thermal imaging

noun

1. the use of heat-sensitive equipment to detect or provide images of people or things

Example Sentences

Editor Taylor Joy Mason and cinematographer Kira Kelly have put together queasy-brilliant montages with some kind of an eye-popping camera technique — a mix of thermal imaging, X-ray footage and visual effects — that seems to see right inside the actors’ bodies to their gristle and goo.

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To imitate human heat and thus deceive Ukrainian thermal imaging cameras, their trunks are wrapped with heating wire underneath the jacket.

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"We have a thermal imaging camera," explains drone operations manager Insp Chris Fells.

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In an attempt to even the odds, the rural crime team has been using thermal imaging cameras attached to drones and binoculars capable of picking out suspected treasure thieves on a pitch-black mountain side.

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Recently, that helped them catch a suspected nighthawker hiding behind a pile of manure after his footprints on the fresh dung heap shone up on thermal imaging.

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