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As the volume and variety of Earth observation data continues to grow, there is a growing need to understand and make this information accessible to new users and applications. Descartes Labs, a cloud-based platform, is on a mission to help organizations across multiple sectors analyze satellite imagery, sensor data, and other geospatial information at scale. By building on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Descartes Labs offers customers cost-effective, scalable solutions to extract valuable insights that inform critical business decisions and drive sustainability efforts. The Fix This team sat down with Carly Benecke and Nicole Booths Toigo, leaders at Descartes Labs, to share how the company's all-in approach on AWS has enabled them to streamline data management, optimize compute resources, and rapidly prototype and deploy new analytics.

Lori and Sahiba discuss the significant impact of geospatial data on modern mining, highlighting real-world applications and success stories. They explore how Descartes Labs' innovative solutions are helping mining companies make more informed decisions, reduce environmental impact, and increase operational efficiency. Watch Here Mining Now Partner

Steve Brumby is the founder & CTO of Impact Observatory, a company working on providing rapid land cover maps anywhere on Earth. He puts it as wanting to provide "the maps the US takes for granted, all around the globe". Steve was also a co-founder & the CTO at Descartes Labs and worked at National Geographic.---Episode Sponsor: OpenCageUse OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to!---About Steve BrumbyTwitterLinkedInShownotesAlexnet WikipediaImageNetProf Fei-Fei LiRoadrunner supercomputerIBM's Cell-based Roadrunner is world's fastest (2008)Mediations: A Requiem for Descartes Labs by Mark Johnson2015 Bloomberg article on Descartes Labs Corn predictionImpact ObservatoryPromptpod podcastTrue Names by Vernor Vinge (Affiliate Link)Timestamps(00:00) - Introduction(01:37) - Sponsor(03:17) - How would you describe yourself(04:07) - Academia vs Entrepreneurship(05:21) - The urge to implement(12:03) - The rise of Deep Learning in Computer Vision after AlexNet(17:24) - Making a Dataset Equivalent to how much a Human Eye Sees(18:50) - A SuperComputer made of PlayStation 3s(22:17) - Descartes Labs(28:25) - Working at National Geographic(41:06) - Rate of Innovation in different organisations(47:53) - The Cost of Raising Venture Capital(53:30) - Difference between Impact / Angel and VC investors(01:00:17) - Impact Observatory(01:04:45) - Working with the United Nations & US Government(01:13:47) - Greenwashing(01:19:59) - Trust in government/private company(01:22:01) - Validation work(01:28:08) - Communicating Uncertainty(01:30:20) - What are you excited about(01:37:27) - Book/podcast Recommendation(01:41:17) - Googling as the early prompt engineering- Support the podcast on Patreon- Website- My Twitter- Podcast Twitter- Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter- Edited by Peter Xiong. Find more of his work

You guessed it this episode is all about recruitment! Who is this episode for? Well if you have a career in geospatial … it's for you!   Getting the job you want, changing your career path, or deciding whether to work at a start-up or a more established company. Once you have made these decisions, how do you stand out from the crowd? What is it the recruiters are looking for? And if you do get offered a contract should you negotiate and what is negotiable?    Jett Metcalf has worked as a geospatial recruitment specialist for a few well-known companies like Google, Descartes Labs and is currently the Head of Talent at Regrow Ag. In this episode, he is going to help us understand some of the answers to these questions.   Reach out to Jett on LinkedIn or Twitter  If you enjoy this episode and are interested in more career-focused episodes go to https://mapscaping.com/podcasts/ and filter by “Geospatial Career"   See you next week!  

Today, I am speaking with Grega Milčinski, CEO of Sinergise, a geospatial IT company based in Slovenia. Sinergise is most well-known for their flagship product, Sentinel Hub, which is a platform for accessing, processing and analysing Earth observation data.Grega has been around in the EO sector for a while now and has a ton of insight into the most important problems in EO revolving around making satellite data usable for all. In this episode, Grega and I talk about his company, about Sentinel Hub, the importance of solving the boring problems, about EO Browser, thoughts on some buzzwords in EO, the state of the sector and more.Sinergise WebsiteSentinel Hub WebsiteEO Browser Tool---01:06: Intro - Grega's Story02:56: Sinergise05:22: Sentinel Hub: What does it bring to the table?11:29: Solving boring problems in EO15:01: What is the biggest challenge in EO today - data accessibility, data management and data preprocessing?20:52: Will there be one horizontal platform in EO?23:15: Thoughts on a few buzzwords - analysis-ready data, edge computing, data fusion, data cubes, democratisation29:22: EO Browser: Why Sinergise built it and the vision34:27: Where should we invest $100M in EO, if given the chance?36:33: Descartes Labs and the state of EO38:14: Opening up EO data archives?39:52: Wrap-up

