210 results about "Geocoding" patented technology

A geocoding component generates geographic coordinate information, such as latitude and longitude values, for postal addresses. A table includes a number of rows, each corresponding to one or more addresses. The geocoding component can quickly locate a particular row in the table based on a number of input address identifiers as the intersection of the sets rows that correspond to each of the address terms. The geocoding component may operate on addresses that are received by the geocoding component or extracted from documents.

A system and method of providing multiple participants with a centrally accessible content portal for geographic point of interest (POI) data, for subsequent use in creating map-based or spatial applications. Different entities can dynamically upload, update, retrieve, and use digital map and POI data. Additional features include the ability to handle the large amounts of POI data needed by multiple Application Developers, including data that is dynamic, or frequently changing; the ability to update POI attribute information and deliver it to the Application Developers; the ability to associate multiple points of entry (POE) with a POI, and to aggregate data from multiple Content Providers; and the use of a common geocoding engine and common digital map reference across all Content Providers, which ensures the consistency of the geocoding throughout all the POI data.

An image registration method and apparatus for automatically registering images of different perspectives, and where a sensor image is registered with a more precise reference image such that the geocoding of the reference image can be transferred to the sensor image.

A method and system for providing geocodes in response to complete or partial address information is disclosed. The disclosure teaches embodiments that are naturally upgraded to integrate changing spatial information due to addition of countries, better data, political changes, and other similar changes in geographical data. A single geocoding engine is capable of handling the various address formats in use in different countries and jurisdictions. The disclosed embodiments are error tolerant and capable of overcoming many errors due to spelling, variety of languages and formats used to provide and address. The diversity in addresses due to, for instance country-specific formats such as postal-codes are naturally integrated into existing database of geocoding information. Preferably, the embodiments are based on JAVA to allow platform independence and use XML based communication to use networks without requiring excessive resources while providing fast services.

The invention relates to the field of geodetic survey based on remote sensing images, in particular to a method for monitoring roadbed subsidence of express way by an InSAR, which comprises the following steps of: firstly, preprocessing, rectifying and interfering SAR data to obtain an InSAR interfered phase and amplitude image; secondly, carrying out flat earth effect, orographic effect and track residual trend phase elimination on the InSAR interfered phase to obtain a phase value only including surface deformation information; thirdly, recognizing positions and coordinates of strips of the express way in the SAR image by strip characteristics of the express way in the InSAR amplitude image; fourthly, extracting the phase value of the corresponding position in the interfered phase image by using the coordinates, and restoring a real phase value by adopting a filtering and unwrapping algorithm of a strip characteristic target; and fifthly, carrying out geocoding and deformation value transformation on the real phase value to obtain a roadbed subsidence value of the express way. The method has the advantages of simple implementation, low expense, high monitoring precision, large monitoring range, high automation degree and the like.

A system for accessing geographical data residing in a plurality of disparate data sets and determining spatial relationships between geographic locations specified in the disparate data sets, the system comprising: an accessing component for accessing geographical data residing in a plurality of disparate data sets; a registration component for establishing spatial registration between the geographical data residing in the disparate data sets; and a geospatial analysis engine for determining spatial relationships between geographic locations specified in the disparate data sets.

The present invention provides a technique for building natural language parsers by implementing a country and / or jurisdiction specific set of training data that is automatically converted during a build phase to a respective predictive model, i.e., an automated country specific natural language parser. The predictive model can be used without the training data to quantify any input address. This model may be included as part of a larger Geographic Information System (GIS) data-set or as a stand alone quantifier. The build phase may also be run on demand and the resultant predictive model kept in temporary storage for immediate use.

A method and system for providing geocodes in response to complete or partial address information is disclosed. The disclosure teaches embodiments that are naturally upgraded to integrate changing spatial information due to addition of countries, better data, political changes, and other similar changes in geographical data. A single geocoding engine is capable of handling the various address formats in use in different countries and jurisdictions. The disclosed embodiments are error tolerant and capable of overcoming many errors due to spelling, variety of languages and formats used to provide and address. The diversity in addresses due to, for instance country-specific formats such as postal-codes are naturally integrated into existing database of geocoding information. Preferably, the embodiments are based on JAVA to allow platform independence and use XML based communication to use networks without requiring excessive resources while providing fast services.

