Ukraine plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) in geology, announced Roman Opimakh, head of the State Geological and Subsoil Service, on his Facebook page.
"The mining industry is one of the key components of our country's economy, rich in natural resources. The coordinated efforts of the government, business, and science positively influence the development of the subsoil use sector, contributing to the development of the mineral raw material base, filling the state budget, and creating jobs, even during these challenging wartime conditions," he wrote.
The State Geological and Subsoil Service, together with the Ministry of Environmental Protection team, continues to implement priority reforms in the field of subsoil use: digitizing services, modernizing the regulatory framework, and establishing effective state control.
A hallmark of the service institution is the use of convenient and modern working methods, which aim to eliminate subjectivity and selectivity in decision-making at the institutional level. The State Geological Service is gradually moving towards creating Big Data for the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in geology. The first and second phases are currently being implemented, focusing on accounting for geological information, cataloging, scanning, converting data into digital format, and making it publicly available on the unified web resource— the State Geological Portal.
The implementation of the first phase allows for making information about existing mineral resources in Ukraine and their development accessible. Databases of special permits for subsoil use, protocols for resource protection, geological exploration registers, and catalogs of geological information and materials are being created and filled. The completion of scanning paper reports and a comprehensive inventory and digitization of primary information sources will mark the end of the first phase.
The second phase will enable the spatial distribution of all deposits and their quantitative and qualitative characteristics to be visualized on the State Geological Portal. Work is underway to convert and publish information in open sources from state registries, interactive maps, and to implement cybersecurity measures. Upcoming tasks include completing the creation of geospatial data for deposits, introducing text recognition and translation technologies, and integrating with the information and communication systems of other government bodies.
The third phase involves applying AI in geology. GeoAI will automatically generate responses to user inquiries, particularly regarding the search for new promising mineral deposits in Ukraine. Input data for the algorithm will include materials from geochemical exploration methods, gravity and magnetic field maps, satellite images of various spectra, and geological maps from the Precambrian era. Implementing the measures in this phase will allow the neural network to automatically analyze requests and build correlation models for mineral resource exploration.
