WORLD'S SMALLEST HAND-HELD THERMAL IMAGER IS BIG ON BENEFITS

The mobile phone-sized Land Guide M4, the world's smallest, lightest and most advanced yet thermal imager, is now available from Land Instruments International.

Incorporated into the low-cost, compact design are advanced features such as fingertip controls, high quality thermal and visual images with voice annotation, on-board image processing, a large capacity memory and versatile USB connectivity.

With a sensitivity of 0.12°C, the Guide M4 detects extremely small temperature differences within the measurement range -20 to 250°C and displays them as high-resolution, 16-bit thermal images.

The link with the target object is made by the high quality digital images captured by the built-in visual camera, and a built-in laser locator that helps to pinpoint hot spots.

To simplify the identification of potential problems, there are four measurement modes - simultaneous four-spot and four-area analysis, line profile and isotherm analysis - all of which can be saved as images.

The position and temperature of the hottest spot within the image is automatically tracked and indicated by a cursor, and a second cursor in the image centre is used to indicate the temperature and provide a reference for inspection analysis.

An audible alarm is activated when the measured temperature exceeds a pre-set value.

The Guide M4 has a 1Gb memory for recording and on-board storage of over 5,000 files, each of which can include a thermal and visual image with voice annotation.

Completing the package is a Windows-based post-processing software program, which offers an extensive range of temperature measurement, image processing and report generating functions.