Collaborate Disseminate
Figuring out what the Earth’s climate is going to do at any given point is a difficult task. To know how it will react to given events, you need to …read more Continue reading Measuring Trees Via Satellite Actually Takes A Great Deal of Field Work
On the 14th of January, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano began a gigantic eruption that would go on to peak in ferocity the next day. The uninhabited island volcano …read more Continue reading How The Hunga Tonga Volcano Eruption Was Felt Around The World
If you watch many espionage or terrorism movies set in the present day, there’s usually a scene where some government employee enhances a satellite image to show a clear picture …read more Continue reading Science Officer…Scan for Elephants!
You’d be forgiven for thinking that receiving data transmissions from orbiting satellites requires a complex array of hardware and software, because for a long time it did. These days we have the benefit of cheap software defined radios (SDRs) that …read more
Descartes Labs, a well–funded startup based in New Mexico, provides businesses with geospatial data and the tools to analyze it in order to make business decisions. Today, the company announced the launch of its Descartes Labs Platform, which promises to bring its data together with all of the tools data scientists — including those with […] Continue reading Descartes Labs launches its new platform for analyzing geospatial data
What looks like something famous, is much smaller, and is embroiled in a web of cold war cloak-and-dagger intrigue? It sounds like the answer could be Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies, but we were actually thinking of the D-21 supersonic spy drone. Never heard of it? It didn’t have …read more
Continue reading Spy Tech: Tiny Spy Plane becomes Cold War Prize
Climate change may be contributing to the penguin population crash at Halley Bay which is “unprecedented in the historical record.” Continue reading Unstable Ice Causes ‘Catastrophic Breeding Failure’ for Penguins
“This small archipelago, that measures only 15 kilometers from one end to the other, has more Adélie penguins than the entire rest of the Antarctic peninsula combined.” Continue reading Scientists Discover Hidden ‘Supercolony’ of 1.5 Million Penguins After Tracking Poop From Space
Perhaps as many as one million Pre-Columbian people lived in the southern rim of the Amazon, away from major rivers. Continue reading These Geometric Shapes Were Made By a Previously Unknown Civilization
If you’ve spent time following companies like Orbital Insight and Descartes Labs, you might assume the geospatial analytics race has been won. But TellusLabs thinks, on the contrary, that the table hasn’t even started to cool. Armed with $3 million in new seed funding from IA Ventures and an investor group including Hyperplane VC, FounderCollective and Project11, the… Read More Continue reading TellusLabs wants to help us better understand our planet