At 01:14 PM 1/24/2012, Alan J Fletcher wrote:
If you put two cyclindrical Hyperions side by side, separated by a couple of feet, I think you could get full surface coverage with 6 IR cameras (Viewed end-on Top,Bottom,Left,Right radially plus one axially at each end: Front,Back).
Industrial-strength IR thermal imagers run at about $5K (topping out at $30K) ... rentals are maybe $100/day.
That's 320x240 to 640x480 bolometer arrays, not silicon CCD's Wide-angle lenses are available : eg at 10 feet the field-of-view is 4 x 3 feet
