SOTI make images of heat. Image are made with your smartphone camera by taking visible light reflecting off the objects you want to image, and then that light comes into a lens, it is focused on a sensor, and an image is delivered. SOTI do the same thing with heat coming from the object. We have been thermal imaging for close to 25 years, since the first solid-state thermal imagers were introduced. You might wonder how do you focus heat? What kind of sensor detects heat? How do you display heat? All good questions.
Just as in any science or technology, there are armies of brilliant people making thermal imaging products better all the time. Just like the evolution from early PCs to how we function with smartphones, thermal imagers have come a long way. But very simply, thermal imaging is a thermal scene, a lens, a sensor, and a display, simple as that.
Sir Frederick William Herschel discovered infrared radiation in 1800. Very basically, Hershel studied sunlight through a prism. We all know the visible light is broken into a rainbow. Put a thermometer on the colors, then put a thermometer well past the red, and you will the second thermometer value rise. That is the light we see. It is the light past the red in the visible spectrum, or the infrared light captured by our cameras.
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