Sam D. Campbell, President and founder of the company, has over 30 years of agricultural experience, and for the past 15 years he has focused on technology commercialization. His management experience has enabled the company to securely establish itself in the marketplace.

 

 



Carolyn V. Shelton had been involved with the company since its inception. She has a strong background in technology commercialization and start-up companies. She provides significant finance and business operations experience to the company.

 

 



Dietrich L. Kastens directs the research and development efforts for the company. In his recent position as a Research Assistant for the KARS Program his work responsibilities included modeling crop production, conducting research in precision agriculture, developing agricultural GIS databases, and project coordination. Dietrich has over 6 years of GIs database development and project coordination experience and over 12 years of applied experience in the field of agriculture.

 


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Dr. Kevin P. Price is an Associate Professor of Geography and the Associate Director of the KARS Program at the University of Kansas. Dr. Price has 17 years of remote sensing/GIs training and research experience based on disciplinary foundations in geography and rangeland ecology. He provided leadership for the research that resulted in the development of the GreenReport®.

 



Jude Kastens is a Research Assistant working on a Ph.D. in mathematics. He received an M.A. in mathematics in the summer of 1999, focusing on numerical analysis and signal processing. He received a B.A. in mathematics and a B.S.E. in secondary education from the University of Kansas in 1996. He currently works for the KARS program as a numerical analyst and software designer. The focus of Jude's work revolves around Fourier analysis and other forms of spectral analysis.

 



Dr. Mark E. Jakubauskas is an Assistant Research Professor in the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program (KARS) Program and holds a courtesy graduate faculty appointment in the Department of Geography at the University of Kansas. He has more than 12 years experience in both fundamental and applied remote sensing research, and is a former NASA Global Climate Change Research Fellow.

 



Since 1995 John has worked on the development of the GreenReport®, which is used by the agricultural and forestry industries to monitor vegetation condition and change. He is also responsible for maintaining the High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) satellite receiving station at KARS, and the development of Sea Surface Temperature maps which are made from images received by the station.