Testing and evaluation of thermal cameras for absolute temperature measurement

Krzysztof Chrzanowski; Joachim Fischer; Robert Matyszkiel

doi:10.1117/1.1287832

1 September 2000 Testing and evaluation of thermal cameras for absolute temperature measurement

Krzysztof Chrzanowski, Joachim Fischer, Robert Matyszkiel

Optical Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 9, (September 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1287832

The accuracy of temperature measurement is the most important criterion for the evaluation of thermal cameras used in applications requiring absolute temperature measurement. All the main international metrological organizations currently propose a parameter called uncertainty as a measure of measurement accuracy. We propose a set of parameters for the characterization of thermal measurement cameras. It is shown that if these parameters are known, then it is possible to determine the uncertainty of temperature measurement due to only the internal errors of these cameras. Values of this uncertainty can be used as an objective criterion for comparisons of different thermal measurement cameras.

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Krzysztof Chrzanowski, Joachim Fischer, and Robert Matyszkiel "Testing and evaluation of thermal cameras for absolute temperature measurement," Optical Engineering 39(9), (1 September 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1287832

Published: 1 September 2000

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