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FLIR Launches its First Uncooled, Fixed-Mount, Connected Thermal Camera for Detecting Methane: GF77a
ARLINGTON, Va., January 30, 2020 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced today the FLIR GF77a Gas Find IR camera, its first fixed-mount, uncooled, autonomous leak detection camera designed specifically to visualize methane and other industrial gases. A new camera in FLIR Systems’ optical gas imaging (OGI) series, the connected GF77a provides upstream and midstream gas processors, producers, and operators with the ability to monitor continuously for invisible, potentially dangerous methane leaks at natural gas power plants, renewable energy production facilities, industrial plants, and other locations along a natural gas supply chain.
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FLIR Introduces Next Generation of Compact, High-Definition Thermal Science Cameras
ARLINGTON, Va., February 6, 2020 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) today announced the FLIR A8580 series of thermal science cameras: a 1.3 megapixel, entry-level cooled camera designed for a wide range of industrial, military, science, and product research and development (R&D) applications. This camera records blur-free images of high-speed targets, offers a wide range of precision, manual and motorized lenses, and integrates seamlessly with the new FLIR Research Studio thermal analysis software – all providing the user with a high-end experience in a compact, easy-to-use camera.
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FLIR Systems Receives Delivery Order Totaling $4M for FLIR IBAC 2 Biological Agent Detectors to Support Joint United States Forces Korea
Today, FLIR announced that it has received a delivery order for FLIR IBAC ™ 2 biological agent detector systems to support the United States (U.S.) Forces Korea (USFK). The delivery order is under a 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract in support of the Joint United States Forces Korea Portal and Integrated Threat Recognition (JUPITR) program led by the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD). The order is valued at $4 million with deliveries beginning in July 2018.
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How FLIR Preserves Resident and Wildlife Safety During Alaska’s ‘Polar Night’
Like clockwork each November, the sun sets and doesn’t rise again for 65 days in Utqiagvik, Alaska, compromising citizen and polar bear safety with near-invisible conditions. In the dark months known as “the polar night,” Alaskan native and lifelong resident, Billy Adams, had been challenged by an ongoing public safety concern with wild polar bears entering city limits and threatening human safety for some time, until FLIR.
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How to Find Leaks in Concrete Using a FLIR Thermal Imaging Camera
Pipe leaks within concrete, i.e., “slab leaks” are identifiable with a thermal imaging camera, but due to a variety of influential factors, they aren’t always identifiable unless you know what to look for and have the right tools. Many homes today in various parts of the country are built with concrete and in-floor radiant heating in concrete slabs, and homes dating back to the 1950s as well. As the odds are in favor of encountering concrete more than once, FLIR can help ease the process when it comes to inspecting this dense material.
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How FLIR Helped 24 Lions in the World’s Largest Conservation Effort of its Kind
Twenty Four Lions, a conservation project spearheaded by the Cabela Family Foundation and its conservation partners, carried out the largest move of lions across an international boundary in world history to restore their population in Mozambique’s Zambeze Delta.By using FLIR thermal imaging technology, the team was able to safely and successfully accomplish the most ambitious conservation effort of its kind on August 5, 2018.
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FLIR Cameras Reveal Thermal Characteristics of Microelectronic Devices
At the University of Texas at Arlington, the team of Dr. Ankur Jain, who heads the Microscale Thermophysics Laboratory, studies a wide range of topics related to microscale thermal transport. The laboratory makes use of diverse modern equipment and instruments, including thermal imaging cameras from FLIR Systems.
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Next Generation IR Technologies Solve High Speed Automotive Testing Challenges
Product research and development on internal combustion engines, brake rotors and tires, and high speed airbags are just a few of the areas that truly benefit from high speed, high sensitivity thermal characterization testing.
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Infrared Camera Accuracy and Uncertainty in Plain Language
It’s tough to trust measurements from instruments when you don’t have a clear understanding of how their sensitivity and accuracy is derived, and many times infrared cameras fall in this category. Additionally, discussions of infrared camera measurement accuracy typically involve complex terms and jargon that can be confusing and misleading.
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Electronic Component Testing: A Non-Contact Sport
Infrared thermography can identify hot spots, allowing for improved thermal management and greater advances in circuit board design.
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High Speed Thermal Imaging Cameras from FLIR Monitor Raw Steel Quality for the Automotive Industry
FLIR thermal imaging cameras detect steel defects with the highest accuracy. In today’s industrialized world the demand for steel, particularly from the automotive industry, has become overwhelming. Although effective methods for the testing of raw steel materials exist, the call for more efficiency, more safety and higher quality never stops.
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Study: Fused Thermal and Radar Automatic Pedestrian Detection and Braking
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2018, over 6,000 pedestrians’ lives were lost in the United States. A recent AAA study that measured pedestrian detection systems found that traditional automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems using radar and cameras don’t work effectively at night and are often challenged during daylight hours too. As 20 automotive manufactures – representing 99% of the U.S. car market - look ahead to 2022 to meet their commitment of making AEB standard, the industry continues to develop and test new technologies.
