Data Mining and Data-Driven Modelling in Engineering Geology Applications

During the last decade, the increasing monitoring and measurement data availability as well as a diffused power of computation, is encouraging scientists and practitioners at using data-mining techniques to improve the knowledge of natural and engineering system and to model identified from data, namely data-driven models. Interesting results, both from the practical and scientific viewpoints can be obtained. Here a review of some of the mostly used data-driven techniques is given, showing how they are used in an Engineering Geology framework. Some specific examples are provided, emphasizing potentialities of data-driven modelling applied to Engineering Geology.