Read All About the Latest Advances in Imaging Cameras
Quantum Design launch a new Imaging magazine jam packed with application notes, articles and case studies from their partners plus a free to enter Competition!
Quantum Design UK and Ireland have recently launched their first bumper issue of their new Imaging Cameras magazine, drawing on case studies, articles and applications notes from some of the leading manufacturers that they represent.
With a foreword by their new Camera Sales Engineer, Luke Nicholls, other highlights of the magazine include:
· Advancing Geology with Hyperspectral Imaging
Hyperspectral imagery is a powerful technology to locate minerals that are exposed or weathered in areas of residual soil. The foremost airborne application of hyperspectral imagery provides mineral mapping for exploration clients in the mining,oil, gas, and geothermal sectors over large and often remote and inaccessible areas.
· Avoiding Contamination in the Food Industry
Strelen Control Systems uses a hyperspectral camera from the Finnish manufacturer Specim to check nuts before processed in the food industry. Hyperspectral cameras work on a different principle and analyse a recording spectrum of up to 250 spectral bands in the wavelength range from the visible to the near-infrared range. This allows individual spectra of the light to be recognised. On this basis, a hyperspectral system can distinguish whether the same shade of brown is created from one or more super imposed wavelength.
· Infrared Cameras for Temperature Scanning in the Fight Against Covid-19
InfraTec infrared cameras can be used for a corresponding elevated body temperature scanning of passengers, employee scanning and workplace entrance screening. Certainly, thermographic cameras can neither detect the virus itself nor a person carrying the virus! However, these cameras enable the precise non-reactive, contactless and planar recording of surface temperatures while using the technical temperature measurement technology known as thermography.
· SWIR Cameras for Telecommunications Applications
Photonics engineers at Chromosol were able to use Raptor Photonics’ Owl 640 N low noise SWIR camera to successfully assess their photonic waveguide structures
· Streak Cameras in Action (videos)
A streak image is like a graph of one dimension of space over time. A streak camera captures a thin line of image information continuously at very fast rates. Cordin offers streak cameras using rotating mirror and image converter technologies
· Thermography for Optimisation of Installed Wind Turbines
For several years now, thermography has been a valuable tool for investigating the boundary layer behaviour on air foils in order to aerodynamically optimise it. It makes use of the fact that the heat transfer resistance of the boundary layer is significantly lower in turbulent flow than in laminar flow.
· Remote sensing of Vegetation using SWIR cameras on a UAV
Raptor Photonics has recently published an Application Note showing how reflectance spectroscopy methods using drone based remote sensing systems are now being used to derive well-established vegetation indices (VIs) more efficiently than biomass sampling.
· Aerial Thermography
Fire mapping from a helicopter offers a unique elevated perspective on remote fires to those who have to organise firefighting ground activities. For this, Highland Helicopters uses the LWIR thermal imaging camera VarioCAM® HD head from InfraTec, integrated into a GIMBAL system outside the helicopter.
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Plus, there’s information on a newly launched Imaging Competition #HappyToBeBackInTheLabQD – a fun and easy Twitter photo competition
Send in your happiest photo of you back in the lab – with or without colleagues. Four great prizes are up for grabs – top prize a Thermal Imaging Camera (Seek Thermal CompactPro). Full details, how to enter and Terms and Conditions can be found here.