What are the benefits of infrared technology?
There are several advantages to detecting and studying infrared radiation. Infrared is basically heat radiation. Infrared radiation carries information about the temperature distribution of the objects studied. Infrared can also penetrate, thick smoke, clouds and dust. This makes infrared cameras very useful in search and rescue and firefighting. Many lives have been saved by thermal infrared cameras – finding people lost at night or at sea by detecting their body heat, or finding people in a smoke filled building. Infrared is widely used in the sciences in astronomy, meteorology, oceanography and archeology. It is used to inspect mechanical and electrical systems, in animal studies, in medicine, navigation, law enforcement, in the military as well as in food studies. See our web site “Seeing Our World in a Different Light” for more details.
