Species Distribution Data analysis

Overview

Development stage

PilotSource: b) Pilot – The use case has been deployed in a limited test or pilot capacity.

High-impact designation

Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact

Impact justification

Not reported

Start date

2025-01-06 (day precision)Source: 1/6/2025

Withheld from public reporting

Not reported

Mission

Topic area

Science

Operational functions

No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

Machine learning models built for predicting and understanding species distributions and ranges for thousands of different species.

Expected benefits

Providing information on where species are distributed improves decision-making for ecosystem management

System outputs

Predictions of species distributions

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

Yes

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

All species distribution and range datasets are tabular and publicly available.

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.

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported