Meditations
Explore posts from the Descartes Labs team.
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...
May 20, 2019 · 3 min read
Custom Kubernetes Scaling via Envoy Metrics
A selection of data products returned from our Raster service The Descartes Labs Platform runs on Kubernetes and scales from hundreds to tens of thousands of cores in response to customer traffic.
May 1, 2019 · 5 min read
Texas Reigns Supreme in U.S. Energy Production (and McCamey Shows Us How)
This eight-mile-across image of McCamey, Texas sits in a part of the state with a seemingly endless network of oil and gas infrastructure, but it also features the giant Upton 2 solar farm (which...
Apr 24, 2019 · 9 min read
Apr 17, 2019 · 2 min read
Creating Actionable Intelligence for the Oil & Gas Sector by Fusing Commercial and Proprietary Data
The probability output of a deep learning computer vision model which detects and segments well pads in the Permian Basin. Creating Actionable Intelligence for the Oil & Gas Sector by Fusing...
Mar 19, 2019 · 2 min read
Understanding the changing face of agriculture with global sensors
Fields in Vietnam At Descartes Labs, we got our start modeling agricultural yields using data from satellites. Along the way, our scientists secured multiple patents around creating field boundary...
Feb 15, 2019 · 3 min read
What We Burn Creates an Eerily Navigable Map of Earth
Nikhil Sharma at Descartes Labs created a global composite of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂) over August and September of 2018. Here, the highest levels of NO₂ are shown first and the rest fade in slowly....
Dec 20, 2018 · 4 min read
Nov 16, 2018 · 2 min read
If you’re looking for a data prep challenge, look no further than satellite imagery
As some of you might know, in January I joined Descartes Labs. As a company, one of our goals is to make spatial data more readily available and to make it easier to go from observations to...