The invention relates to the city safety management field and concretely discloses a crime scene reduction method based on video map and augmented reality, and the method comprises the steps as follows: based on the space position information, building the coordinate city video monitoring network to obtain the video including the position information, correlating the video monitoring device with the data server; when the video target appears, obtaining the geography coordinate value of the video target in different frames of the city video monitoring network for forming the movement track of the video target; projecting the video and the video target on the electric map for forming the three-dimensional city video map; according to the real scenes of the video and video target on the city video map, building the virtual object, fusing the virtual object with the real scenes of city video map; displaying the augmented reality information to the user, having interaction with the user and changing the enhanced information. The video map is fused with the augmented reality technology, so that the crime scene can be displayed intuitively and realistically for offering effective basis for investigation.

The invention discloses a radar remote sensing-based detection method of soil alkalization, comprising the following steps: computing the polarization parameter based on full polarimetric SAR data, dividing bare areas and vegetation-covered areas and generating images with masks; delimiting test areas and adopting measuring data to establish a dielectric model of moist salt soil; adopting the full polarimetric SAR data to invert a complex permittivity map and carrying out RD geocoding, data information separation and conversion; based on the dielectric model and the complex permittivity, adopting the genetic algorithm for inversion to obtain moisture contents and salt contents of areas, and integrating geographic coordinate information and a vegetation cover mask map to generate a moisture content map and a salt content map; adopting the complex permittivity and the moisture contents of areas to differentiate saline soil from alkali soil. By adopting the technical proposal of the invention, the moisture content and the salt content of the soil in saline areas can be obtained, the degree of dependence on ground assistant data is reduced and simultaneously the dielectric behavior of the moist salt soil can be better depicted.

A computer guided geocoded route service sales and deliveries method and apparatus optimizing geomarketing, financial and sales, and improved logistics along delivery routes using operator transmitters / receivers inputs of route information in one mode, which receive and display to the operator in another mode computer generated pricing, sales, financial and marketing information, optimal routes, and other related information concerning each customer and distribution point of interest along a route, which are displayed or not, to the operator as he / she reaches the particular latitude and longitude of a point of interest enforcing the operator to act as it is indicated.

Embodiments of the invention provide access to a user's profile information to a location based service, location enable user profile information in external databases, portals, etc., and allow the seamless / transparent provision of location services using both internal and external profile information. A compact definition of a schema of an external database (that comprises a user's profile information) is stored. Data source information that describes how to connect and communicate with the external database and a structured query language (SQL) statement is stored, wherein the statement, upon execution, extracts properties from the external database corresponding to the compact definition. A foreign key identifies a record in the external database and positional information for the record in the external database is stored as a geocoding index. The stored information is then used to provide access to the user's profile information.

A cyber-physical vehicle management system may allow for highly reliable and authentic identity management of cyber-physical systems, unforgeable legal interception devices, and robust relay nodes. A cyber-physical vehicle management system may also provide for human and object bi-directional authenticity verification. In some cases, a cyber physical management system may enable a cyber physical vehicle (CPV) detection and intervention system which may be capable or detection, identification, capture, seizure, and immobilization of CPVs. In some embodiments the CPV detection and intervention system includes a geocoding laser subsystem for determining a location of a CPV.

The invention relates to a surface deformation inversion method based on a time sequence InSAR technology. The surface deformation inversion method comprises the following steps of geocoding and imageregistration, differential interference pair generation, PS point selection, space-time unwrapping and error separation. Specifically, on the basis of an image registration mode, coarse registrationand fine registration are adopted, and the registration precision requirement in a TOPS imaging mode is guaranteed; for an atmospheric delay error, the layered atmosphere and the floating atmosphere are respectively processed by using different algorithms, so that influence of the atmospheric error is weakened to the greatest extent, and the deformation inversion precision is improved; and if GNSSdata is provided, atmospheric delay can be corrected by utilizing the observation data, and meanwhile, joint adjustment is carried out by taking the observation data as a constraint condition in an InSAR observation equation, so that the precision and reliability of a deformation result are ensured, and all-weather, large-area, continuous and high-spatial-resolution surface deformation monitoringis realized.

