Stupid Thermal Imaging Tricks

In this episode, the Roswell Flight Test Crew demonstrates the capabilities and limitations of thermal imaging cameras through a series of simple experiments. These reveal that, contrary to depictions on film and television, thermal imaging cannot be used to see through walls. Indeed, even glass windows are opaque to thermal imaging. They also prove that metal containers reflect the thermal properties of their surroundings rather than the temperature of their contents, and that while thermal imaging sees clearly through smoke, it is not able to penetrate fog. The video also explains how thermal imaging addresses the infrared spectrum in much the same way conventional cameras and the human eye perceive the visible light spectrum.

[paulinajan]

Great explanation of where infrared falls on the visible spectrum. Your demonstration o the door shows it's important to remember this is not x-ray vision. In the technical side, I can see customers using this in a hunting application get confused when their rabbit or deer disappears behind thick brush or a large tree trunk.

[matthewreynolds]

I loved this video, nowhere else could I find a nicely formated educational video on thermal camera's not enough out there +1 👍

[AnthonyA]

Thank you, this video was very helpful on my thermal imaging physics project :)

[adamjones]

I miss my original Mark 1 Eyeball...those were the days

[Giavani-wqgb]

What a great video. So much is explained in such a short time. I subscribed.

[NickVenture]

You are nice people and the video is interesting. Subscribed!

[mikepetty]

Thank you Roswell Flight Test Crew. Our company uses the FLIR Tau2 imager except we rotate it continuously in our camera so that we are able to continuously have a 360 degree thermal image panorama for wide area intrusion detection. Thermal Radar is our product. Thank you for the great explanation. I love sharing your findings with my customers to better inform them about thermal imaging.

[xotocnemo]

Thankyou! This is great information and I LOVE your humor

[rant-n-rave]

Great job guys👍🏻 perfect explanation 👍🏻

[TEAMERICA]

Mr. Wizard! You're BACK!!!
I missed you long time.

[AlexCastignani]

thanks for sharing very informative!!!

[Willy_Tepes]

How does a fire extiguisher with powder work with IR?
Can you effectivly jam IR, visible light and thermal cameras with laser light in the right spectrums?

[rifted]

Lucidity!!! Shame no one let you use your props for the test!!! I was really looking forward to check how they work! lol

PS: thanks so much for the video love the demonstrations! Hope to see you at flitefest 2016! Gladly will be able to be there this year!
Ed

[vishuvishalkumar]

It really helped me in my project.Can you please make a video on camouflage effect to make things invisible please!

[unchosenzombie]

Cool so thermal imaging works. Thanks.

[DutchRC]

That was atually quite interesting :D Thanks for that! :)

[nathandevine]

Thank you very much it's been very informative thank you

[horridb]

Is there a way to detect heat and cold that is in the open air of a room using thermal imaging? I know you can see the heat on solid objects but what could you use to detect a mass of air that is colder or hotter than the surrounding air inside a room? Hope you keep up the cool work! Thanks

[Alkaris]

You can use infrared to block camera imaging and facial recognitions in public space where there are CCTV's monitoring the public and in stores too..

[enis]

Thank you! great and funny explanation ❤😂