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High resolution thermal imaging is tightly regulated
by KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
High resolution thermal imaging is tightly regulated
- philipkglass 3y agoThe emission from silicon referred to by myself248 is in the near infrared, not the thermal range. It's a commonly used diagnostic technique for silicon solar cells: https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/characterisation/electroluminescence https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/characterisation/electro... I don't know if it could be used for the much smaller features found on integrated circuits, though.
- gorkish 3y agoAs the restrictions are now blocking the IMPORT of such equipment it really is getting to be quite a joke. In the US we are only allowed to have expensive potato quality cameras with 9fps and even then that's not shitty enough -- they also have to have to inject artificial noise into it!
- lightedman 3y agoThermal is not the same as near-red IR, which is what is being discussed here.
- acuozzo 3y agoWhy?
- voakbasda 3y agoBecause the government knows IR would be a pivotal tool in a civilian guerrilla uprising, and they want to keep such things out of the hands of the proletariat?
- acuozzo 3y agoGot it. It was a genuine question asked out of ignorance on my part. How would the extra resolution be useful in warfare?
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoAnti aircraft missiles (everything from plane launched to manpads), heat seeking weaponry capabilities, night vision, multispectrum sensors, optical gas imaging and a whole host of other dual use scientific applications. High resolution thermal vision is the lynchpin behind all of them. I am not sure why they are still tightly controlled since you can easily acquire them overseas.
- voakbasda 3y agoThe US government is terrified of its citizenry, as they are the only people that stand a chance of “fixing” it.