TESSERA

Did you know, #heatwaves push up electricity demand while cutting the grid’s capacity to generate and carry power? A new paper from @cst.cam.ac.uk models these effects together across 8 European grids and finds weak spots standard planning can miss. More: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/heatwav...

Heatwaves impact European countries' ability to supply power and pose an increasing threat to vital infrastructure. So researchers have developed a new toolkit to help national grid operators understand, and identify, the vulnerabilities in their systems. shorturl.at/I3Jre @eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk

@mongabay.com’s @aimable-twaha.bsky.social talked with former @cst.cam.ac.uk student Madeline Lisaius about our Senegal crop-mapping study, and how Tessera could become a vital tool for monitoring agriculture in West Africa and beyond. (In French) fr.mongabay.com/2026/10/au-s...

Planet Earth, nine years, zero lines of code! The Tessera Embeddings Explorer now covers every year from 2017 to 2025, plus a Deep MLP classifier and spatial leakage safeguards. Try it: tee.cl.cam.ac.uk Details: svr-sk818-web.cl.cam.ac.uk/keshav/blog/... #EarthObservation #GeoAI

I've been using TESSERA embeddings to look at Lake Baringo in Kenya and wrote up what I found: www.fathir.live/blog/tessera... I'd really like feedback from the team, especially if I got anything wrong or there's a better way to do it. Thanks for building TESSERA!

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

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.

.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! 🌏

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...

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... 🌎

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

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

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 🧪

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

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

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

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...

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, 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

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... 🌏

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...

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