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An Idaho company using technology to detect the start and growth of wildfires has been having a busy year. Infrared imagery with heat showing up as white spots. OAR can overlay the IR imagery on top of the Electro-Optic imagery, as well as display augmented reality to see street names, county lines, etc. as needed. Image courtesy of OAR As of July 31, Owyhee Air Research (OAR) has flown 267 missions, covering 178,316 acres and 56 individual fires and complexes. “Last year, we flew two aircrafts essentially full time,” said Michael Intschert, OAR president. If the company had had a third aircraft, it probably would have been flying essentially full time as well, he said. About the company Based at the Nampa airport, OAR was founded in the Murphy area about 15 years ago by a former American Airlines pilot who wanted to get into natural resource surveying, Intschert said. The company started with contracts with state and federal agencies like Idaho Fish & Ga