Timeline for Are thermal imagers inherently more expensive than visible-light digital cameras?
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| Jul 9, 2021 at 15:51 | history | edited | feetwet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 3:24 | comment | added | Rob | @feetwet - The term "Thermal IR" (defined here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation#Overview) refers to MWIR and LWIR because it is SWIR that uses reflected light. For the purpose of this (closed question) discussion I think it useful to define the Bands by 'Detector Bandwidth' combined with 'Atmospheric Window' as explained in the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared#Sensor_response_division_scheme - Thermal IR is from 3 to 30 µm, not 7-14µm. | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 15:12 | comment | added | feetwet | As noted in the question: Thermal IR = LWIR starts at around 7000nm. Conventional CMOS is only sensitive in the SWIR spectrum, and not much beyond 1000nm. | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 11:03 | comment | added | Grimaldi | The second part is talking about thermal IR sensors. If you want to discuss other detector technology please open another question. | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 11:01 | history | edited | Grimaldi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 14, 2017 at 0:50 | comment | added | feetwet | This is a good answer for a question about near-IR, but thermal radiation is is one tenth the frequency. | |
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| Feb 13, 2017 at 12:40 | history | answered | Grimaldi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |