MWIR System Reliability

Cryocoolers are technological marvels allowing breakthroughs in thermal imaging. Here are some factors Sierra-Olympia considers when integrating cooler for MWIR
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shipping container with thermal imaging

Correcting Infrared Pixels

What we see in figure A is an uncorrected infrared image. You can see some of the variation between the
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Thermal Imaging Software, Windviewer 3

Windviewer is innovative software crafted by Sierra-Olympia. It enables seamless connection with our thermal cameras for live video streaming and
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Why our cameras are open framed

Its All About Integration It all started for us trying to match the performance of a famous open framed Sony
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How Does F# Affect Lens Design?

Part Two In Part One of our F# blog series we talked about the generalized principles of F#. In Part
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Ask an Expert: What is a Radiometric Camera?

In this Ask an Expert Chris Johnston, President of Sierra-Olympia, is going to answer the question, what is a radiometric
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Gig-E vs USB Connections & Camera Interfaces

Welcome to another Tech Talk with Stan Voynick. Today, we’ll be talking about Gigabit Ethernet(Gig-E) and USB interfaces on our
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Ask an Expert: What is F Number?

Welcome to Ask an Expert. My name’s Chris Johnston, president of Sierra-Olympia Technology. In this video, we’re going to talk
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Drone Detection with Infrared Cameras

Welcome back to another tech talk with Stan, Chief Technical Officer, at Sierra-Olympia. Today we’re going to be talking about
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A Basic Explanation of Slant Range

We’re used to thinking of distance as looking out horizontally towards the horizon. That applies to many infrared imaging scenarios,
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Tunnel 5 Fire

On July 2nd, 2023 fire broke out in Skamania County, the southwest part of Washington. This fire would come to
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What is NETD and why does it matter?

NETD stands for Noise-Equivalent-Temperature-Difference NETD is a figure-of-merit that characterizes an Infrared camera system’s sensitivity. It can be represented with
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Different micron thermal cameras

What is a micron?

Welcome back to ask an expert with Stan Voynick, CTO at Sierra-Olympia Technologies and today we’ll be talking about microns.
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Ventus Hot 900 DRI Test, Episode 2

Sierra-Olympia is always testing the capabilities of its products. We recently tagged along with two of our Engineers, Tim Decker
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Ventus Hot 900 DRI Test, Episode 1

Sierra-Olympia is always testing the capabilities of its products. We recently tagged along with two of our Engineers, Tim Decker
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Investing in Thermal Imaging Project Management

Have you ever run into roadblocks when your team is working on a highly technical problem? Does one unforeseen issue
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Drone and Robotics Summit, 2022

We are excited to be attending the 2022 Energy Drone and Robotics Summit in Houston, Texas. This summit is known
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The Future of Optical Gas Imaging Leak Detection

It’s a cloudless morning in central Texas. A steady breeze keeps temperatures tolerable as the sun climbs over the well
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Thermal Hand imprint

Thermal Gestures for Human Computer Interaction

The study of natural surface interaction is a cutting edge area of research that aims to answer, “How to turn
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Using thermal cameras to treat mental disorders

This case study describes a March 2019 survey of Sierra-Olympia Technologies (SOTI) Customer, Jeffrey A. Carmen, Ph.D., owner of Olde
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