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Feb 28, 2023 · 3 min read
Commodity Procurement: Manage your feed costs using Descartes Labs Grains & Feeds package
2021 & 2022 brought their share of challenges to ranchers, hogs and poultry producers. The whole animal protein production was confronted by higher costs along the supply chain, swings in consumption from the ups & downs of the pandemic and from disease pressure.
Nov 29, 2022 · 4 min read
Descartes Labs Goes All-in on AWS to Help Organizations Harness Geospatial Data to Address Sustainability, Food Security, and Climate Change
Leading geospatial intelligence company relies on AWS infrastructure, high performance computing, and analytics to give customers timely, actionable insights to expand their geospatial data applications
Nov 8, 2022 · 3 min read
Risk Management: Improve your input costs using Descartes Labs Vegetable Oils package
In summer 2022, the price of the soybean oil contract on CME reached an all-time high, with the Jan-2023 contract almost touching the 80 cts/lb mark. Under such inflationary pressures, input costs from soybean oil and other vegetable oils have almost doubled when compared to 2020. These past months, using the insights and recommendations from the Descartes Labs Vegetable Oils package helped our customers' procurement managers to reduce their input costs under those rapidly changing macroeconomic conditions.
Sep 21, 2022 · 4 min read
Sentinel-1 Technical Series Part 5 | Targeted analysis
This is Part 5 of a technical series focusing on Descartes Labs’ global SAR processing capabilities. SAR provides a valuable remote sensing tool, and this series will dive into detail about how we...
Sep 15, 2022 · 5 min read
SAR Technical Series Part 4 | Sentinel-1 global velocity layer: Using global InSAR at scale
This is Part 4 of a technical series focusing on Descartes Labs’ global SAR processing capabilities. SAR provides a valuable remote sensing tool, and this series will dive into detail about how we...
Sep 8, 2022 · 4 min read
Sentinel-1 Technical Series Part 3 | Global scale InSAR
This is Part 3 of a technical series focusing on Descartes Labs’ global SAR processing capabilities. SAR provides a valuable remote sensing tool, and this series will dive into detail about how we...
Aug 31, 2022 · 7 min read
Sentinel-1 Technical Series Part 2 | SAR Geocoding: Working with SAR and InSAR data in geospatial frameworks
This is Part 2 of a technical series focusing on Descartes Labs’ global SAR processing capabilities. SAR provides a valuable remote sensing tool, and this series will dive into detail about how we...
Aug 25, 2022 · 5 min read
Sentinel-1 Technical Series Part 1 | Burst Mapping: Random Seeks into PB Scale Non Cloud-Optimized Data Archives
Welcome to Part 1 of a technical series focusing on Descartes Labs’ global SAR processing capabilities. SAR provides a valuable remote sensing tool, and this series will dive into detail about how we...
Aug 23, 2022 · 6 min read
Sentinel-1 at Descartes Labs: An Overview
Welcome to the first post in a technical series highlighting the capabilities at Descartes Labs (DL) for processing Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. SAR provides a valuable remote...
Jul 21, 2022 · 1 min read
Workshop Highlights: Leveraging Sentinel-1 for Agricultural Insights
Learn how SAR and InSAR data are applied for agricultural use cases.