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...
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...
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...
Recent advances and challenges of cement bond evaluation based on ultrasonic measurements in cased holes
March 2026
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,...
AI-based approaches for wetland mapping and classification: A review of current practices and future perspectives
December 2025
Wetlands are critical ecosystems that provide essential ecological, hydrological, and socio-economic services, such as water purification, climate regulation, and biodiversity conservation. However,...
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,...
Application of machine learning for permeability prediction in heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs
March 2026
Accurate prediction of reservoir permeability based on geostatistical modeling and history matching is often limited by spatial resolution and computational efficiency. To address this limitation, we...
Prediction of the soil–water retention curve of compacted clays using PSO–GA XGBoost
March 2026
Soil–water retention (SWR) is fundamental for understanding the hydro-mechanical behavior of unsaturated clay soils. The soil–water retention curve is typically obtained through extensive and costly...
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...
Hierarchical machine learning for the automatic classification of surface deformation from SAR observations
March 2026
Ground deformation processes, such as landslides and subsidence, cause significant social, economic, and environmental impacts. This study aims to automatically classify ground deformation processes...
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...
Seismic facies characterization: Integrated subsurface-outcrop analysis for complex depositional systems in northeast India
March 2026
Seismic facies analysis involves the interpretation of reflection patterns from seismic data to provide insights into subsurface sedimentary environments, depositional processes, and lithological variations,...
Reservoir evaluation using petrophysics informed machine learning: A case study
December 2024
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...
Unlocking the potential of legacy data for future geoenergy and storage applications: Porosity and permeability prediction based on machine learning applied to petrographic data
June 2026
Machine learning techniques are increasingly applied in geological research and widely adopted in industry. However, one commonly available dataset remains underutilized: petrographic data from classical...
Explainable flood damage assessment using multi-atrous self-attention and vision-language integration
March 2026
Flood disasters triggered by excessive rainfall cause severe damage to infrastructure and pose significant risks to human life. Within the context of disaster management, accurately identifying affected...
An adaptable hybrid method for lossless airborne lidar data compression
March 2026
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) point clouds provide high precision spatial data but impose significant storage and transmission challenges, often exceeding one gigabyte per square kilometer. This...
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...
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...
GeoNeXt: Efficient landslide mapping using a pre-trained ConvNeXt V2 encoder with a PSA-ASPP decoder
December 2025
Landslides constitute one of the most destructive geological hazards worldwide, causing thousands of casualties and billions in economic losses annually. To mitigate these risks, accurate and efficient...
The Fossil Frontier: An answer to the 3-billion fossil question
March 2026
Microfossil analysis is important in subsurface mapping, for example to match strata between wells. This analysis is currently conducted by specialist geoscientists who manually investigate large numbers...
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...
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...
Application of YOLOv11 deep learning model for classification and counting ice-rafted debris (IRD) in core sediments in the Arctic Ocean
March 2026
The classification and quantification of ice-rafted debris (IRD) in marine sediments are key to reconstructing glacial-interglacial dynamics and sediment provenance. However, traditional IRD analysis,...
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),...
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...