Preliminary Experimental test of Thermal Exploration Using a Termocamera for Specific Applications in Cultural Heritage

Abstract

This paper addresses the methodology of thermal monitoring through the use of thermal camera. This process makes several preliminary experimental tests with the thermal camera with the qualitatively proposed object, where the distance between the sensor and the object is suitable for the sensor's capture ability of the object temperature. The purpose of this procedure is to use the new technology for specific applications in cultural heritage sites by DIMEG Heritage Drone. This paper has been organized in several sections. In the first section, we present the DIMEG Heritage drone and present the procedure of thermal monitoring for inspection in built heritage site. And in the second section, we describe the thermal inspection and internal functionality of the thermal sensor. Finally, we conduct several experiments by using the thermal camera to detect thermal images (water seepage and corrasion) of the object. This experiment is considered a preliminary test in our work to prepare the next stage of our work, which is to integrate the thermal camera with a drone and run thermal monitoring mode for inspection in the heritage site.