Planet was founded in 2010 as Cosmogia by former NASA scientists Will Marshall, Robbie Schingler and Dr. Christopher Boshuizen. The three scientists-turned-entrepreneurs had a singular vision: to image the entire Earth every day to make changes visible, accessible and actionable. They were the first to deploy cubesats in a commercial capacity, and over the past decade, they succeeded in revolutionizing the Earth observation (EO) industry and expanding access to satellite-based data far beyond the traditional defense, intelligence and agricultural sectors. The co-founders planned to design and build their own cubesats called Doves for launch into low Earth orbit. Their first satellite was built in the archetypal California garage. Successful fundraising permitted them to launch two demonstration satellites, Dove 1 and 2, in April 2013 and two more in November, by which time the company had announced plans for a 28-satellite constellation called Flock-1. The flock was launched from the International Space Station in 2014. The Doves on-orbit service would be initially be relatively brief due to atmospheric drag, but the low cost of manufacturing and rideshare launches would make possible rapid iteration of new generations. This iterative approach allowed Planet to rapidly improve the spacecraft capabilities and reliability while simultaneously serving customers, which was a wholly new approach in the industry. Latter generation Doves would be launched into higher orbits and see normal service lifetimes. More Flocks followed, including a recording-breaking launch of Flock 3p which consisted of 88 Dove satellites. From the total of over 500 spacecraft launched in the last decade, roughly 200 are currently active, representing continuous evolution in capabilities made possible by a cadence of 2-3 launches per year. By May 2015, Planet had raised a total of $183 million in financing, and used it to acquire Blackbridge, operator of the RapidEye five-satellite EO constellation. Its assets grew again in 2017 with the purchase of Terra Bella and its SkySat constellation of 15 EO cubesats from Google. The Skysat constellation was to grow over the next three years to a design total of 21 spacecraft, all of which are now operational and capturing 50cm data. Combined with the whole-Earth scanning of the Dove fleet, Planet can find an identify any change on the surface of our Planet. By imaging the entire Earth every day, Planet provides a revisit rate never before achieved. The imagery and data drawn from it is used to monitor farmers' fields, manage crops and improve yields. It enables defense and intelligence agencies to understand events, anticipate their impacts and respond effectively. Governments use it to map land use, manage resources and monitor urbanization. As our climate changes, it guides decision-makers in responding to drought, wildfire, flooding and climate-induced migration. The company's immense image archive also provides a global window into the past to illuminate the present and help predict the future. The remarkable success in less than a decade of the company founded by Marshall, Schingler and Boshuizen has helped inspire explosive growth in new Earth observation technologies, as well as space data analytics and new companies including ICEYE, Capella Space, Orbital Insight and Descartes Labs. Each successful innovation is adding to our understanding of the planet and better equips humanity to ensure a sustainable future. https://spacebq.org

Planet was founded in 2010 as Cosmogia by former NASA scientists Will Marshall, Robbie Schingler and Dr. Christopher Boshuizen. The three scientists-turned-entrepreneurs had a singular vision: to image the entire Earth every day to make changes visible, accessible and actionable. They were the first to deploy cubesats in a commercial capacity, and over the past decade, they succeeded in revolutionizing the Earth observation (EO) industry and expanding access to satellite-based data far beyond the traditional defense, intelligence and agricultural sectors. The co-founders planned to design and build their own cubesats called Doves for launch into low Earth orbit. Their first satellite was built in the archetypal California garage. Successful fundraising permitted them to launch two demonstration satellites, Dove 1 and 2, in April 2013 and two more in November, by which time the company had announced plans for a 28-satellite constellation called Flock-1. The flock was launched from the International Space Station in 2014. The Doves on-orbit service would be initially be relatively brief due to atmospheric drag, but the low cost of manufacturing and rideshare launches would make possible rapid iteration of new generations. This iterative approach allowed Planet to rapidly improve the spacecraft capabilities and reliability while simultaneously serving customers, which was a wholly new approach in the industry. Latter generation Doves would be launched into higher orbits and see normal service lifetimes. The remarkable success in less than a decade of the company founded by Marshall, Schingler and Boshuizen has helped inspire explosive growth in new Earth observation technologies, as well as space data analytics and new companies including ICEYE, Capella Space, Orbital Insight and Descartes Labs. Each successful innovation is adding to our understanding of the planet and better equips humanity to ensure a sustainable future.

