Big Data Epoch: Challenges and Opportunities for Geology

Subjects: Other Disciplines >> Synthetic discipline submitted time 2023-03-19 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

翟明国 杨树锋 陈宁华 陈汉林

Abstract： Big data has influenced the way people live and changed the method to understand and research the world. As a typical data-intensive subject, geology is facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. In response to these challenges, geologists need not only to improve the traditional methods of research, but also to convert the intrinsic thinking patterns and embrace the big data epoch. The combination of geology and big data greatly expands the cognitive space of geology and improves the ability to acquire new knowledge of geology. At the same time, it provides new vitality for the energy mineral survey, the rational use of environmental resources and the social production and public service, which are supported by geology. On the basis of analyzing the current research status of big data in geology, this paper elaborates the frontier scientific problems of big data research in geology in China, puts forward the strategic target of the development of big data of geology, and probes into the main problems and solutions to the development of the big data of geology. Big data will change the way geologists think. The data-driven scientific discovery model will bring a new look to the development of geology. This paper calls on Chinese geological community to give more attention and support to big data.

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