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Article: Hot property: thermal imagers enhance security and aid navigation.(Security Products)
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- Workboat
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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Here's a test question: What is thermal imaging? If you're a workboat operator and you don't know the answer, you've got a lot of company. Unfortunately, your unfamiliarity with this technology means that you are probably passing up an opportunity to enhance security, as well as improve navigation and search-and-rescue capabilities.
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For suppliers of thermal imaging systems, this knowledge void is frustrating.
"The biggest problem with the [workboat] marketplace is that they don't have a clue what a thermal imager will do for them. It's just a real task getting the market educated as to what we can do," said Tim Arion, ...