Established private remote sensing company in Napa, CA in 1992, to serve the needs of the agricultural community of Northern California. Designed and built two multispectral remote sensor systems. One ten-band 1.3 million pixel sensor and one five-band 6.5 million pixel sensor, both of which are fully calibrated to radiance.Streamlined NDVI processing workflow through specification of custom software written by ENVI.Provided project imaging support and image analysis to the Vineyard Simulation Irrigation Model development project. A combined project of NASA and California State University Monterey Bay.Provided project imaging support and image analysis to Ms. Susan Hubbard Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, for two separate research projects on “Advanced Characterization Techniques For Defining Vineyard Management Zones.” Projects correlated ground penetrating radar data and NDVI imaging to soil moisture content.Provided instructional materials and business development information to individuals and companies in Germany, Australia, and Argentina on the use of remote sensing in the vineyard industry.Created a river depth classification schema based upon the Blue and IR wavebands as part of a proposal to evaluate gravel build-up in the Russian River.Created the Vineyard Vigor Scale™ classification of NDVI data for the vineyard industry.Wrote two books on the use of Remote Sensing in the vineyard industry, “Improving Vineyard Profits with Remote Sensing,” and “Examining NDVI, a How-To Guide for Vineyard Managers and Winemakers”

Provided private intelligence services to individuals and corporations particularly in the area of competitor intelligence. Wrote:• Competitive Intelligence, spying by another name,” PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL, Jan. 30, 1989, Jay J. Hutton• “Tales From The Intelligence Front,” BUSINESS MARKETING, November 1989, Jay J. Hutton