Mineral identification on hyperspectral imagery of rock samples using machine learning.

Autor: Qudsi, Izzul, Fakhrurrozi, Afnindar, Mordekhai, Gustandika, Praviandy, Noor, Muhammad Rifat
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings; 2024, Vol. 3076 Issue 1, p1-10, 10p
Abstrakt: Mineralogy plays an important role in the early stages of earth resource exploration. In the past decades, geologists started to use hyperspectral in various scales of mineral identification, from hand specimen samples to airborne geological mapping surveys. Performing conventional mineral classification with hyperspectral methods is time-consuming and requires significant human intervention, from the endmember selection for each mineral to validating the classes manually in laboratory analysis. In this study, we introduced supervised machine learning algorithms to stimulate the mineral mapping process of a large dataset of core data. Three hyperspectral imageries of milled pebbled samples were used where one of the samples was pre-identified and used for training machine learning models to identify the mineralogy of the other two samples. The samples contain four minerals; namely Muscovite, Tourmaline, Illite and High-Crystallinity Illite, that will be auto-identified by the machine learning algorithms. In this study, Random Forest and Convolutional Neural Network were the selected algorithms to perform the mineral identification. Both algorithms produce high-accuracy mineral maps compared to the existing mineral maps from the previous study. The Convolutional Neural Network struggled to identify High-Crystallinity Illite, whilst Random Forest succeeded in separating High-Crystallinity Illite from other minerals. Thus, the Random Forest algorithm produces higher accuracy results. The proposed workflow provides a time-efficient alternative methodology for further mineral mapping process on a larger scale dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index