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Oct 23, 2019 · 4 min read
Scaling Spatial Analysis with The Trust for Public Land
Cities across the northeast regularly experience warmer temperatures than rural areas in this MODIS land surface temperature visualization by Descartes Labs. The Descartes Labs Platform supercharges...
Oct 11, 2019 · 2 min read
Descartes Labs Raises $20 Million to Accelerate Our Mission and Welcomes Phil Fraher as CFO
There’s never a dull moment over here at Descartes Labs. Between hosting the 2030 Governor’s Energy and Environmental Technology Summit with Governor Lujan Grisham, building our new methane...
Oct 1, 2019 · 3 min read
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...