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Understanding Infrared Thermography Reading 7 Part 2 of 2.pdf

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The newest field-portable instruments allow the thermographer to store<br />

images to disc (or data card) during field measurements, and perform detailed<br />

image analysis upon return to home base (see Section 2 for details). The<br />

ability to perform differential thermography is a most powerful feature <strong>of</strong><br />

thermographic s<strong>of</strong>tware routines. This is the capability for archiving thermal<br />

images <strong>of</strong> acceptable operating components, and assemblies and<br />

mechanisms, and using these stored images as models for comparison to<br />

subsequently inspected items. Subtractive routines produce differential<br />

images, illustrating the deviation <strong>of</strong> each pixel (picture element) from its<br />

corresponding model.<br />

Another powerful routine that was recently introduced is an emissivity<br />

determination and correction program, which produces true surfacetemperature<br />

thermograms <strong>of</strong> microelectronic devices and other very small<br />

targets.<br />

Keywords:<br />

Subtractive routines<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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