FLIR Systems has published a handbook that allows users to discover thermal imaging applications advances being made around the world.
Researchers and engineers are using FLIR research grade thermal imaging cameras every day to solve challenges that are difficult by other means, or to improve on or replace time consuming techniques such as IR thermocouples.
Thermal imaging cameras have a wide range of applications including the provision of non-contact temperature measurement, imaging through some materials or making the invisible visible, capturing high speed thermal events, synchronising cameras to other instruments and performing thermal microscopy measurements.
The new handbook - which is available as an interactive pdf or iBook - provides an informative introduction to the advantages of IR thermography over thermocouples.
It also discusses basic thermal imaging theory, details how thermal imaging has unlocked a growing number of research applications and addresses the 5 Ss : Speed, Sensitivity, Spectral Filtering, Spatial Resolution and Synchronisation.
