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Making Sense of the Geospatial and Remote Sensing...
Remote Sensing for Mining Applications with Sahiba Sachdeva for Mining Journal.
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EarthDaily Analytics Announces Acquisition of Descartes Labs
The acquisition of Descartes Labs strengthens EarthDaily’s core geospatial AI capabilities.
Article category: Mining
Get to Know Marigold (Part 7): Marigold Workflows & Derived...
In the conclusion to our Get to Know Marigold series, we compute a Principal Component Analysis,...
Article category: Mining
Get to Know Marigold (Part 6): Marigold Workflows & Derived...
In this blog, we continue our exploration of Marigold's Workflows & Derived Products on creating...
Article category: Mining
Get to Know Marigold (Part 5): Marigold Workflows & Derived...
In this blog, we will walk through how to create a series of standard multispectral derived...
Article category: Mining
Get to Know Marigold (Part 4): Complex Masking, K-Means...
Using K-Means clustering to mask out areas you would like to remove from your imagery using the...
Article category: Consumer Goods, Science & Technology
Market Insights Week of Sept 17, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
Article category: Mining
Get to Know Marigold (Part 2): Introduction to the Bare...
Introduction to our proprietary data sets - the Descartes Labs Bare Earth Composites
Article category: Mining
Get to Know Marigold (Part 1): Functionality and Processing...
Welcome to Marigold. In these video snippets, we will provide you with an introduction and product...
Article category: Mining
Get to Know Marigold (Part 3): Vegetation and Water Masking
In this blog, we will walk through how to create and deploy vegetation and water masks using the...
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Market Insights Week of Aug 14, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
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Market Insights Week of July 15, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
Article category: Mining, Science & Technology
Advancements in Mineral Exploration: Remote Sensing and the...
Watch video for an engaging discussion around the advancements in remote sensing, specifically,...
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Market Insights Week of June 17, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
Article category: Mining, Science & Technology
Hyperspectral Imaging for Mining: EnMAP Satellite Data...
Impact on Mineral Mapping Accuracy with Increased Spatial Resolution: A Case Study of EnMap versus...
Article category: Mining, Science & Technology
Improvements in Mineralogical Classification with Increased...
A case study over Cuprite, Nevada comparing Fused Bare Earth Composite and EnMAP Data
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Market Insights Week of May 13, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
Article category: Science & Technology, Company News
Descartes Labs Government Accelerates Mission-Ready...
Descartes Labs Government selected EarthDaily Analytics as a supplier for their Earth observation...
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Descartes Labs Wins Three of the 2024 Mining Technology...
Descartes Labs Wins Three of the 2024 Mining Technology Excellence Awards in the Innovation,...
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Market Insights Week of April 29, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
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Market Insights Week of April 15, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
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Market Insights Week of April 1, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
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Descartes Labs Accelerates Growth with the Addition of...
Descartes Labs acquires all of the operating assets of Geosite, a SaaS provider of geospatial...
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Market Insights Week of March 18, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
Article category: Mining, Science & Technology
Çöpler Mine Disaster: A Retroactive Analysis to Safeguard...
A retroactive analysis of the Çöpler Mine disaster that occurred on February 13, 2024, using remote...
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Market Insights Week of March 4, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
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Market Insights Week of February 20, 2024
Using advanced #geospatial intelligence, we bring you the #commodities market overview with...
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Market Insights Week of February 5, 2024
Descartes Labs Market Insights for the Week of February 5, 2024.
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Market Insights Week of January 22, 2024
Descartes Labs Market Insights for the Week of January 22, 2024.
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Unlock Large-scale, Complex Geospatial Workloads with Batch...
Descartes Labs' Batch Compute, unlocks large-scale, complex geospatial workloads to quickly deploy...
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Exciting New Features of Marigold 2.1.0
This article highlights the exciting new user-requested features that are now available in the...
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👻 Boo-st your Procurement Savings with Eerily Accurate...
An ML/AI based digital twin of the globe’s cocoa supply chain to produce a highly robust series of...
Article category: Consumer Goods
Revolutionizing Crop Forecasts with the Power of Machine...
Case of soybeans: accurate weather forecasts, with machine learning, allow us to make crop...