Housekeeping: This is the first episode after the break, after officially launching my business TerraWatch Space. As I mentioned in the blog post, I am going to be changing the format of the podcast a little.The "Startup of the Month" is where I will have an interesting startup in Earth observation on the podcast to give them a platform for highlighting what they are building. Today's episode with Blue Sky Analytics is the first of that series.If you like your startup to be on the podcast or want to nominate one, stay tuned for an announcement on social media. I would like to give the chance for any EO startup to be on my podcast. Thanks for the support!Now, onto today's episode. -----The startup I want to highlight this month is Blue Sky Analytics, an Indian startup building climate intelligence solution using satellite data, for insurance and banking firms. I am speaking with Abhilasha Purwar and Kshitij Purwar, the co-founders of Blue Sky, who also happen to be siblings. I wanted to have Blue Sky because I think they have an interesting outlook in EO but more importantly, centered on impact. In this episode, we discuss what Blue Sky Analytics is building, their API-first approach, their data agnostic strategy, the business model and whether EO companies are SaaS companies, the benefits of building the company in India and more.https://blueskyhq.io/-----01:35: Intros05:01: About Blue Sky Analytics and their vision to be the Bloomberg for environmental data14:08: An API-first strategy for democratising satellite data for climate19:07: Blue Sky's satellite data strategy and the importance of being customer-obsessed, problem-driven and data-agnostic37:06: Blue Sky's business model and whether EO are SaaS companies49:41 Building an EO company in India - the challenge vs the opportunity55:23: Blue Sky's roadmap and outlook01:06:04: Wrap-up: Descartes Labs and potentially having Mark Johnson on the podcast

Descartes Labs is a technology company that automates the analysis of geospatial data to help organizations answer key questions about the physical world. Through our SaaS platform, they enable the analysis of earth observation data at scale, providing services and solutions across commodity sourcing and forecasting, resource exploration, and climate resilience, while also supporting diverse federal government efforts to gather, analyze, and provide actionable insights from geospatial data. Descartes Labs Government's President, Janie Robinson, describes the value of Descartes Labs' government subsidiary and the work they do. She explains the new products and services they are offering, including helping the government utilize open source and commercially available data. Their ability to work with a variety of data types and run analytics is highly impactful and works to solve the hurdles in trusting machine learning in the industry. Watch or listen to more episodes by Project Geospatial at www.projectgeospatial.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/projectgeo/support

Images and news of wildfires and smoke-filled skies are becoming a common occurrence in the news and on social media. Why is this happening? What can we do to stop this dangerous trend? In the second episode of our Threats to Nature series, we cover these questions and more, investigating the history of fire mitigation as well as emerging tools brought about by research and technological innovation. To cover this information, we welcome two speakers: Dr. Toddi Steelman, the Stanback Dean at the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University, and Dr. Jason Schatz, a Data Scientist manager at Descartes Labs. Visit our website to keep up with the OC team and for a full transcript of this episode! https://operationclimatepo.wixsite.com/operationclimate Follow us on Instagram at @operationclimate! Follow us on Twitter at @opclimate! Subscribe to us on Youtube! To contact us, DM us on Instagram or email us at operationclimatepodcast@gmail.com! ____________ Hosts/Reporters: Valerie Tsao, Jessie Goldblatt Writers/Producers: Valerie Tsao, Jessie Goldblatt, Aimi Wen Guests: Dr. Toddi Steelman, Dr. Jason Schatz Audio Editor: Aimi Wen --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/operation-climate/support

