Application of cloud computing technology in metal exploration

Introduction:

With the development of economy, metal exploration has become more and more popular. However,
most of the metal resources near the surface have been explored and dried up.

Metal resources are increasingly scarce. Therefore, in order to meet the needs of social and economic
development, deep exploration has become a major trend in metal exploration.

As a well-developed technology, cloud computing technology is also widely used in metal exploration,
and has made an important contribution to the development of metal exploration

MapReduce

MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating
big data sets with a parallel, distributed algorithm on a cluster. A MapReduce program is composed of
a map procedure, which performs filtering and sorting, and a reduce method, which performs a
summary operation.

Advantage:

First ofall, MapReduce programming model can run the calculation process of metal exploration in the
computer, so as to improve the work efficiency of metal exploration.

Second, the advantageof MapReduce programming model is that scheduling processing when multiple
tasks are running together can run multiple tasks in metal exploration together, thus saving computing
resources.

HBase

HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of the Hadoop file system. It is an open-
source project and is horizontally scalable.

HBase is a data model that is similar to Google’s big table designed to provide quick random access to
huge amounts of structured data. It leverages the fault tolerance provided by the Hadoop File System
(HDFS).

The HBase Architecture has two main services: HMaster that is responsible for coordinating Regions in
the cluster and execute administrative operations; HRegionServer responsible to handle a subset of
the table's data.
Implementation

(1) First, we need to upload some data of metal exploration to HDFS. We can set the size of data
block to 156m and the number of copies to 3. Once the data is uploaded to HDFS, we can
view the HDFS file system on the web interface to see if the data is perfect.

(2) Through MapReduce job, the original data can be converted to HFILE format, which is
convenient for database entry.

(3) The HFILE file obtained from the second step is further loaded into HBase cluster, and the
program implementation in the second and third steps are both a subclass of the main class,
which is called and run by the main class. The main class is mainly used to configure the
running environment parameters.

Result

The research results show that the metal exploration efficiency in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 The
rates are increased by 3.4%,

4.2%, 5.1% and 5.9% respectively. See Figure 3 for details. This shows that cloud computing
technology can significantly improve the efficiency of metal exploration, and can accurately explore
deep geological metals, and can quickly process a large number of complex data.