Teledyne FLIR Goes Even More Multi-Spectral with Its High-Speed MIX Thermal Imaging Kits
The successor to MSX, MIX delivers high-speed synchronization and overlay between thermal and visible light imagery.
Thermal imaging specialist Teledyne FLIR has unveiled its next-generation "multispectral imaging" system, FLIR MIX — going a step beyond its earlier, more basic MSX offering and boasting image synchronization rates of up to 1,004 frames per second.
"FLIR MIX simplifies thermal analysis by combining quality thermal and visible imagery in real-time in one easy-to-use hardware and software package," claims FLIR's Matthew Hasty. "The solution empowers researchers to achieve precise spatial alignment with radiometric data for every pixel, providing detailed temperature insights across the entire image, making analysis more straightforward while shortening the time to discovery."
Thermal imaging cameras, available from FLIR and its numerous rivals in the market, are incredibly handy tools, capturing contactless temperature readings and displaying them as an easy-to-understand image. The only problem: they're much lower resolution than you'd get from even the cheapest visible-light camera sensor, and they're unable to pick up details like edges where there's no temperature differential.
To solve this, FLIR introduced MSX: Multi-Spectral Dynamic Imaging, combining an edge-enhanced visible light image with a lower-resolution thermal image — bringing out hidden details. MIX, then, is MSX but better — delivering the ability to hide thermal data entirely when it's outside of a target range, and synchronizing the thermal and visible-light imagery at rate up to 1,004 frames per second.
FLIR has launched two "starter kits" for those looking to experiment with its MIX technology. The FLIR MIX X-Series Starter Kit comes with a 1920×1080 camera capable of capturing visible light imagery at up to 1,120Hz plus a high-speed Thunderbolt 3 frame-grabber interface. The FLIR MIX A-Series Starter Kit, meanwhile, has a higher-resolution but lower-frame-rate 2448×2048 camera capable of operating at up to 122Hz and a 10-gigabit-Ethernet switch.
Both kits include a one-year license for the company's Research Studio Pro software, and a perpetual license for the Research Studio MIX Toolkit — but you'll need to supply your own matching A- or X-series FLIR thermal camera to complete the loadout.
More information is available on the Teledyne FLIR website; pricing is available on application.
