Agriculture - Meditations
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Feb 28, 2023 · 3 min read
Commodity Procurement: Manage your feed costs using Descartes Labs Grains & Feeds package
2021 & 2022 brought their share of challenges to ranchers, hogs and poultry producers. The whole animal protein production was confronted by higher costs along the supply chain, swings in consumption from the ups & downs of the pandemic and from disease pressure.
Jul 21, 2022 · 1 min read
Workshop Highlights: Leveraging Sentinel-1 for Agricultural Insights
Learn how SAR and InSAR data are applied for agricultural use cases.
Jun 14, 2022 · 2 min read
DigiFarm: Field Boundaries for Precise In-Season Analytics
Accurate field boundary data can help the estimated 570 million farmers and growers worldwide boost their yields and lower their input costs.
May 23, 2022 · 3 min read
Unlocking Climate and Sustainability Action with Remote Sensing
Descartes Labs' Applied Scientist Rose Rustowicz shares insights with members of The Sustainability Consortium at TSC Summit 2022
Feb 28, 2022 · 2 min read
ClearSky: A Cloud-Free View of the Planet
Predicting full-spectrum optical and infrared imagery from SAR alone with Aspia Space
Aug 9, 2021 · 2 min read
The Role of Remote Sensing in Scaling Regenerative Agriculture
Scaling regenerative agriculture is possible with remote sensing through a data-driven experience for the farmer and the buyer.
Jun 24, 2021 · 5 min read
Quantifying the Intuitive: How Geospatial Data Helps Forecast Commodity Prices
Vaccine rollouts and sluggish supply chains still facing pandemic-related restrictions drove increased demand in the first half of 2021 for basic commodities like soybeans, sugar, vegetable oils, meat, and dairy.
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...
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.
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.