I know, I know, yet another ANOTHER meeting… the Advanced Maui Optical/infrared Summit is one of the premiere telescopic/photonic events in the annual calendar:
AMOS is good, not just because you go visit Maui, but because the “RSO” (resident space object) issue draws academic, civil, international… and military and now commercial attention, and thus funding. Some of those resident space objects are “NCOs” (noncooperative objects), which describes asteroids, sure… and “Chinese sat”, “Iranian sat”, etc. including space debris (ours or theirs- a risk either way). Lots of people want to see what’s up there, to see in detail, to track it, etc. and this event is lots of such people. Don’t take my word for it, see the program (just up):
amostech.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/AMOS 2024 Program.pdf
MON Sep 16
VIRTUAL COURSE D I Imaging, Tracking, and Object Detection
TUE Sep 17
IN-PERSON COURSE 03 | Panchromatic, Multi-Spectral, Spectroscopy and Polarimetry Data Collection and Image Processing for Non-Resolved Object Characterization
IN-PERSON COURSE 04 | Uncertainty Quantification for Space Situational Awareness
IN-PERSON COURSE 09 | Telescopes and Optics: An Introduction to Ground-Based Optical SDA
IN-PERSON COURSE 10 | The Case for Space Environmentalism
WED Sep 18
Technical Session | Space Debris
Technical Session | Space Domain Awareness Systems & Instrumentation
A Remarkable Boost in Satellite Brightness at Optical Wavelengths During the Daytime – Sarah Caddy, Macquarie University
A Benchtop Simulator for Evaluating PSF Engineering with a Fizeau Imaging Sparse Aperture Telescope – Megan Birch, Georgia Tech Research Institute/Georgia State University
THU Sep 19
Technical Session | Astrodynamics
Early Classification of Space Objects Based on Astrometric Time Series Data – Giovanni Lavezzi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technical Session | Conjunction/RPO
Technical Session | Satellite Characterization
Ground-Based On-Orbit Material Identification & Characterization with Simple Detectors via Broadband Speckle Imaging – Daniel Johns, Georgia State University
Super-Resolution Object Characterization in Low Earth Orbit (SROC LEO) – Stacey Jones, O Analytics, Inc.
Centroiding Caused Errors in Tracking and Adaptive Optics – Joshua Garretson, U.S. Space Force
Technical Session | Space Domain Awareness
FRI Sep 20
Technical Session | Space Based Assets
Technical Session | Atmospheric & Space Weather
Measuring the Vertical Profile of Atmospheric Turbulence with the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration Downlink at Table Mountain Facility – Francis Bennet, Australian Natl. Univ.
Digital Poster Presentations | Access Starts Sep 13
Extreme Gradient Boosting and Deep Learning Models for the Classification of Synthetic Space Debris Light Curves – Anne Adriano, University of Waterloo
Concept of the Korean Optical Space Surveillance Telescope System NSOS_Beta for Monitoring the High-Altitude Orbit Region – Jin Choi, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institiute
Detection in Deep Space from the Southern Hemisphere of Near Earth Objects Using a Combined Radar/Optical System – Ed Kruzins, UNSW Canberra Space
High-Fidelity Light Curve Simulation and Validation Using Empirical Data – Tristan Meyer, German Aerospace Center
Preliminary Study of Hyperspectral Unmixing Analysis Associated to Resident Space Objects Using DIRSIGTM – Aryzbe Najera, U. Texas- El Paso
Enhancing Unknown Near-Earth Object Detection with Synthetic Tracking and Convolutional Neural Networks – Kevin Phan, EO Solutions
Accelerating the Delivery of Space Systems: Applying Agile to Large-Scale, Safety-Critical, Cyber-Physical Systems for Enhanced Safety and Reliability – Robin Yeman, Carnegie Mellon SEI
Space Weather Effect via Periodic Photometric Observations of Geostationary Satellites – Matej Zigo, Comenius University – Bratislava, Slovakia
Like I said, these people are not kidding- they include people with billion-dollar birds to protect, against both natural (meteors, space weather) and manmade (…oh, Chinese, Iranian, etc.) risks. Okay, it’s no SPIE Telescopes, but that’s biennial, not annual.