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Apr 15, 2020 · 3 min read
Apply for Our Impact Science Program and Get Your Hands on the World’s Data
Descartes Labs opens up our second round of applications for free platform API access to individuals and small research teams The Donjek Glacier has temporarily dammed the Donjek River multiple times...
Mar 19, 2020 · 6 min read
COVID-19: The Road to Economic and Social Recovery
We will recover, but how will we know when? Updated with aggregated mobility data from Friday, June 5th, 2020 Review our aggregated mobility tracking methodology in our technical paper: Mobility...
Jan 6, 2020 · 4 min read
Geospatial Data’s Next Frontier: Building Operational Forecasts in the Cloud
Creating statistical models of reservoir storage and hydropower generation using the Descartes Labs Platform Written by Julio E. Herrera Estrada, PhD
Nov 28, 2019 · 4 min read
How We Built a Machine Learning Model to Locate and Map Cranberry Bogs for National Geographic
For a fun piece to chew on during the Thanksgiving holiday, National Geographic asked Descartes Labs if we could figure out a way to map every cranberry bog in the United States. We had less than a...
Nov 26, 2019 · 4 min read
The Satellites Hunting for Megafires
Descartes Labs has built an operational wildfire detector using satellite imagery which enabled the Los Angeles Times to release the first public report of the Kincade Fire.
Sep 12, 2019 · 4 min read
Sharpening The Focus on Methane Emissions
The European Space Agency’s launch of the Sentinel-5P satellite in October of 2017 ushered in a new era of atmospheric monitoring from space. The instrument provides near-daily global measurements of...
Sep 11, 2019 · 1 min read
Accelerating Research with the Impact Science Program
Descartes Labs applied scientist Dr. Kyle Story demonstrating the programmatic power of the Python API Descartes Labs aims to improve science around the world with free Platform API access for...
Sep 9, 2019 · 5 min read
Blurry no more?! Using Deep Learning to Harmonize Satellite Imagery Across Resolutions
If you’ve ever gone online to find your favorite spot on a map and, upon zooming in, you were left disappointed because the images were blurry, pixelated, or otherwise not up to par, then keep...
Jun 26, 2019 · 6 min read
Measuring Sustainability from Space
Digital supply chain transformations require “decision-useful” data to monitor and measure environmental and societal impacts. Space-based sensors and AI-derived data models help de-risk these...
Jun 19, 2019 · 4 min read
Thunder from the Cloud: 40,000 Cores Running in Concert on AWS
Screenshot of Descartes Labs’ Linpack Benchmark score of 1.926 petaflops using publicly available cloud resources on Amazon Web Services. Descartes Labs builds one of the world’s TOP500 fastest...