Table of contents
35.4 Distance ............................................................................. 215
35.5 Relative humidity .................................................................. 215
35.6 Other parameters.................................................................. 215
36 About calibration........................................................................... 216
36.1 Introduction ......................................................................... 216
36.2 Definition—what is calibration? ................................................ 216
36.3 Camera calibration at FLIR Systems ......................................... 216
36.4 The differences between a calibration performed by a user and
that performed directly at FLIR Systems..................................... 217
36.5 Calibration, verification and adjustment...................................... 217
36.6 Non-uniformity correction........................................................ 218
36.7 Thermal image adjustment (thermal tuning) ................................ 218
37 History of infrared technology......................................................... 219
38 Theory of thermography................................................................. 222
38.1 Introduction ......................................................................... 222
38.2 The electromagnetic spectrum................................................. 222
38.3 Blackbody radiation............................................................... 222
38.3.1 Planck’s law .............................................................. 223
38.3.2 Wien’s displacement law.............................................. 224
38.3.3 Stefan-Boltzmann's law ............................................... 225
38.3.4 Non-blackbody emitters............................................... 226
38.4 Infrared semi-transparent materials........................................... 228
39 The measurement formula.............................................................. 229
40 Emissivity tables ........................................................................... 233
40.1 References.......................................................................... 233
40.2 Tables ................................................................................ 233
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