Multispectral Active Infrared Thermo-Reflectometry for Absolute Temperature Measurement by Contactless IR Thermography
Abstract Knowledge of material emissivity maps and their true temperatures is of great interest for contactless process monitoring and control with infrared cameras when strong heat transfer and temperature change are involved.In this work, we describe the development of a contactless infrared and multispectral imaging technique based on the pyro-reflectometry approach and a specular model of the material reflection.This approach enables in situ and real-time identification of emissivity fields and autocalibration of the radiative intensity leaving the sample by using a black body equivalent ratio.This is done to obtain the absolute temperature field of any specular material using the infrared wavelength.The proposed method is evaluated at room temperature with several heterogeneous samples covering a large range of emissivity values. From these emissivity fields, raw and heterogeneous measured radiative fluxes are transformed into complete absolute temperature fields.