Jul10
Plus a Real Blog From The Infrared Training Center (ITC)
Southampton PA, USA – We said in an article a few days ago there was no blog at Extech Instruments website or at the Infrared Training Center (ITC) website. We were right and wrong. Extech doesn’t have a real blog, yet, that we could see without joining up by proffering our email address and birthdate.
They have what they call a Social Network and it might have a blog inside a firewall. You have to sign up to see what Extech has beyond a few “teasers” on the home page! We don’t consider that a blog, nor do most Web geeks.
The blog we found at BlogSpot run by Mr. Gary Orlove of the ITC is certainly a blog. (Thanks for reminding us about it, Gary, we ‘d overlooked it, somehow.) The IR InformIR (http://irinformir.blogspot.com/) is a real blog but with a few quirks! continue reading »
Aug30
An SPIE Press Book by Michael A. Kinch
Bellingham WA, USA –The choice of available infrared (IR) detectors for insertion into modern IR systems is both large and confusing.
The purpose of this volume is to provide a technical database from which rational IR detector selection criteria evolve, and thus clarify the options open to the modern IR system designer.
Emphasis concentrates mainly on high-performance IR systems operating in a tactical environment, although there also is limited discussion of both strategic environments and low to medium performance system requirements.
Sample Pages (PDF)
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Apr20
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)
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Dec13
Temperature: Its Measurement and Control in Science and Industry, Volume 7 is the two volume set of the proceeding of the Eighth International Temperature Symposium held in 2002 in Chicago, IL USA.
The review linked here was published in The Industrial Physicist. The reviewer is James F. Schooley retired from NIST who was program chairman and editor-in-chief of the two previous temperature symposia.
His final comment sums up the meeting and its proceedings very well, (an opinion from one who was at the last four symposia) “As an archive, this volume has no peer. Like its predecessors, it will be used for a decade and more by serious thermometrists working in industry as well as those involved in providing national standards.”
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Dec3
RTP NC USA — This new softbound book from ISA Press is written by H. M. Hashemian of Analysis and Measurement Services Corp, a noted worker in the field of ultra-reliable temperature sensors. It describes several new instrumentation testing, diagnostics, and analysis techniques to verify the reliability, health, and performance of process instrumentation.
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