Verification of the correctness of thermal imaging modelling

The paper presents a method for verifying the correctness of modelling of t hermal imaging of targets by means of the computer faceted thermal target m odel (FTTM) and the theoretical model of thermodetection system (MTS). It i s proved that the computer-produced imaging of the target model is close to the imaging of an actual target obtained by means of a scanning thermodete ction system. It is demonstraded that directional temperature characteristi cs and directional radiative characteristics generated with the use of the FTTM model can replace efficiently actual thermograms of the target and can be applied as input data to theoretical models of thermal imaging by therm odetection systems.