Thermal imaging cameras can be a very helpful tool during water damage remediation work. However, the key is knowing what you’re seeing, and how infrared technology works. Experts say it’s really not much different than a regular camera on your smart phone, or a DSLR. Where a visual camera collects light through the lens that impacts a series of detectors to render into a visual image, an IR camera collects infrared energy through a metal lens made of germanium that blocks visual light, but allows the passage of infrared, and focuses this onto an IR detector.
Phew – so what does that mean? It’s really quite simple: you’re seeing temperature difference.