View of Paris: Satellite vs. Tessera embedding

Tessera, an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model, offers high-accuracy datasets that encode what the satellite ‘sees’ of Earth’s surface during the course of a year. This compressed data can be used by the scientific community to generate information-rich maps.

Crucially, the encoded datasets – embeddings – use far less data than the pixellated images that are downlinked from satellites. A variety of applications are supported by the model, from monitoring agricultural crops, to measuring forest canopies and detecting wildfires.

This image shows a satellite view of Paris, France, compared to one of Tessera’s ‘embeddings’.

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