Research

Quarrying data for gems of knowledge

Posted by on August 9, 2011 at 11:33 am

Predicting where Australia’s next mineral boom will come from is serious business. Data collected using satellite sensing, airborne surveys, seismic crews and prospecting teams is immense and is piling up rapidly. But what use are all these data? ‘This is a vast electronic resource and we need new methods to mine it for useful information,’ [...]

Unearthing Australia’s buried treasures

Posted by on August 9, 2011 at 11:33 am

Released on behalf of the Australian Academy of Science. We know more about the surface of Mars than we do of the earth beneath our feet. Australian earth scientists are calling for a national program to map our country – 300 metres down under. By mapping the surface of the continent last century, Australia’s geologists [...]