The occurrence of geohazards entails sudden, unpredictable, and cascading effects, with numerous conceptual frameworks and intricate spatiotemporal relationships existing between hazard events. Presently, the absence of a unified mechanism for describing and expressing geohazard knowledge poses substantial challenges in terms of sharing and reusing domain-specific knowledge pertaining to geohaz…
Elucidating the tectonic setting of unknown rock samples has long attracted the interest of not only igneous petrologists but also a wide range of geoscientists. Recently, attempts have been made to use machine learning to discriminate the tectonic setting of igneous rocks. However, few studies have designed methods that are applicable to altered rocks. This study proposes a novel approach that…
High resolution characterization of sub-surface geology is critical to improving the performance of reservoir models in fluid flow and reactive transport simulation studies in the fields of groundwater, CO2 geo-sequestration and oil and gas research. The modern improvements in wireline logging technology allow for the deduction of depth continuous records of individual rock properties at cm-sca…
This presents a novel hybrid 24-h forecasting model of convective weather events based on numerical simulation and machine learning algorithms. To characterize the convective events, 13-year from 2008 up to 2020 of precipitation data from the main airport stations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and atmospheric discharges from the surrounding area of around 150 km are investigated. The Weather Resea…
In this study we compared various machine learning techniques that used soil geochemistry to aid in geologic mapping. We tested six different sampling methods (undersample, oversample, Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE), Adaptive Synthetic Sampling (ADASYN), SMOTE and Edited Nearest Neighbor (SMOTEENN), and SMOTE and Tomek links (SMOTETomek)). SMOTE performed best with ADASYN and…
A deeper understanding of the drivers of evapotranspiration and the modelling of its constituent parts (evaporation and transpiration) may be of significant importance to the monitoring and management of water resources globally over the coming decades. In this work a framework was developed to identify the best performing machine learning algorithm from a candidate set, select optimal predicti…
This study evaluates the steepest descent algorithm as a tool for root mean square (RMS) error optimization in geodetic reference systems to improve the integrity of transformation. With an initial RMS error estimate of 0.01830m, the negative gradient direction was applied through the steepest optimization leading to a final RMS error estimate of 0.00051m. Using the exact line search mode with …
In the course of engineering geological ground characterizations, internal structures of sediments are often simplified to continuous units and structures like lenses are drawn in cross sections based on geologists’ experience. Seeing this as oversimplifications, we propose discrete sediment body (DSB) modelling which is a computational workflow that permits generation of 3D meshes of sedimen…
The landscape, developed by the interaction of geological processes, is represented by Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) of various spatial resolutions. These DEMs can be variously analysed for the spatial and linear morphometric indices for landscape characterisation. We have developed MATLAB functions for extracting Hypsometric integral (Hi), Stream Length-gradient (SL) index, Normalized steepn…
The pervasiveness of smartphones amongst the undergraduate population has been leveraged to deploy a student-centered learning platform that enables exploration of individual interests and empowers students to become their own fieldtrip guides. We describe an automated learning analytics platform developed by combining a set of readily available web applications with custom scripts to support s…