Past Event Overview

SPIE DSS 2014 hosts the industry's most important scientific conferences and exhibition on optics, IR imaging, lasers, and sensing for defense, security, industry, healthcare, and the environment. We appreciate your participation.

2014 Event News and Photos

Final Program (PDF 25 MB)

Abstracts (PDF 6 MB)

Course Program (PDF 2 MB)

Exhibition Guide (PDF 20 MB)

The strongest conference program in the industry
SPIE Sensing Technology + Applications: Topics include Hyperspectral Imaging, IR Sensors and Systems, Imagery and Pattern Analysis, Next-Generation Sensors and Systems, Ocean Monitoring, Fiber Optic Sensors, Wireless Sensing, Terahertz Device and Systems, Sensing for Agriculture and Food Safety, Thermosense, Energy Harvesting, 3D Imaging & Visualization, Next-Generation Robotics, Remote Sensing, and more
SPIE Defense + Security: Topics include IR Imaging, Laser Technologies, Mine/Chemical Detection (CBRNE), Military Medicine, Heads-Up and other Displays, Instrumentation & Control, Aviation/Aerospace, Border Protection, Cyber Sensing/Security, Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence (C3I), System/Network Integrator/VAR, UAVs, Communications/Networking, and more

2014 Plenary Speakers

William Ruh
Vice President and Corporate Officer
GE Global Software Headquarters


Ludger Overmeyer
Head of Institute of Transport and Automation Technology
Leibniz Univ. Hannover


Troy Meink
Member of the Senior Executive Service, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space; Director, Executive Agent for Space Staff, Washington D.C.

2014 Symposium Chairs


David Whelan
Vice President, Strategic Innovation, Phantom Works
Boeing Defense, Space, and Security 
2014 DSS Symposium Chair

Nils R. Sandell, Jr.
Director, Strategic Technology Office
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
2014 SPIE Defense + Security Symposium Co-Chair

Wolfgang Schade
Head of Applied Physics Dept., IEPT, Clausthal Univ. of Technology, and Head of Fiber Optical Sensor Systems Dept., Fraunhofer Heinrich Heinz Institute
(Germany)
2014 SPIE Sensing Technology + Applications Symposium Co-Chair

DSS Expo - The No. 1 exhibition in the industry

SPIE DSS Expo is the East Coast's largest exhibition for precision optics, lasers, sensors, optical materials, thermal imaging, optoelectronics, instrumentation, data analysis, and more.