ePermits: Cognitive Search Capability
Current native search capabilities don't offer semantic search features that understand user intent and content meaning.
ePermits: Chatbot Implementation and Permit Application Wizard Tools
Users face significant difficulties when interacting with the system due to a lack of personalized experiences, delayed and imprecise query responses, poor application form guidan…
AI data harvesting project – ECOSphere [2024 INV#DOI-62]
How can we automate the extraction, classification, and transformation of heterogeneous species-related files (e.g., PDFs, Word docs, Excel sheets, images) uploaded by biologists…
The tool streamlines the process of gathering open-source data from a variety of online sources to improve operational efficiency.
Atlas.ti (Qualitative Data Analysis Software)
Existing software, such as Excel, was insufficient for the increasing quantity of qualitative data collected, necessitating the need for specialized software geared towards qualit…
Implementation of Artificial Intelligence to Estimate Population Size of a Migratory Bird from Aerial Thermal Imagery [2024 INV#DOI-67]
Current survey approach has excessive variability that cannot be biologically explained. New approach is warranted to inform harvest management
AI-Powered Wildlife Monitoring on National Wildlife Refuges
For whooping crane, traditional survey approach is to estimate population size by conducting 6 repeated surveys due to limits of human observer surveys. Surveys of waterfowl are…
AI for Offshore Energy: Innovative Technology Streamlines Marine Wildlife Surveys [2024 INV#DOI-66]
Offshore energy development requires environmental assessments; using AI technology to conduct offshore migratory bird counts can efficiently provide such data, however, substanti…
DocketScope
Facilitate review of public comments.
Summarization of documents and output to ECOSphere species workflow [2024 INV#DOI-63]
The ECOSphere species workflow relies on extracting relevant ecological and biological insights from a vast and continuously growing repository of unstructured documents, currentl…
Development of a computer vision model to monitor for early detection of habitat loss across the landscape. [2024 INV#DOI-65]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to partner with the Chesapeake Conservancy, an NGO, to develop a computer vision model to monitor for early detection of habitat los…