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13 - 17 April 2025
Orlando, Florida, US

Information for Authors and Presenters

Find instructions, deadlines, and tips for preparing your presentation

Information for authors and presenters

Find instructions, important dates, and other information to contribute your work to the 2025 conference program. The call for papers is open, and we look forward to bringing the community together in Orlando, Florida.

Present and publish your work as part of Defense + Commercial Sensing


Here's why submitting a presentation to SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing puts a spotlight on your work:

  • the event will bring you international visibility
  • your research becomes a part of the world's permanent scientific record
  • your work will be indexed in all relevant scientific databases*

Make sure that your research gets timely publication in the SPIE Digital Library.

*SPIE partners with relevant scientific databases to ensure visibility for your research, including Astrophysical Data System (ADS), Ei Compendex, CrossRef, Google Scholar, Inspec, Scopus, and Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

Important dates


Abstracts due 2 October 2024
Registration opens December 2024
Authors notified and program posted online 30 December 2024
Submission system opens for manuscripts and poster PDFs* 10 February 2025
Poster PDFs due for spie.org preview and publication 19 March 2025
Manuscripts due 26 March 2025
Advance upload deadline for oral presentation slides** 11 April 2025

*Contact author or speaker must register prior to uploading
**After this date slides must be uploaded onsite at Speaker Check-in

Student Members may qualify for SPIE conference support

SPIE offers supplemental travel grants (airfare/lodging) and fee waivers to SPIE Student Members including student authors, Student Chapter Members, and student attendees who are planning to present or attend an SPIE meeting. SPIE Student Members who are presenting authors will be given priority selection, but all Student Members are encouraged to apply.

Preparing for your participation