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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...
Apr 15, 2020 · 3 min read
Apply for Our Impact Science Program and Get Your Hands on the World’s Data
Descartes Labs opens up our second round of applications for free platform API access to individuals and small research teams The Donjek Glacier has temporarily dammed the Donjek River multiple times...
Mar 30, 2020 · 2 min read
Putting our Wildfire Detector to Work in New Mexico
The State Forestry Department will use our automated detector during the 2020 wildfire season In 2018, approximately 360,500 acres burned across our headquarters’ state of New Mexico. After a winter...
Mar 19, 2020 · 6 min read
COVID-19: The Road to Economic and Social Recovery
We will recover, but how will we know when? Updated with aggregated mobility data from Friday, June 5th, 2020 Review our aggregated mobility tracking methodology in our technical paper: Mobility...
Jan 22, 2020 · 3 min read
The Descartes Labs Platform
Geospatial data and modeling tools in one package At Descartes Labs, we’ve been working at scale for years to solve some of the world’s hardest and most important geospatial AI challenges. Our custom...
Jan 6, 2020 · 4 min read
Geospatial Data’s Next Frontier: Building Operational Forecasts in the Cloud
Creating statistical models of reservoir storage and hydropower generation using the Descartes Labs Platform Written by Julio E. Herrera Estrada, PhD
Nov 28, 2019 · 4 min read
How We Built a Machine Learning Model to Locate and Map Cranberry Bogs for National Geographic
For a fun piece to chew on during the Thanksgiving holiday, National Geographic asked Descartes Labs if we could figure out a way to map every cranberry bog in the United States. We had less than a...
Nov 26, 2019 · 4 min read
The Satellites Hunting for Megafires
Descartes Labs has built an operational wildfire detector using satellite imagery which enabled the Los Angeles Times to release the first public report of the Kincade Fire.