Licensed Technologies

The two main outlets for ITD's patents and applied research and development program are to license the technology to existing companies or to create spin-off companies. Licensing ITD technology and intellectual property to existing companies is the better option when it augments the receiving company's strategic goals.

· In October 2006, ITD transfered imaging technology to Lextel Inteligence Systems, Inc. . Lextel manufactures and sells a suite of portable hyperspectral imaging systems in the ultraviolet, visible/near infrared, and short-wave infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Lextel has distribution worldwide and is currently working on systems in the middle-wave infrared and thermal. The hyperspectral imaging system products were derived out of the NASA commercial space program and are part of an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with ITD.

For more information visit, Lextel Inteligence Systems homepage.

· Developed in the early 1990's, Commodity Market Zone Analysis (CMZA) was used to predict how much corn could be obtained from a location if the price per bushel paid to farmers was increased. It utilizes remote sensing data to locate corn fields within a specific area such as a county, agricultural co-op business area, or a corn elevator business area. The imagery is placed within a GIS that also contains roads, railroad lines and any river barge operations.

Software developed by ITD allows an agricultural business, such as a corn elevator facility, to raise the price per bushel of corn (ex..5 cents) over a specific geographic area to see how much more corn could be drawn to this elevator facility because the price was higher than the competitors in that same area. This same tool is used to determine where to build new elevator facilities throughout the corn belt and it is used by railroad companies to pre-position empty railroad cars prior to harvest.

After development, the technology was transfered to ProExporter, Inc. and is still being used today.

For more infomation visit, ProExporter, Inc. homepage.