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Use case	Agency	Stage	High-impact	Topic area	AI classification	Sourcing
Automated Walrus Haulout Monitoring [2024 INV#WO0000000110052] DOI-0247 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
PAWSC Ecotoxicology PFAS Machine Learning [2024 INV#WO0000000112908] DOI-0238 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Delineating sub-surface drainage using satellite imagery [2024 INV#WO0000000109525] DOI-0230 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Oil Spill Response for Ice-Covered Rivers [2024 INV#WO0000000109142] DOI-0208 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Pacific Northwest Stream Flow Permanence [2024 INV#WO0000000109137] DOI-0207 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Climate Futures for Lizards and Snakes in Western North America [2024 INV#WO0000000109092] DOI-0201 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Office of Grants Management (PGM) Grants Utility Tool DOI-0180 · OS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Procurement and Financial Management	Agentic AI	Developed in-house
Using Machine Learning in USGS StreamStats to make suspended sediment and bedload predictions [2024 INV#WO0000000107977] DOI-0176 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Seabird and Marine Mammal Surveys Near Potential Renewable Energy Sites Offshore Central and Southern California [2024 INV#WO0000000107535] DOI-0173 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Computer vision	Purchased from vendor
Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) [2024 INV#WO0000000107126] DOI-0171 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
use of random forest for species distribution modeling DOI-0161 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
PRObability of Streamflow PERmanence (PROSPER models) [2024 INV#WO0000000109074] DOI-0156 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Machine Learning for automatic fracture mapping and rock identification [2024 INV#WO0000000109499] DOI-0155 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Machine Learning for Avalanche Frequency Modeling DOI-0148 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Classifying CWD-Infected Elk Using Recurrent Neural Networks on GPS Movement Data DOI-0135 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Energy and the Environment	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Deep?learning Integrations into NEIC Operations [2024 INV#WO0000000109496] DOI-0119 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
USGS Flow Photo Explorer [2024 INV#WO0000000109196] DOI-0117 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Contract and in-house
Coastal Change Likelihood: Synthesizing change factors using supervised learning DOI-0115 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Purchased from vendor
Predicting post-fire tree mortality DOI-0100 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Global food-and-water security-support analysis data (GFSAD) project [2024 INV#WO0000000107073] DOI-0095 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Frog vocalization recognition from digital recordings DOI-0092 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Patterns in the Landscape – Analyses of Cause and Effect DOI-0090 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Estimates of Habitat Suitability of Reed Canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea) in Upper Mississippi River Floodplain Forest Understories DOI-0084 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Submersed Aquatic Vegetation Vulnerability Evaluation Application (SAVVEA) DOI-0081 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
U.S. Wind Turbine Database DOI-0080 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Energy and the Environment	Computer vision	Developed in-house
Machine learning in remote sensing-based wildfire and natural resource risk assessments DOI-0072 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Emergency Management	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Telemetry Analysis Learning Algorithm (TALA) DOI-0070 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
LANDFIRE DOI-0069 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Invasive Grass Mapping DOI-0068 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Evapotranspiration mapping and monitoring DOI-0067 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
National Land Cover Database (NLCD) [2024 INV#WO0000000107887] DOI-0066 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
DocketScope DOI-0040 · FWS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Administrative Functions	Natural language processing	Purchased from vendor
Microsoft eDiscovery Attorney-Client Privilege Detection DOI-0021 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Classical / predictive ML	Purchased from vendor
FOIA Request Lexical Similarity Tool in the Document Review Platform (Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) - Cosine) DOI-0020 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Natural language processing	Developed in-house
Enabling FOIA Request Clustering Capability in the Document Review Platform (Density Based Algorithm alongside Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF)) DOI-0019 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Natural language processing	Developed in-house
FOIA Request Clustering Tool (Embedding based clustering alongside Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF)) DOI-0018 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Natural language processing	Developed in-house
FOIA Request Conceptual Similarity Tool (Semantic Similarity Score Generation) DOI-0017 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Natural language processing	Developed in-house
Performance Modeling / Performance Forecasting DOI-0016 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Administrative Functions	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Effects of vehicle traffic on space use and road crossings of caribou in the Arctic [2024 INV#WO0000000110111] DOI-0007 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
(unnamed) DOI-0015 · FWS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Law Enforcement	Other	Purchased from vendor
VoiceAtlas no-code chatbot framework DOI-0248 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Agentic AI	Purchased from vendor
Machine Learning approach to predict the composition of seafloor massive sulfide deposits [2024 INV#WO0000000108420] DOI-0245 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Google Cloud Vision [2024 INV#WO0000000154445] DOI-0243 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Computer vision	Purchased from vendor
Google Vertex AI Document workbench [2024 INV#WO0000000154393] DOI-0242 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Computer vision	Purchased from vendor
USGS Azure OpenAI ChatGPT [2024 INV#WO0000000154392] DOI-0241 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Purchased from vendor
Prioritized Constituents: Sediment [2024 INV#WO0000000109726] DOI-0237 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Data-Driven Streamflow Drought [2024 INV#WO0000000109714] DOI-0234 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
National-Extent Groundwater Quality Prediction for the National Water Census and Regional Integrated Water Availability Assessments [2024 INV#WO0000000109709] DOI-0233 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Use of artificial intelligence tools for optimization and documentation for computer codes [2024 INV#WO0000000109681] DOI-0232 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Generative AI	Contract and in-house
Vegetation mapping on the Hawaiian island of Lanai [2024 INV#WO0000000109501] DOI-0229 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house