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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 29/09/2026

Countries like Senegal could soon use #AI to help plan for food shortages. Former @cam.ac.uk PhD student Madeline Lisaius mapped smallholder crops with Tessera, beating other methods with far less computing power and labelled data. Read more: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... #FoodSecurity 📷 @wfp.org

Aerial photo of a man working in a flooded rice field in Senegal, with the headline 'AI tool for mapping smallholder crops proves itself in Senegal'. Photo: © WFP/Richard Mbouet.

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Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org · 22/09/2026

Can university teams train large-scale foundation models? Yes! At @geotessera.org, we've been training state-of-the-art FMs from scratch at Cambridge. This involved vast data shuffling, stuffing every SSD we can find, overloading network links, jury-rigging GPU farms, and using national clusters.

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Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org · 18/08/2026

.plan-2026-w33 anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w33: Tessera dons the mask of Zarro (v3), evidencetap.org is live, weather prediction downscaling paper is out, OCaml perf and security fixes, busy summer! 🌏

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.plan-26-33: Zarro rides out and evidence papers pour in

TESSERA 1.0 is now fully available as Zarr with global RGB previews, a weather downscaling preprint, and Evidence TAP gets a public website with progress on the downloader and parser.

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 17/08/2026

Tessera features in Meteorological Technology International's September issue! @cst.cam.ac.uk Prof Srinivasan Keshav spoke with reporter Helen Norman about how Tessera unlocks petabytes of unused satellite data for researchers worldwide. Read: met.mydigitalpublication.com/meteorologic...

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Meteorological Technology International • Meteorological Technology International September 2026 • Page 8

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Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org · 14/08/2026

In this sweltering summer, our new preprint on improving local weather prediction using satellite foundation models! My explainer: anil.recoil.org/notes/weathe... and the paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.122... 🌎

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Improving local weather forecasts using Tessera embeddings

New paper showing that a frozen TESSERA embedding improves probabilistic weather downscaling, improving local temperature and wind predictions at never-observed sites.

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 11/08/2026

It's been an eventful year since we launched Tessera, our geospatial foundation model. Here's a few highlight moments from the past year... Learn more about using Tessera embeddings at geotessera.org or dive right in and join our user community here eeg.zulipchat.com

Thank you for following Tessera. Some highlights since we launched our geospatial foundation model.

We presented our first peer-reviewed paper at CVPR 2026, and later released Tessera v1.1 with greater stability and fewer artefacts.

We used Tessera embeddings to map farms, forests and elusive hedgehog habitats, and we welcomed fresh new faces!

Tessera v2 embeddings are on the way. Learn more at
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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 07/08/2026

We're a step closer to Tessera v2! Our preprint paper is online and v2 models are available to download. We're working on generating v2 embeddings and plan to make these available in the coming months. Checkout the Tessera v2 preprint paper: geotessera.org/papers

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 05/08/2026

Try the new Tessera Postcard Generator! Make your own image of any 10km x 10km location, rendered entirely from Tessera embeddings. Try it on your hometown, your favourite hike, or somewhere else and post your results below. tee.cl.cam.ac.uk/postcard.html Bonus if you can guess all of ours!

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A faster, cheaper way to map the world's forests with AI - great article here about @geotessera.org research involving James Ball & David Coomes from @camplantsci.bsky.social 👉 tinyurl.com/mv8cs78y @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social 🧪

Tessera embeddings over the mountainous region of Trentino, Italy. Credit: James Ball / Tessera, University of Cambridge.

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Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org · 30/07/2026

Read our latest paper on tree species classification using geospatial embeddings model, this time in the gorgeous Trentino region www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌎

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 30/07/2026

Mapping tree species from space is hard, especially in mountains. But not for Tessera! Read our latest on mapping tree species in Trentino's Alpine forests. geotessera.org/news/2026-07... With @camplantsci.bsky.social #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 23/07/2026

Two of the world's leading computing companies are backing Tessera! Vultr and AMD announced their support for Tessera at AMD's Advancing AI Day. A substantial share of our global embeddings ran on Vultr cloud infrastructure powered by AMD Instinct GPUs. Read more: geotessera.org/news/2026-07...

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 03/07/2026

The farms that feed much of the world are almost invisible from space. Ex-Cambridge PhD student Madeline Lisaius is heading to Toronto to show how Tessera can map small fields better than standard methods at 8% of the compute 🛰️ Catch the talk: Sun 5 July, ISPRS 2026 geotessera.org/blog/2026-07...

