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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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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
geotessera.org

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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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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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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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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

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 · 17/03/2026

You can also query our dynamic embeddings coverage viewer and request more for your environmental projects geotessera.org/coverage

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