Infrared thermography has become a valuable tool both for basic research and industrial applications. New developments allow gathering of information on thermal processes faster and with more accuracy than ever before, ensuring the continuing expansion of the range of applications. In this context, the seminar will focus on recent developments to provide a forum where researchers and users from various fields share their experiences and help to disseminate the latest results throughout the industrial and research communities.

After the first international seminar named “Quantitative Infrared Thermography” in Paris (QIRT‘92) and the next in Sorrento (QIRT‘94) and Stuttgart (QIRT‘96), the fourth is now held in Lódz with emphasis on the following topics:

• Calibration and characterisation of infrared cameras (single- and array-detector systems)
• State-of-the-art and evolution in the field of infrared scanners and imaging systems allowing quantitative measurements, related data acquisition and storing systems focused on real-time, fast and multichannel data acquisition
• Related problems, such as emissivity determination, absorption in media, spurious radiations, 3D modelling of observed objects
• Infrared effects induced e.g. by electromagnetic or elastic fields, thermal wave methods, modelling of thermal fields with quantitative infrared surveys
• Applications of infrared thermography for radiometric thermometry and identification of thermal parameters, in such fields as: fluid mechanics, material science, non-destructive evaluations of structures and materials, medicine and biomedical science, remote sensing, environment, monitoring industrial processes, etc.