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The role of artificial intelligence and IoT in prediction of earthquakes: Review

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...

GIS-based wildfire prediction model in Indonesia using stacking ensemble learning

In Indonesia, wildfires have become an annual disaster that results in significant losses across various aspects of life, including ecological, social, and economic conditions. To minimize these losses,...

Cellular automata models for simulation and prediction of urban land use change: Development and prospects

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...

Multi-agent collaborative knowledge question answering for mineralogy

When large language models are applied to professional geological fields such as mineralogy, they frequently suffer from knowledge obsolescence, factual hallucinations, and invalid complex logical reasoning....

Machine learning assisted risk assessment of building exposure to landslides

Landslides can enormously impact social, economic and infrastructural development. Landslide susceptibility maps (LSMs) are crucial for the identification of probable landslide areas, but often overlook...

Vision-language models for automated carbonate petrography and depositional environment interpretation

Carbonate petrographic analysis provides essential qualitative and semi-quantitative constraints on depositional environments and diagenetic evolution at microscale. However, conventional thin-section...

Determination of future land use changes using remote sensing imagery and artificial neural network algorithm: A case study of Davao City, Philippines

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...

Deep learning-based intelligent characterization of sedimentary microfacies using logging curve images: Model comparison and application

Intelligent identification and characterization of sedimentary microfacies is the core content of oil and gas reservoir geological research, which has important guiding significance for the analysis...

SeisDiff-FNO: Seismic data enhancement using Fourier Neural Operators within a conditional diffusion framework

Seismic data processing is fundamental to subsurface exploration and reservoir characterization, providing critical information for hydrocarbon exploration, geological hazard assessment, and carbon...

Benchmarking data handling strategies for landslide susceptibility modeling using random forest workflows

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are frequently used in landslide susceptibility modeling. Different data handling strategies may generate variations in landslide susceptibility modeling, even when...

Optimizing zero-shot text-based segmentation of remote sensing imagery using SAM and Grounding DINO

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...

Reservoir evaluation using petrophysics informed machine learning: A case study

We propose a novel machine learning approach to improve the formation evaluation from logs by integrating petrophysical information with neural networks using a loss function. The petrophysical information...

An open benchmark dataset of synthetic seismic data and real swell noise for evaluating deep learning denoising models

Recent advances in deep learning (DL) have been fostered by open benchmark datasets that allow reproducible and systematic evaluation of models. Despite the increasing adoption of DL methods in geophysics,...

Simultaneous estimation of hyperparameters and basement depth in gravity data inversion using the JAYA algorithm

Basement relief depth estimation is an important component in characterizing sedimentary basins, which serve as essential reservoir for geothermal energy, groundwater, and hydrocarbons. While residual...

SeisReconNO: Leveraging a U-Net-Enhanced Fourier neural operator for 3D seismic reconstruction

Missing traces in 3D seismic data are a recurring challenge caused by receiver malfunctions, acquisition limitations, and geological or environmental constraints. These gaps hinder accurate interpretation...

Recent advances and challenges of cement bond evaluation based on ultrasonic measurements in cased holes

Cement bond quality evaluations are essential for assessing zonal isolation between formation strata, providing crucial information for ensuring environmental and ecological safety in oil and gas exploitation,...

Leveraging boosting machine learning for drilling rate of penetration (ROP) prediction based on drilling and petrophysical parameters

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),...

AI-based approaches for wetland mapping and classification: A review of current practices and future perspectives

Wetlands are critical ecosystems that provide essential ecological, hydrological, and socio-economic services, such as water purification, climate regulation, and biodiversity conservation. However,...

Deep learning based identification of rock minerals from un-processed digital microscopic images of undisturbed broken-surfaces

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...

Deep learning-based downscaling of ERA5-Land temperature to 250 m resolution over the Trentino–South Tyrol Alpine region

High-resolution near-surface temperature data are essential in mountainous regions, where complex topography induces strong spatial and temporal variability. However, coarse-resolution reanalysis products...

Scalable variational Gaussian process framework for implicit geological modelling and compositional grade interpolation

Geological modelling and estimation of polymetallic ore grades require methods that simultaneously honour spatial heterogeneity, compositional constraints, and predictive uncertainty. We present a scalable...

LatentPINNs: Generative physics-informed neural networks via a latent representation learning

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...

A hybrid Prophet–LSTM–BPNN framework for seasonal drought prediction

Drought is among the most destructive hydroclimatic hazards, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions, where water scarcity directly threatens agricultural production and socioeconomic stability....

Mask-Net: A U-Net architecture with spatial and channel attention mechanisms for improved cloud detection in sea surface temperature imagery

Sea surface temperature (SST) is an essential climate variable, yet its estimation by infrared remote sensing remains fundamentally limited by cloud cover. Existing cloud masking approaches rely heavily...

Explainable AI for microseismic event detection

Deep neural networks like PhaseNet show high accuracy in detecting microseismic events, but their black-box nature is a concern in critical applications. We apply Explainable Artificial Intelligence...

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