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Accurate and reliable temperature measurements are crucial to improve the thermal efficiency and optimize the design of products because temperature is an important parameter to understand heat conduction, convention, radiation, and chemical reactions. The emission properties of phosphors are sensitive to temperature, hence, phosphor thermometry can make remote temperature sensing. Accordingly, phosphor thermometry has received considerable attention as a versatile alternative to conventional temperature measurement techniques. This article describes the principles and fundamental aspects of phosphor thermometry, that is, principles of luminescence, temperature dependences of luminescence characteristics and how to use those dependence characteristics such as life time method and spectral intensity ratio method.