High performance thermal imaging technology

摘要

Infrared (IR) thermal imaging (TI) has a relatively long history, with the first demonstration of the existence of infrared radiation in 1800 by William Herschel. Since that time the use of IR radiation for imaging has been most strongly connected with the military market and its need for night vision, from the first demonstration of infra-red photon detection during World War I, to the development of mercury cadmium telluride material at Malvem in the 1960s and the first staring arrays in the 1980s. Thermal imaging cameras have been shown to give a key military advantage, and it believed that all military campaigns waged in darkness by Western forces using thermal imaging have been successful.