Preventing Disasters - The Flir Gf320 Camera

A massive oil spill that began with an April 20th explosion and fire caused by a Deepwater Horizon drilling rig collapse, and has truly devastated the Gulf of Mexico near the Mississippi River Delta of the United States. In the industrial camera genre, Flir Systems, long known for its innovative work in thermal imaging for troops and safety applications, has advanced cutting edge ways to use its imaging cameras to 'see' oil spills on the exterior of the water, and detect the hazardous leakage of methane gas - comparable to that which caused the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig - quicker than rival technologies.

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The Flir enterprise began their gas and vaporing organic compounds (Voc) leak detection by applying infrared technology to the application three years ago. However, the introduction of the Flir Gf320 infrared camera, which was specifically engineered to image Vocs for industrial gas detection, now presents state-of-the-art engineering and advanced, user-inspired ergonomic and time-saving features. This camera can be used for normal gas detection, tracking the movement of oil (which can improve awareness resulting in the communication of wildlife to safe havens), article and trace, and is fully radiometric, with the capability to see, quantum and visualize temperatures. Maintaining Flir's determination to provide its customers with the very best return on their investment, the Flir Gf320 camera as a matter of fact produces results.

Flir knew that their cameras could already distinguish oil and water because each one reflects the temperature of the sun differently. Without a thermal camera, though, humans can typically only see oil-on-water while the day and in calm waters - however, if the waters come to be turbulent or the sun goes down, it becomes much harder to see oil on the exterior of the water. After testing its Star Safire thermal camera at sea, Flir realized that their cameras could identify where the oil is - in choppy waters and at night - and could determine the full, size of a spreading spill. The Gulf Coast tragedy became a perfect arena for this camera's use.

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As a advantage of this second generation line of infrared cameras, the Flir Gf320 is lightweight at just slightly over 5 pounds, and looks for wavelengths of infrared "heat" emitted by the gas it has been set up to detect, visualizing those leaks in real time. With the capability to detect, record, and trace gas leaks to their source, this camera can scan numerous possible leaks in a short time. Incorporating new technology, the advancement of infrared cameras has fast progressed to a whole new level.

New advanced features complimenting the compose of this new camera contain built-in video recording, digital camera, laser pointer, and embedded Gps data, allowing a technician the capability of pinpointing the location of a leak or hot spot. Additions to the camera contain the option of automated (one-touch) or manual thermal focus with 8 to 1 continuous digital zooms, a high-resolution, Lcd (800 x 480) viewfinder that delivers clear, vivid images in poor lighting or spellbinding sun light, a tiltable, flip-out high inequity color Lcd widescreen viewfinder, direct passage buttons designed from the end-user's perspective, and a rotating handle. Images are stored in Jpeg format onto movable Sd or Sdhc memory cards.

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Preventing Disasters - The Flir Gf320 Camera
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