Papers invited for GP special issue on machine learning applications in geophysical exploration and monitoring – eage.org

A special issue of Geophysical Prospecting is being planned on machine learning applications in geophysical exploration and monitoring. Artificial intelligence, and in particular its subdomain machine learning, has revolutionized many science and engineering disciplines during the past decade. In many domains such as image recognition, machine translation, and speech analysis, machine learning outperforms conventional techniques and has emerged as the method of choice. It is no surprise that recently geophysicists have also found great value in machine learning to automate workflows, extract valuable information from big data, and create new pathways in solving challenging computational problems. Despite this surge in interest, we are still in the early days of developing machine learning applications for subsurface resource exploration, and the geophysical community at large will benefit from a better understanding of the promise of machine learning in transforming industrial practices.