FLIR introduces ‘breakthrough’ in multispectral infrared imaging
01/05/2025
By blending thermal and visible-light imagery, FLIR MIX provides researchers and engineers with a powerful new way to analyse, interpret and share complex thermal environments with greater accuracy.
Until now, researchers have had to choose between thermal and visible imaging: one reveals heat signatures while the other provides structural detail. Recording both and trying to align them manually, or harder still, synchronising them temporally, can be inconsistent and time consuming. The result is data that is close but never quite complete.
FLIR MIX captures and synchronises high-speed thermal and visible imagery at up to 1004 frames per second. The camera and software work together to deliver one dataset with spatial and temporal alignment, meaning no more missed details or second guessing, just a complete picture of fast-moving events.
FLIR MIX Starter Kits are purpose-built solutions designed to synchronise high-speed thermal and visible imagery with precision, delivering the insights researchers need to push the boundaries of discovery.
The FLIR MIX X-Series Starter Kit is optimised for high-speed research applications, including airbag testing, materials analysis and ballistics. This kit pairs FLIR X69xx thermal cameras with a high-speed visible camera, precision optics, custom mounting hardware and seamless connectivity, all powered by FLIR Research Studio for intuitive data analysis.
The FLIR MIX A-Series Starter Kit is built for applications such as electronics design, renewable energy and battery testing and is designed to integrate with FLIR A67xx thermal cameras, offering a versatile visible imaging set-up, custom mounting and robust networking solutions to ensure precision data capture.
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| FLIR MIX synchronises and aligns high-speed thermal and visible imagery with precision, delivering clearer insights to accelerate breakthroughs in defence, commercial and academic research |
The FLIR MIX Toolkit, for researchers who want to merge thermal and visible footage in post-processing, is available as an add-on licence to an existing Research Studio Professional Edition licence. It removes the complexity of traditional post-processing by synchronising every thermal and visible frame in real time, delivering one complete dataset for faster, clearer insights. Whether tracking material stress, analysing fluid dynamics or capturing high-speed impacts, researchers can focus on discovery instead of fixing misaligned data.
“FLIR MIX simplifies thermal analysis by combining quality thermal and visible imagery in real time in one easy-to-use hardware and software package,” said Matthew Hasty, Senior Global Product Manager at FLIR. “The solution empowers researchers to achieve precise spatial alignment with radiometric data for every pixel, providing detailed temperature insights across the entire image, making analysis more straightforward while shortening the time to discovery.”
