DCS Employees in Leadership Role for Military Sensing Symposium
DCS Corp has been an active member of the Military Sensing Symposium for over 15 years. Specialty Groups covering Passive Sensors (PS), Battlefield Survivability and Discrimination (BSD), Detectors, and Materials met in a Parallel Meeting, February 23-27, 2009, in Orlando, Fl.
This year, DCS employees presented several technical papers and also performed in leadership roles as Session Chair and Session Co-chairs. Evelyn Boettcher was lead investigator and co-author for a paper entitled "Modeling Field Performance of Passive Millimeter Wave Imagery for Discriminating Small Watercraft" based on research she has supported at the Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate. The paper represented the culmination of over 2 years of field work and analysis to assess state-of-the-art passive millimeter wave (mmW) imager performance in terms of resolution, sensitivity, and frame rate. The work is both timely and relevant, evaluating mmW sensors for Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection and navigation tasks that will help Navy shipboard commanders assess threats posed by small watercraft, terrorists and pirates.
Dr. Richard Priest, a nationally recognized expert in Hyperspectral and Multispectral Imaging, algorithm development and evaluation, and electro-optical systems modeling, served as Session Chairman for the 2009 Battlefield Survivability and Discrimination (BSD) Meeting. His leadership of this conference provided vital support to the premiere classified forum for sensing and counter-threat technologies, providing scientific interchange on critical tactical and strategic issues. In addition to his role as MSS Chairman, Dr. Priest co-authored and presented a technical paper “Improving the Detectability of Low-Contrast Targets using a Sensor-Dependent Spectral Difference Model”.
Dick Riordan, Chief Technology Officer, served as a session co-chair for the Analysis, Modeling, and Visual Psychophysics session of the Passive Sensors Specialty Group Meeting. This session deals with modeling and analysis of new sensors in tactical scenarios, and effectiveness of the operator/observer’s ability to perform detection and identification tasks with displayed sensor information.
The collective involvement of these DCS employees highlights the company’s long-term heritage of sensors expertise and support of the Department of Defense sensors community.