The secret sauce is open data - from space! - TellusLabs

At TellusLabs, we use satellite imagery and other earth data to deliver actionable insights to customers in agriculture, water, forestry, energy, and many other sectors. While some of this imagery has been collected since the 1970s (the Landsat program), only in the last decade has it been opened for free use in public and commercial domains. This democratization of satellite data empowers industry, academia, and government sectors, worldwide, with access to earth observation research and insights. This spaceborne perspective is also beautiful -- in this post, we combine some amazing scenes of agriculturally active areas (like this scene below from Storm Lake, Utah) with a little more detail on how this whole process works. As compelling as these images are, there is a wide gap between pixel values and a useful signal.