Meana Petro
KC-03FrontierWave 3AI

Multimodal Subsurface Assistant

In one sentence

Understands log images, maps and cross-sections alongside text, so you can ask a question about a figure rather than only about a paragraph.

The problem

A large share of subsurface knowledge lives in figures: log displays, structure maps, seismic sections, core photographs. Text-only retrieval is blind to all of it, and the figure caption is rarely enough.

How it works

Vision-language models index figures alongside text, with domain-specific handling for log tracks, map annotations and section displays. Answers reference the specific figure and region, and the system is deliberately conservative about reading values off a plotted curve.

Data required

  • Figure-rich document archive with adequate scan resolution
  • Annotated figure examples for domain tuning
  • On-premise GPU capacity for vision model inference
  • Expert evaluation set covering figure-based questions

What you get

  • Answers referencing specific figures with the relevant region highlighted
  • Figure search across the archive by content rather than caption
  • Cross-references between figures and related text sections

What it cannot do

Reading precise numeric values off a plotted curve is unreliable and we do not present it as a feature — the model locates and describes figures rather than digitising them. Scan quality is the binding constraint: a low-resolution scan of a log display is unreadable to the model for the same reason it is unreadable to a person.

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