USDA · USDA-067 · record R1368
County-Level Remotely-Sensed Corn and Soybean Yield Estimation
Department of Agriculture · Research, Education and Economics
Overview
- Development stage
- DeployedSource: c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.
- High-impact designation
- Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
- Impact justification
- Not reported
- Start date
- 2007-01-01 (day precision)Source: 1/1/2007
- Withheld from public reporting
- Not reported
Mission
- Topic area
- Other
- Operational functions
- Image and video analysis Derived by keyword rules; see methodology
Problem the AI is intended to solve
The purpose of this tool is to estimate yearly corn and soybean yields for each county using satellite images.
Expected benefits
Provide county-level crop yield statistics which allow stakeholders to make more informed planning and decisions.
System outputs
County-level statistics on crop yield.
Technology
- AI classification
- Classical / predictive MLSource: Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relatio…
- System name(s)
- Not reported
- Custom-developed code
- No
- Public source code
- Not reported
Sourcing
- How it was built
- Developed in-houseSource: b) Developed in-house
- Vendor (as reported)
- Not reported
- Vendors (standardized)
- None on the standard list
A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.
Data and privacy
- Involves PII
- No
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Not reported
- Authorization to Operate
- No
- Demographic features
- k) None of the above
- Training and evaluation data
- Historical National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) county-level crop yields are used as the dataset. The foundation of the data is images from NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellites.
- Federal Data Catalog
- Not reported
Governance
0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.
Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported
AI impact assessmentNo answer reported
Independent reviewNo answer reported
Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported
Operator trainingNo answer reported
Fail-safeNo answer reported
Appeal processNo answer reported
User and public consultationNo answer reported
Potential impacts and how they were identified
Not reported