Timeline for How does a radiometric infrared camera estimate an objects temperature?
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| Feb 16, 2015 at 15:20 | comment | added | user3823992 | If you really wanted pre-compute the sensitivity of your system from first principles, yes, you'd need to calculate the actual energy transfer to your camera. But you'd also need to fully account for the imaging optics (including non-idealities) and the absolute response of your sensor (volts or amps per unit incident flux). In practice, all of that gets captured by that one calibration constant, which can be determined by viewing the object once at a known temperature. The only thing that you have to account mathematically is the spectral sensitivity. | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 11:53 | comment | added | Julian | But doesn't the SB law originally give power/area, i.e. $watts/m^2$, so one would need knowledge of geometry? | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 11:51 | vote | accept | Julian | ||
| Feb 14, 2015 at 17:50 | history | edited | user3823992 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
needed to expand the answer to properly cover the scope of the question
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| Feb 14, 2015 at 17:11 | comment | added | user3823992 | Thanks. I realized yesterday that my answer wasn't very complete as it relates to the calculation/wavelength. Working on an edit now. | |
| Feb 14, 2015 at 17:07 | comment | added | Julian | My question was a bit imprecisely formulated. Tried to make it a bit more clear now. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 20:14 | history | answered | user3823992 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |