[SciPy-User] Classification using neural networks

[Jonathan T. Niehof]

On 07/25/2012 12:47 PM, Nuttall, Brandon C wrote:

> I am looking for a method to do rock type identification using
> geophysical log data acquired from oil and gas wells. The geophysical
> log data are continuous recordings of a variety of bulk rock properties
> that change with the type and abundance of mineral constituents. What I
> want to do is classify the rock types (limestone, sandstone, shale,
> dolomite, etc) and their relative percentages. I remember reading an
> earlier SCIPY post about a neural network module that used training
> datasets to establish a classification scheme and then was run against
> unknown data. But, I can’t find the post and don’t remember the module
> name. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Don't know about classification schemes in particular, but there's ffnet 
for neural networks:
http://ffnet.sourceforge.net/

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Jonathan Niehof
ISR-3 Space Data Systems
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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