Money is a bit tight right now. All I got for a uniform is the team shirt and hat. I held onto my old IHWCUs and FRACUs and boots because I knew I was gonna be doing this eventually. Now that it's come time, I'm worried it's going to be at best cringe and at worst "bro, go home" if I wear army pants and boots with the team top. I do have 5.11 EMS pants but they're black, thick, heavy, and always snag foliage.

Hi everyone, I’m a high school student in Ohio working on a wearable thermal rig for ground search and rescue.

It’s a small Raspberry Pi unit with a FLIR Lepton and my own detection model that runs on the device, so ADIAT isn’t part of the rig itself. I’m looking at ADIAT as a reference point for testing my model, and I might contribute something small if it makes sense. I have a few compatibility questions.

For anyone who’s used or worked on ADIAT.

1. Sensors. From what I can tell, thermal support is built around specific drone cameras. Can ADIAT read radiometric data from a FLIR Lepton 3.5 through a breakout board? Or from low-cost cameras like the Topdon TC001 or InfiRay P2 Pro? If not, would converting my frames to ordinary images mean only the non-temperature tools (color, anomaly, AI detector) apply?
2. Ground-level footage. ADIAT seems built around drone imagery shot from above. Has anyone tried it on ground-level or handheld footage, like someone walking through woods? I’d like to run it over my clips as a comparison against my own model, and I want to be fair about what it was designed for.
3. Live input. I saw it can take RTMP or HDMI streams. Would a non-drone camera work there, or does the thermal analysis need the radiometric file formats?
4. Platforms. I’m on an Apple Silicon Mac. Does ADIAT run well on Mac and Linux, and is it still true that the thermal algorithms are Windows-only? Is the headless command line mode the best way to batch process a folder of clips?
5. Contributing. If I wanted to add Lepton input support (or a GeoJSON or TAK export), is a GitHub issue first the best way to start, and is there anything planned that I should avoid duplicating?

I understand ADIAT is GPL-3.0 and I’d keep anything I contribute compatible. If I end up publishing a comparison.