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Science Agriculture

Descartes Labs

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.

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Science Agriculture

Descartes Labs

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.

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Agriculture

Descartes Labs

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.

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Science Agriculture Consumer Goods

Ellen Griesemer & Rose Rustowicz

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

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Agriculture

Descartes Labs

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

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Agriculture

Descartes Labs

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.

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Agriculture Consumer Goods

Descartes Labs

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.

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Agriculture

Descartes Labs

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...

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Agriculture

Descartes Labs

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.

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Agriculture

Descartes Labs

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.

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