CCD Color Video & Thermal Video Camera

[kgupta63]

I am looking for a cost effective Thermal Camera which will give real time color pictures ( like normal camcorders ) as well as Thermal Images at the same time. You can superimpose Color Video & Thermal Images over each other or view them separately as well. You can also voice annotate the stored video. I do know products from FLIR and ThermoTeknix.

I want to find out if any other company is manufacturing this type of thermal camera with reasonable prices.

 

[IRstuff]

only for military at the moment,

but if you've got a few mil available, let's talk ;-)

TTFN

 

[JKEngineer]

If you are willing to have the thermal in grayscale and switch between them rather than superimpose, look at the camcorder plus IR camera system from Indigo Systems. There used to be old systems, I think ISI, that had both b&w video and b&w thermal in the same unit, but they are obsolete, although there are some still around. Jack M. Kleinfeld, P.E. Kleinfeld Technical Services, Inc.
Infrared Thermography, Finite Element Analysis, Process Engineering

http://www.KleinfeldTechnical.com

 

[JKEngineer]

As an addition to my previous post: FLIR also makes infrared cameras that incorporate a visible light video camera. They are not necessarily matched to each other for field of view. They can only be used in swap mode, not overlay. Jack M. Kleinfeld, P.E. Kleinfeld Technical Services, Inc.
Infrared Thermography, Finite Element Analysis, Process Engineering

http://www.KleinfeldTechnical.com

 

[IRJohn]

Mikron and Monroe Infrared Technology also manufacture cameras that have visual and IR images. You can get to them, as well as FLIR, via the links page on our website (

http://www.snellinfrared.com)

or by doing a web search.

As Jack indicates, no one currently has "overlay" cababilities, but that can also easily be done in PowerPoint for presentation purposes.

I'm also not sure what you mean by "reasonably priced?" The two systems I mention above are priced between $15-35K. If used properly, the return on the investment can be one year or less.

Thermally yours,
John Snell
Snell Infrared

http://www.snellinfrared.com

http://www.thermal-solutions.org

 

[cameraman1]

We carry one that is qualitative but not quantitative (meaning you cannot get temerature in degrees you just see warmer versus cooler areas.) and it is in the $20k range. Unit is hand held and has its own viewer. Image is black and white only.
cameraman1

 

[dgallagher]

The Heat-Find IR Imaging Camera offers high resolution 320 x 240 focal plane array and also has a built in color visual camera - only $13,995.00

http://www.reliabilitydirect.com/tempproducts/MIT-HFIR.htm

 

[eyec]

copy both images into PaintShop Pro and create an animation morphing from one to the other. you can set the amount of time it takes to morph and set it in a loop or just once.

the only problem is that both focal lengths/distances and frame structure should be as close together as possible for a seamless animation.

other than that i think only Hollywood & Uncle Sam are the only ones with these capabilities.

 

[cameraman1]

Where can I find a device or software to convert grayscale video (NTSC or RS-170 sync analog video) into colorized video? If available I would also like the device to correlate temperatures in degrees from these gray scale images. (I intend to use an IR vidicon camera to produce images of exceptionally warm objects (1500F+) but we need help "seeing" the gradients of temperatures in these otherwise black and white images.
Cameraman1

 

[JKEngineer]

cameraman1: this should have been a new thread

At those temperatures you should be able to use a visible light camera. Work has been done on using video cameras to observe moderate to high temperature objects. See the proceedings of the SPIE/THERMOSENSE conferences.

If you go the route you state, the temperature data has to be somewhere in the video -- which means encoded by the source camera and translated by the color conversion system. Not as simple or direct, I think, as you are making it sound.

Jack

Jack M. Kleinfeld, P.E. Kleinfeld Technical Services, Inc.
Infrared Thermography, Finite Element Analysis, Process Engineering

http://www.KleinfeldTechnical.com

 

[justagi]

DII has several serveillance cameras that have image fusion capabilities.

 

[maged541946]

Hi, Theromo is monochrome, coloring is software job.
You want a low cost camera, here it is.
I made a small circuit to turn on a VCR with a motion detector to cath a theif, while installing the regular cheepest one B/W and one color cameras, it was total darkness(except the TV, then I used the the remote controller, the camera saw it as a toartch flash light and was clear on TV as well as our pictures. while of corse we did not see the IR,so we thought of using IR LED's for night illuminatio.
Try a regular camera with gray filter to filter the visible light, or try it in darkness and see its responce, then use software to do the rest
I hope that helps