Reverse Engineering the .IRG infrared thermal imaging format - help needed


My smiling post. My nose is very cold.

I always find it depressing when I reach the limits of my abilities. I have a new Thermal Imaging camera. It automatically saves photos in two formats. The first is a standard JPEG with false colours and metadata superimposed. The second is a .irg file which can only be opened by the Windows-only software which comes with the camera. Judging from what that software shows, the .irg contains a raw thermal image and separate metadata. That makes it more useful for analysis. What I know…

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