AI Use Cases

Use case	Agency	Stage	High-impact	Topic area	AI classification	Sourcing
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
GenAI Procurement Tool TREASURY-OCIO-003 · Technology Common Services Center (TCSC)	TREAS	Pre-deployment	Not high-impact	Procurement and Financial Management	Classical / predictive ML	Purchased from vendor
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