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!

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@geotessera.org · 6d ago

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

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

TESSERA@geotessera.org · 6d ago

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

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

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...

PhD student Zhengpeng (Frank) Feng is at the #AIforGood Summit in Geneva, the UN's leading platform on AI. Catch his talk this afternoon: Tessera: A Foundation Model for Label-Efficient and Multi-Modal Earth Observation. aiforgood.itu.int/event/geoai-... #GeoAI #EarthObservation #FoundationModels

GeoAI for our shared future: Geospatial foundation models and generative intelligence for people and the planet

Explore how emerging geospatial foundation models and generative AI can advance solutions for people and the planet while upholding scientific rigor and ethical responsibility. Participants will inclu...

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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...

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-...

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

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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I attended the @cloudnativegeo.org Forum in London, with 50 geospatial geeks from across industry and academia and policy descending on the Jellicoe. I introduced @geotessera.org there and made notes: anil.recoil.org/notes/cng-lo...

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...

anil.recoil.org

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

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

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

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... 🌏

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... 🌎

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, 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

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

Breakfast - 28/05/2026

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

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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

Some 'behind the scenes' about appearing on the BBC/ITV/etc last week talking about... hedgehogs and AI, of all things. anil.recoil.org/notes/hedgeh... 🌏

What happens when a hedgehog story prickles its way into the BBC

Behind the scenes of a week of BBC/ITV news and radio appearances about hedgehogs and TESSERA, but also what to expect when a research story catches the news cycle.

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You can read more about Keshav's contribution to computer science here, along with Anuj Dawar, who both got elected from the @cst.cam.ac.uk department today. www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/royal-s...

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

Community contributor Gijs van den Dool wrote up how to do end-to-end training, inference and customisation using TESSERA and Google Colab! www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-p...

From Pixels to Embeddings: TESSERA Earth Observation Foundation Model Framework Customisation

By Gijs van den Dool — LinkedIn | GitHub Satellite imagery has enabled global mapping since the launch of Landsat 1 in 1972. But assigning each pixel just one label is no longer sufficient for many ap...

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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....

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

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)