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Originally Posted by Turtle
Is that paper published now?
Are you doing any active research Frank, or have some plans in the pipe?
I keep thinking I may try & make my own field mill, but without a computer to record data it seems a bit of a futile venture. Do you have a field mill & use it? Do you have others interested in this?
Do you think landbased FLIR units can record the IR changes?
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I haven't heard whether the paper has been published yet. I tried to check the website of eEarth for evidence of publication but I do not know where to find it on that site.
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/ee
As far as recording data from a field mill, the usual method is with an analog to digital converter, and data snapshots are recorded on a computer. I read that computer sound cards are being used very effectively as A-to-D devices in some applications.
I doubt if a FLIR that is immersed in the environment it is trying to measure would detect a change. The issues are the rise time of the incident IR emission and the extent of the area affected and whether it is sharply defined. The satellites are detecting the IR emissions from a rather large area. Others are interested in the causes of the IR emissions and have reported on them, which is why I know about them.
I do not have a field mill, although I wish I had one sometimes.
