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OMB-IND-USDA-148OMB Individually Reported

Forest Health Protection: Survey and mapping of forest damage from insects and diseases using machine learning

Forest Health Protection is responsible for surveying ~500 million acres of forest for forest damage and mapping the risk of mortality from insects and diseases.

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OMB-IND-USDA-152OMB Individually Reported

Forest Inventory and Cruising using GAIA AI

Intended to solve the problem of collecting forest inventory data in large areas with limited staff and time.

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OMB-IND-USDA-154OMB Individually Reported

App for predicting soil temperature during prescribed burns

It is a tool to assist managers with determining the predicted soil temperature based on fuel load.

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OMB-IND-USDA-155OMB Individually Reported

Wildfire effects and postfire forest dynamics

Predicting what a forest will be like after it burns is difficult since forests respond to disturbance in a variety of complex ways and forest conditions change over the first few…

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OMB-IND-USDA-157OMB Individually Reported

Forest habitat mapping for marbled murrelets

Mapping marbled murrelet nesting habitat across the Pacific Northwest over the last 30+ years.

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OMB-IND-USDA-159OMB Individually Reported

Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) Helpdesk Chatbot RAG

The Chatbot will respond to questions from users of the model (for both public and federal users), reducing staff time spent responding to questions.

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OMB-IND-USDA-160OMB Individually Reported

Long-term monitoring of northern spotted owl habitat and populations

Machine learning methods are used to model and map forest structure and species composition as it relates to owl nesting and roosting in forests. Machine learning is also used to…

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OMB-IND-USDA-161OMB Individually Reported

Feral Ungulate Mitigation

Feral ungulates (animals with hooves) are not native to Hawaii, cause agricultural and forest damage, and can also transmit disease. Camera traps help to manage feral ungulate pop…

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OMB-IND-USDA-166OMB Individually Reported

Timber products output Sample Design Evaluation and Enhancement

Improve U.S. roundwood production estimates on the county level

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OMB-IND-USDA-170OMB Individually Reported

Preseason Corn and Soybeans Forecasts

Pre-season planted acreage forecasts for corn and soybeans are needed for decision-making by the National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) agricultural statistics board

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OMB-IND-USDA-171OMB Individually Reported

Farm Services Agency (FSA) Acreage Coverage Evaluation

Since not all farms sign up for Farm Service Agency (FSA) programs, total crop acreage is estimated by National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) for use in its programs.

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OMB-IND-USDA-172OMB Individually Reported

VegScape/CropCASMA Data Portals

Shows crop conditions and soil moisture availability, which serve as inputs to increase the quality of crop modeling

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OMB-IND-VA-25-4094OMB Individually Reported

PestScore VA: AI-Driven Pest Risk Forecasting

VA facilities currently rely on fragmented, inconsistent pest control documentation methods, ranging from hand written logs to variable digital records. This make it difficult to…

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OMB-IND-VA-25-5004OMB Individually Reported

Automated AI review for Competitive Procedures

Provide guidance, while maintaining human in the loop, for various aspects of the reviewing processes where competitive procedures include multiple objective and subjective metric…

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