Table of contents
29.2.1 General...................................................................... 218
29.2.2 Figure........................................................................ 219
29.3 Oxidized socket...................................................................... 219
29.3.1 General...................................................................... 219
29.3.2 Figure........................................................................ 219
29.4 Insulation deficiencies.............................................................. 220
29.4.1 General...................................................................... 220
29.4.2 Figure........................................................................ 220
29.5 Draft .................................................................................... 221
29.5.1 General...................................................................... 221
29.5.2 Figure........................................................................ 221
30 About FLIR Systems ........................................................................ 223
30.1 More than just an infrared camera .............................................. 224
30.2 Sharing our knowledge ............................................................ 225
30.3 Supporting our customers......................................................... 225
31 Terms, laws, and definitions.............................................................. 226
32 Thermographic measurement techniques .......................................... 228
32.1 Introduction .......................................................................... 228
32.2 Emissivity.............................................................................. 228
32.2.1 Finding the emissivity of a sample.................................... 228
32.3 Reflected apparent temperature................................................. 232
32.4 Distance ............................................................................... 232
32.5 Relative humidity .................................................................... 232
32.6 Other parameters.................................................................... 232
33 About calibration............................................................................. 233
33.1 Introduction ........................................................................... 233
33.2 Definition—what is calibration? .................................................. 233
33.3 Camera calibration at FLIR Systems ........................................... 233
33.4 The differences between a calibration performed by a user and
that performed directly at FLIR Systems....................................... 234
33.5 Calibration, verification and adjustment........................................ 234
33.6 Non-uniformity correction.......................................................... 235
33.7 Thermal image adjustment (thermal tuning) .................................. 235
34 History of infrared technology........................................................... 236
35 Theory of thermography................................................................... 239
35.1 Introduction ........................................................................... 239
35.2 The electromagnetic spectrum................................................... 239
35.3 Blackbody radiation................................................................. 240
35.3.1 Planck’s law ................................................................ 241
35.3.2 Wien’s displacement law................................................ 242
35.3.3 Stefan-Boltzmann's law ................................................. 243
35.3.4 Non-blackbody emitters................................................. 244
35.4 Infrared semi-transparent materials............................................. 246
36 The measurement formula................................................................ 247
37 Emissivity tables ............................................................................. 251
37.1 References............................................................................ 251
37.2 Tables .................................................................................. 251
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