FLIR Systems HD Thermal Imaging System Captures Environmental Disasters

By Flir Systems Inc., PRNE
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

PORTLAND, Oregon, May 13, 2010 - FLIR Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLIR) released today electro-optic/infrared
(EO/IR) footage from recent environmental disasters including the Icelandic
volcano Eyjafjallajokull, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Footage and
additional images can be viewed at www.gs.flir.com/disaster/.

(Photo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100513/CG03765)

Recording the footage was the Star SAFIRE(R) HD from the company's
Pilatus PC-12. The Star SAFIRE HD is the world's first and only all-digital,
all-high definition (HD) EO/IR surveillance system. The system serves as the
eyes for aircraft in reconnaissance, search-and-rescue, law enforcement and
environmental protection missions for governments, militaries and defense
communities across the globe. It was designed to record high-quality footage
day or night, in some of the harshest environments around the world.

"This footage demonstrates FLIR's ability to aid in a variety of
missions, allowing first-responders to have eyes looking into the middle of
the disaster," said William A. Sundermeier, president of FLIR Government
Systems. "The same technologies that are currently protecting our soldiers in
Iraq and Afghanistan are equally effective in these global disasters, by
enhancing the understanding and reaction time during the most unforeseen
circumstances."

"Although these systems provide breathtaking daylight color images,
real-world rescues and crisis response operations usually take place at night
or in adverse weather conditions," continued Sundermeier. "We weigh this
heavily when developing our technology to ensure crisp and clear images at
night when EO/IR systems are most imperative."

The footage that was recorded off the Gulf Coast was utilized by the U.S.
Coast Guard to more thoroughly evaluate the severity of the spill. FLIR began
collaborating with the Coast Guard in 1984, and today their systems are on
USCG helicopters, aircraft and ships, and are widely used within the
Department of Homeland Security and other agencies around the world.

About FLIR Systems

FLIR Government Systems, a division of FLIR Systems, Inc., is a world
leader in the design, qualification, and manufacture of thermal imaging and
stabilized EO/IR systems for a wide variety of airborne, maritime, land based
and man-portable applications including intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance (ISR), combat search and rescue (CSAR), border control and
drug interdiction, navigation safety, maritime patrol, force protection and
facility security, forward observation, training, targeting, and fire
control, and laser weapons designation. FLIR Systems is headquartered in
Portland Oregon, with service and manufacturing facilities worldwide. Visit
the Company's web site at www.FLIR.com/GS.

Angel Bennett, +1-703-416-1043, mobile, +1-703-608-3177, angel.bennett at flir.com, or Jennifer Kline, +1-703-462-1417, mobile, +1-267-432-1987, jennifer.kline at flir.com, both of FLIR Systems, Inc.

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