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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.
Apr 21, 2017 · 2 min read
Microservice Usage Logging with Openresty and Google BigQuery
Here at Descartes Labs, we have been using the microservice architecture in building out our platform. If you are unfamiliar with microservices, they are a collection of independent services often...
Mar 28, 2017 · 2 min read
Hacking Food Security from Space
Does widespread hunger caused by food shortages contribute to conditions that lead to regional instability? If potential food shortages could be detected early and humanitarian action could be taken...
Mar 7, 2017 · 3 min read
Mar 7, 2017 · 3 min read
Searching the World Wide World
Today, we’re unveiling a technology demonstration of machine learning at global scale, which we call GeoVisual Search. This release makes the global composite images we released last month a bit...
Feb 6, 2017 · 3 min read
Using Petabytes of Pixels with Python to Create 3 New Images of the Earth
Today we’re excited to share three new satellite imagery-based maps of the earth, made here at Descartes Labs. These are global composite images constructed using data from the Landsat 8,...
Sep 8, 2016 · 2 min read
Advancing the science of soy forecasting
Descartes Labs’ weekly forecast for U.S. corn and soy yields Last month, we were excited to unveil our 2016 U.S. Corn Yield Forecast. Today, we’re adding soybeans to our weekly production forecasts.