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Geospatial Exploration through Natural Language Processing: Geological Inference from Textual Data using Word Embeddings.Interesting paper from Linphrachaya et al (2025). “By automating the initial stages of resource exploration, we aim to provide a tool that can streamline the process of identifying promising locations for further investigation. Given the critical importance of lithium for the future... Continue Reading →
More free open-access global geoscience data. The Global Atlas of Renewable Energy has over 1,000 datasets to support Geothermal, Hydro, Wind, Solar, Bioenergy and Marine.This includes global gravity maps derived from the GOCE satellite and are presented in two maps, the Free Air gravity map, and the Bouguer map. GOCE is part of the Earth... Continue Reading →
Overlaying geological maps on topography. You can use Open Source PyVista for interactive 3D visualization and mesh analysis in Python. GitHub Python code and data examples for Texture mapping for a GeoTIFF on a topography surface in the comments. https://tutorial.pyvista.org/tutorial/03_figures/c_geological-map.html
Browsing around free open-access earth data with ArcGIS Earth desktop. Quite an incredible amount available but also plenty of opportunities for the development of more global detailed datasets.Link in the comments to download ArcGIS Desktop (its been around since 2016) in case you may have never used it, and what's new in V2.3 (December 2024).... Continue Reading →
Beautiful open access global multispectral satellite imagery in the Sentinel-2 explorer app. Included in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.The Copernicus Sentinel-2 is a European mission based on a constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit. Each satellite carries an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a... Continue Reading →
Screenshot Serious concerns remain over potential for censorship, lack of openness and ethics with Deep-time Digital Earth’s GeoGPT. This Artificial Intelligence (AI) is promoted to the international community by Zhejiang Lab and DDE, in the name of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).Article published in the ‘Geoscientist’ in response to 'GeoGPT: An Update' by Ludden and... Continue Reading →
There is so much great stuff within Gplates. Below is an interactive globe of seafloor spreading rates. Pinks and blues show 0-40 mm a year through to 200 mm a year for deep reds.“The age of the ocean floor is one of the fundamental data sets for understanding plate tectonic processes. We have generated an... Continue Reading →
NASA Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) maps.“NASA’s EMIT produced its first global maps of hematite, goethite, and kaolinite in Earth’s dry regions using data from the year ending November 2023. The mission collected billions of measurements of the three minerals and seven others that may affect climate when lofted into the air as... Continue Reading →
The free webinar I gave on Geoscience and Large Language Models was recorded and is now online. We had over 300 people register worldwide, some great questions. The purpose was to raise awareness in this area and stimulate ideas and questions within the international earth science community.I gave examples covering research and academia, mining, geohazards,... Continue Reading →
More Open access geological data. The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) map viewer includes bathymetry, geological, biological, mineral and chemical data."In collaboration with over 120 partner organizations and stakeholders, EMODnet aggregates data into Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) pan-European data layers, with data and accompanying metadata harmonized according to EU e.g., INSPIRE... Continue Reading →
A Geodyssey - Geoscience Text Analytics and Enterprise Search Research 