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Thermography is the translation of thermal energy (heat) into visible light in order to analyze a particular object or scene. An aerial thermographer uses a thermal camera to measure that translation as it’s happening. Here is a list of seven ways you can make money with aerial thermography as a commercial drone pilot.
1. Fire Fighting
After a fire seems to have burned itself out, it can still be smoldering in places that are difficult to detect by the naked eye.
Using aerial thermography, fire fighters can see where those lingering “hot spots” are, and make sure they keep themselves from harm.
Aerial thermography can also help identify the location of fire victims, either within a house or a forest fire, so that fire fighters know where to focus their energy and time.

2. Power Line Inspections
One of the many uses of aerial thermography is in preventing fires that occur as a result from failures in power lines.
By detecting weak points in the transmission and distribution network, which is a highly complex system of lines of interconnecting electric energy sources, drones equipped with thermal imaging systems can identify problem areas before a breakdown or fire happens and prevent the fire from happening.
Check out this video from Workswell to see how easily problem areas in power lines are detected using aerial thermography. Just imagine trying to find the same problem areas manually, and the power of aerial thermography will be immediately apparent.

3. Solar Panel Inspections
If a solar panel is malfunctioning, this could mean a huge daily loss in potential energy gathered. But manual inspections are time consuming, and cost prohibitive.
Using aerial thermography, an entire field of solar panels can be inspected quickly, checking for any hot spots where there might be problem areas.
When the alternatives are either doing the inspection by hand, or not doing it at all (which could risk losing huge amounts of potential energy), the cost-benefit analysis alone should help commercial pilots secure this kind of work in a snap.

4. Building HVAC (Heating Ventilation, Air Conditioning) and Roof Inspections
Thermography can allow pilots to perform a simple energy audit of any building, either someone’s home or a large corporate structure, in order to determine where there might be excess heat, or where heat might be escaping.
This is one application that companies with large buildings might not even know they need, but would probably be grateful to have offered.
Just think about it—the bigger the building, the more potential savings in store if these kinds of heat-related problems can be detected.

5. Search and Rescue
When someone is lost outdoors, timing is everything. Whether the climate is hot or cold, the longer they stay outside the more dangerous the situation becomes.
Since drones can cover a huge area of space in a short period of time, using aerial thermography to find people lost outdoors not only makes sense, it can potentially save lives.
In addition, if a person is injured or too weak to call out, someone searching could potentially walk right by the person they’re trying to save and not see them.
With a drone, all you have to do is look for the heat signature of the person you’re trying to rescue.

Industrial Thermal Analysis
Thermal analysis refers to the variety of techniques developed and used in which any  physical  property  of  a  given product / system  is  continuously  measured  as  a  function of temperature.  Electronic circuits, engines and machines all generate heat while they are working.

Thermal analysis therefore basically means the effect heat will have on the performance of a product. It studies the effect the change in temperature might have on material properties. A good example of a product that needs thermal analysis service is a water boiler. For the manufacturing company, it is important to know what maximum temperature a boiler can withstand and under what circumstances it might explode. This helps the company in developing a water boiler that is more robust and can resist high temperature and heat.

Mechanisms of Heat Transfer
Heat transfer is the physical act of thermal energy being exchanged between two systems by dissipating heat. Temperature and the flow of heat are the basic principles of heat transfer. There are three ways in which heat is transferred between bodies:
Conduction:  Conduction transfers heat via direct molecular collision, increasing the kinetic energy of the slower speed molecules. Conduction is the most common form of heat transfer and occurs via physical contact.
 
Convection:  Convection is heat transfer from one material to another via a medium, such as air or water.
Radiation:  Heat transfer that occurs without any medium and through electromagnetic waves. It is the direct result of random movements of atoms and molecules in matter. Movement of the charged protons and electrons results in the emission of electromagnetic radiation.

Why Thermal Analysis?
Overheating and excessive thermal stresses are some of the issues related to heat transfer that a thermal analyst has to consider. Thermal analysis can be executed to find temperature distribution, temperature gradient, and heat flowing in the model, as well as the heat exchanged between the model and its environment.  Good thermal assessments require a combination of analytical calculations using thermal specifications, empirical analysis and thermal modeling.  The art of thermal analysis involves using all available tools to support each other and validate their conclusions.  Applying three different and sometimes complex thermal transport mechanisms to a complex thermal product creates a system that cannot be evaluated by simple and inexpensive tools. Often the only feasible approach is to model such a product with tools created for that purpose and validate that model with empirical testing.

Simulation speed

Ability to model all three modes of heat transfer, which for convection requires the ability to model fluid flow

Ability to manage boundary conditions  and multi-level nested mesh

Ability to  link thermal models to  models in other domain

Ability to perform transient thermal analysis

Thermal Analysis Services
Since there are many parameters that affect the temperature of a product, and various ways of heat transfer involved, it takes cutting edge CAE software to undertake thermal analysis. Many manufacturers prefer hiring the expertise of companies that specialize in thermal analysis services.  Outsourcing thermal analysis helps them keep their manufacturing costs in control.