| Abstract: | During the last few years a substantial improvement has been made in the development of the thermal infra-red scanner so that 1.5 milli-radian resolution is now commonly obtained. Direct transfer of information on 70 mm film through fiber glass transcoder allows immediate and refined interpretation. Although the collected data represent the image of thermal anomalies within a pellicular section of the earth's crust, it is proved that because of “per ascensum” phenomena, deep buried sources induce surface thermal changes. The difficulty lies in showing an absolute relationship between these deep phenomena and thermal surface occurrences. A careful examination of several cases related to hydrology, karstic geology, civil engineering, pollution, hot springs should help the geophysicist by providing him a new tool for shallow investigations. Thermographics with interpretation are shown to support this statement. |
