#### **Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) for spatiotemporal modeling of pest insects**
This project is intended to achieve three primary objectives:
1) To develop and deliver new spatially explicit deep learning-based methods and tools to address existing
methodological gaps in geospatial-enabled agricultural pest research,
2) To extend deep learning-based
geospatial methods into an uncertainty-aware statistical framework to better characterize and model
spatiotemporal uncertainty in geospatial applications,
3) To apply the proposed developments to a long
term record of grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) occurrence to forecast future insect pest outbreak
potential in the Western US.