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Revision as of 13:09, 28 October 2025
Objective
This subproject evaluates the performance of TESSERA representation maps in above-ground biomass (AGBM) estimation in Finnish forests. Accurate AGBM estimation is essential for assessing the carbon sequestration capacity of forests and tracking changes caused by deforestation and recovery.
Dataset
The dataset is a georeferenced subset of the BioMassters dataset, containing 11,462 patches representing AGBM in Finnish forests from 2017 to 2021. Ground-truth measurements are obtained with airborne LiDAR.
Each patch consists of 256×256 pixels, with each pixel covering a 10×10 meter area. The dataset is split into 8,689 training patches and 2,773 testing patches.
Patch locations by year of data collection
Results
We trained a UNet-based regressor on the TESSERA embeddings to estimate AGBM from satellite imagery. This model was found to outperform two other state-of-the-art foundation models -- SpectralGPT [1] and Google's AlphaEarth [2] -- and produced results close to the state-of-the-art bespoke model trained specifically for this task [3]. For detailed description of methods and results, see the paper of Zheng et al. (2025) TESSERA: Precomputed FAIR Global Pixel Embeddings for Earth Representation and Analysis, Preprint on ArXiv, July 2025.