Chris Wake, Founder of Atypical Ventures, talks about investing in engineers with empathy. Chris shares his unconventional ways of finding technical founders, and gives examples of startups reimagining and transforming the world through scientific innovations.In this episode, you'll learn:[6:55] Empathy unlocks technical entrepreneurs' potential to build innovations that are truly transformative.[13:14] It's okay to create new value from nerdy adventures: Chris Wake's personal story[17:33] What layer of the problem space are you tackling, and why is it the right place for you to be?Non-profit organization that Chris is passionate about: Have DreamsAbout Guest SpeakerChris Wake is the Founder of Atypical Ventures, which he founded in 2019 after many startup experiences over the years in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. He focuses on foundational technologies with the potential to create new markets. Besides, he is an Associate at Creative Destruction Lab, an advisor at Swift Navigation, Vercel (formerly ZEIT), Descartes Labs, Mythic AI, among others, and he also mentors founders that build companies with Antler.Fun Fact: Chris is a nerd. He reads IEEE and a number of technical trade publications just for fun.About Atypical VenturesAtypical Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that invests first or early in engineers with empathy turning breakthrough innovations into transformative, enduring businesses. Atypical is driven by the belief that embracing the unfamiliar and often uncomfortable, individually and organizationally, is the clear path to growth. Its portfolio companies include: OASIS, ribbonhealth.com, pienso, instant.org, nextmv, LOGICINK, Recycleye, Skopos, phosphorus.io, and Buddy Insurance.Next Week's EpisodeComing up next week in Episode 78, we welcome a special guest, Sam Toole, Principal at Primary Venture Partners, to talk about investing in healthcare technology.Subscribe to our podcast and stay tuned for our next episode that will drop next Tuesday. Follow Us:  Twitter | Linkedin | Instagram | Facebook

In this episode, Alex Diamond, the Head of Marketing for Descartes Labs, walks us through the evolution of the GIS industry from mapping to monitoring to advanced analytics. Historically, companies have been geospatially oriented but not geospatially informed. New technologies like cloud computing, sensors, and machine learning are transforming the industry, allowing companies like Descartes Labs to produce insights at planetary scale. Alex explains how Descartes Labs expands the way clients examine their operations. The company's platform can not only help clients optimize supply chains and sourcing decisions, but it also informs sustainability initiatives such as land use, emissions, and deforestation. Tune in to hear specific examples of how this technology is applied across a variety of industries and future plans for the Descartes Labs platform. The Understory Podcast discusses innovation, insights, and the future of sustainability. It features innovators, industry experts, and diverse voices who make our world more sustainable. For more insights, please visit www.theunderstory.io.

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we're excited to learn from experts who share our mission.In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we're chatting with Heidi Rolston, Head of People at Descartes Labs. Heidi's experience has focused on building differentiated employee experiences, learning, leadership development, diversity and inclusion, and community impact.About AllVoicesIn today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what's happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.To learn more about AllVoices visit us at www.allvoices.co!

During our GEOINT 2021 coverage Descartes Labs' Alex Diamond gives us an updates on the companies activities involving computer vision and imagery object detection. Listen in to learn more about them. This video is apart of our coverage of the 2021 GEOINT Symposium in St Louis Missouri. Find more videos like this at www.projectgeospatial.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/projectgeo/support

I walked onto the volleyball court at the Malibu pier in 1990 and Deanna Lyn immediately and unconventionally welcomed and invited me into the group of locals. We became fast friends and spent most of our early 20s learning the corporate ropes. Deanna leveraged her street smarts to get past #metoo moments she experienced early in her career which has led to being a compassionate and strong mentor and leader to others on her teams. When I was looking to start my own company, Deanna, now Head of Commercial Sales at Descartes Labs, was my first pick for a top notch enterprise software sales executive. In this episode on MENTOR dna, Deanna shares important lessons about how she handles difficult situations when people feel threatened by her tenacity and direct approach.Amor Boutique Hotel is a beautiful and secret spot in Sayulita Mexico. Our family and friends love it and you will, too! This spot is a safe and family-friendly spot 30 minutes from Puerto Vallarta airport. Amor Boutique Hotel - Sayulita Mexico

Phil Boyer is a Partner at Crosslink Capital, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on enterprise applications, infrastructure, vertical software, and frontier technology. As a passionate technology investor, Phil shares how he evaluates early-stage founding teams and provides real-life examples of category-defining companies. His portfolio includes Weave, Chime, Coupa, Yotascale, Descartes Labs, among others.Unlike large companies, tech startups have the advantage of flexibility; founders can quickly change priorities.The foundational story of every successful startup clearly shows the founding team leaving everything to build the company.Some of the world's most successful tech startups started with strategies that seemed scrappy.The advisory role of a venture capitalist post-investment includes acknowledging that the founders and operators are running the business.Non-profit: Alpha

