Semantic Approach for Prospectivity Analysis of Mineral Deposits

Sławomir Wójcik, Taha Osman, Peter Zawada

2016

Abstract

Early mineral exploration activities motivates innovative research into cost-effective methods for automating the process of mineral deposits’ prospectivity analysis. At the heart that process is the development of a knowledge base that is not only capable of consuming geodata originating from multiple sources with different representation format and data veracity, but also provides for the reasoning capabilities required by the prospectivity analysis. In this paper, we present an integrative semantic-driven approach that reconciles the representation format of sourced geodata using a unifying metadata model, and encodes the prospectivity analysis of geological knowledge both at the schemata modelling level and through more explicit reasoning rules operating on the semantically tagged geodata. The paper provides valuable insights into the challenges of representation, inference, and query of geospatially-tagged geological data and analyses our initial results into the prospectivity analysis of mineral deposits.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wójcik S., Osman T. and Zawada P. (2016). Semantic Approach for Prospectivity Analysis of Mineral Deposits . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM, ISBN 978-989-758-188-5, pages 180-189. DOI: 10.5220/0005871001800189

in Bibtex Style

@conference{gistam16,
author={Sławomir Wójcik and Taha Osman and Peter Zawada},
title={Semantic Approach for Prospectivity Analysis of Mineral Deposits},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,},
year={2016},
pages={180-189},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005871001800189},
isbn={978-989-758-188-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,
TI - Semantic Approach for Prospectivity Analysis of Mineral Deposits
SN - 978-989-758-188-5
AU - Wójcik S.
AU - Osman T.
AU - Zawada P.
PY - 2016
SP - 180
EP - 189
DO - 10.5220/0005871001800189