Remote thermal detection

On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:50:01 AM UTC+1, wrote:
On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 08:57:21 UTC+1, Roel Baardman wrote:

My money would be on a Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) based

solution.



Largely because this is technology which is extremely widely used

(every laser mouse does it in hardware).



Optical mice use integrated circuits like the Agilent ADNS-2620:

http://www.datasheetcatalog.org/data...yqglz0hcy..pdf



So, unless you can form a 2D image of the particles'

velocity and have the ic process that image, I don't

see how you would do it.



I've heard about model airplanes using it to stabilize bank angle

(more speed = lower wing).



Quite possible. Many years ago I saw one of the

optical mice in the form or a ring on a finger.

With the appropriate focussing distance, the room

itself was used as a mouse pad.

Whatever the tech ultimately used to achieve this, what will it do to the sport? I know some people thought flight computers would ruin the sport, then GPS, then moving maps, but thus far it is still far from ruined. But visible thermals sounds like the biggest step yet towards reducing the challenge. What do others think?