Dr. Earle Raymond Hunt, Jr. of the USDA’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) modified a commercially available digital camera to make a low-cost color-infrared digital camera for vegetation monitoring. This camera can be used in unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs) for the agricultural management of fertilizers, pesticides and growth regulators to enhance production and protect environmental quality. Dr. Hunt conducted preliminary research on the utility of UAVs for agricultural remote sensing because this platform had the potential to overcome the limitations of satellite data for within-season agricultural management. IntelliTech Microsystems, located in Bowie, Maryland, manufactures UAVs for non-military applications and thought that agricultural management would be a potential new market. They sought out Dr. Hunt specifically because of his published research. A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) was implemented in 2005 with IntelliTech for development of UAVborne sensors and sensor-dependent algorithms for agricultural management. As the result of the CRADA, a patent application is being submitted for a color-infrared digital camera. IntelliTech has sold more UAVs with the camera included than without, generating $50,000 in extra value. Furthermore, because of the CRADA, a new UAV is being designed and built for agricultural management. This UAV is easier to fly, can take off and land anywhere, and will cost customers less. Because most customers want to purchase data without buying the entire UAV system, IntelliTech formed a subsidiary, AeroView International LLC, to provide UAV services. With the extra capabilities provided by the transferred technology, IntelliTech Microsystems is actively pursuing new markets in natural resource management.