5140 attend SPIE Annual Meeting in Denver

17 Jun 2002

More than 5140 scientists and engineers met at the SPIE Annual Meeting in Denver last week. The 1996 Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation presented over 2600 papers, with 6.9% rise in technical attendance from the previous year.

Technical highlights of the meeting included conferences on satellite and airborne reconnaissance; EUV and x-ray; technologies; imaging spectrometry and hyperspectral Remote Sensing; wavelet applications; and fiber sensor technology. Special events were particularly well attended by an enthusiastic audience. Highlights included a presentation on CORONA, the world's first optical reconnaissance satellite. The presentation complemented an enhanced program on remote sensing and IR imaging, fields of keen interest in the region. Other presentations included an overview of marketing and development strategies in targeted regions. The overview was led by Robert Breault, Breault Research Organization, and was accented by pavilions in the exhibit hall showcasing such "optics cluster" companies.

Exhibit attendance at the new venue was from previous years, but there were few complaints from companies who benefited from the large technical audience and saw new customers and representatives in the Rocky Mountain region, including Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Rocky Mountain Instruments, Research Electro-Optics Inc., and DFM Engineering, Inc.

SPIE's Annual Meeting returns to the San Diego Convention Center, 27 July-1 August 1997. Request a complete announcement and call for papers at SD97@spie.org.