Optics and Photonics in Global Homeland Security (OPGHS) II
SPIE’s Global Homeland Security Technical Group (GHSTG) presents Optics and Photonics in Global Homeland Security (OPGHS) II as part of the SPIE Defense & Security Symposium 2006. 17ג€“21 April 2006. Orlando, Florida USA
Conference Chair: Theodore T. Saito, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Program Committee: James M. Brase, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.; Dan J. Kroll, Hach Co., Inc.; Daniel Lehrfeld, Laser Optics, a PPGI Company; Keith L. Lewis, QinetiQ Ltd. (United Kingdom); Ashok K. Sood, Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc.; Roger W. Werne, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.; Ruth M. Woodward, HT Consultants Ltd. (United Kingdom)
Global Homeland Security Technical Group Conference
SPIE’s Global Homeland Security Technical Group (GHSTG) is committed to maximizing your benefits from attending the Defense & Security Symposium 2006 through two conferences: Photonics for Port and Harbor Security II and Optics and Photonics in Global Homeland Security (OPGHS) II.
GHSTG’s objectives for the conference and our DSS 2006 involvement are:
* to summarize recent major homeland security decisions, strategies and activities impacting requirements and budgets to better position our community’s contributions
* to summarize and update optics and photonics developments benefiting homeland security
* to update SPIE initiatives in
o Port and Harbor Security
o Drinking Water Safety
* to provide professional development for homeland security professionals
* to provide networking opportunities with peers as well as key homeland security personnel.
Contributions are sought for the following areas:
Overview of Status and Plans of Government (U.S. and International) Initiatives
* budget
* program and initiatives thrusts
* international organizations (U.N., nuclear, chemical, & biological treaty organizations and conventions)
* international community plans and initiatives.
Transportation Security
* rail and bus
* securing the airport infrastructure
o terahertz technologies
o improved cargo screening
* next generation system priorities
* countering man portable air defense systems (MANPADS)
* remote monitoring
* detecting and countering CBRE (chem, bio, radiological, or explosives). Drinking Water Safety
* requirements
* light based technologies: treatments, luminescent techniques, multiple angle optical particle size, and shape determination
* lab on chips and algorithm developments
* adapting traditional methods to meet the needs of water security.
Border Security
* requirements
* architectures
* electro-optical IR rystems
* unmanned airborne vehicle/robotic applications
* integrated solutions
* performance price trade offs.
Image Pattern Recognition Systems
* review of successful automated vision applications
* automated decision making
* advances in the neuroscience of vision systems
* multidisciplinary R&D for image and pattern recognition.
Persistent Surveillance
(large areas; high data rate transmissions)
* requirements
* technical challenges and solutions
* applications
* future possibilities.
For More Information, see the : Conference Website.