Throughout this summer, I’ve been keeping an eye on the fires in California and the hurricanes in the East with NASA/NOAA’s GOES satellites. These satellites take a picture of the earth every 5 minutes and create some stunning imagery and animations. …

What a title right? The backstory is that I have a friend visiting from out of state and wanted to take them to Yosemite. The problem is that Yosemite requires reservations to enter the park due to COVID and all the dates are booked! I don’t want to always go…

Why would anyone want to download pesticide data??? If that went through your head, this article probably isn’t super relevant, but I’ve got some cool python code to help automate the process of getting usable data! California has an incredibly stringent Pesticide management and regulation agency known as California…

When trying to see how a farm field has done over the course of a year or how it compares to previous years, it becomes very difficult to use individual imagery snapshots as these will tend to overwhelm the viewer with too much data. With a satellite taking a snapshot…

Imagery is a hot topic in ag especially with drones and the likes of planet labs etc… We are getting more and more data every day however it seems as though no one wants to go through the effort to extract some extra value or meaning out the imagery. Yes…

As easy as it may seem, getting properly formatted relevant data is never that easy. This is especially true for businesses who send reports as PDFs. …

So this is a bit specific, however it is related to some of the work I’m doing on databases and I figured other people could learn from my hours of googling. To start off, let me define the problem so you can get some context. The problem is that we…

Recently I have been working with sentinel satellite data at work. While going through some data I found some of the tiles to have the Ferguson Fire in it. I wanted to see if the shortwave infrared bands from sentinel 2 could see through the smoke. …

While working on a farm, you recognize that there are a lot of things happening that you don’t know about. This is why ag-tech is such a huge sector currently. The problem with all of these different companies offering cool sensors that do this and that is they all have…