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"A
View to Thermal Imaging's Future!"
Keynote
Presentation at IR/Info 2004 by G. Raymond
Peacock
President
Temperatures.com,
Inc.
January 19, 2004 |  |
In January 2004, our own President, Ray Peacock, was
the keynote speaker for the Fifteenth IR/Info Training Conference and Symposium
held at the Doubletree Castle Hotel in Orlando Florida. The MS PowerPoint (TM)
presentation slides and slide notes are online for direct viewing or downloading
as a zipped file (about 3.3Mb). To download either or both, we ask only
that you be registered with our companion website, The
Temperature Sensor Community. There is no cost to register, but it helps us
seperate the mildly curious from the truely interested. That helps make the downloads
more readily available to those who can best benefit from them, plus it helps
us keep website bandwidth charges more reasonable. Click on the link above
to access the Community website and once registered, proceed to the Download Section
to access the download, or, click on the link on the Members Menu to play the
PowerPoint program. Ray did triple duty at the IR/Info meeting. In addition
to being the keynote speaker for the Conference, he also presented a short course
on Thermal Imagers in Screening for SARS during 2003 and acted as a reporter for
both the About Temperature Sensors and The
Temperature Community websites where his reviews of both the IR/Info
2004 (January 18 to 21) and The
Thermal Solutions 2004 (January 25 to 28) conferences, will be posted shortly. Among
his opening remarks was a comment about how difficult this task was for him, following
in the footsteps of noted expert Cliff Warren, former president of both Raytek
and Agema, who gave such a great presentation in 2003 on past and present Infrared
temperature and imaging equipment & practices. However, the surge in
sales of Infrared temperature sensors and Thermal Imagers during the SARS crisis
later in 2003 highlighted a trend in Quantitative Thermal Imaging (Area Infrared
Temperature Measurement) that is not obvious to most thermographers and often
outside their areas of expertise. This is something that Mr.
Peacock has had considerable experience with during his varied career on both
sides of the street, so to speak, of the infrared business and involvement with
ASTM Committee E20 on Temperature
Measurement. Some of the resources and waypoints that thermographers and equipment
makers could monitor to stay up with the fast changes likely to occur and influence
their businesses in the future are discussed and placed in perspective. | | |
Many
of the presentations from these conferences will appear on the respective websites,
linked above, and the full conference proceedings are available from the respective
organizations that sponsor these annual information exchange and training sessions
for infrared thermographers. IR/Info is sponsored by the Infraspection
Institute while the Thermal Solutions conferences are sponsored by Snell
Infrared. Both organizations have been providing training programs for many
years and are well-known in the infrared thermography community. They are
not alone, however. There are several other organizations involved in similar
activities, some with very specialized focus such as law enforcement and fire-fighting.
Visit the Thermography Training page on this website
to learn more about training organizations and our Thermal
Imaging Section Gateway to obtain an overview and links to other resources
in this rapidly developing area of Infrared applications and temperature measurements.
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pages where one can see where and how Thermal Infrared technology is being used
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