Our Story
Our satellite-based crop yield forecasting journey began over 25 years ago in the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) laboratory at the University of Kansas when a couple of grad students established a predictive relationship between satellite “greenness” data and regional crop yields.
One of these students – a farm kid from western Kansas – teamed up with his brother to develop some of the very first operational, satellite-based crop yield forecasting models. Today, bolstered by a track record spanning more than two decades, TerraMetrics Agriculture’s GreenReport® and GreenReport® Wheat, Corn, Soybean and other in-season crop yield forecasts are used by agribusiness companies, commodity traders, risk managers, and other financial services professionals throughout the global food and fiber supply chain.
Our History
Founded in 1998, TerraMetrics Agriculture Inc. (TMAI) is affiliated with the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) program at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The KARS Program, which is part of the Kansas Biological Survey (KBS), was the home of the NASA Great Plains Regional Earth Science Applications Center (Great Plains RESAC), one of only seven NASA centers of excellence in the United States, and the only one dedicated to large scale agricultural remote sensing research.
Incorporating 30 years of agricultural and natural resource research and product development experience, TMAI/KARS scientists and consultants work hand in hand with the Kansas Biological Survey (KBS) to maintain TMAI’s leading edge in research and commercial product development. Our satellite-based crop yield forecasting is unsurpassed.
