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Article: Space Tool Fills Universal Void.
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- Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Chlorophyll meter designed for satellite finds more Earthly uses
In 1998, ASAE members Mike Thurow and Bill Hughes touched down at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
While there, Thurow, president of Spectrum Technologies Inc., and Hughes, president of Innoquest, learned about a hand-held plant chlorophyll and stress detection meter developed and patented by NASA scientists. The meeting led to Spectrum obtaining a license in May 1999 to commercialize the plant chlorophyll meter named the Observer. Spectrum, with the help of plant physiologist and IPM product manager Eric Whaley, made the new chlorophyll meter a priority in the Plainfield, Ill., ...