AI Use Cases

Use case	Agency	Stage	High-impact	Topic area	AI classification	Sourcing
Deep Learning based image segmentation [2024 INV#WO0000000107975] DOI-0175 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Foundation Models to Advance Earth Science [2024 INV#WO0000000107153] DOI-0172 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Generative AI	Developed in-house
LLM-Assisted Volcanic Alert Monitoring DOI-0109 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Natural language processing	Developed in-house
Reducing elevation error in coastal wetland digital elevation models DOI-0088 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Developing land cover maps for barrier islands using satellite imagery DOI-0087 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Invasive Carp Harvest Predictive Model DOI-0061 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Flor-AI: Developing a Remotely Sensed Image Classification Method for Inventory and Monitoring of Flora in Digital UAS Imagery DOI-0079 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Energy and the Environment	Computer vision	Developed in-house
Automating the Detection and Classification of Wildlife in Aerial Imagery [2024 INV#WO0000000109409] DOI-0075 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Energy and the Environment	Computer vision	Developed in-house
Automated identification of ducks from hunter-submitted photos using deep learning models DOI-0074 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Automated photographic identification of Eastern box turtles DOI-0073 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Computer vision	Developed in-house
Pathogen identification in salmon DOI-0071 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house