RedLens
22Mar/123

Misregistration of Geothermal Assets in GIS Data

In March we "flew" a section of downtown Boise, Idaho that has a complex geothermal distribution system.

10May/11Off

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.

2May/11Off

Aerial Thermographic Video: Othogonal Aspect

Veritical aerial thermography of an industrial subject, shot 5/1/11.

14Apr/11Off

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.

12Apr/11Off

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.

11Apr/11Off

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.

7Apr/11Off

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).

7Apr/11Off

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...

18Mar/11Off

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.

3Mar/11Off

Thermography as Art

Here's another "pretty" (to my way of thinking) thermographic image-this time, of a Harley-Davidson engine.