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  • Emerging Applications for Miniature Thermal Imaging Cameras

    Thermal imaging has a multitude of uses, but none are more important than the ones that save lives, whether it is locating people in a fire, finding suspects in total darkness, or helping drivers and captains to navigate at night.

  • Forensic Investigations Using Thermography and Steam

    Researchers looking for an alternative method of detecting the presence of dilute concentrations of blood on fabric have found a solution in thermal imaging. While blood is not visible on its own in the infrared spectrum, they discovered it was possible to create a thermal signature by introducing water vapor to a bloodstained sample. Despite some challenges with natural fibers, this thermal imaging method may be a preferable alternative to the use of luminol in forensic investigations.

  • NDT-Materials Testing

    FLIR cameras with Lock-In, Transient, and Pulse capability can perform advanced inspections such as Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) or stress mapping, resolving temperature differences as low as 1 mK. NDT is widely used to evaluate the properties of a material, component, or system without causing damage. IR cameras can detect internal defects through target excitation and the observation of thermal differences on a target's surface.

  • FLIR X6540sc camera enables innovative thermographic particle velocimetry technique

    A multiphase flow is defined as a flow in which more than one phase (i.e. gas, solid and liquid) occurs. Such flows are ubiquitous in industry, examples being gas-liquid flows in evaporators and condensers, gas-liquid-solid flows in chemical reactors, solid-gas flows in pneumatic conveying, etc. Multiphase flows can exhibit a rich variety of interfacial phenomena, complex wave patterns and dynamics and are an ongoing object of research.

  • Thermal Imaging Helps in Evaluating Dental Drilling

    Researchers are using high speed FLIR thermal cameras to study drilling techniques in a lab setting. By understanding the conditions that lead to thermal damage, they hope to find the optimal method for post space preparation of teeth.

  • Mobile Infrared Scanning — A High-Tech, Accurate Alternative to Traditional Bridge Inspection Methods

    Civil engineers have a big problem on their hands: tens of thousands of bridges across the United States have been in use long past their 50-year design life. According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), approximately one-quarter of the 611,845 bridges across the US are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. These bridges will require significant maintenance, repair, or replacement, at an estimated cost of $20.5 billion annually over the next 12 years.

  • FLIR Announces FLIR RSX-F Thermal Fire Sensor for Rail Coaches

    FLIR Systems, Inc. today announced the FLIR RSX-F intelligent sensor for advanced fire detection inside rail coaches. The FLIR RSX-F uses the FLIR Lepton® thermal sensor and high-definition visual imaging for fire and occupancy detection as well as CCTV monitoring.

  • FLIR Systems Powers New Cat S60, the World's First Thermal Imaging Smartphone

    FLIR Systems, Inc. today announced that Bullitt Group, a leading manufacturer of ruggedized smartphones, will integrate FLIR's Lepton® microcamera in the new Cat S60, creating the world's first thermal imaging smartphone. The Cat S60 smartphone, part of the extensive Cat Phones lineup of ruggedized handsets, is the latest consumer product to feature FLIR's thermal imaging technology and will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, Spain.

  • High Speed IR

    Researchers who want to stop motion on fast-moving targets, or freeze frame the thermal dynamics of targets that heat and cool rapidly, need thermal cameras that can do more than achieve fast frame rates. True high speed infrared imaging requires fast integration times – down to just microseconds – as well as the ability to capture data at 29,000 frames per second.

  • Use Low-Cost Materials to Increase Target Emissivity

    In many industrial R&D applications, there are many low-emissivity targets, especially for electrical applications. To get good measurements, we need to increase the emissivity of these problematic targets. A thermal imaging camera records the intensity of radiation in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum and converts it to a visible image. Infrared energy coming from an object is focused by the optics of the camera onto an infrared detector.

  • FLIR Exx-Series Cameras Makes Green Builder’s Hot 50 Products List

    The Exx-Series for electro-mechanical, plant, and building maintenance professionals made Green Builder’s Hot 50 Products list for 2017.

  • Optical Gas Imaging Resources

    Learn more about optical gas imaging and how others are using FLIR cameras to detect gases.