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Fast and interactive deployment of computer vision models...
Leveraging satellite imagery for machine learning computer vision applications using the Descartes...
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Descartes Labs Partners with Comtech as New EVOKE...
Descartes Labs, a new Comtech EVOKE technology member, to infuse power of AI, ML, predictive...
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Commodity Procurement: Manage your feed costs using...
Descartes Labs can help you lower your procurement costs with our grains and feeds package.
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Descartes Labs Goes All-in on AWS to Help Organizations...
Descartes Labs migrates to AWS infrastructure to rapidly analyze geospatial data for timely...
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Risk Management: Improve your input costs using Descartes...
Descartes Labs Vegetable Oils market insights package helps procurement managers reduce input costs...
Article category: Mining, Science & Technology
Sentinel-1 Technical Series Part 5 | Targeted Analysis
Descartes Labs combines automated Sentinel-1 satellite ingest, monitoring, and measurement using...
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SAR Technical Series Part 4 | Sentinel-1 global velocity...
Descartes Labs uses interferometric products to a build global geospatial data product that detects...
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Sentinel-1 Technical Series Part 3 | Global scale InSAR
Discover salient features of our global InSAR product — ready to use for coherent change detection...
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Sentinel-1 Technical Series Part 2 | SAR Geocoding: Working...
In this post, we will describe Descartes Labs' SAR geocoding approach, which powers our global...
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Sentinel-1 Technical Series Part 1 | Burst Mapping: Random...
Descartes Labs fast data access mechanisms for Sentinel-1 (SAR) data enable rapid global scale...
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Sentinel-1 at Descartes Labs: An Overview
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides a valuable remote sensing tool, and this blog post will...
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Workshop Highlights: Leveraging Sentinel-1 for Agricultural...
Learn how to use Sentinel-1 and data products within the Descartes Labs Platform for agricultural...
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DigiFarm: Field Boundaries for Precise In-Season Analytics
A new partnership with Digifarm, who uses neural networks & super resolved Sentinel-2 imagery to...
Article category: Consumer Goods, Climate Solutions
Unlocking Climate and Sustainability Action with Remote...
Descartes Labs' Applied Scientist Rose Rustowicz shares insights with members of The Sustainability...
Article category: Science & Technology, Climate Solutions
How We Mapped the World's Solar Power Plants
A first-of-its-kind global inventory of photovoltaic solar facilities built using satellite imagery...
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Announcing Packaged Analytics for Four New Commodities
Actionable price forecasts, market insights, and purchasing recommendations for London Cocoa,...
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Educational Series (part two): Types of Spatial Data and...
The basics of understanding raster data, vector data, and coordinate systems.
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ClearSky: A Cloud-Free View of the Planet
We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Aspia Space to power its ClearSky product offering...
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Educational Series (part one): A Look into the Fundamentals...
In this article, we get back to the basics, to the fundamentals of remote sensing.
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Annotating Imagery at Scale with GeoVisual Search
In this blog, we will show how you can go from zero data to thousands of annotated satellite images...
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High-Resolution Satellogic Imagery Now Available Through...
We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Satellogic that brings sub-meter, high-frequency...
Article category: Consumer Goods, Climate Solutions
Leveraging Geospatial Imaging and Data to Track...
Presented during the AllianceBernstein ESG Conference on Biodiversity: Geospatial data can be a...
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A Smart Way to Pay for Sustainability Initiatives
Discover how businesses with compliance rules and socially-conscious consumers & employees can...
Article category: Consumer Goods, Climate Solutions
Calculating Mill Level Deforestation & Carbon Risk Scores...
Learn how we leverage key datasets from the Descartes Labs Platform to attribute risk from...
Article category: Climate Solutions
Connected for Good: Fireside Chat with Terry Cunningham,...
Descartes Labs discusses how its geospatial analytics platform creates data around sustainability...
Article category: Consumer Goods, Climate Solutions
The Role of Remote Sensing in Scaling Regenerative...
Scaling regenerative agriculture is possible with remote sensing through a data-driven experience...
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Descartes Labs Achieves #40 in TOP500 with Cloud-based...
