thermal imaging

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Kyiv plundered warehouses for veteran Soviet antiaircraft guns and fitted heavy machine guns, some almost a century old, with thermal imaging systems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Innovations in recent years to make testing methods more sophisticated include thermal imaging, light analysis using lasers, and DNA profiling.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Fire officials also acknowledged to The Times that the department did not use thermal imaging technology to determine whether the earlier Lachman fire was extinguished.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

Troop rotations are now only carried out on foot, in ten-kilometre segments, while soldiers wear special cover to evade the drones' thermal imaging cameras.

From Barron's • Oct. 12, 2025

In addition, agents use a growing arsenal of technology: helicopters, night-vision goggles, thermal imaging that picks up body heat, and seismic sensors that detect footsteps along immigrant trails.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario