Practical Applications of Infrared Thermal Sensing and Imaging Equipment, Third Edition by Herbert Kaplan
Bellingham WA, USA — SPIE has released the third edition of Herb Kaplan’s popular book on IR Imaging applications.
The second edition of this text was published in 1999, and since that time many improvements have taken place in instrumentation performance and versatility. This third edition reviews these many changes and how they impact the way thermographers operate, deploy, calibrate, and test these new instruments.
Practical Applications of Infrared Thermal Sensing and Imaging Equipment, Third Edition
Author(s): Herbert Kaplan
ISBN: 9780819467232
Publication Date: Mar 2007; 192 pages; Softcover; In print
Prices: $46 / $56 (SPIE Member/List)
The purposes of this text are to:
- Familiarize potential users of commercial IR sensing and imaging instruments with IR measurement and analysis basics
- Provide the practical information needed for users to select the instrument most appropriate for their application
- Describe how to perform valid and successful measurements in a variety of applications
- Serve as a reference to help thermographers examine the validity of new applications.
May be purchased online at the SPIE Bookstore.
ED NOTE: Those who attend the annual ThermoSense Conference have probably met Herb. In addition to a gregarious, outgoing personality, he’s been a participant, author, session chairman, instructor and active participant in ThermoSense for nearly 30 years.
He’s been involved in IR temperature measurement and thermal Imaging for a lot more than 30 years.
Herb has been an independent consultant at Honeyhill Technical since he left Barnes Engineering, where he was their leading Marketing and Sales Manager in the Scientific and Industrial Infrared business sector.
Congratulations, Herb, on the latest update to your very popular book!




