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News Release from: Flir Systems | Subject: ThermaCAM P640
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 July 2007
Thermal camera copes with long distances
The 640 x 480 focal plane array of the Flir Systems ThermaCAM P640 allows small problems to be found at greater distances.
Thermal imaging surveys must sometimes be carried out on particularly long or tall objects such as a kilns crackers or even buildings One answer is to take the image from a greater distance away
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The problem with this appraoch is this often compromises measurement accuracy although with a high-resolution camera such as the ThermaCAM P640 from Flir Systems this isn't the case.
Its 640 x 480 focal plane array allows small problems to be found at greater distances.
Sometimes however the layout of the plant simply doesn't allow large objects to be viewed with sufficient perspective.
Image Builder software stitches images together so that resolution is increased.
Pixels are not required to cover a bigger area as images are taken without the need for the operator to increase his or her distance from the target.
Image stitching is nothing new.
Most graphics packages offer this capability but the key differentiator with Image Builder is that once the image is stitched together it retains its thermal data and can therefore still be analysed in all Flir Systems' software packages at a later stage.
With the 640 x 480 ThermaCAM P640 using Image Builder's maximum 3 x 3 grid of images the user has a 1920 x 1440 pixel image - almost 3 Megapixels. Request a free brochure from Flir Systems ...
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