Helpful Tips for Users From FLIR
Meer, Belgium -- FLIR Systems has published a new technical note that investigates and describes how to use low-cost materials to increase target emissivity to enable accurate measurement using a thermal imaging camera.
Clean, unoxidized, bare metal surfaces such as are found in many R&D applications have low emissivity. Consequently they are difficult to analyse with a thermal imaging camera.
To get good accurate temperature measurements there is a consequent need to increase the emissivity of these problematic targets.
The technical note provides an informative introduction to emissivity and how a target's emissivity, reflectance and thermal conductivity values are highly dependent on material properties.
The authors describe several cost effective techniques to compensate for low emissivity based upon reducing the reflectance of the target enabling a significant improvement in measurement accuracy.
Further, a simple technique to facilitate fault finding on populated printed circuit boards (PCB) containing a variety of metal and plastic components using a thermal imaging camera is described.
For a copy of this new technical note please visit www.flir.com or contact FLIR Systems on +32-3665-5100 or research@flir.com.
Some additional downloads relating to Emissivity may be found on the FLIR Systems website, www.FLIR.com, by using the integral search engine and requesting the term "emissivity", "spectral emissivity*" or "emittance". Typical current results are shown at https://www.flir.com/discover/professional-tools/how-does-emissivity-affect-thermal-imaging/.
FLIR Systems, Inc. is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of sensor systems that enhance perception and awareness. FLIR's advanced thermal imaging and threat detection systems are used for a wide variety of imaging, thermography, and security applications, including airborne and ground-based surveillance, condition monitoring, research and development, manufacturing process control, search and rescue, drug interdiction, navigation, transportation safety, border and maritime patrol, environmental monitoring, and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE) detection.
For more information, go to FLIR's web site at www.FLIR.com.
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Source: The original news release for this article was published on on 10 October 2015, submitted by Primetek Solutions (www.primetek-solutions.com)
