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DOI · DOI-0084 · record R2669

Estimates of Habitat Suitability of Reed Canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea) in Upper Mississippi River Floodplain Forest Understories

Department of the Interior · USGS

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
2023-10-31 (day precision)Source: 10/31/2023
Withheld from public reporting
NoSource: a) No

Mission

Topic area
Science
Operational functions
No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

A better understanding of where in the Upper Mississippi River floodplain and invasive grass may occur.

Expected benefits

This will help managers and researchers prioritize areas for restoration and further research.

System outputs

Probability of habitat suitability for an invasive wetland grass called reed canarygrass.

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
We used a variety of remotely sensed and derived datasets developed by the USGS Lont-Term Resource Monitoring program at the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (landcover and inundation), and forest inventory data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Federal Data Catalog
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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