Sandia Infrared Analysis Program

Software · Tue May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2004

OSTI ID:1230723

Youchison, Dennis L.

SandIR is a sophisticated Windows2000/WindowsXP program for the capture and analysis of thermal images in real time. It is a 32-bit, 5 thread C++ OOP application that rests on Microsoft’s MFC and DirectDraw libraries, the DT3152LS driver functions and the LabEngine link libraries of Origin 4.1 for full functionality. Images may be loaded in from saved files or viewed live by connection to a FLIR (Inframetrics) 600 or 760 IR camera or a video cassette recorder playing tapes recorded from a FLIR (Inframetrlcs) 600 or 760 IR camera- At this time, no other IR camera formats are supported. The raw radiosity data used by SandiR is derived from the 8-bit, 256 level, RS-170 (grayscale) NTSC camera signal. The FLIR camera images contain 175x131 pixels of real IR data. SandIR displays these data in a 604x410 image. The maximum matrix size is 640x452 Including VIR and grayscale. Live IR images can be frozen and then stored to computer disk. An incrementing save command makes It easy to save a sequence of images with a series of related file names. These files can then be loaded into SandIR at a later time for anatysis by a number of predefined tools or data probes. Multiple pseudo-color palettes containing 64 colors are available as well as a 256 level grayscale palette for image colorizing. SandtR always processes all the data in the ROt for each acquired image; so a complete temperature matrix is always available for any frozen image. SandIR performs nearly 7 million temperature calculations per second and updates the image display through Direct Draw over the PCI bus at frequencies of 30 Hz. 3-d surface plots, projections, wire maps or contour plots of absolute temperatures are also updated at 20 to 30 Hz which approaches the real-time acquisition rate of the camera, These plots may be viewed full-screen or frozen in separate windows for comparison to later images. The full set of both 2-d and 3-d Origin plotting tools can be used to manipulate the attached plots. M plots can be manually rescaled. As, Origin script window can be used to send text commands directly to the Origin graphics server. This allows any of the SandIR plots to be formatted using the full power and capabilities of Origin. A section tool is provided to dissector cleave the surface plots. The options button in the Origin 3-d toolbar can be used to enhance the plotting resolution, which defaults to 24x16 when In surveillance mode, Note, higher resolutions slow the plot update rate and are best used for frozen images. The program provides an extensive range of tools, which can be applied to static images loaded from disk as well as live images. Tools used on live images display and update in real time with temperature data overlaid on the image itself. Active spot and area tools may be selected for temporal plotting using acquisition time intervals in the range of 33 ms to 1 hour. Temporal data are plotted on a scrolling strlpchart and can be recorded to an ascii or Excel file. Analysis tools include: Spot temperature tools to display the temperature at a set point in the image; Cursor probe to display the temperature under the tip of the mouse Line tools to be used as graphic objects or rulers, or to display the temperature profile along the line in a separate xy graphic window; On-screen profile tools, which superimpose the display of a temperature profile over the image itself; Rectangle, ellipse and polygon tools to be used as graphic objects, to display the maximum, minimum and mean temperatures within the region; Annotation tool to identify points in the image and make notations on the Image; Selector tool used to move or delete one of the above analysis tools.

• Short Name / Acronym: SandIR; 001726IBMPC00
• Version: 00
• Programming Language(s): Medium: X; OS: Windows 2000 / Windows XP; Compatibility: PC
• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1230723
• Country of Origin: United States