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Glossary of Thermography Terms
Absolute zero
Absorptivity,
α
Absorptance
Accuracy
Ambient operating range
Ambient temperature
Ambient temperature compensation
Anomaly
Apparent temperature
Artifact
Atmospheric windows (infrared)
Background temperature, instrument
Background temperature, target
Blackbody, blackbody radiator
Blackbody curves
Bolometer
Calibration
Calibration check
Calibration accuracy
Calibration source, infrared
Capacitance, thermal
Capacity, heat
Celsius
Color
Colored body
Conductance, thermal
Conduction, thermal
Conductivity, thermal
κ
Convection
Delta T
Detector, infrared
Diffuse reflector
Diffusivity, thermal
sec-1
D*
Direct Thermography
Display resolution, thermal
Effective emissivity
Effusivity, thermal
Emissivity
Emittance
EMI/RFI noise
Environmental rating
Exitance, radiant
Fahrenheit
Field of view
FOV)
Fiber optic, infrared
Filter, spectral
Flame filter
Focal plane array
FPA
Focal point
Foreground temperature
Frame repetition rate
Full scale
Graybody
Heat transfer
Hertz (Hz)
Herschel, Sir William
Image, infrared
Image, infrared
Image display tone
Image processing, thermal
Imaging radiometer
Indirect Thermography
Indium Antimonide (InSb)
Inertia, thermal
Infrared
IR
Infrared focal plane array
IRFPA)
IRFPA imager or camera
Infrared radiation thermometer
Infrared thermal imager
Instantaneous field of view
IFOV
Isotherm
Kelvin
Kirchhoff’s law
Laser pyrometer
Latent heat
Line scan rate
Line scanner, infrared
Measurement spatial resolution
IFOVmeas
Medium, transmitting medium
Mercury cadmium telluride
MCT
Micro-cooler
Micron
Milliradian
mrad
Minimum resolvable temperature
MRT
Modulation
Modulation Transfer Function
MTF
Noise equivalent temperature
NET
NIST
NIST traceability
Non-graybody
Objective, objective lens
Opaque
Optical element, infrared
Oversampling
Peak- hold
Photo-detector
photon detector
Pixel
Planck , Max Karl Ernst Ludwig
Pyroelectric detector
Pyroelectric vidicon
PEV
Pyrometer
Qualitative measurement
Quantitative measurement
Radian
Radiation, thermal
Radiation reference source
Radiation thermometer
Radiosity
Rankine
Ratio pyrometer
Reference junction
Reflectivity
Reflectance
Relative humidity
Repeatability
Resistance, thermal
Resistivity, thermal
Resolution
Response time
Resistance temperature device
RTD)
Sample and hold
Scan angle
Scan position accuracy
Sector
Seebeck effect
Sensitivity
Setpoint
Shock
Signal processing
Slit response function
Spatial resolution
Specific heat
Spectral response
Spectrum
Specular reflector
Spot
Spot radiometer
Spot size ratio
Storage operating range
Subtense, angular
Target
Temperature
Temperature conversion
Temperature measurement drift
Temperature resolution
Thermal conductivity
Thermal detector, infrared
Thermal sensitivity
Thermal viewer
Thermal wave imaging
Thermistor
Thermistor bolometer, infrared
Thermocouple
Thermogram
Thermograph
Thermometer
Thermopile
Time constant
Total field of view
TFOV)
Transducer
Transfer calibration
Transfer standard
Transmissivity
Two-color pyrometer
Unity
Valley hold
Working distance
Zone
