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Martian Geology: Scalable AI unlocks global image search and mapping. Exciting opportunities to combine geology, AI & planetary exploration.Paper from Annex (2025) at the SETI Institute. Link in the comments.“The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) instrument has over the past nearly-two decades captured essentially the entirety of the surface of Mars at approximately... Continue Reading →
Open-source: Automatic description of rock thin sections: A web application. Delighted to share Stalyn Paucar and colleagues work from Ecuador (Universidad Central del Ecuador) published this week.AbstractThe identification and characterization of rock types is a core activity in geology and related fields, including mining, petroleum, environmental science, industry, and construction. Traditionally, this task is performed... Continue Reading →
Open-source GIS LLM Copilot: towards an autonomous GIS agent for spatial analysis. Enabling non-experts to perform geospatial analysis with minimal prior knowledge. Also offering a true open-source framework based on QGIS to potentially keep data local to you.Interesting paper from Akinboyewa et al (2025). Links to the paper and code in GitHub in the comments.This... Continue Reading →
GeoGPT Data Security Risks for Geoscientists. The Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) online proprietary GeoGPT Application operated by Zhejiang Lab has data security risks. In the interests of safeguarding the geological community, geologists should be fully aware so they can make informed decisions.Extracts below of a letter published in the ‘Geoscientist’ today of the Geological Society... Continue Reading →
Geo-LLM: Using Llama 4 to create 3D geological models from geological reports. Innovative work using the Llama 4 API on geological reports, converting into domain specific language for input files to visualise in GemPy. All the code is Open-sourced in GitHub.Congratulations to William Davis and Gain Boonvanich for winning “Best Llama API Usage” at the... Continue Reading →
On this day exactly 10 years ago, I created a free community outreach blog for geoscience data and AI. Thank you to everyone for all the encouragement and support you have given over the years.The blog was initially focused on techniques leveraging content in documents - unstructured data, search (IR) and NLP, tying this to... Continue Reading →
Experimenting on applying machine vision to Dinosaur Footprints with Mark Baggott from the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust. These are some of the photographs of Dinosaur footprints and tracks Mark and his colleagues have taken recently from a variety of UK locations.As a hobby, it's still early days, seeing if we can create a... Continue Reading →
Some interesting research on how employees use Open AI's ChatGPT. Whether its private sector companies, non-profits or governments funding these online proprietary chatbots, and whether they are generic or built to target a domain vertical, we need to raise awareness. Once sensitive data from your company or organisation is uploaded (through an API or user... Continue Reading →
Researchers at Imperial College London, draw on geological data science to reveal regions that can host giant earthquakes, regardless of the history of seismic activity. Including in places where none have occurred in the last 100 years.“We hope that by using the geological data itself as the principal indicator of risk potential, we can tap... Continue Reading →
The subsurface: our hidden asset. How geoscience knowledge and data supports government priorities. Excellent summary from the BGS.“While often ‘out of sight, out of mind’, the subsurface is a natural habitat, a source of critical resources, and a space for the infrastructure that underpins modern economies; in the coming decades the drive for urbanisation, innovation... Continue Reading →
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