Machine learning methods dealing with the spatial auto-correlation of the response variable have garnered significant attention in the context of spatial prediction. Nonetheless, under these methods, the relationship between the response variable and explanatory variables is assumed to be homogeneous throughout the entire study area. This assumption, known as spatial stationarity, is very quest…
The stratigraphic correlation of well logs plays an essential role in characterizing subsurface reservoirs. However, it suffers from a small amount of training data and expensive computing time. In this work, we propose the Attention Based Dense Network (ASDNet) for the stratigraphic correlation of well logs. To implement the suggested model, we first employ the attention mechanism to the input…
Geoscientists are increasingly tasked with spatially predicting a target variable in the presence of auxiliary information using supervised machine learning algorithms. Typically, the target variable is observed at a few sampling locations due to the relatively time-consuming and costly process of obtaining measurements. In contrast, auxiliary variables are often exhaustively observed within th…
This paper presents an enhanced 3D heat map for exploratory data analysis (EDA) of open mineral data, addressing the challenges caused by rapidly evolving datasets and ensuring scientifically meaningful data exploration. The Mindat website, a crowd-sourced database of mineral species, provides a constantly updated open data source via its newly established application programming interface (API…
Preliminary work in civil engineering works often involves the investigation of soil support in order to secure or predict project safety. The objective of this work is to purpose an urban geotechnical soil map combining physical and mechanical behaviour of the soil and its electrical properties. Field work with auger corer allowed collection of samples for analysis. The results of the Atterber…
Biplots constructed from principal components of a compositional data set are an established means to explore its features. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is also used to transform a set of spatial variables into spatially decorrelated factors. However, because no spatial structures are accounted for in the transformation the application of PCA is limited. In geostatistics and blind source …
Deep learning and particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in concert with remote sensing are becoming standard analytical tools in the geosciences. A series of studies has presented the seemingly outstanding performance of CNN for predictive modelling. However, the predictive performance of such models is commonly estimated using random cross-validation, which does not account for spat…