Description
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering a funding opportunity to a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) partner for research focused on developing authoritative knowledge infrastructure for the USGS GeoAI: Application, which will deploy agentic technology to support the Intelligent National Map (INM). The project aims to develop agentic infrastructure, enable natural language queries across diverse authoritative geospatial data sources, and return meaningful and actionable answers in the form of reports, analyses, charts, and other relevant information.
Key aspects of the project include:
* Developing authoritative knowledge infrastructure for the GeoAI: Application
* Aligning with Executive Orders on critical minerals, artificial intelligence, and national security
* Enhancing elevation and terrain characterization methods for geological assessment and resource evaluation
* Advancing federal scientific capability in geospatial analysis, artificial intelligence applications, and knowledge graph technologies
* Demonstrating practical integration of AI into federal geospatial workflows
* Supporting hazard analysis, disaster response planning, and resource management
* Providing high-quality elevation data and accurate landform representation for geological analysis and mineral resource assessments
* Enhancing the accuracy, positional quality, and semantic representation of GNIS features within The National Map