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OMB-IND-DOI-0007OMB Individually Reported

Effects of vehicle traffic on space use and road crossings of caribou in the Arctic [2024 INV#WO0000000110111]

Assessing the effects of industrial development on wildlife is a key objective of managers and conservation practitioners. However, wildlife responses are often only investigated…

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OMB-IND-DOI-0008OMB Individually Reported

DiscoverDOI

Users need to find outdated content or prohibited content on DOI websites

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OMB-IND-DOI-0013OMB Individually Reported

Comprehensive Condition Assessment

Find deficiencies in our real property assets and to formulate reports from field and machine gathered data for the purpose of making a deferred maintenance backlog and for capita…

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OMB-IND-DOI-0030OMB Individually Reported

Water Use Model Development [2024 INV#WO0000000109669]

Estimate multiple categories of water use across the U.S.

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OMB-IND-DOI-0031OMB Individually Reported

Nutrient, Salinity, sediment, temperature, and drought model development

Simulate nutrients (phosphorus and nitrate), temperature, sediment, and salinity in streams across the U.S.

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OMB-IND-DOI-0032OMB Individually Reported

CONUS EcoFlows Planning & Prototype [2024 INV#WO0000000109732]

National-scale ecological-flow response models

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OMB-IND-DOI-0034OMB Individually Reported

Using advanced computing techniques for image-based monitoring [2024 INV#WO0000000109674]

Provide tools and methods for leveraging image-based monitoring and machine learning approaches for measuring surface water properties.

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OMB-IND-DOI-0035OMB Individually Reported

Using advanced computing techniques for mobile monitoring platforms [2024 INV#WO0000000109492]

Support the navigation and swarming capabilities of autonomous vehicle platforms for water monitoring

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OMB-IND-DOI-0036OMB Individually Reported

Water Time-Series Record Automation Framework development

Leverage AI/ML to streamline USGS time-series data processing workflows

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OMB-IND-DOI-0037OMB Individually Reported

Mineral Resource Assessments

Mineral resource assessments require a significant amount of data evaluation and processing.

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OMB-IND-DOI-0038OMB Individually Reported

Lithium Potential Assessments

Identifying sources of lithium is critical to our Nations economic prosperity and security.

OMB Individually ReportedEnergy and the EnvironmentLow risk
OMB-IND-DOI-0039OMB Individually Reported

Geothermal Energy Assessments

Executive Order 14156 – Declaring a National Energy Emergency, directs federal agencies to identify and develop our Nations energy resources.

OMB Individually ReportedEnergy and the EnvironmentLow risk
OMB-IND-DOI-0061OMB Individually Reported

Invasive Carp Harvest Predictive Model

identify where invasive carp are congregating in large numbers in the Mississippi River for targeted harvest

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OMB-IND-DOI-0062OMB Individually Reported

Automated power line extraction using deep learning

Provide a national, consistent, powerline dataset.

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OMB-IND-DOI-0063OMB Individually Reported

Mapping wood and wood hazards in the Willamette Basin, Oregon

Large wood in rivers pose hazards to people and infrastructure, particularly post wildfire. This work uses neural network models to map large wood in rivers from aerial imagery to…

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OMB-IND-DOI-0064OMB Individually Reported

Willamette Regional IWAAs, gradient boosted ML stream temperature modeling.

Improve model predictions of stream temperature across the basin over traditional methods.

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OMB-IND-DOI-0065OMB Individually Reported

DARPAs CriticalMAAS [2024 INV#WO0000000108419; WO0000000096527]

Identify patterns in the data, isolate those that correlate with known mineral deposits, and integrate these with other geospatial layers to generate a predictive map for guiding…

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OMB-IND-DOI-0066OMB Individually Reported

National Land Cover Database (NLCD) [2024 INV#WO0000000107887]

Characterization of the physical land cover is critical for managing the lands, waters, and resources of the United States. The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) is easily one o…

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OMB-IND-DOI-0067OMB Individually Reported

Evapotranspiration mapping and monitoring

Mapping evapotranspiration (ET) with remote sensing is essential because it provides a consistent, large-scale view of how water is being used across landscapes. In agriculture, E…

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OMB-IND-DOI-0068OMB Individually Reported

Invasive Grass Mapping

USGS mapping of invasive exotic annual grasses is critical because these species, such as cheatgrass, alter ecosystems by increasing the frequency and intensity of wildfires and o…

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OMB-IND-DOI-0069OMB Individually Reported

LANDFIRE

USGS EROS has provided the expertise and staff to conduct LANDFIRE mapping for over 20 years. LANDFIRE products provide the nationally consistent, high-quality vegetation and fue…

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OMB-IND-DOI-0070OMB Individually Reported

Telemetry Analysis Learning Algorithm (TALA)

Applies machine learning to analyze operational data from agency-managed systems to support maintenance and reliability objectives.

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OMB-IND-DOI-0071OMB Individually Reported

Pathogen identification in salmon

Ichthyophonus, the most ecological and economically important pathogen of wild marine fish, is hypothesized to be a major driver of premature mortality in Yukon River Chinook salm…

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OMB-IND-DOI-0072OMB Individually Reported

Machine learning in remote sensing-based wildfire and natural resource risk assessments

Predict the risks of wildfire, drought, and invasive species spread on assets of value to the American public

OMB Individually ReportedEmergency ManagementLow risk