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AI-Assisted Crop Disease Risk Assessment for the Canadian Prairies

Risk Assessment & Triage · Ecology

What it collects

About a measurement
Anonymized data
  • Environmental and remote-sensing measurements relevant to crop disease risk assessment in the Canadian Prairies, likely including satellite imagery, weather data, and soil or vegetation indices. Exact data sources are not specified in the register entry.
Run by
Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
Where
No fixed location
Kept
Not stated by the Helpful Places.
Shared with
Not stated by the Helpful Places.

What it is for

Risk Assessment & TriageEcology

This system is a web-based tool that assesses the risk of crop disease across the Canadian Prairies, developed in partnership with a private vendor for the Canadian Space Agency. It is intended for use by Government of Canada employees as a decision-support aid for agricultural monitoring. The system is in Phase 1 of development, meaning it may not yet be deployed in full production. Citizens and farmers are not direct users, but the tool's outputs could inform government decisions that affect the agricultural sector.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

About a measurement
Anonymized data
  • Environmental and remote-sensing measurements relevant to crop disease risk assessment in the Canadian Prairies, likely including satellite imagery, weather data, and soil or vegetation indices. Exact data sources are not specified in the register entry.

Processing

Classification & Prediction
  • The tool applies classification or prediction models to estimate crop disease risk levels across geographic areas of the Canadian Prairies.

What it does

Deciding (Analytical AI)
Human decides
  • The system predicts and scores crop disease risk from input data; GC employees review these outputs and decide on any follow-up action.

Outputs

A recommendation or prediction
Anonymized data
  • The system produces crop disease risk scores or risk-level ratings for areas of the Canadian Prairies, presented to GC employees as decision-support recommendations rather than binding determinations.

Run by

Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
  • The Canadian Space Agency is the federal department accountable for the deployment of this crop disease risk assessment tool.

Government of Canada AI Register — 2526-CSA-ASC-006

Built by

H2O Geomatics
  • H2O Geomatics Inc. is the private vendor contracted to build and supply the crop disease risk assessment web tool.

Government of Canada AI Register — 2526-CSA-ASC-006

Kept for

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Shared with

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Stored

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

How to read the colours

Can it identify you?

Anonymized data
Data about people with the link to who is broken. Stripped of identifiers, blurred, aggregated, or noised so this system can’t reasonably tie a record back to an individual.
Pseudonymous data
Each person’s data is tied to a token (hash, ID, template) that lets this system recognise the same person across events, but the token itself doesn’t reveal a name. Reidentification is possible with extra information.
Identifiable data
The data either contains a direct identifier (name, address, account name, recognisable face or voice, plate number) or carries a token this system uses to look up legal identity during processing.

Who completes the loop?

Human decides
This mode suggests; a person decides what to do next. The AI is always advisory — a human is in the loop on every decision. Example: a triage tool ranks cases for a clinician who chooses which to see first.
Human executes
This mode decides; a person carries out the result. Example: an optimizer plans the day’s trash-collection routes, and drivers run them.
Autonomous
This mode decides and acts on its own. No person reviews each decision or carries out the resulting action.

Definitions from the DTPR standard. Amber is about your data, violet about who decides. The fuller the shape and the deeper the colour, the more identifying the data or the less a person is involved.

What you can do

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Risks and safeguards

No risks or safeguards have been published for this system yet.