LCAT - Land Change Analysis Technique
Generating landcover from imagery
Operational Water Supply Forecasting for Western US Rivers
Improved predictions of seasonal water supply forecasts to support irrigated agriculture planning.
Conservation Effects Assessment Project
The purpose of the use case is to predict the conservation effects of cropland practices in real time, with no technical skill required.
Digital Imagery (no-change) for NRI Program
AI algorithms are used to look at landscape images and detect if the landscape has changed from year to year.
GIS Invasive Tree Extraction for Field Level Users
The tool automatically identifies invasive Eastern Red Cedar trees from the surrounding landscape. This eliminates manual processing by planners.
FSA FLP Chatbot
This AI use case is researching program handbooks and generating contextually and factually accurate responses from highly technical Farm Loan Program information.
ROE Document Recognition - RoeDR
The purpose of this model is to automate a slow manual process by analyzing documents from producers and Authorized Insurance Providers (AIPs), picking the appropriate page from t…
File Rename
This tool extracts specific text from a PDF and renames the file to comply with electronic standard naming conventions
DS Hub Geo-metadata generation
The purpose of this AI use case is to generate metadata for Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) datasets, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and compliance through gen…
Dynamic Soils Hub
The Dynamic Soils Hub (DS Hub) under the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is a tool designed to help both government workers and the public understand and analyze soi…
Conservation Management Benefits Navigator (CMBN)
Updating technical policy currently involves lengthy literature review that can take many months to complete. National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) struggles to update te…
Vegetation Specifications Suite (VegSpec)
Consistent technical expertise is lacking in the development of conservation practices for producers that need to implement emergency and disaster assistance conservation programs…
NETS automated waterway design
Surveying for and creating engineering designs for relatively simple practices is time consuming and limits getting programs implemented for producers in a timely manner
DamWatch automated leadership reporting
Providing leadership with information about impacts to dams (high hazard and other dams) after storm events or other natural disaster events is time consuming and can delay leader…
Digital Soil Mapping
The purpose of this project is to implement new soil map products at local, regional, and national scales to provide more explicit soil information than traditional soil mapping p…
Annual Soil Refresh Data Staging Server Automation
The process for adding new data to the Staging Server is repetitive and time consuming. We utilize the commercial software UIPath Studio with computer vision to automate this proc…