The application of computational processes to support our understanding of geological features and processes has advanced at a rapid pace. Digital techniques are ever-increasingly used to collect and manage large datasets, supported by bespoke programming and automated processes. These approaches permit for the processing of vast datasets, often supported by machine learning, to identify key trends and relationships.
Digital techniques also permit the visualisation of many and varied datasets, ranging from dynamic, multivariate plots of analytical geochemical measurements to 3-D visualisations of rocky outcrops on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system. The ongoing development of digital techniques for data collection, processing and visualisation are increasingly important to interdisciplinary geoscience research and practice.
The digital geoscience theme is led by Dr David Hodgetts.