Field Notes

Occasional notes on measuring people and rooms.

Current threads

• Why skin temperature maps disagree with how warm a room feels.
• Calibrating a handheld infrared camera against contact sensors.
• Keeping a small home server quiet, cool, and on the right side of the power bill.

Reading

• Fiala, D. et al. — a dynamic model of human thermoregulation.
• Pennes, H. — the original bioheat equation, still worth a careful read.
• Assorted papers on radiometric correction for thermal cameras.

About

This page is a placeholder for longer write-ups. Nothing here is advice, and all numbers are from my own small experiments.