“…Even though scientific reasons justify this recent interest (e.g. (Chrysochoos et al, 1989), (La Rosa et al, 2000), (Chrysochoos 2002), (Louche et al, 2005), (Bouferra et al, 2005), (Doudard et al, 2007), (Pastor et al, 2008)), the pragmatic reasons for this involvement is the availability of affordable IRFPA cameras on the civil market and their numerical array data format that simplify data processing.…”