Blue Water Satellite was co- founded by Dr. Robert K. Vincent one of the world's leading experts on remote sensing, and a professor of geology at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Vincent is co-founder and former Director of OhioView, a remote sensing consortium of the 10 largest research universities in the State of Ohio. Dr. Vincent is founder and former CEO of GeoSpectra Corporation. Dr. Vincent obtained over $1 M in NASA and NOAA grants to perform work on satellite monitoring of toxic algal blooms.

Dr. Vincent is the architect of the ATOM (Automatic Topographic Mapper) software package which automates photogrammetry, creating a world of digital holography.  He has performed as consultant, data processor, and interpreter of satellite data for a number of major oil and mining companies, particularly pertaining to the applications of geological remote sensing to mineral exploration. 

In 1994 he advised NASA´s Stennis Space Center evaluating efforts to commercialize remote sensing. He has guided diverse GeoSpectra programs which have mapped the coastal zone of South Carolina, performed research for the U. S. Bureau of Land Management leading to systems for monitoring grasslands from satellite data, and developed new methods for measuring soil trafficability for the U.S. Navy.  

Dr. Vincent has served as consultant to the NASA Planetary Radar Working Group, to the U.S. Army Expert Working Group on the Remote Detection of Mines, and as Chairman of the Infrared Panel of the Geosat Committee.  Dr. Vincent was a principal investigator for NASA on both Landsat-I and SKYLAB Earth resources experiments and served on an ad hoc committee to advise NASA´s Planetology Unit on geological remote sensing in the solar system. Dr. Vincent has been a pioneer in multi-spectral scanner ratio imaging methods, inventing spectral ratio imaging (1970) and the first to produce spectral ratio images from aircraft and satellite scanner data.