Comment by Darren on March 22, 2011 at 7:33pm

alot can change over the course of time it took to make that picture with thier theckniqe

Comment by bGatti on March 22, 2011 at 7:42pm

We built similar (web cam/ therm / servo / arduino) with face finding software to measure temperatures automatically. It's a fun project.

Comment by Michael on March 22, 2011 at 7:46pm

Could that be adapted to give something like Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR)?  I'm thinking for search and rescue work.

Comment by Darren on March 22, 2011 at 7:47pm

with guided tracking, you could do swift scans find a hot spot and slow down and do detailed scans.

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on March 22, 2011 at 10:30pm

Thats a cool,no pun intended concept wonder where that idea will end up

Comment by MarcS on March 23, 2011 at 1:09am

Hi, this reminded me of an experiment done some time ago.
With a thermopile based autopilot, you can actually peform such a scan using the vertical sensor (on another scale, of corse...). Could be used to detect a fire for example.
Some results can be see on page 6 of this paper:
http://www.cost-uas.net/fileadmin/user_upload/articles/s4.pdf

And so everyone switching to IMU has a reuse for the old thermopiles :-) Cool

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