NetOwl Extractor
Smart Geocoding
NetOwl Extractor’s “Smart Geocoding” capabilities support intelligent exploitation of geo-codable information found in text. Smart Geocoding combined with NetOwl’s rich semantic ontology provides unprecedented capabilities to expand the range of geospatial analysis. Smart Geocoding’s main features are:
Accuracy
- Automatically assigns latitude/longitude values to geo-codable entities extracted by NetOwl
- Intelligently performs location name resolution for ambiguous names like “Springfield” and “Alexandria”; it does this through a combination of advanced natural language processing and geospatial calculation
- Handles relative location phrases (e.g., “a town 10 km northwest of Paris”)
- Converts MGRS coordinates to latitude/longitude values
- Supports English and foreign languages
Flexibility
- Outputs a confidence ranking for each possible geocoding candidate
- Includes NGA and USGS gazetteers along with the ability to incorporate their updates
- Provides interface for easy integration with other gazetteers
Ease of Use
- Supports Web Services
- Offers pre-integrated search and geospatial analysis solutions with Google Earth™ mapping service and ESRI® tools
Advanced Features
- Provides unique capabilities – thanks to its advanced link and event extraction – to geocode people, organizations, artifacts, and events in addition to place names. For example, the user can find:
- Locations where a certain person visited
- Locations where certain events occurred