GFM4MPM: Towards Geospatial Foundation Models for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daruna, Angel, Zadorozhnyy, Vasily, Lukoczki, Georgina, Chiu, Han-Pang
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866914839281008640
author Daruna, Angel
Zadorozhnyy, Vasily
Lukoczki, Georgina
Chiu, Han-Pang
author_facet Daruna, Angel
Zadorozhnyy, Vasily
Lukoczki, Georgina
Chiu, Han-Pang
contents Machine Learning (ML) for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping (MPM) remains a challenging problem as it requires the analysis of associations between large-scale multi-modal geospatial data and few historical mineral commodity observations (positive labels). Recent MPM works have explored Deep Learning (DL) as a modeling tool with more representation capacity. However, these overparameterized methods may be more prone to overfitting due to their reliance on scarce labeled data. While a large quantity of unlabeled geospatial data exists, no prior MPM works have considered using such information in a self-supervised manner. Our MPM approach uses a masked image modeling framework to pretrain a backbone neural network in a self-supervised manner using unlabeled geospatial data alone. After pretraining, the backbone network provides feature extraction for downstream MPM tasks. We evaluated our approach alongside existing methods to assess mineral prospectivity of Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) and Clastic-Dominated (CD) Lead-Zinc deposits in North America and Australia. Our results demonstrate that self-supervision promotes robustness in learned features, improving prospectivity predictions. Additionally, we leverage explainable artificial intelligence techniques to demonstrate that individual predictions can be interpreted from a geological perspective.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2406_12756
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle GFM4MPM: Towards Geospatial Foundation Models for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping
Daruna, Angel
Zadorozhnyy, Vasily
Lukoczki, Georgina
Chiu, Han-Pang
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning (ML) for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping (MPM) remains a challenging problem as it requires the analysis of associations between large-scale multi-modal geospatial data and few historical mineral commodity observations (positive labels). Recent MPM works have explored Deep Learning (DL) as a modeling tool with more representation capacity. However, these overparameterized methods may be more prone to overfitting due to their reliance on scarce labeled data. While a large quantity of unlabeled geospatial data exists, no prior MPM works have considered using such information in a self-supervised manner. Our MPM approach uses a masked image modeling framework to pretrain a backbone neural network in a self-supervised manner using unlabeled geospatial data alone. After pretraining, the backbone network provides feature extraction for downstream MPM tasks. We evaluated our approach alongside existing methods to assess mineral prospectivity of Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) and Clastic-Dominated (CD) Lead-Zinc deposits in North America and Australia. Our results demonstrate that self-supervision promotes robustness in learned features, improving prospectivity predictions. Additionally, we leverage explainable artificial intelligence techniques to demonstrate that individual predictions can be interpreted from a geological perspective.
title GFM4MPM: Towards Geospatial Foundation Models for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12756