Identification of geological domains and their boundaries plays a vital role in the estimation of mineral resources. Geologists are often interested in exploratory data analysis and visualization of geological data in two or three dimensions in order to detect quality issues or to generate new hypotheses. We compare PCA and some other linear and non-linear methods with a newer method, t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) for the visualization of large geochemical assay datasets. The t-SNE based reduced dimensions can then be used with clustering algorithm to extract well clustered geological regions using exploration and production datasets. Significant differences between the nonlinear method t-SNE and the state of the art methods were observed in two dimensional target spaces.
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This work has been supported by the Australian Centre for Field Robotics and the Rio Tinto Centre for Mine Automation.
Author information Authors and AffiliationsAustralian Centre for Field Robotic, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Mehala Balamurali & Arman Melkumyan
Correspondence to Mehala Balamurali .
Editor information Editors and AffiliationsThe University of Tokyo , Tokyo, Japan
Akira Hirose
Kobe University , Kobe, Japan
Seiichi Ozawa
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan
Kenji Doya
Nara Institute of Science and Technology , Ikoma, Japan
Kazushi Ikeda
Kyungpook National University , Daegu, Korea (Republic of)
Minho Lee
Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing, China
Derong Liu
© 2016 Springer International Publishing AG
About this paper Cite this paperBalamurali, M., Melkumyan, A. (2016). t-SNE Based Visualisation and Clustering of Geological Domain. In: Hirose, A., Ozawa, S., Doya, K., Ikeda, K., Lee, M., Liu, D. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9950. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46681-1_67
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