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Jul 18, 2018 · 2 min read
@WildfireSignal Tracking System Now Live on Twitter
Fire over Durango, Colorado, seen in RGB on the left, and NIR on the right Our Wildfire Watch System, @WildfireSignal, went live on Twitter today. Our applied science team is experimenting with new...
Jun 14, 2018 · 4 min read
Rise of the Living Supply Chain
Synthetic Aperture Radar image of the the Port of Shanghai: the busiest port in the world and ground zero for most of the world’s supply chains Supply chain is an interesting term. What is it? It...
May 17, 2018 · 3 min read
Measuring Volcanic Earth Displacement Using Interferometric SAR
Figure 1: An interferogram from a pair of collections made during descending passes. The fringes to the left are surface deformations centered to the east of the Kilauea summit and lava lake. The...
Apr 20, 2018 · 4 min read
Global-scale water monitoring in the cloud
The many shapes and colors of water, from a silt-laden river in Louisiana to Lake Mead, Nevada to the Great Salt Lake, Utah. All images from the Sentinel-2 satellite. Water plays many roles in our...
Oct 19, 2017 · 3 min read
Assessing the damage of California’s wildfires
Over the past week, we’ve watched in horror as wildfires tore across Northern California. With a deep data archive of satellite imagery and expertise in remote sensing, we also wondered what we could...
Sep 22, 2017 · 2 min read
Multi-dimensional Choropleth Maps using PostGIS, GeoServer, and Google Earth
A choropleth map is a “thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the statistical variable being displayed on the map, such as population density or...
Aug 24, 2017 · 5 min read
Announcing our $30M Series B
Today, we’re excited to announce Descartes Labs $30M Series B round of financing led by March Capital, an LA-based venture capital fund. Our seed round was led by Crosslink Capital and our Series A...
May 24, 2017 · 8 min read
Fighting Wildfires Using a Cloud-based Supercomputer
In the wake of yet another season of significant wildfire activity across the US and in particular California, our drought-weary states brace for the start of a new wildfire season that will once...
May 1, 2017 · 9 min read
Mapping the land from space (in the Cloud)
There are at the very least six separate global land cover mapping efforts. The European Space Agency (ESA) just released an unprecedented 24 annual global land cover maps as a part of the Climate...
Apr 24, 2017 · 2 min read
Descartes Labs Platform Now in Closed Beta with Los Alamos National Laboratory as an Inaugural…
Starting today, Descartes Labs is accepting applications for Beta access to the most advanced Platform for extracting information from satellite imagery on a global scale.