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Sep 19, 2019 · 4 min read
Monitoring Methane in Our Home State — A Bold New Plan for New Mexico
Today we’re excited to announce that Descartes Labs will create mapping and modeling capabilities to monitor methane emissions in New Mexico, starting in the Permian Basin. This announcement is not...
Sep 12, 2019 · 4 min read
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 era of atmospheric monitoring from space. The instrument provides near-daily global measurements of...
Sep 11, 2019 · 1 min read
Accelerating Research with the Impact Science Program
Descartes Labs applied scientist Dr. Kyle Story demonstrating the programmatic power of the Python API Descartes Labs aims to improve science around the world with free Platform API access for...
Sep 9, 2019 · 5 min read
Blurry no more?! Using Deep Learning to Harmonize Satellite Imagery Across Resolutions
If you’ve ever gone online to find your favorite spot on a map and, upon zooming in, you were left disappointed because the images were blurry, pixelated, or otherwise not up to par, then keep...
Aug 27, 2019 · 2 min read
Iridium COO Suzi McBride joins as Descartes Labs’ newest board member
Suzi McBride, Descartes Labs newest board member We are thrilled to welcome Suzi McBride as our first independent director. Descartes Labs has an ambitious goal of understanding global natural...
Jul 22, 2019 · 3 min read
A Photo Love Letter to Santa Fe
Running after work, Lake Peak, Santa Fe National Forest, May 31, 2018 | Ryan Keisler, Applied Science 40 Snapshots of the Region Descartes Labs Calls Home If you’ve never been to the city of Santa...
Jun 26, 2019 · 6 min read
Measuring Sustainability from Space
Digital supply chain transformations require “decision-useful” data to monitor and measure environmental and societal impacts. Space-based sensors and AI-derived data models help de-risk these...
Jun 19, 2019 · 4 min read
Thunder from the Cloud: 40,000 Cores Running in Concert on AWS
Screenshot of Descartes Labs’ Linpack Benchmark score of 1.926 petaflops using publicly available cloud resources on Amazon Web Services. Descartes Labs builds one of the world’s TOP500 fastest...
Jun 5, 2019 · 3 min read
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 EPIC. In February of 2015, after years of delays (including seven that saw the project literally...
May 30, 2019 · 3 min read
Gary Lang Joins Descartes Labs to run Engineering
Descartes Labs team As Descartes Labs grows rapidly, we’re constantly adding to the executive team to support our continued success. That’s why we’re proud to announce Gary Lang, as our new Head of...