Jim Cory is the founder of Horizon Mapping as well as the lead analyst. Up until last year he worked for the commercial GIS consulting firm GeoAnalytics, Inc, where he designed and built spatial databases and wrote programs to integrate enterprise databases. Prior to that he worked at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources doing GIS database and application development.

Shareful Hassan specializes in remote sensing for land use assessment and land degredation. He has a Masters degree in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, and another Masters degree in Geodesy and Geoinformatics, from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Hassan has worked as a Remote Sensing Analyst for the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), performing an integrated study of satellite and LiDAR imagery.