more | See the complete list of conferences
Symposium-wide plenary speaker
 


Bruce Carlson
Director,
National Reconnaissance Office


Panels, workshops, networking receptions and other special events
Visit the No. 1 exhibition in the industry
The East Coast's largest exhibition for precision optics, lasers, sensors, optical materials, thermal imaging, optoelectronics, instrumentation, data analysis, and more. With more than 500 companies, you can learn of new possibilities and find new products.
Exhibition website
Online Registration is now closed. Register onsite at the Baltimore Convention Center.
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.
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Important Author Dates

Abstract Due Date Extended to:
21 October 2011

Late submissions may be accepted at the conference chairs' discretion.

Author Notification:
19 December 2011

Manuscript Due Date for On-Site Proceedings Conference 8398 ONLY:
13 February 2012

Manuscripts Due Date for Post-Meeting Proceedings Volumes: 
26 March 2012


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