Open data is reshaping how we understand and respond to global challenges. From climate change to food security to forest conservation, the ability to access and analyze large-scale geospatial data is critical for scientific research, policymaking, and real-world decision-making. Yet for most of the people who could benefit from it, satellite data has remained difficult to use because it’s locked in petabytes of irregular, cloud-corrupted imagery that requires specialized expertise and significant computing resources to process.
TESSERA, a global geospatial AI foundation model, is openly available through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship Program. With compute and hosting support from AWS, dClimate is completing TESSERA’s global historical coverage and publishing the resulting analysis-ready data on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for anyone to use at no additional cost….
