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[August 2005]
Small Thermal Imager is Big on Benefits
The mobile phone-sized Land Guide M4, claimed to be the world's smallest, lightest and most advanced thermal imager yet, is now available from Land Instruments International (Dronfield, Sheffield, England).
Incorporated into the low-cost, compact design are advanced features such as fingertip controls, high quality thermal and visual images with voice annotation, on-board image processing, a large capacity memory and versatile USB connectivity.
With a sensitivity of 0.12°C, the Guide M4 detects extremely small temperature differences within the measurement range of minus 20°C to plus 250°C and displays them as high resolution, 16-bit thermal images.
The link with the target object is made by the high quality digital images captured by the built-in visual camera and a built-in laser locator that helps to pinpoint hot spots.
To simplify the identification of potential problems, there are four measurement modes - simultaneous four-spot and four-area analysis, line profile and isotherm analysis - all of which can be saved as images.
The position and temperature of the hottest spot within the image is automatically tracked and indicated by a cursor and a second cursor in the image centre is used to indicate the temperature and provide a reference for inspection analysis.
An audible alarm is activated when the measured temperature exceeds a pre-set value.
The Guide M4 has a 1Gb memory for recording and on-board storage of over 5,000 files, each of which can include a thermal and visual image with voice annotation.
www.landinst.com
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