Night Vision, Security, and Surveillance

Unlike the needs of most industrial applications, thermal imagers for night vision, security, and surveillance applications require little or no temperature measurement capability. The key requirement here is to present an image of the target with the best possible spatial and thermal resolution, at the greatest possible distance from the target, under the worst conditions of obscuration and absorption in the intervening atmospheric path, and without the possibility of detection by enemy sensors. 

During the Gulf War in the early 1990s, U.S. citizens were made aware of some of the weapon enhancement capabilities of IR imaging through the news media, and the entertainment media continues to illustrate (and sometimes exaggerate) 

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Chapter 9 Materials Evaluation—Infrared Nondestructive Testing Chapter 10 Process Monitoring and Control Chapter 11 Night Vision, Security, and Surveillance Chapter 12 Life Sciences Thermography... 

Security, surveillance, night vision, seareh and rescue, and firefighting Typieal performance eharaeteristies of imagers in this category are ... 

SCOUT series Hand-held night vision imagers using uncooled microbolometer FPA detectors, for security and surveillance. 

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