FLIR IR Camera A655sc Greyscale to Temperature Conversion

[Universaldilletant]

Hey Community,

I am looking for a little bit of help from your side, because the support of FLIR is a little bit disappointing, to state it mildly.

We have a FLIR A655sc camera that I can read out without any trouble with IMAQdx via GigE interface. The camera has 16bit and I easily get the greyscale image.

To make that an useful piece of information, I need to convert 16bit greyscale to temperature. But the conversion factor is nowhere to be found.

Does anybody here now?

I took two comparison images in the FLIR software, one with Counts as scale, on with Temperature as scale. See attached screenshots.

I found this link, but the scaling factor as 10 or 100 does not really match what I see here, where 13155 Counts convert to 293.9 Kelvin or 20.4 °C.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers, Niko

  

 

[Universaldilletant · Accepted solution]

Okay, so after a LOOOOOT of digging here is the answer in two flavors:

1) The camera can either give raw 16bit images and the software has to do the conversion itself with 3 steps:

- Subtract the global offset from each pixel and divide by gain (easy!)

- To the result, apply the universal thermography equation, with the object parameters (f****** hard and a lot of work!)

- To the result apply equation 2.2.4.8 from the GenICam standard: Temperature (in Kelvin) = B / log(R / S + F), where S is the 16-bit digital signal value. log(x) is the base-e logarithm of the x parameter. (easy again!)

Voila, there you go. I found this out after digging through FLIR's C++ code, that can be found here. 

2) You take the easy way and set the camera attribute 'CameraAttributes::ImageStreamControl::IRFormat' to the following:

Use either value 1 or 2 and then you get the temperature in °K by dividing the 16bit value by 10 (for 100mK resolution) or 100 (for 10mK resolution).

It could have been so easy. Thanks for nothing FLIR support, btw.

Cheers, Niko

[ThermalTerm]

Hello, 

Thank you for the response, the link to the C++ code you provided no longer works, would you be able to please re-share the link or alternatively could you possibly share the process you followed for obtaining the code in the first place, I have been unable to find it myself.

[Universaldilletant]

Hi,

I actually called the FLIR support and they send me the link per mail.

Cheers,

Niko

[ThermalTerm]

I tried to do the same and they told me that they do not release this information, would you be able to share a copy of the files if you still have them?