Meditations
Explore posts from the Descartes Labs team.
Sep 8, 2021 · 3 min read
Calculating Mill Level Deforestation & Carbon Risk Scores Across the Palm Supply Chain
Illustrating the power of the Descartes Labs Platform to explore agricultural traceability challenges
Aug 16, 2021 · 5 min read
Connected for Good: Fireside Chat with Terry Cunningham, CEO at Descartes Labs, and Bish Sen, EVP of Supply Chain at Unilever
Tackling the Pressing Challenge of Deforestation to Help Build a More Sustainable Future Terry Cunningham, President and CEO of Descartes Labs, and Bish Sen, Executive Vice President of Supply Chain...
Aug 9, 2021 · 2 min read
The Role of Remote Sensing in Scaling Regenerative Agriculture
Scaling regenerative agriculture is possible with remote sensing through a data-driven experience for the farmer and the buyer.
Jun 28, 2021 · 4 min read
Descartes Labs Achieves #40 in TOP500 with Cloud-based Supercomputing Demonstration Powered by AWS, Signaling New Era for Geospatial Data Analysis at Scale
Descartes Labs uses Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) to run a 9.95 petaflops High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark, placing it #40 in the June 2021 TOP500 ranking. The company improves on its previous AWS-based 2019 TOP500 submission (1.926 petaflops, #136) by 417% in HPL performance and 96 ranking spots in only two years.
Jun 24, 2021 · 5 min read
Quantifying the Intuitive: How Geospatial Data Helps Forecast Commodity Prices
Vaccine rollouts and sluggish supply chains still facing pandemic-related restrictions drove increased demand in the first half of 2021 for basic commodities like soybeans, sugar, vegetable oils, meat, and dairy.
Feb 24, 2021 · 4 min read
Planetary Scale Intelligence for the Mining Super Cycle
Sentinel-2 false color image of an area near Death Valley National Park, CA. Enhancing mineral prospecting and tailings safety with massively scalable models of the earth “Covid is ushering in a new...
Sep 9, 2020 · 5 min read
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 effects of climate change years into the future By Sepideh Khajehei — Sepideh is an Applied Scientist...
Aug 26, 2020 · 5 min read
Seeing Through the Clouds
Predicting Vegetation Indices Using Radar Imagery By Terry Conlon — Ph.D. Student in the Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University. Terry completed the following work as a Descartes Labs...
Aug 17, 2020 · 4 min read
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 right. Generating realistic but synthetic images to test automated change detection algorithms By...
Jul 8, 2020 · 7 min read
Getting Back to Work with Economic Activity Signals
A three month Sentinel-1 SAR composite over Singapore with lighter colors capturing economic activity on land and at sea. Descartes Labs Economic Activity Signals uses multimodal remotely sensed data...