Leading geospatial intelligence company relies
on AWS infrastructure, high performance computing, and analytics to
give customers timely, actionable insights to expand their
geospatial data applications
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that
Descartes Labs, a leading space and geospatial intelligence
company, is migrating its core information technology (IT)
infrastructure, including its geoprocessing and analytics
platforms, to AWS. By going all-in on AWS, Descartes Labs will
provide commercial and public sector customers with insights that
support timely decisions regarding some of the world’s most
pressing challenges, including mitigating the effects of climate
change, enhancing food security, protecting people, and
safeguarding natural resources.
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Descartes Labs is migrating its cloud-based platform to AWS to
rapidly analyze geospatial data, including images that depict the
locations and characteristics of natural and constructed features
of the Earth's surface, remote sensing from satellites and
aircraft, and other data sources. Using AWS’s proven infrastructure
and breadth and depth of services, the company can store, process,
and rapidly analyze these huge volumes of geospatial data.
Customers can then use this analysis to derive insights from these
specialized datasets to make timely decisions. To optimize storage
costs for its 20 petabyte data library, Descartes Labs is using
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Intelligent-Tiering, a service that
automatically moves customers’ data to the most cost-effective
storage tier. It also uses Amazon OpenSearch Service, a fully
managed search and analytics suite, to allow customers to search
its vast archives of imagery and locate the precise pixels they
need to answer business questions.
The geospatial imaging company is also using cloud capabilities
to help its customers address their own environmental goals.
Descartes Labs’ Carbon Analytics API Service, which runs on AWS,
provides carbon measurement, reporting, and verification for
customers in the consumer packaged goods (CPG), forestry, and
mining industries. The service helps CPG companies assess the
carbon footprint of their supply chains, which is critical for
tracking greenhouse-gas emissions. For forestry companies, the
service provides a robust reporting system for carbon monitoring of
forest management techniques. Mining companies use the service to
monitor carbon and biodiversity losses and gains for the entire
mining life cycle from site discovery to closure. In addition,
Descartes Labs uses the Registry of Open Data on AWS (datasets
available via AWS resources) to host, store, and offer several of
its massive datasets to companies, government agencies, and
academia to better analyze greenhouse-gas emissions and collaborate
on sustainability solutions.
“AWS gives us the performance and scale we need to help
organizations objectively measure and understand their impact on
the world so they can continuously improve operations and meet
their complex missions,” said Richard Davis, CEO of Descartes Labs.
“AWS’s proven infrastructure and capabilities, along with a
dedicated team that understands our unique challenges in the
satellite and space industry, help us provide customers with
actionable intelligence powered by geospatial data, backed by
science, and available at planetary scale.”
Descartes Labs is building its own cloud-based supercomputing
capabilities on AWS’s infrastructure and was ranked 40th in the
TOP500 rankings of the most powerful commercially available
computer systems. The company will use AWS to continually enhance
its computing capabilities to handle increasingly complex datasets
and help customers predict and address concerns specific to their
industries. Customers in agriculture, mining, defense,
intelligence, and consumer goods industries can use these
capabilities to collaborate with suppliers to help verify their
impact on the environment. For example, a CPG company can use
Descartes Labs’ platform to perform enhanced modeling, simulation,
and machine learning inference to monitor and reduce
deforestation.
As part of its growing portfolio, earlier this year, Descartes
Labs also introduced its Enterprise Accelerator product in AWS
Marketplace (a digital catalog to find, buy, deploy, and manage
third-party software, data, and services). Enterprise Accelerator
simplifies the exploration and analysis of geospatial data to
answer key questions about the world. For example, its streamlined
interface provides access to petabytes of analysis-ready Earth
Observation data that can help the world’s 570 million farmers and
growers boost yields and lower input costs. Making the product
available in AWS Marketplace allows AWS customers to easily deploy
geospatial applications at scale, create production-ready data
processing pipelines, and derive insights that drive informed
decisions.
“With AWS, Descartes Labs can process geospatial data quickly
and deliver more powerful insights to help its customers innovate
smarter, more sustainable ways to live and work on Earth,” said Max
Peterson, vice president of Worldwide Public Sector for Amazon Web
Services. “AWS’s global infrastructure, deep capabilities, and pace
of innovation help customers better model complex systems, gain a
comprehensive view of global operations, and uncover meaningful
insights to better understand how their activities affect our
people and our planet.”
About Amazon Web Services
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been
continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud
workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for
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Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing
startups, largest enterprises, and leading government
agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more
agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
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About Descartes Labs
Descartes Labs is a geospatial intelligence company that
performs scientific analysis of geospatial, remote sensing, and
diverse complementary data sets to enable sustainable sourcing best
practices, commodity price forecasting, and efficient mineral
exploration for leading CPG, Agriculture, and Mining companies. Our
SaaS platform automates the analysis of geospatial imagery for our
users, enabling planetary scale analysis through artificial
intelligence and machine learning. The company also supports a
diverse set of federal government efforts to curate, analyze, and
provide unique actionable insights from geospatial data. For more
information, visit www.descarteslabs.com or follow us on Twitter or
LinkedIn.
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