Types of thermal imaging systems for mass fever screening and their evaluations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5405, Issue , 2004, Pages 79-87

  Wang, Li ^a   Chua, Sze Wey ^a   Tan, Victor ^a  

^a Agency for Science   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Mass Fever Screening; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS); Temperature Reference Source (TRS); Thermal Imaging System (TIS)

Indexed keywords

MASS FEVER SCREENING; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS); TEMPERATURE REFERENCE SOURCE (TRS); THERMAL IMAGING SYSTEMS;

CALIBRATION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCREENING; SENSORS; SKIN; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOMETERS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 3543101972     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.542005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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