The role of artificial intelligence and IoT in prediction of earthquakes: Review
December 2024
Earthquakes are classified as one of the most devastating natural disasters that can have catastrophic effects on the environment, lives, and properties. There has been an increasing interest in the...
Optimizing zero-shot text-based segmentation of remote sensing imagery using SAM and Grounding DINO
June 2025
The use of AI technologies in remote sensing (RS) tasks has been the focus of many individuals in both the professional and academic domains. Having more accessible interfaces and tools that allow people...
Cellular automata models for simulation and prediction of urban land use change: Development and prospects
December 2025
Rapid urbanization and land-use changes are placing immense pressure on resources, infrastructure, and environmental sustainability. To address these, accurate urban simulation models are essential...
On the application of machine learning algorithms in predicting the permeability of oil reservoirs
December 2025
Permeability is one of the main oil reservoir characteristics. It affects potential oil production, well-completion technologies, the choice of enhanced oil recovery methods, and more. The methods used...
Generating high-resolution climate data in the Andes using artificial intelligence: A lightweight alternative to the WRF model
December 2025
In weather forecasting, generating atmospheric variables for regions with complex topography, such as the Andean regions with peaks reaching 6500 m above sea level, poses significant challenges. Traditional...
Automatic description of rock thin sections: A web application
June 2025
The identification and characterization of rock types is a core activity in geology and related fields, including mining, petroleum, environmental science, industry, and construction. Traditionally,...
Determination of future land use changes using remote sensing imagery and artificial neural network algorithm: A case study of Davao City, Philippines
December 2023
Land use and land cover (LULC) changes refer to alterations in land use or physical characteristics. These changes can be caused by human activities, such as urbanization, agriculture, and resource...
Soil liquefaction assessment using machine learning
June 2025
Liquefaction is one of the prominent factors leading to damage to soil and structures. In this study, the relationship between liquefaction potential and soil parameters is determined by applying feature...
Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock using remote sensing & artificial intelligence
December 2025
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) from agriculture in Africa are among the world's fastest-growing emissions, with the livestock sector as the primary contributor. However, the methods for quantifying these emissions...
Explaining machine learning models trained to predict Copernicus DEM errors in different land cover environments
December 2025
Machine learning models are increasingly used to correct the vertical biases (mainly due to vegetation and buildings) in global Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), for downstream applications which need...
LatentPINNs: Generative physics-informed neural networks via a latent representation learning
June 2025
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are promising to replace conventional mesh-based partial differential equation (PDE) solvers by offering more accurate and flexible PDE solutions. However, PINNs...
Machine learning applied to recognition of dinoflagellate cysts: Type study with the species Batioladiniumlongicornutum
December 2025
This study explores the application of YOLOv10, a cutting-edge object detection framework, to automate the identification and classification of Batioladinium longicornutum. Utilizing a dataset of 137...
Deep learning based identification of rock minerals from un-processed digital microscopic images of undisturbed broken-surfaces
June 2025
This study employed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the classification of rock minerals based on 3179 RGB-scale original microstructural images of undisturbed broken surfaces. The image dataset...
Opportunities, epistemological assessment and potential risks of machine learning applications in volcano science
December 2025
This manuscript explores the opportunities and epistemological risks of using machine learning in the Earth sciences with a focus on igneous petrology and volcanology. It begins by highlighting the...
Earthquake location and magnitude estimation using seismic arrival times pattern and gradient boosted decision trees
December 2025
We present a machine learning approach for earthquake location and magnitude estimation based on seismic arrival time patterns, using Histogram-Based Gradient Boosting for its high accuracy and computational...
Machine learning assisted estimation of total solids content of drilling fluids
December 2025
Characterization and optimization of physical and chemical properties of drilling fluids are critical for the efficiency and success of drilling operations. In particular, maintaining the optimal levels...
Water resource forecasting with machine learning and deep learning: A scientometric analysis
December 2024
Water prediction plays a crucial role in modern-day water resource management, encompassing both hydrological patterns and demand forecasts. To gain insights into its current focus, status, and emerging...
ASTER data processing and fusion for alteration minerals and silicification detection: Implications for cupriferous mineralization exploration in the western Anti-Atlas, Morocco
December 2024
Alteration minerals and silicification are typically associated with a variety of ore mineralizations and could be detected using multispectral remote sensing sensors as indicators for mineral exploration....
Comparison of processing speed of NRS-ANN hybrid and ANN models for oil production rate estimation of reservoir under waterflooding
December 2025
This study compared the predictive performance and processing speed of an artificial neural network (ANN) and a hybrid of a numerical reservoir simulation (NRS) and artificial neural network (NRS-ANN)...
Machine learning in petrophysics: Advantages and limitations
December 2022
Machine learning provides a powerful alternative data-driven approach to accomplish many petrophysical tasks from subsurface data. It can assimilate information from large and rich data bases and infer...
MLReal: Bridging the gap between training on synthetic data and real data applications in machine learning
December 2022
Among the biggest challenges we face in utilizing neural networks trained on waveform (i.e., seismic, electromagnetic, or ultrasound) data is its application to real data. The requirement for accurate...
Self-supervised multi-stage deep learning network for seismic data denoising
June 2025
Seismic data denoising is a critical process usually applied at various stages of the seismic processing workflow, as our ability to mitigate noise in seismic data affects the quality of our subsequent...
The 3-billion fossil question: How to automate classification of microfossils
December 2024
Microfossil classification is an important discipline in subsurface exploration, for both oil & gas and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The abundance and distribution of species found in sedimentary...
Leveraging boosting machine learning for drilling rate of penetration (ROP) prediction based on drilling and petrophysical parameters
June 2025
Drilling optimization requires accurate drill bit rate-of-penetration (ROP) predictions. ROP decreases drilling time and costs and increases rig productivity. This study employs random forest (RF),...
Flood susceptibility assessment using artificial neural networks in Indonesia
December 2021
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,...