Welcome back to a new year of Google Cloud Platform Podcasts! Mark Mirchandani and Emma Iwao host the first show of 2021 with special guest Rebecca Weekly of Intel. She joins us to talk about the partnership between Google Cloud and Intel. Describing the company’s goals of gathering, storing, managing, and analyzing data in all its forms to unlock the power of technology and information, Rebecca points out how well these align with Google’s own goals and why the partnership is such a natural fit. Rebecca explains the four pillars of the Google-Intel partnership, including the focus on infrastructure and app modernization to elevate the user experience. Through their work with Google, Intel has been able to optimize the move from on prem to cloud for those clients who choose to make the shift, using their thorough client knowledge and Google Cloud expertise to facilitate a smooth transition. Rebecca walks us through the process of crafting this client experience, from choosing products and tools to identifying and solving any bottlenecks and optimizing the configuration using benchmarks. Later, we talk about the value of open source software in both the hardware and software worlds and why Intel believes so strongly in open source projects. Rebecca offers examples of clients successfully using Intel hardware and Google Cloud software, including Climacell and Kinsta. We get the inside scoop on future projects at Intel, like the next generation of scalable Xeon processors, and Rebecca talks about the future of data analyzation and computing. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Rebecca Weekly Rebecca leads the team that influences nearly every aspect of our cloud platform solutions across strategic planning, hardware and software enabling, marketing and sales. Together they shape the development, production, and business strategy of Intel’s cloud platforms to ensure differentiation and platforms that enable TAM expansion with enthusiasm, collaboration, and urgency. She drives strategic collaborations with key partners including top cloud service providers, OxMs, ISVs & OSVs to ensure platform requirements meet our customer needs. In her “spare” time, she’s the lead singer of a funk & soul band, Sinister Dexter, was professionally trained in dance (tap, modern, and jazz), and is an experienced choreographer. She has two amazing little boys and loves to run (after them, and on her own). Rebecca graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Cool things of the week 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know Book Introducing Google Cloud Workflows video Interview Intel site Google Cloud withe Intel site TensorFlow site Anthos site Intel Select Solutions site PerfKit Benchmarker site Google Cloud Functions site Climacell site Blue Skies Ahead: ClimaCell Delivers Innovative Weather Prediction Solutions doc Kinsta site Benchmarking GCP’s Compute-Optimized VMs (C2) blog Arcules site Descartes Labs site DAOS site Optane site What’s something cool you’re working on? Emma was a guest on GCP Podcast Episode 167: World Pi Day with Emma Haruka Iwao. Emma is working on the Ruby 3.0 support and release and deprecation policy. Ruby is now available on Google Cloud Functions! Sound Effects Attribution “Partyhorn” by Milton of Freesound.org “ToiletFlush” by EminYildirim of Freesound.org

We sat down with Tim Kelton, co founder of Descartes Labs, to talk about how they use the cloud to analyze huge amounts of satellite and sensor data in order to model changes on the Earth - from greenhouse emissions to large-scale crop identification. Since we spoke with Tim, Descartes has been in the media for some extra-interesting use cases, which I would like to highlight: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/05/tech/ai-wildfires/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/27/upshot/america-from-above.html The Cloud Native Show is presented by Rackner, a consultancy focused on cloud native product development, DevSecOps, and Kubernetes.

PrecisionAg.com Group Editor Paul Schrimpf talks with Winkler about the opportunities and challenges inherent on the data side of agriculture, what Descartes Labs is hoping to accomplish, and what the industry as a whole must do to get to an effective level of data utilization.

Supercomputers used to be gigantic monstrosities that would take up enormous rooms. Now, you can run them in the cloud. Just ask Mike Warren, CTO and co-founder of Descartes Labs, a company that provides Earth imagery to help folks understand planetary changes—like deforestation, water cycles, agriculture, and more. Join Corey and Mike as they discuss what it’s like to build supercomputers on top of AWS and how “easy” it is, the power of Amazon’s Spot blocks, building Beowulf clusters in the ‘90s, what Descartes Labs’ platform-agnostic infrastructure looks like (spoiler alert: nothing is on-prem), how AWS accelerates the development process, petaflop machines, the evolution of high-performance computing over the last few decades, and more.

