Global population growth and urbanization are ongoing at the same time. Consumption patterns are changing as discretionary money rises. Farmers are under pressure to meet rising demand, so they're looking for new methods to boost productivity. There will be more people to feed in 30 years. Because there is a finite amount of rich soil, it will be necessary to go beyond traditional farming. We need to figure out ways to assist farmers in reducing or at the very least managing their risks. On a global basis, artificial intelligence in agriculture is one of the most fascinating prospects. Artificial intelligence has the potential to change the way we think about agriculture by assisting farmers in achieving greater results with less effort while also bringing a plethora of other benefits. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, is not a stand-alone technology. As the next step in the transition from traditional to creative farming, AI may improve existing technology.
The Minimum Resolvable Temperature Difference (MRTD) is a classic performance parameter, used by manufacturers of thermal imaging systems (FLIR's) in the characterization and final testing of such devices. The Johnson criterion [1] relates the MRTD to practical characteristics, such as the ability of the FLIR to resolve objects,as function of distance. However, the MRTD measurement suffers from several drawbacks,e.g. i) it is subjective, ii) it fails to account for complex real life situations, such as background and foreground clutter, object shape and nonuniformities of temperature and emissivity. This paper describes a new type of transparency which has been developed to simulate real infrared scenes. The transparency consists of a half -tone mesh of variable size holes which, when placed in front of a blackbody, simulates a two dimensional radiant emittance pattern. The pattern itself can be generated from a thermal image of any real object as seen by a high performance FLIR, from an artificially computer generated image, or from a combination of the two.Examples of thermoscenes and measurements of radiation distribution over a simple pattern are shown.Potential applications of the thermoscenes are also discussed.
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