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    A nondispersive infrared sensor (or NDIR sensor) is a simple spectroscopic sensor often used as a gas detector. It is non-dispersive in the sense that...
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    A passive infrared sensor (PIR sensor) is an electronic sensor that measures infrared (IR) light radiating from objects in its field of view. They are...
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  • An infrared point sensor or point infrared (IR) detector is a type gas detector that uses infrared absorption at specific wavelengths to detect changes...
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  • Gas detector (redirect from VOCs Sensor)
    Common sensors include combustible gas sensors, photoionization detectors, infrared point sensors, ultrasonic sensors, electrochemical gas sensors, and...
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  • Hydrogen sulfide sensor Infrared point sensor Ion-selective electrode ISFET Nondispersive infrared sensor Microwave chemistry sensor Morphix Chameleon...
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  • hundred metres in length. Open-path detectors can be contrasted with infrared point sensors. They are widely used in the petroleum and petrochemical industries...
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    (infrared, for instance), and looks for changes in the field or return signal. The object being sensed is often referred to as the proximity sensor's target...
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    non-contact infrared thermometer is useful for measuring temperature under circumstances where thermocouples or other probe-type sensors cannot be used...
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  • vampire bats Infrared sensor Infrared Sightings Infrared signature Infrared slavery Infrared smoke Infrared soldering Infrared sources Infrared spectroscopy...
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    Hyperspectral imaging (category Satellite imaging sensors)
    scanning. Hyperspectral cubes are generated from airborne sensors like NASA's Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS), or from satellites like...
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  • sensor or CO2 sensor is an instrument for the measurement of carbon dioxide gas. The most common principles for CO2 sensors are infrared gas sensors (NDIR)...
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    photoelectric sensor is a device used to determine the distance, absence, or presence of an object by using a light transmitter, often infrared, and a photoelectric...
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    The infrared sensor package on the tip or head of a heat-seeking missile is known as the seeker head. The NATO brevity code for an air-to-air infrared-guided...
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    Skeets scan an area of 1,500 by 500 feet (460 m × 150 m) using infrared and laser sensors, seeking targets by pattern-matching. When a Skeet finds a target...
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    Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS-NIRISS) is an instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that combines...
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    spectrum of a film or camera sensor bandwidth. In practice, specialized broadband/full-spectrum film captures visible and near infrared light, commonly referred...
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    EuroFIRST PIRATE (category Infrared imaging)
    tender with Italy's FIAR (now Leonardo) and Spain's Eurotronica for the infrared sensor of the Eurofighters, based on the Air Defence Alerting Device (ADAD)...
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    February 2013, NASA launched a satellite that featured the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument as part of its Landsat Data Continuity Mission. The...
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  • galvanic), infrared, ultrasonic, paramagnetic, and very recently, laser methods. Automotive oxygen sensors, colloquially known as O2 ("ō two") sensors, make...
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    employ various sensor modalities including seismic, acoustic, magnetic, and pyroelectric transducers, daylight imagers and passive infrared imagers to automatically...
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  • corrosive liquids. A common application of economical infrared-based optical interface point level sensors is detecting the sludge/water interface in settling...
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    Exhaust gas analyzer (category Sensors)
    principles used for CO sensors (and other types of gas) are infrared gas sensors and chemical gas sensors. Carbon monoxide sensors are used to assess the...
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    In infrared photography, the photographic film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. The part of the spectrum used is referred to as near-infrared...
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    Wii Remote (redirect from Sensor Bar)
    communicates with the Sensor Bar by infrared, providing pointing functionality over a distance of up to five metres (16 ft) from Wii Remote to Sensor Bar. The controller...
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  • output is one of the advantages of electrochemical sensors over other sensor technologies (e.g. infrared), whose output must be linearized before they can...
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    through an infrared filter to the camera. The camera photographs the angle of incoming infrared light. The sensor chip determines where infrared beam was...
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    M82 remains unknown. Certain human proximity sensors utilize passive infrared sensing within the far infrared wavelength range to detect the presence of...
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    Janesville, Wisconsin from 1992 to 2002. It has a passive infrared sensor, and a magnetic influence sensor which allow it to be used as a demolition munition...
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    stations use one of two sensor types: forward scatter sensors transmissometers The forward scatter sensor uses a beam of infrared light which is sent from...
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    helicopter. It uses second-generation long-wave Forward looking infrared (FLIR) sensors with three fields of view, a charge-coupled device TV camera, dual...
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