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<blockquote data-quote="Double Naught Spy" data-source="post: 2809036" data-attributes="member: 55410"><p>Yes and no. Thermal can't even see through plate glass, much less seeing through a non-clear solid like bushes, leaves on trees, etc. NV can see 'through' them as well as thermal. The difference is in how they are viewed.</p><p></p><p>Thermal sees via radiated heat energy. So the animal is its own source of "illumination" whereas with NV, you are depending on reflected energy from animals. Put an animal under a canopy (or inside bushes) and there is very little light energy getting to the animal to reflect off of it and much of what is reflected is going to be blocked by the foliage. Even if the NV pics up reflected light from the animal, it may be so dim in comparison so the outside of the bushes that you effectively cannot see anything of the animal.</p><p></p><p>Now, if the animal is painted with glow-in-the dark paint and walks in the bushes, you will see it with NV about like you would with thermal as the animal's paint is now broadcasting light energy out of the bushes and you will see that through the various gaps, almost like thermal.</p><p></p><p>Most animals don't glow in the dark in the visible spectrum and so are hard to see or invisible when they get inside of foliage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Double Naught Spy, post: 2809036, member: 55410"] Yes and no. Thermal can't even see through plate glass, much less seeing through a non-clear solid like bushes, leaves on trees, etc. NV can see 'through' them as well as thermal. The difference is in how they are viewed. Thermal sees via radiated heat energy. So the animal is its own source of "illumination" whereas with NV, you are depending on reflected energy from animals. Put an animal under a canopy (or inside bushes) and there is very little light energy getting to the animal to reflect off of it and much of what is reflected is going to be blocked by the foliage. Even if the NV pics up reflected light from the animal, it may be so dim in comparison so the outside of the bushes that you effectively cannot see anything of the animal. Now, if the animal is painted with glow-in-the dark paint and walks in the bushes, you will see it with NV about like you would with thermal as the animal's paint is now broadcasting light energy out of the bushes and you will see that through the various gaps, almost like thermal. Most animals don't glow in the dark in the visible spectrum and so are hard to see or invisible when they get inside of foliage. [/QUOTE]
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