Why Automatic Gain Control (AGC)? The first thermal imaging camera’s required the user to manually adjust the contrast and gain. Users were not always skilled enough to keep these settings adjusted properly. In the end, this led to missed information. Automatic...
The military has used thermal shooting targets for years to train with their advanced thermal scopes. The first targets were all “active.” This means they were heated up with flames, electricity, and chemicals—more than once targets went up in flame. Then...
Passive, No Power, Low-Emissivity, Reverse Polarity Juliet said to Romeo: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet;” In other words, what we call something does not change its characteristics and...
A police officer told us recently that chasing and catching the bad guys in the dark is chaos. Coordinating operations from the helicopter to the police cars on the ground is extremely difficult. While some pursuits are successful, others fall short short of a...
