VegScape/CropCASMA Data Portals

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

2012-01-01 (day precision)Source: 1/1/2012

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

Shows crop conditions and soil moisture availability, which serve as inputs to increase the quality of crop modeling

Expected benefits

Supplements weekly Crop Progress and Condition Reports, provides direct input into disaster assessments on agriculture, and provides early disaster anomaly warnings

System outputs

Provides both quantitative and qualitative output products in support of Crop Progress and Condition and Disaster Assessment reporting

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

Contract and in-houseSource: c) Developed with both contracting and in-house resources

Vendor (as reported)

George Mason University

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

NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) historical crop progress and condition reports.

Federal Data Catalog

catalog.data.gov ↗

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