Thermal Imaging Camera's

[Treefitter]

Roll Up, Roll up, with your piggy banks!

 

Does anyone have any tips on these rather expensve creatures. Cheapest I've so far is £990+ but that's for something quite small in pixels (160 by 120). all the sales guy's want to flog me something of about £7K and i'm not that impressed. so come on you experts impress me!

 

No seriously, I'm looking at the non invasive technology with the usefull benifit of seeing bats but I would like to know more about the in's and out's. I open any advice I can get.

 

thanks in advance

[Bundle 2]

Last I heard ...the sales guys dont know a tree surgeon from a ,....other thinmgy...gypo!

You should do a search for this, there have been a few threads about the cameras..we are not convinced IMO.

[christreeroot]

The prices of cameras you are looking at will not work, to look at trees you need a highly sensitive camera and these start at £13,000.... You then need the software which isnt available to buy, you need a licence to use it and the training to go with it.

 

The software and technology out there is going to be controlled and limited by the company behind it to stop the picus effect of anyone with the money can buy one.

 

I have heard some great things about the system and in the right hands can be extremly accurate and help identify many things that you couldnt before.

[Yorkshireman]

The prices of cameras you are looking at will not work, to look at trees you need a highly sensitive camera and these start at £13,000.... You then need the software which isnt available to buy, you need a licence to use it and the training to go with it.

 

The software and technology out there is going to be controlled and limited by the company behind it to stop the picus effect of anyone with the money can buy one.

 

I have heard some great things about the system and in the right hands can be extremly accurate and help identify many things that you couldnt before.

 

:congrats:

[Bundle 2]

Ahh.....I thought I'd seen an article recently about this....Goin' back abit Treefitter...

Issue 14 Tree News ( pg27 )

Issue 26 essentialARB ( pgs 32-36)

[Dean Lofthouse]

I agree with Chris, looked into it and unless you've got 13K to spend forget it. You may pick a decent second hand unit up for about 9K

[Bundle 2]

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2703

[ScottF]

Is there any evidence these things work? I've looked at a number of websites and I'm not convinced by anything I've seen whatsoever. Is the principle that non-conductive tissue is in some way necessarily unsound? Don't get it at all.

[Paul Barton]

Hi Scott - have a look at the thread in the link above - some input from Marcus Bellet-Travers on there who is the main dude in terms of this technology.

[treewizard]

as someone else said i dont see how it works, the tree will look different in snow than i will in a baking hot day. alot to prove imo