Thermal imager the size of a mobile phone
December 1st 2005

The mobile phone-sized Land Guide M4 thermal imager is now available from Land Instruments International.

Incorporated into the lowcost, compact design are advanced features such as fingertip controls, high quality thermal and visual images with voice annotation, onboard image processing, a large capacity memory and versatile USB connectivity.

With a sensitivity of 0.12°C, the Guide M4 detects small temperature differences within the measurement range -20 to 250°C and displays them as highresolution thermal images.

To simplify the identification of potential problems, there are four measurement modes - simultaneous four-spot and four-area analysis, line profile and isotherm analysis - all of which can be saved as images.

The position and temperature of the hottest spot within the image is automatically tracked and indicated by a cursor, and a second cursor in the image centre is used to indicate the temperature and provide a reference for inspection analysis.

An audible alarm is activated when the measured temperature exceeds a pre-set value. The Guide M4 has a 1GB memory for recording and on-board storage of over 5000 files, each of which can include a thermal and visual image with voice annotation.

Included is a Windows-based post-processing software program, which offers a range of temperature measurement, image processing and report generating functions.

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