Influence of Dust on Temperature Measurement Using Infrared Thermal Imager

Temperature measurement by infrared thermal imager is an attractive technique in many fields, and it is of great importance to ensure the measurement accuracy of the infrared thermal imager. Aiming at the influence of dust on the temperature measurement of infrared thermal imager, this paper summarized the dust influence into three categories: dust on the surface of the measured object, dust on the infrared thermal imager’s lens and dust in the optical path between the measured object and the infrared thermal imager, and conducted three dust experiments. To quantify the measurement errors caused by dust, the infrared thermal image features that are affected by dust are extracted and a compensation model is established based on polynomial regression. The results indicate that dust can introduce measurement errors of infrared thermal imager and the proposed compensation method can compensate for the measurement errors caused by dust and improve the accuracy of infrared thermal imager.