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Planetary Scale Intelligence for the Mining Super Cycle
Planetary Scale Intelligence for the Mining Super Cycle
Enhancing mineral prospecting and tailings safety with massively scalable models of the earth
Descartes Labs
Feb 24
Gaze into the Future with Downscaled Climate Models
Gaze into the Future with Downscaled Climate Models
The combination of global climate models and land cover data can be used to estimate the regional effects of climate change years into the…
Descartes Labs
Sep 9, 2020
Seeing Through the Clouds
Seeing Through the Clouds
Predicting Vegetation Indices Using Radar Imagery
Descartes Labs
Aug 26, 2020
How I Trained a GAN to Make It Snow
How I Trained a GAN to Make It Snow
Generating realistic but synthetic images to test automated change detection algorithms
Descartes Labs
Aug 17, 2020
Getting Back to Work with Economic Activity Signals
Getting Back to Work with Economic Activity Signals
How to remotely monitor supply and demand to make better business decisions in times of economic disruption
Descartes Labs
Jul 8, 2020
Apply for Our Impact Science Program and Get Your Hands on the World’s Data
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
Descartes Labs
Apr 15, 2020
Putting our Wildfire Detector to Work in New Mexico
Putting our Wildfire Detector to Work in New Mexico
The State Forestry Department will use our automated detector during the 2020 wildfire season
Descartes Labs
Mar 30, 2020
COVID-19: The Road to Economic and Social Recovery
COVID-19: The Road to Economic and Social Recovery
We will recover, but how will we know when?
Descartes Labs
Mar 19, 2020
The Descartes Labs Platform
The Descartes Labs Platform
Geospatial data and modeling tools in one package
Descartes Labs
Jan 22, 2020
Geospatial Data’s Next Frontier: Building Operational Forecasts in the Cloud
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
Descartes Labs
Jan 6, 2020
How We Built a Machine Learning Model to Locate and Map Cranberry Bogs for National Geographic
How We Built a Machine Learning Model to Locate and Map Cranberry Bogs for National Geographic
Pass the cranberries, please! This Thanksgiving, National Geographic asked Descartes Labs to map every cranberry bog in the United States.
Krishna Karra
Nov 28, 2019
The Satellites Hunting for Megafires
The Satellites Hunting for Megafires
Descartes Labs built a wildfire detector which enabled the Los Angeles Times to release the first public report of the Kincade Fire.
Clyde Wheeler
Nov 6, 2019
Scaling Spatial Analysis with The Trust for Public Land
Scaling Spatial Analysis with The Trust for Public Land
The Descartes Labs Platform supercharges the development of an urban heat island layer across 14,000 US cities and towns.
Descartes Labs
Oct 23, 2019
Vint Cerf Visits Descartes Labs
Vint Cerf Visits Descartes Labs
On a tour through the Southwest in August, Vint Cerf stopped by Santa Fe for a day to meet with our team.
Descartes Labs
Oct 1, 2019
Monitoring Methane in Our Home State — A Bold New Plan for New Mexico
Monitoring Methane in Our Home State — A Bold New Plan for New Mexico
Today we’re excited to announce that Descartes Labs will create mapping and modeling capabilities to monitor methane emissions in New…
Descartes Labs
Sep 19, 2019
Sharpening The Focus on Methane Emissions
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…
Tim Wallace
Sep 12, 2019
Accelerating Research with the Impact Science Program
Accelerating Research with the Impact Science Program
Descartes Labs aims to improve science around the world with free Platform API access for individuals and small research teams
Descartes Labs
Sep 11, 2019
Blurry no more?! Using Deep Learning to Harmonize Satellite Imagery Across Resolutions
Blurry no more?! Using Deep Learning to Harmonize Satellite Imagery Across Resolutions
Descartes Labs
Sep 9, 2019
Iridium COO Suzi McBride joins as Descartes Labs’ newest board member
Iridium COO Suzi McBride joins as Descartes Labs’ newest board member
We are thrilled to welcome Suzi McBride as our first independent director. Descartes Labs has an ambitious goal of understanding global…
Descartes Labs
Aug 27, 2019
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