Thermal Culture
Thermal culture: the history, science and wider world of infrared imaging beyond the spec sheet.
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Drone Thermography Training and Certification: What Actually Matters
sUAS thermography certification explained: what Level 1-style training covers, why it changes report quality, the drone-specific additions no classroom course includes, and how to choose a course.
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Thermal Drones 101: How They Work and What They Can Do
A complete beginner-to-buyer guide: how drone thermal imaging works, what it detects and what it cannot, the four specs that matter, and the missions it transforms.
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Thermal Drones, Privacy and Regulation: An Operator’s Primer
A level-headed look at the rules and social licence around UAV thermal imaging: the airspace layer, the data layer, what LWIR can and cannot actually see, and how programmes keep community trust.
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Uncooled vs Cooled Thermal Cores: Why Drones Chose Microbolometers
Cooled MWIR cameras outperform on paper. Uncooled LWIR microbolometers won the UAV market anyway — the engineering logic, the four-way trade, and the published NETD and pixel-pitch figures across the UAVThermal line.
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Why Thermal Cameras Live at 8–14 µm: The LWIR Window
Two facts of physics — the atmospheric transmission window and the room-temperature emission peak — explain why UAV thermal imaging settled on LWIR, and why germanium lenses and uncooled microbolometers followed.