#thermal-imaging

#thermal-imaging

In the case of the Eaton fire, my Times colleagues Grace Toohey and Terry Castleman reported Saturday that as the blaze spread on the evening of Jan. 7, firefighters in the field urged a broader evacuation. But the orders were delayed by three hours in West Altadena, where 18 people died and numerous residents raced for their lives as thousands of homes were incinerated.

Southeastern is fitting thermal imaging cameras to the fronts of more of its trains following a trial that used them for live track inspections. Earlier this year, a pilot programme installed thermal imaging cameras on the front of a small number of Class 707 'City Beam' trains. They successfully identified 41 overheating incidents and prevented over 150 hours of customer delays. The thermal imaging cameras can identify 'hot spots' on the rail network and relay this information rapidly to asset engineers.

The tech specs for this unit are strong: the camera has a native resolution of 160 × 120 pixels with a 25Hz refresh rate that's upscaled to 320 × 240 by Thermal Master's proprietary X³ algorithm to offer pin-sharp images. The camera has a range of -4°F to 1,112°F (-20°C to 600°C) and an accuracy of ±3.6°F, making it perfect for a wide range of applications, from insulation inspections and HVAC system diagnostics to automotive troubleshooting.

When I was asked to give an impromptu five-minute speech and then to count backwards in intervals of 17 - all in front of a panel of three strangers - the acute stress was written on my face. That is because psychologists from the University of Sussex were filming this somewhat terrifying experience for a research project that is studying stress using thermal cameras.

set up camp at three classic New York City haunts: a park, a subway platform and a sidewalk. Using thermal cameras and specialized microphones, they recorded the rodents moving like glowing phantoms across the pavement while squeaking away at frequencies far above human hearing. The real kicker? When an ambulance screamed by, the rats screamed louder. As Mackevicius put it: "They're just kind of screaming to each other, but we just don't hear it."

The findings shed light on how rats have adapted to city lifeand how chatty they are. There's this kind of secret language that rats are communicating in with each other that we don't hear, says Emily Mackevicius, a neuroscientist and a co-author of the study. They're very social, adds Ralph Peterson, another study co-author. They're rugged, and they're New Yorkers themselves: persistent and resilient and able to thrive in a very extreme environment.