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I was part of the Oregon State Fishery Research Team that used the FLIR system over on the John Day River. The John Day is a desert stream that holds salmon, steelhead and trout. The FLIR unit was mounted on a helicopter and flew over the river. We were trying to detect thermal refugia that the salmon and trout were using so they could survive the warm summer months. The FLIR system gave us a thermal map of the river. Once we identified the cold areas, we could study the fish and how they behaved around them. Pretty neat civilian use of a tool that was designed for the military.