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Thursday, 21st July, 11am AEDT
Online
11.00AM – Cam Knight – Stand-up Comic
11.10AM – Brenton Crawford – Teaching computers how to see rocks: combining core imagery and computer vision to extract geotechnical and geological data
11.50PM – Happy Hour – Q&A + Networking
Brenton Crawford, Datarock
After studying structural geology and geophysics at Monash University, Brenton spent several years consulting in mine geology, structural geology and geophysics for PGN Geoscience as well as working in a variety of geological and geophysical roles—predominantly in exploration. Brenton has also worked as a geophysicist and data scientist for MMG Exploration working in nickel, copper and zinc exploration and project generation.
In 2015, Brenton co-founded Solve Geosolutions – Australia’s first exploration and mining focused data science consultancy. In 2019, Brenton co-founded Datarock – a computer vision technology company geared at building productionised image and video analysis solutions for exploration and mining. Brenton currently serves as Datarock’s Chief Operating Officer.
Advances in computer vision techniques have created an opportunity to improve the way we extract some types of geotechnical and geological from drill core by using core imagery.
Extracting geotechnical and geological data from imagery offers some significant improvements in observation consistency as well as unlocking new types of data not able to be efficiently collected manually by a geologist or geotechnical engineer.
In this talk we will show some applied examples of how computer vision is being used in conjunction with traditional core photography to create deposit-wide datasets that can streamline logging workflows and improve OBK.
