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Dr. Kevin Price

AgPixel, LLC. USA

Dr. Kevin Price is the Executive Vice President of Research for AgPixel. He has BS and MS degrees in plant ecology and Ph.D. in biogeography with specializations in remote sensing, geographic information systems and geospatial data analyses.

He served for 28 years as a professor and faculty adviser to over 80 Ph.D. and Master’s students at Utah State University, University of Kansas and Kansas State University. He currently holds a Professor Emeritus position in Agronomy at Kansas State University and is a Collaborating Professor in Agronomy at Iowa State University. Dr. Price took early retirement from Kansas State in 2014 to assume the position of Executive Vice President of Research for AgPixel.

He is an author of over 150 publications and served as adviser on drone applications in agriculture to the US National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources. He also served on two National Research Council Committees as a scientific advisor to a former US Secretary of State, NASA and NOAA. He is the PI/Co-PI on over $50 million in research grants and has conducted research in 14 counties and is among the pioneers in the application of drone remote sensing technologies in agriculture. He is cited in over 50 news articles and has been the invited speaker on drone applications in agriculture at over 100 conferences around the world in the past several years and spoken to an estimated 20,000+ conference attendees.

Dr. Price provides advanced training and recommendations to AgPixel dealers and clients, advises the company on data acquisition methods and analyses, and develops collaborative research projects with academic institutions throughout the world.