Article category: Science & Technology, Climate Solutions

Assessing the damage of California’s wildfires

Over the past week, we’ve watched in horror as wildfires tore across Northern California. With a...

Article category: Science & Technology

Multi-dimensional Choropleth Maps using PostGIS, GeoServer,...

A choropleth map is a “thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the...

Article category: Science & Technology, Climate Solutions

Fighting Wildfires Using a Cloud-based Supercomputer

In the wake of yet another season of significant wildfire activity across the US and in particular...

Article category: Science & Technology

Mapping the land from space (in the Cloud)

There are at the very least six separate global land cover mapping efforts. The European Space...

Article category: Science & Technology

Microservice Usage Logging with Openresty and Google...

Here at Descartes Labs, we have been using the microservice architecture in building out our...

Article category: Science & Technology

GeoVisual Search: Using Computer Vision to Explore the Earth

A look at the technology behind GeoVisual Search.

Article category: Science & Technology

Searching the World Wide World

Today, we’re unveiling a technology demonstration of machine learning at global scale, which we...

Article category: Science & Technology

Using Petabytes of Pixels with Python to Create 3 New...

View three new satellite imagery-based maps of the earth, made at Descartes Labs. These are global...