- Pioneers in developing and utilizing satellite data to create a 20-plus year crop vegetation database for crop modeling and comparative analysis.
- Leaders in applying remotely sensed data to monitor vegetation conditions and model crop yields… anywhere in the world.
- Members of a leading research consortium drawing from both government and private sectors, including NASA, USDA and RMA.
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. Drawing from many decades of agricultural and natural resource research and product development experience, KARS analysts and developers provide the framework for TMAI’s industry-leading GreenReport® crop condition reports and inseason crop yield forecasts that are used by global commodity marketers, financial analysts, crop insurance providers and other industry and government groups.
TMAI has recently experienced an ownership and leadership change and is expanding its offerings of agricultural data analytics products and services aimed at the needs of global agribusiness for predictive analysis and decision support.
TerraMetrics Agriculture, Inc. (TMAI) was founded in 1998 in Lawrence, KS at the University of Kansas. That is when a couple of grad students working at the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) laboratory 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, TMAI’s GreenReport® Wheat, Corn, Soy 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 Dedicated Professionals
Jude Kastens
KARS Director, Research Associate Professor
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Jude is a numerical analyst and all-purpose data modeler with extensive experience working with MATLAB, ESRI ArcMap and ERDAS Imagine software. The focus of his work with the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program involves using remote sensing data for agricultural applications such as crop yield forecasting, but his work extends to database management, hydrologic modeling, land cover change detection and ecological modeling.
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Range Pasture and Forage Insurance Product
Using satellite data to monitor range and pasture conditions in conjunction with the USDA RMA.
Electric Corridor Vegetation Management
Improved remote sensing and GIS techniques to monitor and identify vegetation hazards in right of way.
Drought Monitoring
Monitor drought conditions for the state of Kansas in conjunction with The Kansas Water Office.
Other sites:
- Increased speed of decision-making related to harvesting, storing, and transporting operations.
- Data on crop profitability in your area of interest based on yield estimation.
- Improved understanding of the agricultural market and better-informed decisions on the management of stocks, imports, and exports, in accordance with CAP and other similar policies.
- A much better understanding of cumulative effects of hostile field conditions (pests, diseases, nutrient deficiencies, and others) on crop development.