Mark Johnson is Co-Founder & CEO of Descartes Labs which is a data refinery built to understand the planet. https://descarteslabs.com https://twitter.com/DescartesLabs https://medium.com/@DescartesLabs https://twitter.com/philosophygeek ******* Simulation interviews the greatest minds alive to inspire you to build the future ► http://simulationseries.com Design Merch, Get Paid, Spread Thought-Provoking Questions ► https://yoobe.me/simulation ******* Subscribe across platforms ► Youtube ► http://bit.ly/SimYoTu iTunes ► http://bit.ly/SimulationiTunes Instagram ► http://bit.ly/SimulationIG Twitter ► http://bit.ly/SimulationTwitter Spotify ► http://bit.ly/SpotifySim ******* Facebook ► http://bit.ly/SimulationFB Soundcloud ► http://bit.ly/SimulationSC LinkedIn ► http://bit.ly/SimulationLinkedIn Patreon ► http://bit.ly/SimulationPatreon Crypto ► http://bit.ly/SimCrypto PayPal ► https://paypal.me/simulationseries ******* Nuance-driven Telegram chat ► http://bit.ly/SimulationTG Allen's TEDx Talk ► http://bit.ly/AllenTEDx Allen's IG ► http://bit.ly/AllenIG Allen's Twitter ► http://bit.ly/AllenT ******* List of Thought-Provoking Questions ► http://simulationseries.com/the-list Get in Touch ► simulationseries@gmail.com

Dr. Caitlin Kontgis is a technical lead on the Applied Science team at Descartes Labs and was honored at the New Mexico Tech Council’s Women in Tech celebration in March 2018. Prior to moving to New Mexico in early 2016 to join the Descartes Labs team, she earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where her research was funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation to study land cover change and climate change effects on the Mekong River Delta region of Vietnam. Since moving to Santa Fe, Caitlin began volunteering at the local Girls Inc chapter and joined the board in fall of 2017. She is passionate about supporting women in STEM fields and scientific literacy. When not at work, you can find Caitlin running, skiing, and hiking the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Descartes Labs helps companies to get business insight from huge volumes of satellite and geographic data, using a combination of Software as a Service and custom development. Handling petabytes of data, compression is hugely important for packaging the data in usefully sized files and for […]

Descartes Labs helps companies to get business insight from huge volumes of satellite and geographic data, using a combination of Software as a Service and custom development. Handling petabytes of data, compression is hugely important for packaging the data in usefully sized files and for driving down storage costs. By upgrading to the latest generation Intel® processor, provided in the Google Cloud Platform*, Descartes Labs was able to accelerate its compression. To learn more about Descartes Labs solutions visit their website at https://www.descarteslabs.com/. To learn more about Intel's partnership with Google Cloud Platform visit https://cloud.google.com/intel/. Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. © Intel Corporation

Today we’re joined by Kyle Story, computer vision engineer at Descartes Labs. Kyle and I caught up after his recent talk at the Google Cloud Next Conference titled “How Computers See the Earth: A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Satellite Imagery at Scale.” We discuss some of the interesting computer vision problems he’s worked on at Descartes, including custom object detectors and the company’s geovisual search engine, covering everything from the models they’ve developed and platform they’ve built, to the key challenges they’ve had to overcome in scaling them. For the complete show notes, visit twimlai.com/talk/173.

Tim Kelton is co-founder and cloud architect for Descartes Labs. Prior to starting Descartes Labs, he was a R&D engineer for 15 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working on problem areas such as deep learning, space systems, nuclear non-proliferation, and counterterrorism. Tim talks to Craig and Adam about the use of Kubernetes and Istio in geopolitics, machine learning and food supply. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Prometheus Graduation OpenMetrics project accepted into CNCF Sandbox An Exciting New Direction for the Kubic project Demystifying RBAC in Kubernetes Kubebuilder 1.0 scaffolds (with a C) Kubernetes APIs and operators Getting Started GitHub Operator Lifecycle Management - it’s operators all the way down Links from the interview Descartes Labs Climate Change and Rising Food Prices Heightened Arab Spring Why DARPA Funded a Farm Tech Startup Announcing our $30M Series B Global-scale water monitoring in the cloud Beowulf clusters (a Slashdot meme) Omega and Borg papers Mountain biking in Sedona Descartes Labs Python client SRE books: Site Reliability Engineering The Site Reliability Workbook - free until August 23 Descartes Labs talks from Cloud Next ‘18: SRE Quality Operations for Your Services Using the Istio Service Mesh & Stackdriver - with Tim Kelton and Jay Judkowitz from Stackdriver Service Monitoring How Computers See the Earth: A ML Approach to Understanding Satellite Imagery with Kyle Story Building Multi-Tenancy ML Applications with GKE and Istio to Better Understand the Earth with Tim Kelton and Sam Skillman Descartes Labs GeoVisual Search - find the squares on the globe that look most like a given square Tim Kelton on Twitter

