README.md

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# 🌋 MIGRATE Project — Multidisciplinary and InteGRated Approach for geoThermal Exploration

**MIGRATE** (*Multidisciplinary and InteGRated Approach for geoThermal Exploration*) is a scientific project that bridges **seismology** and **machine learning** to develop a new generation of automated, reproducible and high-resolution exploration tools for the Earth's upper crust.

## 🎯 Motivation

Reducing the acceleration of climate change is one of the great challenges of our time. As part of the global transition toward sustainable energy, **geothermal energy** offers a renewable and stable alternative to fossil fuels.

However, its development is hindered by a lack of reliable subsurface knowledge, which creates high geological and economic risks. **MIGRATE** aims to address this gap by creating innovative methods that **reduce uncertainty in passive seismic exploration**, using dense nodal networks and state-of-the-art data-driven models.

## 🔬 Scientific Approach

MIGRATE integrates three complementary disciplines:

- **Seismology** — ambient noise surface wave tomography, dispersion curve analysis
- **Machine Learning** — generative modeling, contrastive learning, neural surrogate inversion, and digital twins

These domains are tightly coupled to:

- Automate the inversion of surface wave dispersion curves
- Learn expressive representations of crustal velocity models


## 🧠 AI for Earth Models

We develop machine learning methods to capture the physical structure of the subsurface, with:

- 🌪 **Normalizing Flows** for probabilistic inversion and generative modeling
- 🎯 **Contrastive encoders** to structure seismic representations
- 🧩 **Latent representations** to compress complex velocity models
- 🔁 **Self-supervised learning** for unsupervised geophysical understanding

These tools are released as **open-source** datasets and pretrained models on Hugging Face.

## 🧾 Citation

If you use this project, please cite:

```bibtex
@misc{migrate2025,
  title={MIGRATE: A Multidisciplinary and Integrated Approach for Geothermal Exploration},
  author={SSTE and DMML-GE},
  year={2025},
  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/MIGRATE}}
}