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  <updated>2026-04-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/blog/2026-04-17-gedi-fungi-preprints</id>
    <title>Calibrated biomass and below-ground biodiversity with TESSERA</title>
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    <updated>2026-04-17T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Robin Young</name></author>
    <summary>Two new preprints use TESSERA embeddings for calibrated biomass gap-filling and below-ground fungal biodiversity prediction.</summary>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/blog/2026-04-01-agribound-field-boundaries</id>
    <title>Agribound: agricultural field boundary delineation</title>
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    <updated>2026-04-01T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Anil Madhavapeddy</name></author>
    <summary>Agribound is a new Python toolkit that uses TESSERA embeddings for unsupervised agricultural field boundary delineation across multiple satellite sources.</summary>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/blog/2026-03-30-training-and-inference-at-scale</id>
    <title>Planetary scale training and inference with AMD and Vultr</title>
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    <updated>2026-03-30T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Anil Madhavapeddy</name></author>
    <summary>How we used AMD Accelerator Cloud and Vultr's MI325X GPU clusters to train the TESSERA v1 model and generate 250TB of global embeddings.</summary>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/blog/2026-03-23-restoration-dialogue-workshop</id>
    <title>Restoration Dialogue: AI and Habitat Monitoring in the UK</title>
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    <updated>2026-03-23T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>David Coomes</name></author>
    <summary>Over 30 researchers from universities, statutory agencies and NGOs gathered in Cambridge to explore whether geospatial foundation models like TESSERA can support mapping and monitoring nature across the UK.</summary>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/blog/2026-03-16-geotessera-r-library</id>
    <title>GeoTessera R library now available</title>
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    <updated>2026-03-16T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Anil Madhavapeddy</name></author>
    <summary>Simon Frost from Microsoft Research has contributed an R port of the geotessera library, bringing TESSERA embeddings to the R ecosystem.</summary>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/blog/2026-03-10-tessera-v1-weights</id>
    <title>TESSERA v1 model weights now available</title>
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    <updated>2026-03-10T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Zhengpeng Feng</name></author>
    <summary>The TESSERA v1 model weights are now publicly available, including the QAT checkpoint for quantized int8 inference.</summary>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/blog/2026-03-11-introducing-tessera</id>
    <title>TESSERA accepted at CVPR 2026</title>
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    <updated>2026-02-21T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Zhengpeng Feng</name></author>
    <summary>Our paper introducing TESSERA, a pixel-wise foundation model for multi-modal Earth observation time series, has been accepted at CVPR 2026.</summary>
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