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Explore posts from the Descartes Labs team.

Company

Descartes Labs

Oct 1, 2019 · 3 min read

Government

Descartes Labs

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...

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Science

Tim Wallace

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...

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Science

Descartes Labs

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...

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Science

Simone Fobi

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...

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Company

Descartes Labs

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...

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Company

Descartes Labs

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...

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Science

Alex Diamond

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...

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Science

Descartes Labs

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...

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Science

Dylan Rich

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...

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