Thermal image camera

ON ACCURACY OF CONTACTLESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT LIMITED BY UNKNOWN EMISSIVITY FACTOR

The major error of temperature measurements of different objects is due to uncertainty of their emissivity factor value. And vice versa, for correct determination of a true temperature, using conventional temperature means (pyrometers, thermal image cameras), one has to know in advance the emissivity factor of the studied object’s surface or better to set its value in place immediately  before  a  measurement.  The  latter  is  proposed  by  authors  to  significantly  increase  the  accuracy  of  temperature measurement.