Summary of Gfm4mpm: Towards Geospatial Foundation Models For Mineral Prospectivity Mapping, by Angel Daruna et al.
GFM4MPM: Towards Geospatial Foundation Models for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping
by Angel Daruna, Vasily Zadorozhnyy, Georgina Lukoczki, Han-Pang Chiu
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach for mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM) using machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). The MPM task involves analyzing associations between large-scale multi-modal geospatial data and few historical mineral commodity observations. Existing DL-based methods may be prone to overfitting due to limited labeled data, while a large quantity of unlabeled geospatial data remains untapped. This paper introduces a masked image modeling framework that pretrains a backbone neural network in a self-supervised manner using unlabeled data alone. The approach provides feature extraction for downstream MPM tasks and is evaluated alongside existing methods for prospectivity predictions of Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) and Clastic-Dominated (CD) Lead-Zinc deposits in North America and Australia. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us find minerals more accurately by using a special type of artificial intelligence called machine learning. Right now, finding minerals is hard because we have lots of data about the Earth’s surface, but not much information about where actual minerals are hiding. Scientists want to use this data to predict where new minerals might be found. To do this, they’re trying out different types of computer models that can learn from this data. This paper proposes a new way to train these models using lots of data we already have, without needing any labeled information. The results show that this approach is better than others at predicting where minerals might be found. It also helps us understand why it’s making those predictions, which is useful for scientists who want to use the results in real-world applications. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Feature extraction » Machine learning » Multi modal » Neural network » Overfitting » Self supervised
