Articles by Dale Deering

In macroeconomics there is a concept called utility. According to Investopedia, “utility is the aggregate sum of satisfaction or benefit that an individual gains from consuming a given amount of goods or services.”

Image-processing in the near infrared spectrum is already well established in the photovoltaic industry where it is used in demanding optical inspection procedures that check solar cells for micro-cracks, which can occur during crystal growth and wafer sawing. But this technology has much more to offer and it is gaining in importance in other areas, as this article shows.