Technical Resources & Education

Access and download webinars, white papers, publications,
datasheets, and other educational materials.

General resources

PDF | Descartes Labs helps organizations build models of the earth to power the analysis of the world's largest physical systems.

Company overview

PDF | The Descartes Labs Applied Science team comes from a broad range of physical science backgrounds, and our strength lies in blending physical and statistical modeling techniques.

Applied science capabilities

Product datasheets

PDF | Accelerate exploration timelines with global multispectral data and analytics workflows inside an easy to use, no-code interface.

Advanced Mineral Exploration

PDF | Perform massively scalable analysis on a broad catalog of remotely sensed imagery.

Geoprocessing Platform

PDF | Quantify progress toward deforestation and emissions commitments with assertions backed up by high-quality data.

Deforestation & Forest Carbon

Industry use cases

PDF | Learn how the Descartes Labs Platform helps agriculture industry leaders monitor and respond to events in the supply chain with greater speed.

Agriculture

PDF | The Descartes Labs platform delivers geospatial analytics for leaders in the mining and metals industry, helping them optimize operations during each phase of the mining life cycle.

Mining & metals

PDF | Learn how the Descartes Labs Platform allows shipping and logistics companies to track and optimize the transport of bulk commodities around the world.

Shipping & logistics

PDF | Learn how the Descartes Labs platform enables electric utilities and renewable power companies to make asset management, risk management and trading more efficient.

Power & renewables

PDF | Model market factors, simplify the development and management of property attributes, and get early warning and modeling of natural disasters.

Financial services & insurance

PDF | The Descartes Labs Platform enables oil and gas industry leaders to monitor and respond to changes in the exploration and production lifecycle.

Oil & gas

On-demand webinars

Webinar | Learn how the Descartes Labs Platform can help you build predictive models to transform your business decisions.

Geoprocessing platform

Webinar | Learn how the Descartes Labs Advanced Mining Exploration Package accelerates the exploration lifecycle for mining.

Advanced mineral exploration

Webinar | Watch a Q&A with Dr. Alice Durieux on utilizing deforestation monitoring in business.

Ask the expert | Deforestation

Webinar | Watch a Q&A with Dr. Cooper Elsworth and Erika Randolph on leveraging sustainability solutions from non-profits and NGOs in enterprise sustainability solutions.

Ask the expert | Sustainability

Webinar | We discuss how proprietary geospatial data can be used to enhance machine and human intelligence for data-driven trading and procurement.

Forecasting commodity prices

Webinar | Learn about the benefits of remote sensing for scaling regenerative agriculture and the importance of ground truth data

Regenerative Agriculture

Webinar | Explore globally processed Sentinel-1 data products available on the Descartes Labs Platform. Learn how users can best access & interact with them to build meaningful agronomic applications.

Leveraging Sentinel-1 for Agricultural Insights

Whitepapers

A simple guide to harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and geospatial data.

How to get ahead with data

Human activity is impacting the Earth’s natural systems and processes in significant ways, presenting both risks and opportunities for nearly every type of organization worldwide. This whitepaper gives a powerful overview of the possibilites of climate-related sustainability.

Essential guide to climate-related sustainability

The same data that anticipates and mitigates price fluctuations can protect and enhance your environmental reputation.

How Commodity Forecasting Can Pay for Your Sustainability Initiatives

Technical resources & documentation

PDF | Platform security is a major priority for Descartes Labs. Learn about our security policies and procedures.

Security

PDF | Find and incorporate data into the platform.

Catalog

The Descartes Labs Platform simplifies analysis of global-scale data.

Documentation

Learn how to use the DL Platform and discover the fundamentals of geospatial analytics.

Knowledge Base

Covid-19 Resources

PDF | We’ve developed a set of daily aggregated metrics that can be used by organizations to understand mobility patterns.

Aggregated mobility index

In this interactive map, estimated actual infectious coronavirus cases per capita are calculated from confirmed cases reported in the past 7 days and test positivity.

Covid-19 Now

Technical Resources & Education

General resources

PDF | Descartes Labs helps organizations build models of the earth to power the analysis of the world's largest physical systems.

PDF | The Descartes Labs Applied Science team comes from a broad range of physical science backgrounds, and our strength lies in blending physical and statistical modeling techniques.

Product datasheets

PDF | Achieve up to 5x ROI with improved sugar forecasting models.

PDF | Achieve up to 5x ROI with improved soybean meal forecasting models.

PDF | The world's first automated, global deformation monitoring system.

PDF | Accelerate exploration timelines with global multispectral data and analytics workflows inside an easy to use, no-code interface.

PDF | Perform massively scalable analysis on a broad catalog of remotely sensed imagery.

PDF | Quantify progress toward deforestation and emissions commitments with assertions backed up by high-quality data.

Industry use cases

PDF | Learn how the Descartes Labs Platform helps agriculture industry leaders monitor and respond to events in the supply chain with greater speed.

PDF | The Descartes Labs platform delivers geospatial analytics for leaders in the mining and metals industry, helping them optimize operations during each phase of the mining life cycle.

PDF | Learn how the Descartes Labs Platform allows shipping and logistics companies to track and optimize the transport of bulk commodities around the world.

PDF | Learn how the Descartes Labs platform enables electric utilities and renewable power companies to make asset management, risk management and trading more efficient.

PDF | Model market factors, simplify the development and management of property attributes, and get early warning and modeling of natural disasters.

PDF | The Descartes Labs Platform enables oil and gas industry leaders to monitor and respond to changes in the exploration and production lifecycle.

On-demand webinars

Webinar | Learn how the Descartes Labs Platform can help you build predictive models to transform your business decisions.

Webinar | Learn how the Descartes Labs Advanced Mining Exploration Package accelerates the exploration lifecycle for mining.

Webinar | Watch a Q&A with Dr. Alice Durieux on utilizing deforestation monitoring in business.

Webinar | Watch a Q&A with Dr. Cooper Elsworth and Erika Randolph on leveraging sustainability solutions from non-profits and NGOs in enterprise sustainability solutions.

Webinar | We discuss how proprietary geospatial data can be used to enhance machine and human intelligence for data-driven trading and procurement.

Webinar | Learn about the benefits of remote sensing for scaling regenerative agriculture and the importance of ground truth data

Webinar | Explore globally processed Sentinel-1 data products available on the Descartes Labs Platform. Learn how users can best access & interact with them to build meaningful agronomic applications.

Whitepapers

A simple guide to harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and geospatial data.

Human activity is impacting the Earth’s natural systems and processes in significant ways, presenting both risks and opportunities for nearly every type of organization worldwide. This whitepaper gives a powerful overview of the possibilites of climate-related sustainability.

The same data that anticipates and mitigates price fluctuations can protect and enhance your environmental reputation.

Technical resources & documentation

PDF | Platform security is a major priority for Descartes Labs. Learn about our security policies and procedures.

PDF | Find and incorporate data into the platform.

The Descartes Labs Platform simplifies analysis of global-scale data.

Learn how to use the DL Platform and discover the fundamentals of geospatial analytics.

Covid-19 Resources

PDF | We’ve developed a set of daily aggregated metrics that can be used by organizations to understand mobility patterns.

In this interactive map, estimated actual infectious coronavirus cases per capita are calculated from confirmed cases reported in the past 7 days and test positivity.