• Application of Remote Sensing Technology to Risk Management Decision Making in Agriculture
• Process-Based System for Reliable Remote Monitoring of Agronomic Plant Nutrition, Growth Regulation, Water Stress and Insect Pressure
• Soil Characterization for Improved Utilization of Remote Sensing in Agriculture
• Water and Crop Yield Management Improvement with Data from Remote and Ground-level Sensors

Current Areas of Interest/Research Focuses:

• Remote sensing for soil property determination and cotton yield prediction.
• Ground-based sensor development for yield monitoring of cotton and sweet potatoes.

Work Experience:

• July 1999-present - Associate Professor
  July 1997-June 1999 - Assistant Professor
  Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
  Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.
  
  Teaching and research in precision agriculture (including remote sensing, sensor development, GPS, and GIS) and crop processing (including process waste utilization, crop quality measurement, process improvement).
  
  
• June, 1989-July, 1997
  Agricultural Engineer / Research Scientist
  U.S. Cotton Ginning Laboratory, USDA/ARS, Stoneville, MS.
  
  Research in cotton ginning (disposal of cotton gin waste, instrumentation and image analysis for cotton quality assessment, computer control of ginning process).

Degrees, Certifications, and Specializations:

• Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1997
  Dissertation: Image-processing Solution to Cotton Color Measurement Problems in Gin Process Control
  
  
• M.S., Agricultural Engineering, Louisiana State University, 1989
  Thesis: Tree Species Determination in the Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana Based on Digital Analysis of Remotely Sensed Multispectral Video Imagery
  
  
• B.S., Agricultural Engineering, Texas Tech University, 1987

Highlights, Honors, & Organizational Affiliations:

• American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE)
  • Member Special Crops Processing Committee (Chairman, 1992).
  • Member Cotton Engineering Committee (Chairman, 1993).
  • Member Machine Vision Committee.
  • Member Precision Farming Commitee.
  • Associate Editor Power and Machinery Division of ASAE.
  • 1995 Program Chairman, Mississippi Section ASAE.
  • 1997 Chairman, Mississippi Section ASAE.
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Alpha Epsilon
  • The Honor Society of Agricultural Engineering, inducted 1992.
• Gamma Sigma Delta
  • The Honor Society of Agriculture, inducted 1993.

Publications:

Current Publications: 55+ - View Complete List