484 results about "Geographic space" patented technology

The embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods which update petroleum activity data and allows for geospatial modeling of the data in an interactive fashion or for the creation of a report to display customizable reports in accordance with user-preferred fields. Embodiments of the present invention also provide methods for collection of data from various Internet resources, including Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and specifically allow user-friendly interaction to select various fields, such as bids, contract information, well production, and produce graphical representation or generate reports that accounts for the organization of the data.

A computer-based method for creating a data structure for informal geographic spaces for use with geocoded databases. A set of data is stored in memory for a geographic region, and a plurality of neighborhoods is identified in the geographic region based on processing of the stored set of data. The method includes generating a boundary definition for each of the neighborhoods by processing neighborhood definition information. A data structure is created in the memory for containing neighborhood data content with at least one record for each of the neighborhoods. The data structure is populated by storing, for each neighborhood, the generated boundary definition along with a neighborhood name and identifier in the records of data structure. The boundary definition may be created by combining two or more definitions identified for a single neighborhood to provide a more inclusive geometry such as by aligning the geometries and performing an additive algorithm.

A system for ranking geospatial entities is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an interface for receiving ranking data about a plurality of geospatial entities and an entity ranking module. The module uses a ranking mechanism to generate place ranks for the geospatial entities based on the ranking data. Ranked entity data generated by the entity ranking module is stored in a database. The entity ranking module may be configured to evaluate a plurality of diverse attributes to determine a total score for a geospatial entity. The entity ranking module may be configured to organize ranked entity data into placemark layers.

The invention relates to a mobile information searching and knowledge discovery system based on geographic spatiotemporal data. The client of the system is based on Android and ios intelligent mobile phone equipment (two realized versions), can obtain the location data such as coordinates, time, height, direction and the like of a user at present and can provide the data to a server through a third-generation (3G) network. The client can download the summery of network information which interests the user and is in a geographic fence around the user from the server. The server can also push anetwork information summary which is of the most significant relationship with the location of the user to the user according to the closeness extent of the relationship between the searched network information and the location of the user. The mobile information searching and knowledge discovery system based on the geographic spatiotemporal data has the advantages that under the situation that public positioning navigation equipment is popularized, results can be mined according to the location data such as the coordinates and the time of the user at present and the social relationship of the location fence, the network information can be reorganized and self-adaptive network information expression based on the location of the user can be formed.

The invention provides an electronic map matching method and an electronic map matching device for matching an information acquisition point to an electronic map. The method comprises the following steps of: a grid locating step for locating the information acquisition point in a corresponding grid in a plurality of grids divided by the electronic map; a projecting and calculating step for projecting the information acquisition point to road sections in the corresponding grid and the adjacent grid, and selecting the road section that a projecting distance meets a predetermined condition as a projecting road section; a road section grouping step for grouping each projecting road section to a preferred road section set or an alternative road section set according to matching results of the previous one or more moments; and a matching road section determining step for selecting one or more road sections that the projecting distance is less than a predetermined threshold value as a matching road section. By the invention, the position of an information acquisition device in a geographic space can be matched to the electronic map quickly and more precisely, and the correlative roads or road sections can be found precisely and quickly.

Alternative computer based systems and methods are provided for mobile device, mobile banking, server and / or cloud based internet access to a geospatial website for a multidimensional representation of information and / or scalable versions of web content that comprises social networking and / or socially conscious information and / or activities, digital coupons and discounts, and multi-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping associated with entities providing and / or members of the coupons and / or social networking.

The invention relates to a system to provide local mobile geographic information service based on GPS and mobile terminal. The system comprises: a wireless communication network, a GPS position apparatus and mobile terminal, and an internet and path tracking server. The innovation of the invention is adding the following software functional modules in the mobile terminal: a wireless communication module, a GPS receiving module, an interface displaying module, an interest point inquiring module, a path planning module, a positioning module, a path tracking module, a GIS engine module, a database management module and a data layer made up of an interest point database, a geographic data file, a geographic data index file, a geographic data topological file and a initialization configuration file. The system achieves the advantages of simple, practical, smart in data layer design, convenient in inquiring, low in cost and easy to implement. For storing geographic space data and integrating many software functional modules in the mobile terminal, the system in the invention enable the user to enjoy localized real time geographic space position service conveniently at any moment with less dependence on the server.

