Building a living map of the world's food supply

Annmarie Rizzo in TellusLabs

Mar 30, 2018

Clean satellite data around the world and back in time

How a machine learning and data science start up is filling in the gaps, everywhere..

Part of what makes TellusLabs’ analytics so valuable is the fact that we craft them from an unusually long record of…

Annmarie Rizzo in TellusLabs

Mar 16, 2018

A living map of the World’s Food Supply

At TellusLabs, we combine decades of satellite imagery with machine learning to answer…

Annmarie Rizzo in TellusLabs

Apr 11, 2018

Everyday Ethanol (The Corn in Everything)

We use consumer-packaged goods morning, noon and night. Whether it’s squeezing toothpaste in the AM, washing down lunch with a diet cola, or scrubbing in a facial cleaner before bed, the “CPG” ecosystem of bottled, canned, and bagged products are ingrained…

Isabella Sanchez in TellusLabs

Jun 6, 2018

Introducing: KERNEL GLOBAL!

Over the past several months, we’ve been teasing a massive expansion in the geographic and agricultural scope…

Isabella Sanchez in TellusLabs

Jul 13, 2018

Syria from Above: The Visible Effects of Civil War

Many of us are familiar with the conflict in Syria: we have seen photos of buildings leveled by bombs and refugees displaced by violence. Pro-democracy protests in 2011 escalated quickly into a civil war within a year, when rebel brigades…

Annmarie Rizzo in TellusLabs

Mar 23, 2018

Russia’s Impact on Agriculture [Wheat]

What’s the Sphynx’ favorite food? Apparently, it’s wheat from Russia! Egypt’s purchases of Russian foods such as wheat and sunflower oil jumped 44 percent to $1.74 billion last year, according to Bloomberg.

Annmarie Rizzo in TellusLabs

Mar 30, 2018

Changing the Game with Crop Maps

To boldly go where remote sensing has never gone before

For a long time, the best way to map crops was to actually walk (or drive) through fields, tagging areas as corn or soy (for example). This may work on a…