Sheriff's deputies in Florida used thermal imaging cameras on a police helicopter to locate and rescue a missing five-year-old autistic child in the swamplands of Tampa. [Read More]
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A thermal camera at a tourist attraction in Edinburgh, Scotland may have helped save a 41-year-old woman’s life recently by spotting her breast cancer before it had been diagnosed. In May of this year, Bal Gill, 41, visited the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions in Edinburgh where she posed in the museum’s thermal camera […] petapixel.com »
2019-10-24 20:21
Photographer Steve Fines is being hailed as a hero after he was able to use his drone and a thermal camera to help locate a 6-year-old boy who got lost last week on a freezing cold night in Sherburne County, Minnesota. petapixel.com »
2019-10-22 22:24
Drone company Parrot has announced Anafi Thermal, an updated version of the Anafi folding quadcopter it launched last year. The new Parrot Anafi Thermal features a 4K HDR camera with a 21MP Sony sensor alongside a FLIR Lepton thermal sensor, enabling operators to capture both RGB and thermal images. dpreview.com »
2019-04-15 20:50
Drones tend to get a hard time in the press, with headlines pointing out all the negative things people do with these excellent bits of technology. However, a new commercial drone camera from DJI looks set to balance out all of that hate, because the new Zenmuse XT2 has been designed to save lives. digitalrev.com »
2018-04-24 03:00
If you enjoy DIY projects and don’t mind diving deep into programming, soldering, and otherwise hacking apart old cameras, this weekend project is right up your alley. Meet the thermal paper Polaroid. dpreview.com »
2018-04-23 21:26
DJI has teamed up with FLIR Systems to launch the Zenmuse XT2, its newest thermal camera for drones. As with the original XT model launched in 2015, the XT2 captures heat signatures to reveal things otherwise invisible to the naked eye. dpreview.com »
2018-03-29 23:05
PowerVision has announced the launch of global pre-orders for its PowerEye professional-grade cinematography drone. This drone features Dual Viewing for both subject matter view (SMV) and first person view (FPV) streaming at the same time, something made possible via a gimbal-mounted camera and another camera housed on the drone’s nose. dpreview.com »
2016-10-03 22:15
Researchers from Peking University in China have found that thermal imaging of a patient's face may offer critical insights into their health, laying the groundwork for the potential of thermal cameras becoming a part of a routine check-up at the doctor's office. [Read More]
Yorkshire, England-based Erica Hart is a self-described "pet detective" who uses an infrared camera attached to her drone to help find lost dogs. To date, she's found and returned 330 pets to their owners. [Read More]
A password may not be enough to protect a device from hackers. A new study has revealed how criminals can use thermal cameras to retrace the password an individual has typed into a smartphone, computer keyboard, or even an ATM. [Read More]
A thermal camera at a tourist attraction in Edinburgh, Scotland may have helped save a 41-year-old woman’s life recently by spotting her breast cancer before it had been diagnosed. In May of this year, Bal Gill, 41, visited the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions in Edinburgh where she posed in the museum’s thermal camera […]
A computer vision engineer by day and photographer by night, I never take the path most traveled, especially when it comes to imaging technology. Thermal cameras are one of the most interesting types of cameras, and while they are widely used in industrial, scientific, and military applications, they are largely untouched and unknown to the […]