Elsevier Baseline Geoscience Data Generation for Sustainable Exploration of Natural Resources

Baseline Geoscience Data Generation for Sustainable Exploration of Natural Resources offers a comprehensive examination of the critical role that baseline geoscience data plays in the sustainable exploration of natural resources. The book highlights the importance of global geophysical mapping as a catalyst for mineral exploration, providing an overview of various geophysical techniques essential for generating baseline data. It explores advanced methodologies in potential field surveying, geoelectrical surveying, electromagnetic techniques, and remote sensing, underscoring their applications in sustainable resource management. The text also examines geospatial surveying techniques, including GIS and GPS, and introduces innovative drone-based geoscientific surveying methods that enhance data collection efficiency. Additionally, the book covers seismic surveying techniques and marine mineral resource exploration, offering a global perspective on national geophysical mapping programs and their significance in mineral exploration. The discussion on emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, emphasizes the need for ethical considerations in resource exploration. Through case studies and practical applications, readers gain insights into effective data acquisition planning and strategies for utilizing geophysical applications in mineral exploration. Focuses on diverse geoscientific mapping techniques with the corresponding efficacies of different mapping techniques and methodologies to manage natural resources, such as groundwater and minerals of different categories, including critical minerals with minimal environmental impacts Details real-world examples showcasing geophysical investigations in association with geological and geochemical mapping techniques in natural resource exploration Provides detailed explanations of seismic, magnetic, gravity, and electromagnetic, and geophysical well logging exploration methods for sustainable exploitation of natural resources.