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How do infrared cameras work?

I know that infrared waves are the same as heat waves, and I know that you can take advantage of these ways in the same way as you can with the visible light, but how does it work? An infrared picture contain red and blue colours, but are these colours determined to be used for specific intensities of infrared or what?
gpt
Infrared, visibile light, ultraviolet light, etc.. All of these are electromagnetic waves of different frequencies. Infrared cameras work pretty much the same as visible light cameras, only their sensor is sensitive for longer wavelenghts of electromagnetic waves.