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Infrared Thermal Imaging

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Infrared thermal imaging is a technique to generate quantitative radiometric digital images of object scenes recorded in the thermal infrared wavelength range between 0.8 and 15 μm. Besides qualitative visualization, it allows to measure surface temperatures of objects [1, 2, 3].

Background

Infrared (IR) radiation was discovered in 1800 by Sir William Herschel while studying radiation from the sun. One hundred years later, Max Planck was the first to correctly describe the underlying laws of thermal radiation quantitatively. Several decades thereafter the first infrared-detecting cameras with cooled semiconductor detectors were developed. While initially developed for military purposes, small portable systems soon became available also for commercial applications, and nowadays they are used extensively by physicists, technicians, engineers, and even science teachers. The enormous progress of microsystem technologies toward the end of the twentieth...

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  1. University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany

    Michael Vollmer

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Vollmer, M. (2020). Infrared Thermal Imaging. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_844-1

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