Ken Copenhaver, Principal

•M.A. in Geography, specializing in remote sensing

•15 years with NASA contractor (1994 to 2009)

•Over 25 years of scripting and programming experience for remote sensing applications including: Google Earth Engine JavaScript, Python, ArcPy, ArcGIS, SQL and HTML

•Project Manager, Energy Assurance Planning for the State of Illinois, University of Illinois at Chicago

•Patent on Crop Health Assessment Using Remote Sensing

•Projects to move agricultural remote sensing to commercial world

•Investigating use of satellite imagery to predict yield since 1996

•Developed program to monitor insect infestation of GMO corn for USEPA.

•Co-developer of the LandViewer Risk Management Platform since 2009 and technology spin-off from University of Illinois

Steffen Mueller, PhD, Principal

•BS Energy & Environmental Engineering, MBA, PhD Energy Policy

•Joint appointment between Cropgrowers LLC and the University of Illinois at Chicago

•Project Financing of Power Plants for Calpine Corporation

•Co-author of the US Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory GREET greenhouse gas model land use interface

•Board Member, International Sustainability and Carbon Certification 2014 to present.

•Member, Expert Working Group, California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Development

•Member, National Academies of Sciences Low Carbon Transportation Modeling Committee.

•Co-created the LandViewer LLC yield and acreage prediction platform.