Automated delineation of vegetation and vegetation species in Glen Canyon Natio

This is a Request For Information - This synopsis is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. No contract will be awarded as a result of this Sources Sought announcement. The United States Geological Survey, Office of Acquisition and Grants is soliciting information from qualified sources; the results of this announcement will be evaluated to determine if there are businesses capable of performing the proposed work.

The US Geological Survey, Office of Acquisition and Grants seeks responses from vendors that possess the capability to develop a machine vision system for automated delineation of vegetation and vegetation species in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
The U.S. Geological Survey, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center requires expedient analysis of vegetation imagery collected in association with a Spring Disturbance Flow (March 9-11, 2021) and from post-flow monitoring trips (March 29-31, 2021; July 21-23, 2021). The work will include the development of a machine learning model to automatically delineate regions of pixels in aquatic vegetation with the goal of identifying species and percent cover. The vendor will optimize this model using labeled image classes and then create vegetation maps that will form the basis of future monitoring efforts in Glen Canyon. This work must be completed by May 1, 2022.

For further information, interested parties may contact the Contracting Officer, Charlan Fejarang at cjfejarang@usgs.gov by the due date, February 4, 2022.