Questions · Cameras
When do you need a thermal camera?
When what you have to do is detect presence in total darkness or on a long perimeter, and not identify anyone. A thermal camera does not see light: it sees differences in temperature, so it works just the same at four in the morning with no street lamp, in light fog and with the intruder dressed in camouflage, and it is not blinded by a car's headlights.
Its limit is that it does not give a face, a number plate or the colour of clothing. A white outline on a dark background does not identify anybody to a judge. That is why the usual pairing is a thermal camera to raise the alert at a long distance and a visible-spectrum camera with light that comes on, or with infrared, to get the image that is useful afterwards.
It is an expensive camera for the number of pixels it gives, so it goes where there is no alternative: long unlit fence lines, ponds and tanks, open yards of material. In a yard with street lighting, a well-chosen ordinary camera usually solves the same thing for less.
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