New FLIR VUE® TZ20-R

PIX4Dmapper PIX4Dmapper Questions/Troubleshooting
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I am assuming the new FLIR VUE TZ20-R will work for Pix4D Mapper the same as the older version. Does anyone know if this is the case, or if I buy one do I need to have additional information sent to Pix4D for calibration?

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Hi,

Radiometric thermal cameras display a thermal image and provide temperature data within the image for post-processing, while non-radiometric thermal cameras display only the thermal image to highlight relative temperature differences.

According to this blog post

TZ20 is non-radiometric, which means this camera is good for qualitative users, ie where the absolute temperature measurement is not essential, such as looking for a person or wildlife, and does not provide absolute temperature data. So it depends on what you are looking for.

I hope this helps.

Best,

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@Nikoleta_Dimopoulou The TZ20 is non-radiometric but the TZ20-R is Radiometric…

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Apologies @robertnolan1102,

You are correct the TZ20-R is a radiometric thermal camera that replaced the TZ20.

Best,

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Hello @Nikoleta_Dimopoulou and everyone here,

I try to use Pix4DMapper (version 4.8.4) to process thermal data from FLIR VUE TZ20-R.
However, when I try to select the camera model I cannot find any option for the specific camera.
Neither for the Wide FOV (4.9mm) nor the Narrow FOV (24mm).

As I am a new user, can maybe someone help me?

Thanks a lot in advance.

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Hi,

That’s because the camera is not in the database. You can process anyway and test if it works. By doing this PIX4Dmapper will process taking into account the parameters read in the EXIF of the images.

Best
José

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Thanks a lot @Jose.Arnaudo for the message. However, it is still not clear the reason. Based on all the above, I thought that it was clear that TZ20R is supported by Pix4D and thus also be part of the database. In other way, there is no need at all of database and users can always insert manually the camera parameters or get them from EXIF file (there are cases that there are problems in reading of exif ).

Maybe I am wrong but I think that this topic has to be reviewed. In any case thanks for the comment. :slight_smile: