The spatial prediction of a continuous response variable when spatially exhaustive predictor variables are available within the region under study has become ubiquitous in many geoscience fields. The response variable is often subject to detection limits due to limitations of the measuring instrument or the sampling protocol used. Consequently, the response variable's observations are censored …
The utilization of urban underground space in a smart city requires an accurate understanding of the underground structure. As an effective technique, Rayleigh wave exploration can accurately obtain information on the subsurface. In particular, Rayleigh wave dispersion curves can be used to determine the near-surface shear-wave velocity structure. This is a typical multiparameter, high-dimensio…
Residual magnetic error remains after standard levelling process. The weak non-geological effect, manifesting itself as streaky noise along flight lines, creates a challenge for airborne geophysical data processing and interpretation. Microleveling is the process to eliminate this residual noise and is now a standard areogeophysical data processing step. In this paper, we propose a two-step pro…
In this study, we present a machine learning-based method to predict trace element concentrations from major and minor element concentration data using a legacy lithogeochemical database of magmatic rocks from the Karoo large igneous province (Gondwana Supercontinent). Wedemonstrate that a variety of trace elements, including most of the lanthanides, chalcophile, lithophile, and siderophile ele…
A direct hydrocarbon detection is performed by using multi-attributes based quantum neural networks with gas fields. The proposed multi-attributes based quantum neural networks for hydrocarbon detection use data clustering and local wave decomposition based seismic attenuation characteristics, relative wave impedance features of prestack seismic data as the selected multiple attributes for one …
Flood incidents can massively damage and disrupt a city economic or governing core. However, flood risk can be mitigated through event planning and city-wide preparation to reduce damage. For, governments, firms, and civilians to make such preparations, flood susceptibility predictions are required. To predict flood susceptibility nine environmental related factors have been identified. They ar…
Derivative and volatility attributes can be usefully calculated from recorded gamma ray (GR) data to enhance lithofacies classification in wellbores penetrating multiple lithologies. Such attributes extract information about the log curve shape that cannot be readily discerned from the recorded well log data. A logged wellbore section for which 8911 data records are available for the three reco…
The idea of using a deep autoencoder to encode seismic waveform features and then use them in different seismological applications is appealing. In this paper, we designed tests to evaluate this idea of using autoencoders as feature extractors for different seismological applications, such as event discrimination (i.e., earthquake vs. noise waveforms, earthquake vs. explosion waveforms), and ph…
The Sulige tight gas field is presently the largest gas field in China. Owing to the ultralow permeability and strong heterogeneity of the reservoirs in Sulige, the number of production wells has exceeded 3,000, keeping the stable gas supply in the decade. Thus, the daily production prediction of gas wells is significant for monitoring production and for implementing and evaluating stimulation …
Machine learning methods are increasingly used for spatially predicting a categorical target variable when spatially exhaustive predictor variables are available within the study region. Even though these methods exhibit competitive spatial prediction performance, they do not exactly honor the categorical target variable's observed values at sampling locations by construction. On the other side…