A system and method for compensating for geometrical distortion of a thermal image, generated by an infrared line-scanner, caused by non-uniform motion of an image object that utilizes a calibration object and interactive software to form non-rectangular zone boundaries that compensate for image distortion. The host cells are capable of directly converting biomass polymers or sunlight into alcohols or branched-chain hydrocarbons. In response to the link failure detection, a medium access control address table of the switch is cleared. When synchronizing media content to a media device, the system provides the file having a file format corresponding to a file format preferred by the media device.