History of FLIR testing

摘要

FLIR technology continues to expand at a near exponential rate. Even with the rapidly changing FLIR technology, the ways in which we evaluate these imagers in the lab have, in some ways, changed very little from the early days. The history of FLIR testing had its earliest roots in the image intensifier and television community. Testing techniques over the history of FLIR development have closely paralleled the development and release of performance models. This paper will chronicle the people and testing techniques used throughout the history of the development of the FLIR from the infancy stages of testing to the testing methods of today.