Meditations
Explore posts from the Descartes Labs team.
Oct 23, 2018 · 2 min read
Sep 24, 2018 · 3 min read
How tech startup Descartes Labs is helping Cargill unlock the future of data
(This article has been reposted from www.cargill.com) What brought together a 153-year-old grain trader and a tech startup in an office full of bean bag chairs? Corn, naturally.
Sep 12, 2018 · 2 min read
Building a Geospatial Analytics Marketplace with DARPA
Comparison of standard optical RGB imagery (left) and SAR (right) demonstrates how data from various sensors on the Descartes Labs platform may be used to detect illegal fishing. (Source: Descartes...
Aug 15, 2018 · 3 min read
Descartes Labs Platform Emerges from Beta with First Non-Satellite Data Set and Airbus Partnership
About 15 months ago, Descartes Labs entered beta to gather feedback from customers on our progress toward developing an advanced platform for global-scale predictive analytics. Getting at that scale...
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...