One or more systems, devices, methods, and / or processes described can apply searches and / or filters to data of social networks with respect to one or more geographical locations, geospatial references, location-based contexts, and / or map-based references. A geographical search region can be associated with a computing device of a user and with locations of the computing device, including the ability to track the computing device with the geographical search region along a path of movement of the computing device. Other geographical search regions can be associated with other computing devices that were included within the geographical search region and can be associated with locations of the other computing devices. One or more social networks can be queried with search and / or filter parameters based on the geographical search regions of respective computing devices, and user-provided social network communications and information within the geographical search regions of the respective computing devices can be received based on the queries.

The present invention relates to an on line 3D visualization method and system of natural resource data. The method mainly includes a step of natural resource data organization and storage and a step of natural resource data processing and 3D visualization. The step of natural resource data organization and storage includes: according to natural resource data characteristics and service characteristics, dividing data types, and making the natural resource data as tile image data formed by a plurality of tiles by adopting a pyramid model, then encoding each tile, and establishing a tile data set based on an embedded database technology, storing the tile data set in database, and establishing a quadtree index of space for each tile. The step of natural resource data processing and 3D visualization includes site and position 3D visualization and natural environment object dynamic 3D visualization. The method achieves real time on line 3D rendering display for all kinds of natural resources and geographic space information data in a high-performance 3D visualization environment.

A system and method are disclosed for managing a network of sensors (100). A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a sensor (102) belonging to the network of sensors operating in a geographic space having a controller (210) that manages a sensing device (204). The controller can be programmed to locate (302) itself in the geographic space, and assign (304) itself according to its location a zone within a portion of the geographic space and a corresponding data range for storing sensed information. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

In one embodiment, a building model is presented to a user. The building model may be a three-dimensional rendering of a geographic region. A user selects a point on the three-dimensional rendering of a geographic region. Based on the selected point one or more image bubbles are chosen. The image bubbles are photographs or similar image data. The image bubbles and the three-dimensional rendering are associated with the same geographical space. The one or more image bubbles are incorporated with the building model such that at least a portion of one of the image bubbles is displayed in a window with the building model.

The invention provides an implement method of lightweight-class global multi-dimensional remote-sensing image network map service. The implement method comprises the following steps: a global geographic space pyramid model is constructed, and a Tile file encoding system is built according to the model; pre-treatment mainly comprising projection transformation, file format conversion and the like is performed on the remote-sensing data so as to cut the remote-sensing data into tiles, and file encoding is performed; according to a distribution strategy, Tile files are grouped to generate a corresponding directory structure, and different images are updated on different Web servers; the visible range of the map requested by a client side is analyzed to calculate the storage paths of all images within the visible range, and the images are loaded and fed back to the client side. According to the invention, the implement method of the light-weight-class global multi-dimensional remote-sensing image network map service can be provided for a remote-sensing data center (such as the China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application) and can provide remote-sensing data service to users more conveniently.

A system for simplified generation of systems for analysis of satellite images to geolocate one or more objects of interest. A plurality of training images labeled for a study object or objects with irrelevant features loaded into a preexisting feature identification subsystem causes automated generation of models for the study object. This model is used to parameterize pre-engineered machine learning elements that are running a preprogrammed machine learning protocol. Training images with the study are used to train object recognition filters. This filter is used to identify the study object in unanalyzed images. The system reports results in a requestor's preferred format.

A method of detecting a changed condition within a geographical space from a moving vehicle. Images of that geographic space are memorialized in conjunction with GPS coordinates together with its GPS coordinates. The same geographic space is traversed from the moving vehicle while accessing the route's GPS coordinates. The memorialized images are played back by coordinating the GPS data on a memorialized images with that of the traversed geographic space such that the memorialized images are viewed simultaneously with the geographic space being traversed. An observer traveling within the moving vehicle can compare the memorialized images with those being traversed in order to identify changed conditions.

