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Matthew Bechdol has a B.S. in Public Affairs and Environmental Science from Indiana University;
a Certificate in Public Affairs from the Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden - The Netherlands; and a M.S. in Geographic and
Cartographic Science from George Mason University. Mr. Bechdol is a Federal Account Manager at the Environmental
Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in Washington, D.C.. As an Account Manager for the US Department of Agriculture,
he assists in the integration of software, hardware, data, and personnel to solve agricultural problems ranging
from precision farming to global crop forecasting. Mr. Bechdol previously provided GIS and Remote Sensing support
as a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center subcontractor, where he investigated Hyperspectral Imaging, GIS, and
mobile/wireless geospatial field data and imagery classification technologies utilizing parallel processing systems.
