Geoinformatika 2011; 2 : 5-18

INFOGEOLOGY: OBJECT AND RESEARCH METHODS

Goncharov V.E.

Given in the article is a sum of author’s longstanding work on theoretical elaboration of methodology and paths of geological science development under conditions of origin and stormy progress of geoinformatics. The opened economic possibilities of informative presentation of geological information and knowledge allowed to ground the necessity of conduction of structurization and differentiation of geoinformatics with the separate geological direction in its development. The paper gives an object and object article of research. A level and scale of geology and informatics interaction in forming of “joint” science are grounded. Principles of new research methods of creation are expounded. This science is infogeology. On the basis of existent geological and new – infogeological methods – it is offered a complex of prognosis methods, distinguishing and mapping of petroliferous objects of various type on the level of natural reservoir. Represented in the paper are the results of its practical use in prognosis geological researches on picking of new oil and gas perspective objects.

Keywords: geoinformatics, informative geology (infogeology), informative model, informative space, structurization, differentiation, informative component, cooperation, picture, frame, knowledge representation, infogeological methods, stratigraphic informatization, infostratigraphic  profiles and maps.