Infrared Thermal Imaging: Fundamentals, Research and Applications

by Michael Vollmer, Klaus-Peter Möllmann

Overview

This richly illustrated hands-on guide is designed for researchers, teachers and practitioners. The huge selection of examples taken from science, basic teaching of physics, practical applications in industry and a variety of other disciplines spanning the range from medicine to volcano research allows readers to pick those that come closest to their own individual task at hand. Following a look at the fundamentals of IR thermal imaging, properties of the imaging systems, as well as basic and advanced methods, the book goes on to discuss IR imaging applications in teaching, research and industry. Specific examples include thermography of buildings, microsystems and the rather new field of IR imaging of gases.

Impartially written by expert authors in the field from a renowned applied science institution, who are in the unique position of having both experience in public and private research and in teaching, this comprehensive book can be used for teaching beginners in the field as well as providing further education to specialized staff, students and researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783527641550
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/22/2011
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	612
File size:	42 MB
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About the Author

Michael Vollmer received his PhD degree for the studies of clusters on surfaces, and his ha-bilitation on optical properties of metal clusters from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Later assignments were with the University of Kassel, Germany, the university of California in Berkeley, USA, as well as with various institutions in the United States and Asia during sabbaticals. His research interests include atmospheric optics, spectroscopy, infrared thermal imaging, and the didactics of physics. Professor Vollmer has authored one science book and co-authored a scientific monograph and about 140 scientific papers.

Klaus-Peter Mollmann received his PhD from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, studying strongly doped narrow band semiconductors at low temperatures and later, for his habilitation, MCT photo detectors. He subsequently held positions with the Humboldt Uni-versity and with several businesses in industry. Professor Mollmann's research interests include MEMS technology, infrared thermal imaging, and spectroscopy. He is the co-author of about 100 scientific and didactical papers.

Both authors are professors of experimental physics at the University of Applied Sciences in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Table of Contents

Fundamentals of Infrared Thermal Imaging
Basic Properties of IR Imaging Systems
Advanced Methods in IR Imaging
Some Basic Concepts of Heat Transfer
Basic Applications: Direct Visualization of Physics Phenomena
IR Imaging of Buildings and Infrastructure
Industrial Application: Detection of Gases
Microsystems
Selected Topics in Research and Industry (thermal reflections, metal industry, automobile industry, airplane and space craft industry, various industrial applications, electric applications)
Miscellaneous: Selected Applications in Other Fields (medical and veterinary applications, sports, arts, surveillance and security, nature)

Editorial Reviews

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This hardcover, richly illustrated hands-on guide is specifically written in an understandable style for practitioners in the field of IR imaging, for physics and science teachers and for researchers. The authors—both professors at the University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg (Germany)—comment: 'There is today the paradox of more cameras being sold worldwide than there are technicians understanding the physics behind them, let alone being able to properly interpret the colourful images generated.'
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Even the specialised reader finds extensive background knowledge of a great deal of aspects in a wide field of application domains. The specific contents of the cases discussed give readers, as technicians, an additional tool which they can use to select cases that suit their everyday needs.
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Jan Wijers
Mikroniek 1/2013


Insbesondere eine vergleichende Darstellung der verschiedenen Detektortypen (Photonendetektoren,
Mikrobolometer) ist in dieser komprimierten und praxisnahen Form an anderer Stelle kaum zu finden. ...
Von besonderem Wert sind in diesem Buch ... die vielen Tipps aus der Praxis, die auch die zahlreichen Möglichkeiten einer Fehlinterpretation thermographischer
Bilder aufzeigen und den weniger erfahrenen Benutzer vor
Fehlern bewahren. ...
Insgesamt kann ich dieses Buch allen Lesern empfehlen, die sich einen Überblick über die Thermographie verschaffen und Hilfen für die tägliche Praxis aus ihm ziehen wollen, oder die als erfahrene Nutzer über den eigenen Tellerrand hinaus blicken möchten.
Jochen Aderhold, Braunschweig
PhiuZ, 3/2011 (42)

'Infrared Thermal Imaging? von Michael Vollmer und Klaus-Peter Möllmann ist das beste Buch zur IR-Wärmebildtechnik, das für Techniker und Ingenieure als Anwender auf dem Markt verfügbar ist. Es sollte eigentlich jeder Wärmebildkamera beiliegen. Und es ist nach meiner Kenntnis das einzige Buch, das Lehrern und Hochschullehrern konkrete Angebote zur pädagogischen Nutzung der IR-Technik für den naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht bietet.
Gerald Gerlach, Pro-physik.de, 3.11.2011

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