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  • Annotating Imagery at Scale with GeoVisual Search

    Annotating Imagery at Scale with GeoVisual Search

    How to Go From Zero Data to Thousands of Annotated Satellite Images
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    Descartes Labs
    Jan 10
    How Commodity Forecasting Can Pay for Your Sustainability Initiatives

    How Commodity Forecasting Can Pay for Your Sustainability Initiatives

    The same data that anticipates and mitigates price fluctuations can protect and enhance your environmental reputation
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    Descartes Labs
    Nov 30, 2021
    Calculating Mill Level Deforestation & Carbon Risk Scores Across the Palm Supply Chain

    Calculating Mill Level Deforestation & Carbon Risk Scores Across the Palm Supply Chain

    Illustrating the power of the Descartes Labs Platform to explore agricultural traceability challenges
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    Descartes Labs
    Sep 8, 2021
    Quantifying the Intuitive: How Geospatial Data Helps Forecast Commodity Prices

    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…
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    Descartes Labs
    Jul 1, 2021
    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
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    Descartes Labs
    Feb 24, 2021
    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…
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    Descartes Labs
    Sep 9, 2020
    Seeing Through the Clouds

    Seeing Through the Clouds

    Predicting Vegetation Indices Using Radar Imagery
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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?
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    Descartes Labs
    Mar 19, 2020
    The Descartes Labs Platform

    The Descartes Labs Platform

    Geospatial data and modeling tools in one package
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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…
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    Descartes Labs
    Sep 19, 2019
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