Aggregated Measurement News Headlines for Industry & Science

New Infrared Thermal Camera: Sensitivity Less Than 0.08 °C  & Price Below $3000 San Francisco CA, USA —   Pembroke Instruments, LLC, introduces the IRI-4010 infrared thermal imaging camera with ultra high thermal sensitivity (<0.08 °C) as the price/performance breakthrough needed by professionals in building diagnostics, energy audit, weatherization, preventive maintenance, roofing, green construction, and [...]

40 YEARS OF WORLD-LEADING SERVICE DRONFIELD, ENGLAND, – -The Calibration Laboratory of Land Instruments International, the first thermal measurement laboratory to receive British Calibration Service (BCS) certification, celebrated its 40th anniversary on July 23, 2010. Initially established in 1970 to satisfy customer requirements for accurate temperature calibration, the Land Calibration Laboratory was the first accredited [...]

To Implement Condition Monitoring Successfully Cologne (Köln), Germany & Morganville NJ, USA — Real time condition monitoring has become a well accepted tool for thermal assessment and accurate rating of transmission and distribution assets. However, the use of fibre optics as sensors for distributed temperature sensing (DTS) is a rather complex technology with many parameters [...]

“Infrared contrast of crude-oil-covered water surfaces“, by Wei-Chuan Shih and A. Ballard Andrews, Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 24, pp. 3019-3021 (2008) Abstract (Modified format for easier online viewing) Infrared oil spill detection utilizes either temperature or emissivity contrast of native and oil-covered water surfaces. In particular, the thickness dependent radiance contrast due to thin [...]

In: Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 45, Issue 2, August 1993, Pages 225-231. by John W. Salisbury a, Dana M. D’Aria a and Floyd F. Sabins Jr.b aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore U.S.A. bChevron Oil Field Research Company, La Habra, California U.S.A. (Abstract Online) With all the interest on the [...]

G-Shock Technology Meets Surfrider Style DOVER NJ, USA — After last summer’s highly successful collaboration to commemorate 25 years of protecting the world’s oceans, waves and beaches, G-Shock and the Surfrider Foundation have joined forces again to create a second co-branded collaboration watch. The GRX5600SRF-3 combines G-Shock technology and Surfider sensibility with a portion of [...]

This month the ASME 19.3 Committee released the new standard on thermowells, PTC 19.3 TW – 2010 Thermowells. It is available on their website at http://catalog.asme.org/Codes/PrintBook/PTC_193_TW_2010_Thermowells.cfm. From the page referenced above on the ASME Web site: Description ISBN #: 9780791833070 Published: 2010 Product Type: Print-Book No. of pages: 52 The object of this Standard is [...]