http://stephanpomp.blogspot.it/2013/06/comment-on-independent-e-cat-report.html
You guys should present our best critiques directly to Pomp. On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Alan Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote: > > From: "Berke Durak" <berke.du...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 11:17:26 PM > > > It's still very unreasonable. > > > > It would mean that all the hard, camera-specific calibration work > > Optris & their software does would have been thrown away, to be > > replaced by something Levi et al. would do at great expense for a > > result with much lower confidence. > > Exactly. In their "IR Basics" document Optris give a formula for > calculating temperature which involves five constants. (Actually, they > write it with one constant, but that would just cancel out in the equation). > > The only thing that would make a small amount of sense would be to present > the data from all pixels (I don't have the spec at hand .. I think it's > about a 1MP camera) rather than binning them into areas for the energy > calculation. > > I guess the laws of statistics on averaging are busted too. Who would > have thought Rossi was such a genius as to be able to do THAT as well!) > >
