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Data Hound Prize Winner

Team Phar Lap awarded among 1000 participants

OZ Minerals has awarded multiple prizes as part of the online crowdsourcing Explorer Challenge, organised in partnership with energy and resources open innovation platform Unearthed.
Team Phar Lap consists of a mathematician, a physicist, a German trained geologist and ecologist, a pilot, and a US trained geologist, offering a latticework of geosciences and data science. The consortium used a mixed approach between geological interpretation and data crunching with a strong focus on controlled learning. (copyright source: https://im-mining.com/2019/06/28/oz-minerals-explorer-challenge-winners-crowned/)

Winning the Data Hound prize means a great deal to Dimap and partners as hyperspectral and geophysical data have been combined by using complex machine learning for the first time ever.
While most of our clients are struggling with bridging the gap between these two worlds, the Explorer Challenge gave us a chance to develop and verify methods with rich data from both worlds. Winning this award gives credence to our methods and provides a proof of concept to the mining exploration industry. Since then the system has been further developed.