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[DORA 2.0] Advanced Settings: Prediction Tendency and Resolution

Learn how and when to adjust Prediction Tendency and Resolution when generating a Prediction Map.

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Overview

Advanced Settings in DORA 2.0 allow you to refine how your Prediction Map is generated.

These settings are available in Step 4: Select Input Features and are optional. In most cases, the default configuration is appropriate and produces strong results.

Advanced Settings are best used when you want to adjust how selective your targets are, explore different modeling scenarios, and test and refine results through iteration

DORA 2.0 is designed to provide recommendations and default settings, but you remain in control of how the model behaves.


Prediction Tendency

Prediction Tendency controls how selective the final Prediction Map will be.

Prediction Tendency settings

It determines how closely new areas must resemble your positive Learning Data to be highlighted as prospective. In practical terms, this setting controls the balance between:

  • Higher confidence, fewer targets

  • Broader coverage, more targets

The default Balanced setting is suitable for most use cases. The other two settings can be valuable in certain use cases.


Conservative Setting

The Conservative setting focuses on areas that closely match known mineralization. It produces fewer, higher-confidence targets, while reducing noise and false positives.

This setting could be used when:

  • Drill budgets are limited

  • You need to prioritize high-confidence targets

  • You are refining targets for follow-up work


Aggressive Setting

The Aggressive setting expands the range of highlighted areas. It includes targets that are less similar to known mineralization and increases overall coverage.

This setting could be used when you’re:

  • Working in early-stage exploration

  • Screening large or underexplored areas

  • Looking for new or unconventional targets


Resolution

Resolution defines the spatial scale at which the model evaluates your data across the selected AOI.

Resolution sliders

By default, DORA automatically determines resolution based on the most common resolution among your selected rasters. This ensures minimal distortion or resampling and consistent alignment across input layers

In most cases, manual adjustment is not required.

You may consider adjusting resolution when:

  • Running highly targeted experiments (e.g., geology-only models)

  • Working with very high-resolution local datasets

  • Testing how spatial scale impacts results

If you manually adjust resolution, DORA 2.0 re-runs the experiment and all input rasters are re-evaluated at the new scale. This means that input feature scores and recommendations are updated.

Resolution warning

Resolution affects how data is sampled and aligned, so changing it can significantly impact results.


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Still Have Questions?

Reach out to your dedicated DORA contact or email support@VRIFY.com for more information.

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