Descartes Labs Achieves #41in TOP500 with Cloud-based Supercomputing Demonstration Powered by AWS,...
Article category: Consumer Goods
Quantifying the Intuitive: How Geospatial Data Helps...
Event-driven forecasting is helping to improve trading and procurement performance through...
Article category: Mining
Planetary Scale Intelligence for the Mining Super Cycle
Sentinel-2 false color image of an area near Death Valley National Park, CA.Enhancing mineral...
Article category: Science & Technology, Climate Solutions
Gaze into the Future with Downscaled Climate Models
The combination of global climate models and land cover data can be used to estimate the regional...
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Seeing Through the Clouds
Terry completed the following work as a Descartes Labs intern this summer, where he worked with...
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How I Trained a GAN to Make It Snow
Non-snowy summertime imagery at left compared to synthetic snowy imagery over the same location at...
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Getting Back to Work with Economic Activity Signals
A three month Sentinel-1 SAR composite over Singapore with lighter colors capturing economic...
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Apply for Our Impact Science Program and Get Your Hands on...
The Donjek Glacier has temporarily dammed the Donjek River multiple times during the last few...
Article category: Climate Solutions
Putting our Wildfire Detector to Work in New Mexico
In 2018, approximately 360,500 acres burned across our headquarters’ state of New Mexico. After a...
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COVID-19: The Road to Economic and Social Recovery
Review our aggregated mobility tracking methodology in our technical paper: Mobility Changes in...
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The Descartes Labs Platform
At Descartes Labs, we’ve been working at scale for years to solve some of the world’s hardest and...
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Geospatial Data’s Next Frontier: Building Operational...
From a technological standpoint, the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) into organizations’...
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How We Built a Machine Learning Model to Locate and Map...
National Geographic asked Descartes Labs if we could figure out a way to map every cranberry bog in...
Article category: Climate Solutions
The Satellites Hunting for Megafires
Megafires, defined by the US Forest Service as wildfires that burn over 100,000 acres, are...
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Scaling Spatial Analysis with The Trust for Public Land
Cities across the northeast regularly experience warmer temperatures than rural areas in this MODIS...
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Descartes Labs Raises $20 Million to Accelerate Our Mission...
There’s never a dull moment over here at Descartes Labs. Between hosting the 2030 Governor’s Energy...
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Vint Cerf Visits Descartes Labs
Aside from Santa Fe's unique architecture, one of the things that sets it apart from other cities...
Article category: Climate Solutions
Monitoring Methane in Our Home State — A Bold New Plan for...
Today we’re excited to announce that Descartes Labs will create mapping and modeling capabilities...
Article category: Climate Solutions
Sharpening The Focus on Methane Emissions
The European Space Agency’s launch of the Sentinel-5P satellite in October of 2017 ushered in a new...
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Accelerating Research with the Impact Science Program
Descartes Labs aims to improve science around the world with free Platform API access for...
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Blurry no more?! Using Deep Learning to Harmonize Satellite...
If you’ve ever gone online to find your favorite spot on a map and, upon zooming in, you were left...
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Iridium COO Suzi McBride joins as Descartes Labs’ newest...
We are thrilled to welcome Suzi McBride as our first independent director. Descartes Labs has an...
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A Photo Love Letter to Santa Fe
If you’ve never been to the city of Santa Fe, you still might have a loose sense of what it’s like...
Article category: Climate Solutions
Measuring Sustainability from Space
Technology and risk-based modeling may soon put the world on a path to eliminate the concept of...
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Thunder from the Cloud: 40,000 Cores Running in Concert on...
Descartes Labs builds one of the world’s TOP500 fastest supercomputers and the first system on the...
Article category: Science & Technology, Climate Solutions
Extraordinary Views of Earth from a Frankly Wacky Satellite
Earth as a blue marble rolling around in space, made possible with unique observations by DSCOVR...
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Gary Lang Joins Descartes Labs to run Engineering
Descartes Labs teamAs Descartes Labs grows rapidly, we’re constantly adding to the executive team...
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Custom Kubernetes Scaling via Envoy Metrics
The Descartes Labs Platform runs on Kubernetes and scales from hundreds to tens of thousands of...