The invention discloses a high-efficiency difference disturbance location privacy protection system and a method, considering that the attacker has the challenge to the location privacy protection method based on the location disturbance and fuzzy technology about the background knowledge of the user side information, the difference privacy protection technology is guided to the location fuzzy privacy protection method, the Hilbert space filling curve capable of self-adaption transition on the user location according to the distributed change features in the geographic space of the mobile user and the current fashionable quadtree or R tree spatial index are used for forming the location index for all mobile users in the geographic space, and the K anonymity contact area satisfying the principle of reciprocity is effectively generated. Then, the difference privacy protection technology is used for generating the location disturbance point reasonable near user real location of k location points of the contact area as the query location of LBS user for requesting service from the LBS service provider, the problems and deficiencies of the existing method can be overcome.

The invention discloses a method and a system for dynamically updating geographic space data based on a remote sensing image. The method comprises the steps of preprocessing an image, identifying change information, performing filtering to eliminate noise, extracting the boundary of a changed area, generating a vector boundary diagram of an image change feature, regularizing the boundary of the feature, segmenting update data based on the principle of quad-tree spatial index to locate the changed area quickly, identifying the change type of elements based on a neural decision tree method, extracting the change type, and updating and storing the change information in an original database. According to the invention, a simple, quick and accurate change detection method is obtained. By adoption of the quad-tree grid partition mode, the speed and precision of retrieval are improved. The boundary of the changed area extracted by an IGAC-based extraction method is more accurate.

A method of detecting a changed condition within a geographical space from a moving vehicle. Images of that geographic space are memorialized in conjunction with GPS coordinates together with its GPS coordinates. The same geographic space is traversed from the moving vehicle while accessing the route's GPS coordinates. The memorialized images are played back by coordinating the GPS data on a memorialized images with that of the traversed geographic space such that the memorialized images are viewed simultaneously with the geographic space being traversed. An observer traveling within the moving vehicle can compare the memorialized images with those being traversed in order to identify changed conditions.

The invention relates to a tile map data organization method based on a nested pyramid model, belonging to the technical field of visualization of geographical spatial information. Additional similar models are penetrated into the existing pyramid model, wherein the ratio of line number to column number of sliced tiles of each layer is a constant, the magnification setting among layers is the same, the line number and the column number of the tiles of the first stage present an arithmetic progression relationship, so that a nested pyramid model with more compact dimensional transition is constructed. By laying emphasis on the reasonable setting of the dimensions of interpolation maps, the invention adopts a more exquisite and reasonable map dimension dividing manner to increase the dimension distribution density of spatial data, thereby preventing ground objects from being transited in an unsmooth way at the primary stage of dimension pull-down caused by the use of 2X magnification incase of organizing spatial data of small spanning dimensions, and preserving a spanning space for the detailed transition at the later stage. The invention is an improvement on the existing tile map data organization method, and is especially applicable to the organization of spatial data of small spanning dimensions.

A temporal-influenced geospatial modeling system and method forecasts the likelihood of desirable and undesirable events. In one aspect, the present invention designates at least one temporal feature, determines an intensity function representing an expected value of event type instances corresponding to the temporal feature, determines a time window break associated with the intensity function and assesses whether the time window break is a critical time point for the event type.

The invention features a system wherein a recognition environment utilizes comparative advantages of automated feature signature analysis and human perception to form a synergistic data and information processing system for scene structure modeling and testing, object extraction, object linking, and event / activity detection using multi-source sensor data and imagery in both static and time-varying formats. The scene structure and modeling and testing utilizes quantifiable and implementable human language key words. The invention implements real-time terrain categorization and situational awareness plus a dynamic ground control point selection and evaluation system in a Virtual Transverse Mercator (VTM) geogridded Equi-Distance system (ES) environment. The system can be applied to video imagery to define and detect objects / features, events and activity. By adapting the video imagery analysis technology to multi-source data, the invention performs multi-source data fusion without registering them using geospatial ground control points.

Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a mapping application which when executed on a device by at least one processing unit renders views of a three-dimensional (3D) map. The mapping application requests a first set of map tiles associated with a portion of the 3D map. In response to the request, the mapping application receives a second set of map tiles associated with portion of the 3D map. The mapping application identifies a third set of map tiles included in the first set of map tiles but not included in the second set of map tiles. For each map tile in the third set of map tiles, the mapping application generates a replacement map tile comprising geospatial data. The mapping application renders the portion of the 3D map based on the second set of map tiles and the set of replacement map tiles.

A system can include a voxel database and the set of applications. The voxel database can include a set of voxel indexed records, wherein the voxel database manages a volumetric storage space corresponding to a real-world volumetric space, where units of real-world volumetric space and data specific to these units map to voxels and attributes of voxel indexed records. Each of the applications can include a user interface that renders a volumetric simulation space that corresponds to the volumetric storage space. Geospatial data for the simulation space can include visual attributes used to render a graphical user interface representation of the simulation space, where these visual attributes are acquired from the voxel database. The applications can have different geospatial formatting and content needs from each other, yet the content needs of each of the applications can be supported by the voxel database.

The invention provides an ontology-driven geographic information retrieval system and an ontology-driven geographic information retrieval method, and a corresponding geographic space event ontology library and a construction method thereof. By utilizing an ontology to describe relationships among semantics, timing sequence, space and other aspect of a geographic space event, the technical problems of geographic space event ontology construction, ontology space relationship and semantics relationship inference and ontology-based intelligent retrieval and user-based personalized geographic service are solved; and an ontology-driven geographic space event information retrieval mechanism is established and a corresponding search engine is created, so automatic search, on-demand filtering, intelligent organization and personalized display of the geographic space event information are realized.

The invention discloses a space-time information visualizing method based on a geographic information space system. The method specifically comprises the steps of creating a document type scene management method and an object tree page element management mechanism, namely constructing a two-dimension and three-dimension integrated render engine; packaging the two-dimension and three-dimension integrated render engine into a control layer to be embedded into a WPF main window and other four steps. According to the method, the two-dimension and three-dimension integrated visual representation method is adopted, the ability to representing multi-dimensional geographic space information elements is realized, and fascinating simulation scenes with powerful functions can be established quickly.

A system and method are disclosed for managing a network of sensors (100). A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a sensor (102) belonging to the network of sensors operating in a geographic space having a controller (210) that manages a sensing device (204). The controller can be programmed to locate (302) itself in the geographic space, and assign (304) itself according to its location a zone within a portion of the geographic space and a corresponding data range for storing sensed information. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

The claimed invention relates to a system and method for generating actionable intelligence and information by utilizing a multi-sensor, multi-temporal; multi-spatial, multi-format data (mSTSFA) architecture stored in a NoSQL data architecture to qualify spatial (accuracy) and contextual information integrated into a real time Engineering Grade location based analysis and predictive analytics engine returning users based queries in a 3D visualization including Virtual Reality (VR) / Augmented Reality functionality. The present invention is a systemized platform for handling geospatial, geophysical, financial, temporal and attribute data input directly to analyze the datasets to serve the operational and business needs of the industries such as transportation, water, environmental, engineering, telecommunication, finance, energy, natural resources, defense and security.

The present invention provides a system and method to geospatially and temporally predict a propagation event. The present invention for a plurality of predetermined locations, geospatially models the connections between each location. For each predetermined location, the invention temporally models the connections within each predetermined location. The present invention also pairs the geospatially modeling with the temporal modeling to generate a prediction of the spread of the propagation event.

Systems and methods are provided for managing real estate investments. A commercial real estate investment management system may be implemented in a software or application. Tools may be provided that may aid in managing the commercial real estate investments. In some embodiments, tools or features may include a live offering memo, geospatial touring, and / or side by side scenario comparison.