OMB Individually Reported

Forest Inventory and Cruising using GAIA AI

Low riskExact public inventory row

Description

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

Detailed example

A tree list for forest inventory and volume determination (cruising), forest growth, and management data.

AI / analytics pattern

Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relationships.

Automation level / stage

b) Pilot – The use case has been deployed in a limited test or pilot capacity.

Expected benefit

The AI use case has the potential to generate accurate forest inventory data with less staff and at a higher pace. Increasing the pace and scale of forest management and restoration.

Controls / human review

ATO: No; PIA: Not published

Data needed

The data used to train the AI ouput is forest plot data collected onsite using the AI system