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Texas Reigns Supreme in U.S. Energy Production (and McCamey...
Leveraging information both visible and invisible to the naked eye, Descartes Labs is using an...
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Mapmaking in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Let’s cut to the chase. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is a buzzword that is applied to so many...
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Creating Actionable Intelligence for the Oil & Gas Sector...
The probability output of a deep learning computer vision model which detects and segments well...
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Understanding the changing face of agriculture with global...
At Descartes Labs, we got our start modeling agricultural yields using data from satellites. Our...
Article category: Science & Technology, Climate Solutions
What We Burn Creates an Eerily Navigable Map of Earth
With all of the fossil fuels burned by humans, we take a look at NO2 composites around the globe...
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Mapping All of the Trees with Machine Learning
How do we fill in the gaps between official street tree census and trees in parks and on private...
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If you’re looking for a data prep challenge, look no...
It is time for a Master Data Management (MDM) system for geospatial data. A platform that...
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2018 Summer Internship Report
Celebrating National Intern Day on July 26th with our intern team at the Violet Crown in Santa FEWe...
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Takeaways from Spinnaker Summit 2018
Here are Descartes Labs' key takeaways from Spinnaker Summit 2018.
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How tech startup Descartes Labs is helping Cargill unlock...
What brought together a 153-year-old grain trader and a tech startup in an office full of bean bag...
Article category: Company News, Government
Building a Geospatial Analytics Marketplace with DARPA
Today we’re excited to announce that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has selected...
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Descartes Labs Platform Emerges from Beta with First...
About 15 months ago, Descartes Labs entered beta to gather feedback from customers on our progress...
Article category: Science & Technology, Climate Solutions
@WildfireSignal Tracking System Now Live on Twitter
Our Wildfire Watch System, @WildfireSignal, went live on Twitter today. Our applied science team is...
Article category: Consumer Goods
Rise of the Living Supply Chain
Supply chain is an interesting term. What is it? It is the chain of events, vendors, logistics,...
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Measuring Volcanic Earth Displacement Using Interferometric...
Figure 1: An interferogram from a pair of collections made during descending passes. The fringes to...
Article category: Science & Technology, Climate Solutions
Global-scale water monitoring in the cloud
The many shapes and colors of water, from a silt-laden river in Louisiana to Lake Mead, Nevada to...
Article category: Science & Technology, Climate Solutions
Assessing the damage of California’s wildfires
Over the past week, we’ve watched in horror as wildfires tore across Northern California. With a...
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Multi-dimensional Choropleth Maps using PostGIS, GeoServer,...
A choropleth map is a “thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the...
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Announcing our $30M Series B
Today, we’re excited to announce Descartes Labs $30M Series B round of financing led by March...
Article category: Science & Technology, Climate Solutions
Fighting Wildfires Using a Cloud-based Supercomputer
In the wake of yet another season of significant wildfire activity across the US and in particular...
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Mapping the land from space (in the Cloud)
There are at the very least six separate global land cover mapping efforts. The European Space...
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Descartes Labs Platform Now in Closed Beta with Los Alamos...
Starting today, Descartes Labs is accepting applications for Beta access to the most advanced...
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Microservice Usage Logging with Openresty and Google...
Here at Descartes Labs, we have been using the microservice architecture in building out our...
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Hacking Food Security from Space
Does widespread hunger caused by food shortages contribute to conditions that lead to regional...
Article category: Science & Technology
GeoVisual Search: Using Computer Vision to Explore the Earth
A look at the technology behind GeoVisual Search.
Article category: Science & Technology
Searching the World Wide World
Today, we’re unveiling a technology demonstration of machine learning at global scale, which we...
Article category: Science & Technology
Using Petabytes of Pixels with Python to Create 3 New...
View three new satellite imagery-based maps of the earth, made at Descartes Labs. These are global...
Article category: Consumer Goods
Advancing the science of soy forecasting
Descartes Labs’ weekly forecast for U.S. corn and soy yields. Last month, we were excited to unveil...
Article category: Consumer Goods
Advancing the science of corn forecasting
Corn yields by county, updated weekly on www.descarteslabs.comToday, Descartes Labs is releasing...