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Cambridge Computer Science @cst.cam.ac.uk · 02/07/2026

Small farms grow much of the world's food, but from space are nearly invisible. Now AI tool Tessera, trained on years of satellite imagery, shows it can map crops on small farms better & cheaper than standard methods, which could greatly aid food security planning. www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/how-ai-...

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 26/06/2026

Tessera was in the mix at the first Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum outside the US, courtesy of @anil.recoil.org! Read on for a petabyte-scale data commons, Argentina's hidden millions, and GeoAI's "open banking" moment 🛰️ anil.recoil.org/notes/cng-lo... #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing

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A scorching CNG London during Climate Action Week

My notes from the first Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum gathering outside the US, up on the top floor of the Jellicoe; covering Source Cooperative's open data economics, Argentina's invisible settlement...

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 19/06/2026

Next week: Get hands-on with Tessera at #ML4EO, hosted by the @exeter.ac.uk! PhD student Frank Feng leads a workshop on the full Tessera workflow — download embeddings, explore them visually, train a classifier. Bring a laptop + coordinates of a region you care about 🗺️ ml4eo.org/workshops

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 18/06/2026

Sadiq Jaffer presenting Tessera at the West Cambridge Innovation District showcase at the Maxwell Centre, part of Cambridge Wide Open Week — a fast-paced lineup of some of Cambridge's best ideas. Glad to see a packed room for our slot! 📸 #CambridgeWideOpenWeek

Picture of Sadiq on stage pointing at a screen showing a Tessera embedding

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 12/06/2026

Clearer, pointier, and now with added coastal coverage (for you mangrove-lovers) — Tessera v1.1 is here! Drop-in replacement for v1.0 with improved accuracy across classification, change detection, regression, and more. 🌍 geotessera.org/blog/2026-06-09-tessera-v1-1 #EarthObservation #Geospatial

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Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org · 12/06/2026

We've released the @geotessera.org v1.1 geospatial foundation model, with wider coastal coverage, improved sparse observation accuracy and greater year-on-year temporal stability. anil.recoil.org/notes/tesser... 🌏

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Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org · 04/06/2026

Having the @esa.int promote our @geotessera.org earth observation foundation model is something my space-loving teenage self would only have dreamt of! Jovana is presenting our paper on Tessera at @cvprconference.bsky.social this week, in case you're there! www.esa.int/Applications... 🌎

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Tessera AI model offers accessible way to view Earth

A foundation model trained on Earth observation data from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 has been made widely available to researchers, it was announced at a computer industry conference this we...

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 04/06/2026

Tessera, the AI tool that lets anyone monitor environmental change from a laptop, is to be presented at #CVPR26, the world's leading AI and computer vision conference! 🛰️ geotessera.org/blog/2026-06... @cvpr.bsky.social @cst.cam.ac.uk @esa.int #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 28/05/2026

TESSERA's hedgehog habitat monitoring project was back on the BBC this morning! The Breakfast Show posted this convenient segment, available to watch now (requires iPlayer sign in) 🦔 With @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

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Breakfast - 28/05/2026

The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team.

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 28/05/2026

Congratulations to TESSERA's Prof Srinivasan Keshav, elected Fellow of @royalsociety.org! 🎉 His election recognises decades of research spanning computer networking, energy informatics, and now Earth observation! www.cst.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-co... @cst.cam.ac.uk @fitzwilliamcollege.bsky.social

Portrait head and shoulders photo of Keshav

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 30/03/2026

How we did planetary scale training and inference with AMD and Vultr geotessera.org/blog/2026-03...

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 25/03/2026

Two releases of the TESSERA Embedding Explorer (tee.cl.cam.ac.uk) this week: v3.4 adds manual labelling with pin and polygon tools, per-class similarity sliders, and spatial classifiers. v3.5 adds a multi-user login system to the demo site. geotessera.org/blog#tee-v3....

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 21/03/2026

TESSERA has a Claude Code skill available now thanks to Isaac Corley, with installation directly from the plugin marketplace isaac.earth/geospatial-s.... Read more about how to use this on geotessera.org

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geospatial-skills

Installable geospatial skills for AI coding agents

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TESSERA @geotessera.org · 17/03/2026

TESSERA has a shiny new website up at geotessera.org which you can scroll through to get an introduction to geospatial embeddings! You can try the two global explorers, one hosted (tee.cl.cam.ac.uk) and one that streams purely in-browser using Zarr (tze.geotessera.org)

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