This is forwarded from Hervé Glotin <glotin@univ-tln.fr>. --------------------------------------------------------- Please Forward : CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE PASSIVE 08 Toulon - Var - France www.passive08-hyeres.org Passive remote sensing techniques have a meaningful and challenging role in addressing the measurement needs of several research and operational programs (defense purposes, environmental monitoring). The need to rapidly respond to these new surveillance and security challenges requires advanced software architectures allowing easier cost-effective enhancements of existing software applications. The workshop will be concerned by all passive systems (underwater, surface and near-surface systems) from signal interpretation to processing algorithms to system conception. Thus, the purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum to identify the long term role of passive remote sensing systems and the long term sensing technology advances required to enhance the performances of those passive systems deemed most promising for future and operational use. Particular themes of the conference include, but are not restricted to: - Processing algorithms (detection, identification, localization and tracking), - Marine mammal study, - Non-cooperative target recognition; Computer-aided detection/computer-aided classification, - Tracking methods and physics-based tracking algorithm, - Multi-sensor, multi-target data association and fusion, - System integration. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2008. The workshop will provide some authors of papers of relevance quality for their contribution to passive systems the opportunity to further shape their work for submission to a special issue of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (see http://www.oceanicengineering.org/ ). -- Herve' Glotin System and Information Sciences Lab (LSIS-UMR 6168) http://glotin.univ-tln.fr ONLY REPLY at glotin@univ-tln.fr