Istio has hit 1.0, and there’s no-one better to tell you about it than Jasmine Jaksic and Dan Ciruli from Google Cloud. Adam and Craig bring you this, as well as the news from the ecosystem. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Kubernetes now in Docker Desktop Harbor enters the CNCF sandbox Azure Metrics Adapter CloudBees Core GA on AKS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 3.11 Codefresh Enterprise Synchronizing Kubernetes secrets with LastPass at Upside Istio nightly on EKS at Tetrate Links from the interview Announcing Istio 1.0 SRE Quality Operations for Your Services Using the Istio Service Mesh and Google Stackdriver, featuring Tim Kelton from Descartes Labs (who presented at the Toronto event two years ago, and has been using Istio in production since 0.2) Google’s Cloud Services Platform Kubernetes Podcast episode 13 on Cloud Services Platform with Aparna Sinha (It’s Dan’s favorite episode so far) Istio à la carte; a presentation by Dan Istio and the future of service meshes; an article by Jasmine The Istio project: The URL (The IP address is 104.198.14.52) Community page, listing Google Groups Rocket Chat for users Twitter Jasmine Jaksic and Dan Ciruli on Twitter

Basecamp Networks uses Machine Learning to diagnose easily what kind of sickness or parasite a crop might be suffering. They're powered by Google Cloud Platform, and their CEO, Craig Ganssle, is here to tell Mark and Francesc all about it. About Craig Ganssle Craig Ganssle is the Founder and CEO of Basecamp Networks. With over 20 years in the technology industry, Craig has extensive experience developing and deploying wireless networks and designing predictive learning solutions for complex problem solving. Craig started Basecamp Networks in 2007 providing global wireless network infrastructures as well as creative solutions for difficult and time-consuming IT issues. As a partner with Google since 2008, Craig was one of the original Glass Explorers, Google's original beta test group. In early 2013, Craig advanced to an elite small team for this innovative technology. Since then, under his leadership and Basecamp's agricultural focus, Craig's vision for Glass led his team to develop intelliSCOUT®, the world's first wearable application offering farmers a truly hands-free solution, enabling agricultural problem-solving by collecting actionable insights from the field in a fraction of the time. intelliSCOUT® technology has been demonstrated, in conjunction with the Basecamp Networks' offering, to dignitaries throughout the world, including France, where Craig was personally requested to present this technology to President Francois Hollande. In October 2016 Craig and Basecamp won the Atlanta Telecom Partnership (ATP) Technology Service Provider of The Year Award (in addition to his achievements in agricultural technological advancements). Prior to founding Basecamp Networks, Craig was recruited by Verizon Wireless in 2001 where he oversaw U.S. Southeast Operations in the network engineering division and was later tasked with deploying LTE in the Southeast United States. Craig's advanced innovative solutions are currently in use across Verizon's entire company footprint today. During this time Craig also received a bachelor's degree from Muhlenberg College in Business Administration, and a Computer Science degree from AIU. In addition to his contributions in the public sector, Craig served honorably in the United States Marine Corps as an intelligence communications operator with the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) 2nd Force Recon Battalion. He was later assigned as a detached “special operator” under the Department of the Navy, to Naval Special Warfare Unit S.E.A.L. Teams as a “joint operator” before being honorably discharged in 2001 for medical reasons. During his six years of service, Craig was highly decorated with various commendations and medals for his service and valor. Craig is very active in mission work with his church that includes providing internet services in rural and remote locations globally. Basecamp Networks is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA where Craig resides with his wife and children. Cool things of the week Google Cloud Platform launches Northern Virginia region announcement. Compute Engine machine types with up to 64 vCPUs now ready for your production workloads announcement. Listen to Episode #41 Descartes Labs with Tim Kelton. Terraforming the Google Cloud alexander.holbreich.org. Interview Basecamp Networks OpenCV: Open Computer Vision opencv.org Tensorflow: An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence tensorflow.org Lagom: The Opinionated Microservices Framework for moving away from the Monolith lagomframework.com intelliSCOUT: a product of Basecamp Networks intelliscout.io Question of the week How can I learn machine learning for free? Follow this courses: Machine Learning by Stanford University coursera Deep Learning by Google Udacity CS 20SI: Tensorflow for Deep Learning Research Stanford And more: Google Machine Learning Engine and episode gcppodcast #71 Tensorflow with Eli Bixby gcppodcast #31 Announcing general availability of GPUs for Cloud Machine Learning Engine announcement Where can you find us next? Francesc presented at Gopherfest and the video is already out there! Next he'll be teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires and running a workshop at QCon New York Mark is currently at Nordic Games Conference, and while he won't be there, if people are in San Francisco they should head over to the Playcrafting & Extra Life 24 Hour Game Fest where we are raising money for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals.

