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The Truth Behind Temperature Sensing — Part 2


BRAD HARVEY


Posted: Wed, 07/22/2009 - 11:02
Updated: Fri, 08/07/2009 - 02:08

Last month, we opened the discussion on temperature sensing with your thermal imager. As a quick review, the actual name for temperature sensing is radiometry. Temperature sensing is a generic term used by the fire service referring to the ability of a thermal imager to determine the temperature of an object and display that information to the user; however, this feature is often misunderstood and misapplied on the fire scene.

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