Commercial Aerial Thermal Mapping
The amount of commercially useful information available through thermal imaging simply defies description. Various posts on this site deal with only a very small fraction of the types of valuable information thermography provides.
Aerial Thermographic Video: Othogonal Aspect
Veritical aerial thermography of an industrial subject, shot 5/1/11.
Aerial Thermography of Industrial Assets
Thermography may be able to cross the line of reasonable expectations that the character of an industrial (process or manufacturing) asset may be not be remotely sensed.
Aerial Thermography of Membrane Roofing
The following vertical (orthogonal) aerial thermograph was shot in March, 2011. It's from an atypical southeast-to-northwest flight line across the east end of the Boise State Campus.
Aerial Thermography of Geothermal Features in Boise, Idaho
In this case, aerial thermography of man-made "geothermal" features. The aerial thermograph below is of the St. Luke's Regional Medical Center at the intersection of Broadway and Warm Springs Blvds. in Boise, Idaho.
Aerial Thermography of Pond Recirculation Plumes
Thermal signatures offer a myriad of industrial uses. Much of that utility is in applications where visible band imagery or visual assays don't sense significant "Delta-Anything" (meaning that human visual acuity is of little or no value in differentiating phenomana in a matter).
Aerial Thermography of Groundwater Discharges into a River
This aerial mosaic of several thermorgraphic frames shows a suspected groundwater discharge into a river. Not far south of the river is a municipal water treatment plant. Coincidence? Perhaps...
Thermal Video of a Biogas Flame, Boise, Idaho
Biogas is typically a mixture of Methane and Carbon Dioxide that is the by-product of various production processes. It can be used as a fuel, but in cases where there production is insufficient to make for profit it is most often burned.
Thermography as Art
Here's another "pretty" (to my way of thinking) thermographic image-this time, of a Harley-Davidson engine.
Archaeological Thermography
Aerial and ground-based thermography enjoy applications in archaeology. Here's an example.