This week brings your hosts Francesc and Mark doing DAILY EPISODES from Cloud Next! Today's episode brings interviews straight from the Cloud Next Community Summit! Interviews Kalev Leetaru Kalev Leetaru is the creator of the GDELT project, a global database of society, powered by Google Bigquery, Machine Learning APIs, and many other Google Cloud products. Tim Kelton Tim Kelton works at Descartes Labs and is here to show off his demo. Learn more about it on the blog post. Verónica López Verónica López joins us to talk about all the cool things she saw during the Community Summit and all the sessions she's excited about day 1. More about Cloud Next You can watch the live stream! More daily episodes to come - stay tuned! Come find us on the ground floor at Moscone!

Descartes Labs is creating an incredible living atlas of the world from huge datasets leveraging the power of Google Cloud Platform and Tim Kelton, one of the co-founders of Descartes Labs, is here to your cohosts Francesc Campoy and Mark Mandel all about it. About Tim Tim is a co-founder of Descartes Labs focuses on building distributed systems using cloud architecture to better see how the earth changes every day. Prior to Descartes Labs, Tim was a Research and Development engineer for 15 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on problem areas such as deep learning, space systems, nuclear non-proliferation, and counterterrorism. In his free time, Tim enjoys mountain biking and skiing in the mountains above Descartes in Santa Fe New Mexico. Cool things of the week Check the transcripts for every episode! All Google Cloud Platform episodes on YouTube gRPC Project is now 1.0 and ready for production deployments blog post Interview Descartes Labs home page Advancing the science of corn forecasting Medium Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer Google Research Preemptible VMs docs Managed Instance Groups docs Celery: Distributed Task Queue homepage “Tatooine†then and now from space: 40th anniversary of filming of Star Wars Medium Some maps Three maps of Humboldt, Iowa in July 2016. Cloud free image in true color We detect fields automatically, using machine learning. This is a map of all the fields in Humbolt. Vegetative health (using NDVI) Question of the week What can you get for free on Google Cloud Platform? App Engine pricing 28 free instance-hours per day Cloud Datastore pricing 1 GB of storage 50k Entity Reads 20k Entity Writes 20k Entity Deletes Vision API pricing 1k units/month (a unit correspond to a feature e.g. facial detection) BigQuery pricing Loading, Copying, and Exporting data is always free First TB of processed data in queries is free every month PubSub pricing First 250M Operations: $0.40/Million

This week's episode of Space Ventures Radio examines Descartes Labs, a machine learning and predictive analytics startup using satellite imagery to predict crop yields, starting with corn in the U.S. Important Update on the "Team" Section: I missed mentioning Mark Mathis (Software Architect), Rick Chartrand (Mathematician) and Tim Kelton (Cloud Architect) in the founding team. MARK MATHIS — For the past decade Mark has worked to help put great science into the hands of decision makers, a role he continues to pursue at Descartes Labs creating and curating rich customer experiences. He studied computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University before moving to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a DOE High Performance Computer Science Graduate Fellow. RICK CHARTRAND — was once a pure mathematician, with a PhD from University of California, Berkeley. He now much prefers to be useful. Rick’s applied mathematics expertise includes image processing, machine learning, compressive sensing, and the iconoclasm of non-convex continuous optimization. TIM KELTON — focuses on building distributed systems using cloud architecture. Prior to joining Descartes Labs, Tim was a Research and Development engineer for 15 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on problem areas such as deep learning, space systems, nuclear non-proliferation, and counterterrorism. http://descarteslabs.com/team.html ------------------------ EPISODE SECTIONS ------------------------ 2:32 - The Upshot 4:18 - The Problem 5:19 - The Solution 8:33 - The Business Model 10:53 - The Team 12:43 - The Competition 15:17 - The Roadmap 16:36 - The Conclusion ------------------------ RELEVANT LINKS ------------------------ Descartes Labs 2016 Corn Forecast: http://descarteslabs.com/forecast.html ------------------------ Intro music: “Take Me Higher” by Menya Hinga