According to MapXact’s Managing Director, Gerben Roseboom, BrainMatter turns the training into a type of memory game. “The first time you scan the images collected from the ground radar on the platform, you have to validate maybe a thousand images.

BrainMatter provides two options: do I see this, or that? The expert has to make a choice and thus tells the computer step-by-step what he sees and how the image should be interpreted.” The platform will then base its future conclusions on this interpretation. As a result, the expert will be presented with a hundred images next time, in a comparable environment with similar soil condition, and perhaps only ten the next.

“The speed at which experts
can review the data in BrainMatter is incredible” according to Roseboom.
“At MapXact they now have a map back at the office within five minutes
of the completion of the field research. This map is equally reliable
and accurate as the map that used to take three days to complete
depending on the type of soil, the amount of cables and the situation
of the surface. MapXact employees can now be deployed to more
productive tasks including further optimization of the system.”