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March, 2012 – Stockton Infrared Thermographic Services, Inc (SITS) announces its membership in the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce. Founded in 1989, SITS is a nation-wide provider of infrared thermographic services and is well-known for their state-of-the-art aerial infrared services which are utilized to help customers detect roof leaks, steams leaks, detect pollution and more…

August, 2011 – Stockton Infrared Thermographic Services, Inc (SITS) announces its presence on NC Now/UNC TV. In June of this year, SITS participated in the Energy Cost Reduction Summer Community College Tour, hosted by Joel Leonard of www.skilltv.org. The name of the tour was “Infrared Thermography: Hot Technology That Can Drive Energy Cost Reductions”. NC Now of UNC TV interviewed Mr. Leonard as well as Eric Stockton, Division Director for SITS, who participated in the tour. The video of that interview is available for viewing on UNC/TV’s website…

The US Army Corps of Engineers detonated explosives at the Birds Point levee near Wyatt, Missouri, at 10:02 p.m. on May 2, 2011. Water from the intentional breach flooded a 130,000-acre stretch of land. Two more breaches were detonated on May 3 and 5. This image from the Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft shows the resultant flooding of farmland west of the Mississippi 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the levee breach…

Venus is Earth’s closest sibling, in terms of size and proximity, but it remains relatively little explored compared with Earth’s other planetary neighbor, Mars. For instance, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) currently have three working Mars orbiters and one active Mars rover between them, whereas at Venus, ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has the place to itself…

$5.6 million. That is the estimated savings George Horn generated for his employer, ChevronTexaco, by applying infrared thermography technology to the company’s headquarters and research and development facilities…

The imagery (IR) from aerial infrared thermal surveys of facilities, complexes, campuses, military bases and cities can be used for many purposes. Systems like supply steam and condensate return lines, hot water, lines, chilled water lines, supply water mains, distribution piping, storm water drains and sewer lines can be monitored by looking at surface temperatures/patterns…

When a customer recently inquired about roofing five apartment buildings in Grass Valley, Calif., Jay Saber didn’t bother to jump in his truck to drive out and take measurements. Mr. Saber, the owner of Saber Roofing Inc. in Redwood City, Calif., instead punched the addresses into Google Inc.’s free Earth software to pull up aerial views of the buildings. He used the program to measure the roofs and eyeball their conditions. After he determined that the job would cost more than $100,000, he emailed the estimate to the client the next day…