Recently, machine learning (ML) has been considered a powerful technological element of different society areas. To transform the computer into a decision maker, several sophisticated methods and algorithms are constantly created and analyzed. In geophysics, both supervised and unsupervised ML methods have dramatically contributed to the development of seismic and well-log data interpretation. …
The Xingmeng orogenic belt is located in the eastern section of the Central Asian orogenic belt, which is one of the key areas to study the formation and evolution of the Central Asian orogenic belt. At present, there is a huge controversy over the closure time of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the Xingmeng orogenic belt. One of the reasons is that the genetic tectonic setting of the Carboniferous vo…
Maps are crucial tools in geosciences, providing detailed representations of the spatial distribution and relationships among geological features. Accurate recognition and classification of geological objects within these maps are essential for applications in resource exploration, environmental management, and geological hazard assessment. Along the years, many legacy geological maps have been…
Labelled datasets within geoscience can often be small, with data acquisition both costly and challenging, and their interpretation and downstream use in machine learning difficult due to data scarcity. Deep learning algorithms require large datasets to learn a robust relationship between the data and its label and avoid overfitting. To overcome the paucity of data, transfer learning has been e…
Geological borehole descriptions contain detailed textual information about the composition of the subsurface. However, their unstructured format presents significant challenges for extracting relevant features into a structured format. This paper introduces GEOBERTje: a domain adapted large language model trained on geological borehole descriptions from Flanders (Belgium) in the Dutch language…
Digital geological mapping has experienced significant growth over the past three decades due to the advent of commercial geographical information systems, advances in global positioning systems, and the availability of portable hand-held devices, such as mobile personal computers (PCs), smartphones, and tablets. Numerous software packages have been developed to collect, combine, organise, visu…
This study aims to tackle the obstacles linked with geological image segmentation by employing sophisticated deep learning techniques. Geological formations, characterized by diverse forms, sizes, textures, and colors, present a complex landscape for traditional image processing techniques. Drawing inspiration from recent advancements in image segmentation, particularly in medical imaging and o…
The field of geology has been the subject of a range of research efforts aiming to formalize geological domain knowledge, notably through geological domain ontologies. The main focus of existing geological ontologies primarily lies in describing static geological objects and their properties, paying less attention to the knowledge concerning geological processes and events. Meanwhile, the geolo…
We introduce GeaVR, an open-source package containing tools for geological-structural exploration and mapping in Immersive Virtual Reality (VR). GeaVR also makes it possible to carry out quantitative data collection on 3D realistic, referenced and scaled Virtual Reality scenarios. Making use of Immersive Virtual Reality technology through the Unity game engine, GeaVR works with commercially ava…