IDEAS and EDI visit ITS for the 2nd Test of a Thermal Infrared Camera

Following the first visit at ITS in June 2022, the team from IDEAS (Oslo) and EDI (Riga) spent the summer improving their thermal infrared camera. Recently, they met again at ITS to capture thermal IR videos and plan future work.

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From left to right Torbjørn Skauli (ITS Professor and CENSSS WP1 leader), Nishant Malik (IDEAS Project Manager), Dirk Meier (IDEAS CTO), Gard Momrak Selnesaunet (ITS PhD candidate), Torbjørn Østmoe (IDEAS Scientist), Thomas Nesjø (IDEAS MSc candidate), Rihard Novickis (EDI Scientist).

The camera is based on room-temperature operated micro-bolometer arrays – currently under development at IDEAS, thanks to Research Council support for Innovation Projects IPN Mantis and Eurostars SPEKTIR. IDEAS plans to sell their proprietary thermal IR cameras from Norway, fabricated by the European supply chain partners of ECSEL JU APPLAUSE. The main milestones of the visit to ITS were the demonstration of video capture without a mechanical shutter. Thermal infrared cameras based on microbolometer arrays are interesting for remote sensing of heat, measuring surface temperatures and assessing humidity and gas concentrations in the environment. The future work will continue with the development of the technology and camera prototypes and demonstrations, APPLAUSE summer school Berlin, https://applause-ecsel.eu/summer_school/ and the Norwegian Electro-Optics Meeting Røros, https://www.ntnu.edu/physics/electro-optics-meeting-2022.

Image may contain: Purple, Fun, Violet, Font, Art. — The thermal image shows the team with objects at different temperatures.

This first video shows artifacts that will be improved in the future

By Gunnar Mæhlum

Published Aug. 22, 2022 1:18 PM - Last modified Aug. 22, 2022 1:19 PM