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Use case	Agency	Stage	High-impact	Topic area	AI classification	Sourcing
use of random forest for species distribution modeling DOI-0161 · 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
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
DocketScope DOI-0040 · FWS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Administrative Functions	Natural language processing	Purchased from vendor
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
7(a) Purchases ML Model SBA-7 · OCA: Office of Capital Access	SBA	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Service Delivery	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Employee Center AI Search SBA-20 · OCIO: Office of the Chief Information Officer	SBA	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Service Delivery	Generative AI	Purchased from vendor
Data-driven approaches to filling missing time-series data within the San Francisco Bay-Delta [2024 INV#WO0000000107683; INV#WO0000000107488] DOI-0174 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Machine Learning based shoreline detection and sea ice dynamics using coastal cameras [2024 INV#WO0000000108008] DOI-0166 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Tsunami Hazard Analysis [2024 INV#WO0000000108470] DOI-0165 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Determining the resource potential of critical minerals in seafloor massive sulfide deposits [2024 INV#WO0000000109311] DOI-0163 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Energy and the Environment	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Feature extraction and characterization for update of The National Map DOI-0131 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Not reported
Supervised learning for phycocyanin estimation from Sentinel-2 MSI in inland waters with independent validation DOI-0130 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Not reported
[Un]supervised clustering of [non-]earthquake signals commonly recorded on regional seismic networks DOI-0121 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Not reported
Inference of PFAS precursor compositions DOI-0110 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Not reported
Detecting and tracking reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea) invasion in the Upper Mississippi River floodplain using remote sensing and artifial intelegence. DOI-0085 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Not reported
PFAS model of soils in the northeast DOI-0076 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Not reported
PFAS Groundwater Model DOI-0078 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Not reported
ATLAS DOI-0077 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Natural language processing	Not reported
Water Time-Series Record Automation Framework development DOI-0036 · USGS	DOI	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Not reported