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Certified Reports, Professional Opinions and Thermal Data Reviews
Three ways to turn the thermal data you capture into expert analysis, each matched to what you need.
Thermography Services (UK) analyses thermal imaging data captured by others. Drone operators, thermal camera owners and Level 1 thermographers send us their original files, and a Level 3 thermographer carries out the analysis.
The work is delivered on one of three routes. A Certified Report carries our name and digital signature and is passed on complete. A Professional Opinion gives you our expert interpretation for your own use, with plain text for your own branded report where you need it. A Data Review is a quick screening that tells you what is worth a closer look. The route is agreed in the quotation, before any work starts.
Your data, our Level 3 analysis, delivered on the route that fits your purpose.
A thermal camera is easy to buy and hard to use well. Many survey businesses now capture good-looking thermal images of solar arrays, roofs, buildings and electrical equipment, then find that their client, an insurer or a warranty provider wants more than pictures. They want to know what the images show, how confident anyone can be about it, and who is prepared to stand behind the answer. That is the gap our report writing service fills. You capture the data. Our Level 3 thermographer analyses it, classifies what it shows and reports it, using the same method and the same standard of care on every job, whatever its size or subject.
What changes from job to job is not the quality of the analysis. It is what the finished document is for, and how much the data behind it can support.
So we offer three routes. A Certified Report is the one to choose when the findings must be relied on by someone else, because it is signed, carries our name and is passed on exactly as issued. A Professional Opinion suits a business that wants expert interpretation to inform its own report to its own client. A Data Review is the lightest option, for anyone who simply wants to know whether their images show something that deserves attention. Each is described below, with what it needs from you and what you receive.
Three ways to turn the thermal data you capture into expert analysis, each matched to what you need.
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thermography professional opinion, thermal imaging data review, thermal data analysis service, thermography second opinion, drone thermal data analysis
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Report Writing, Certified Report, Professional Opinion, Data Review, Third-Party Data
Tell Us About Your Data
Send us a short description of what you have captured, the camera you used and what your client needs at the end. We will tell you which routes are open to that data, what each would cost and how long it would take. If a Certified Report is the goal and the data cannot yet support one, we will explain what is missing and how a data collection protocol puts it right next time.
What each route gives you
The Three Report Writing Routes
Every route starts in the same place: your original thermal files, exactly as the camera wrote them, and a note of where and when they were captured.
The Certified Report is a complete, digitally signed report issued under the Thermography Services (UK) name. Your company appears on the cover as the party it was prepared for, and you can hand it to your client on its own or bind it into your own report as an appendix. Because the signature is what gives the report its standing, it is always passed on whole and unaltered. This is the route for insurance, warranty and compliance purposes. The certification covers the analysis and its interpretation, and the report says plainly that you captured the data.
The Professional Opinion is the same analysis by the same thermographer, set out in a signed record that is addressed to you and is for your use alone. Where you write your own report, we also supply the analysis as plain, unbranded text that takes on your styles when pasted. Your report is then yours: you are its author, and our name does not appear in it. A Professional Opinion is not certified and is not issued to support an insurance, warranty or compliance submission.
The Data Review is a screening, not a report. We look through your images and tell you which show nothing notable, which are worth a closer look and which cannot be judged from the image alone, with a line of explanation for each. It ends with what the data would need before an opinion could be given.
Certified Reports and Professional Opinions are charged at the same fee, because the analysis is the same work.
A Data Review is lighter work, so it costs less and is paid for when it is ordered. It is a sensible place to begin when you are not yet sure what your data can support.
Choosing the right route
What Certification Needs From You
A certification is only as strong as the evidence behind it. We did not stand on the roof or fly the drone, so before we certify an analysis we need to know how the data was captured. For most clients that means working to a written data collection protocol, which we issue before the survey and which you sign and follow.
Level 1 thermographers who capture under their own qualification confirm how the data was collected with each submission. Solar PV work always follows a protocol, whoever captures it.
When data arrives we review it before any analysis begins. If it can support a Certified Report, the work goes ahead as quoted. If it cannot, we tell you what falls short and why, once and plainly. You can then correct and resubmit the data, or agree that the job proceeds as a Professional Opinion at the same fee. A route is never changed without your agreement.
Not every camera holds a calibration certificate, and many drone cameras cannot be calibrated by the user at all. That does not rule out certification. The position is simply stated in the report.
Governing Standards
Thermographic inspection, analysis and reporting are carried out by a Thermography Services (UK) ITC Level III Certified Master Thermographer (Infrared Training Centre; Certification #205722059), practising in accordance with the frameworks of ISO 18436-7:2014, ASNT SNT-TC-1A and ANSI/ASNT CP-105, and BINDT CMGEN Appendix B (UK training governance). Inspection methodology is aligned with IEC 62446-3:2017 (solar PV) and BS EN ISO 6781-1:2023 (building envelopes) as applicable.
Thermal Data Analysis Explained
Who uses a thermal data analysis service?
Thermal cameras are now fitted to drones, carried by roofing and solar contractors and owned by building surveyors, facilities teams and electricians. Capturing an image has become routine. Interpreting it has not. A thermal image records surface temperature, and the same warm patch can mean a failing solar cell, a reflection of the sun, a shaded panel or nothing at all. Telling these apart takes training in heat transfer, emissivity, reflection and the behaviour of the thing being surveyed, which is why the recognised thermography frameworks separate the person who collects data from the person qualified to interpret and report it.
Our thermal data analysis service exists for businesses on the collecting side of that line. Drone operators use it to add expert analysis to aerial solar and roof surveys. Level 1 thermographers use it to have their data analysed and reported at Level 3. Camera owners with no thermography training use it to find out what their images actually show before they say anything to a client. In each case the data stays yours, the capture is stated as yours, and the analysis is carried out independently of it.
Certified report, professional opinion or data review?
The choice turns on what the result is for. Where a third party will rely on the findings, such as an insurer, a warranty provider, a landlord or a funder, a Certified Report is the appropriate document. It is signed, traceable to a named certification, and issued only where the capture of the data was governed by a written protocol or a signed statement from a qualified thermographer.
A thermography professional opinion is the right choice when you need expert interpretation to inform your own work. Survey businesses use it to write their own client reports with confidence, and qualified thermographers use it as a thermography second opinion on a difficult dataset. It carries the weight of Level 3 judgement on the data in front of the thermographer, without the evidence trail that certification depends on, and it is for the client who commissioned it and no one else.
A thermal imaging data review is the quickest route. It answers one question: is there anything here worth pursuing? Drone thermal data analysis at this level is a screening exercise. It is not a report and carries no opinion or certification, and it can lead to a data collection protocol for the next survey, so that the data can then support an opinion or a certified report.
Whichever route is used, the service is survey analysis and reporting only. We do not carry out remedial work, and findings indicate conditions that should be investigated and verified by appropriately qualified professionals before action is taken.
Tell Us About Your Data
Send us a short description of what you have captured, the camera you used and what your client needs at the end. We will tell you which routes are open to that data, what each would cost and how long it would take. If a Certified Report is the goal and the data cannot yet support one, we will explain what is missing and how a data collection protocol puts it right next time.
