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HV Vision uses hyperspectral imagery to spot crop disease 1-2 years before symptoms appear.
Our immediate-result, in-field tools enable our growers to take early action on a vine-by-vine, or tree-by-tree basis; protecting their yields and extending the lifetime value of their fields.
Hyperspectral Imagery - Next Generation Tools for Agriculture
Hyperspectral imagery (HSI) is a powerful machine vision technology born at NASA in the 1980's and developed by the US Department of Defense for national security. It looks at objects using a vast portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and can identify chemical composition. Exponentially more powerful than multispectral and commercial satellite imagery common in agriculture today, HSI can monitor certain biological activities within plants that are associated with metabolic function and immune response, and it is being used in the medical field to measure mitochondrial function and for cancer screening. Years of research at leading universities around the world have validated the efficacy of using hyperspectral technology to identify pre-symptomatic crop disease.
Our tech team comes out of the US Department of Defense Intelligence Services, and our production Ag team is led by one of the top producing crop advisers in California. Six years of R&D, field trials and extensive collaboration with leading growers of high value crops have enabled us to produce two patent-pending devices and some game-changing analytics that seamless integrate with real-world farm management practices.
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Michelle has been building young companies in Silicon Valley for twenty years. She's helped launch seven companies, four of which became publicly traded, and has completed over $540M in transactions with angel, seed, venture, private equity and institutional investors in the US, Europe and Australia. Michelle co-founded an early startup accelerator, in partnership with McKinsey & Co., in 1999; and is a founding partner in the Tiburon family of seed funds, based in Munich, Germany.
Gerry has been at the forefront of remote sensing and hyperspectral analytics for more than 30 years. His experience includes intelligence requirements, and the design and implementation of systems and algorithms to collect, exploit, and report against those requirements from multi-source data; with special emphasis on environmental phenomenology. For an early AgTech remote sensing startup, he managed the development and engineering team for airborne imagery collection, processing and product development. Gerry has taught remote sensing at the graduate level at both Virginia Tech and SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry (ESF).
Paul has over 33 years of innovative agronomic experience, guiding disease and fertility management for marquee growers of high value crops. Paul has developed unique, custom-blend fertilizer formulations that support plant immune function and vigor for disease resistance or symptom mitigation in permanent crops. Paul is also a third generation winemaker.