Austin Richards is an imaging technologist with over 20 years of experience in the infrared camera space, and 15 years in the ultraviolet camera space. His formal educational background is in particle and high-energy astrophysics, where he specialized in the design and construction of sensor instrumentation, earning his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1995, followed by 2 years of postdoctoral work at the South Pole station in Antarctica, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Stockholm. He designed commercial laser light scattering instruments for a year, then in 1999 joined Indigo Systems, a pioneer of commercial infrared camera design and manufacturing that rode the wave of commercialization of thermal IR technology that had previously been prohibitively expensive for most commercial applications. His CV is available on request, and most of that information is in his LinkedIn profile.
Dr. Richards is available for consultation on a wide range of topics, including:
- IR radiometric target signatures and phenomenology
- Image processing
- IR Temperature measurement
- IR camera hardware selection and trade studies
- Modeling and simulation of target radiometry and photon transport
- Radiometric calibration and non-uniformity correction
- Training on infrared and ultraviolet imaging technology theory and practice
- Panoramic thermal infrared image creation
