Mining, Minerals Processing and Metallurgical Engineering

Bedrock mapping based on terrain weighted directed graph convolutional network using stream sediment geochemical samplings

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  • Bao-yi ZHANG1, Man-yi LI2, Yu-ke HUAN1, Umair KHAN1, Li-fang WANG3, Fan-yun WANG1
1. Key Laboratory of Metallogenic Prediction of Nonferrous Metals and Geological Environment Monitoring (Ministry of Education), School of Geosciences & Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
2. PowerChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation Limited, Changsha 410014, China;
3. Department of Surveying and Mapping Geography, Hunan Vocational College of Engineering, Changsha 410151, China

Online published: 2023-09-25

Abstract

To explore an efficient strategy for intelligent bedrock mapping that can be applied in the areas with coexisting Quaternary coverages and bedrock outcrops, a graph convolutional network (GCN) was implemented for bedrock classification using stream sediment geochemical samplings in the Chahanwusu River area, Qinghai Province, China. The sampling points were organized into a terrain weighted directed graph (TWDG) using Delaunay triangulation to capture the upstream-downstream relationships among the geochemical sampling points. The experimental results indicate that the semi-supervised GCN models, only using 20% of the labeled sampling points, achieved accuracies of 68.20% and 78.31% in ten-type and five-type bedrock discrimination, respectively. In conclusion, it is feasible to map the bedrock type through the concentrations of elements on the stream sediment geochemical sampling points. The proposed data-driven GCN bedrock classification method not only improves the efficiency of bedrock mapping but also may be applied in a large area.

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Bao-yiZHANG,Man-yiLI,Yu-keHUAN,UmairKHAN,Li-fangWANG,Fan-yunWANG . Bedrock mapping based on terrain weighted directed graph convolutional network using stream sediment geochemical samplings[J]. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2023 , 33(9) : 2799 -2814 . DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(23)66299-5

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