ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TECHNOLOGY IN MINING AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS
Ioannis Kapageridis · 2002
A number of mining and environmental related problems have been approached using ANN technology. These problems commonly relate to pattern classification, prediction and optimisation. ANNs have been successfully applied to these areas and are therefore suitable for similar mining and environmental problems. The general trend in the mining industry for automation to the greatest degree calls for technologies such as the ANNs that can utilise large amounts of data for the development of models which otherwise are very difficult or sometimes even impossible to identify. The examples presented in this paper support the choice of ANNs as the basis for developing solutions to mining and environmental problems were conventional techniques fail in one way or another.