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Understanding Infrared Thermography Reading 3

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Transmissivity τ<br />

When the target surface is a non-graybody, the target material may be partly<br />

transparent to infrared radiation. This means the target material has a<br />

transmissivity greater than 0. Due to this transparency. radiant thermal energy<br />

may be transmitted through the target from sources behind the target. This<br />

energy may enter the instrument and cause temperature measurement errors<br />

even if the correct emissivity is set into the instrument and reflective errors<br />

are eliminated. Although errors due to transmission are the least common in<br />

practice. errors due to energy transmiued through the target usually require<br />

the most sophisticated procedures to correct them. In most cases, spectral<br />

filtering is the best solution. Methods for correcting these errors are discussed<br />

in Chapters 4 and 5.<br />

Keywords:<br />

■ spectral filtering<br />

■ non-graybody (could be any others like black body, selective emitter, could<br />

be a body with τ > 0)<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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