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The Palm IR250
is a single band hand-held scanner. All natural and manmade objects
emit infrared energy; the hotter they are, the more infrared energy
they emit. Thermal imaging provides the ability to see and record temperature
differences. Infrared shares many of the properties of visible light,
but its different wavelength has several unique characteristics. For
instance, materials that are opaque to visible light may be transparent
to infrared and vice versa. Infrared is less subject to scattering and
absorption by smoke or dust than visible light and infrared cannot be
seen by the human eye. Unlike visible light, which is given off by ordinary
objects only at very high temperatures, infrared is emitted by all objects
at ordinary temperatures.
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Thermal imager on mount for aerial scanning. |
Aircraft used for aerial scan. |
Image produced from thermal imager. |