A method and system for parsing of input addresses for further automated processing. A relevant locale for an input address is determined. Based on the locale, an applicable parsing tree is provided so that different address formats can be tested against the input address. The parsing tree is generated from a local address format specification that defines permissible formats for the locale. The local address format specification and the local address component rules are provided to a parsing engine to determine one or more potential parsed addresses based on compliance with specifications. The local address component rules specification is applied to the input address to determine one or more branches of the parsing tree for which the input address matches criteria of the component rules specification. Penalties may be assigned to branches of the tree when disfavored matches occur. The various branches can be ranked based on their penalties to determine the best matches to be provided to the geocoding system.

The invention relates to a geographical-position related hash virtual geocoding method and a system. The geographical-position related hash virtual geocoding method comprises the following steps of: diving the earth surface space repeatedly by adopting a region quadtree method based on the uniform division of a spherical surface; establishing indexes based on the hash plaintext coding for a terrain block and a scene block; indexing the user incarnation by adopting the hash plaintext virtual geocoding in the virtual world; and storing the indexes based on the hash plaintext coding of all data into a data index database based on the hash plaintext coding according to the division layer. According to the method, a set of space dividing and indexing mechanism is established and abstracted into a mathematical model, the space dividing and indexing mechanism can be expanded to be used for the real world division and the three-dimensional earth division, and the space dividing and indexing mechanism can be used as a core index data structure in a system to map various objects in the virtual world. Due to the hash plaintext virtual geocoding, the user incarnation and various element models in the three-dimensional earth scene can be indexed, and the relative positions of objects in the virtual world and the real world can be unified.

The invention discloses an intelligent diagnosis method of radio and television equipment based on spatial rule index, comprising the following steps of: 1) carrying out uniform geocoding to the radio and television users and equipment, establishing superior and inferior spatial association rule of radio and television users and equipment, carrying out rule classification to the faults of equipment and constructing fault rule base and a fault diagnosis GIS application system; 2) using a fault repairing engine to carry out fault repairing of the radio and television users and completing automatic warehousing of fault repairing information; 3) carrying out data preprocessing to the fault repairing information and extracting fault knowledge; 4) querying an analyzer by the spatial graphic attribute, searching the spatial information of the radio and television users and the fault equipment and completing the spatial positioning of the fault users; 5) extracting the superior and inferior spatial relation, searching fault source equipment, analyzing fault causes and determining the damaging range of fault based on the spatial rule index, and extracting diagnosis. The intelligent diagnosis method has important and practical application value in the field of resource management of radio and television equipment and has wider application prospect.

The invention relates to a method and a device for address location. The method comprises: according to a first text address input by a user, performing geocoding in a geocoding database to obtain longitude and latitude information of the first text address; according to the latitude information of the first text address, from a point of interest (POI) database, matching to obtain at least a reference POI, the distance between the reference POI and the first text address being in a first threshold, wherein the POI data base comprises reference POIs and longitude and latitude information of the reference POIs; using the at least a reference POI to generate a verification question and displaying the question; according to a verification question feedback result of the user, verifying whether the longitude and latitude information of the first text address is correct, and performing address location according to the verification result. The method and the device for address location can improve accuracy of address location.

The invention discloses a geocoding method and a geocoding system based on smart city. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring geographic data information, area of responsibility information, area division information and part type information, and storing the acquired information in corresponding databases; reading the area of responsibility information, the area division information and the part type information by a relational database management system and a spatial data engine, and showing the information on a GIS (Geographical Information System) platform; selecting a query part type and a query area or an address query, and calling a GIS service platform and a geocoding subsystem service to complete corresponding request results. According to the invention, the geocoding adopts a mature ArcGIS platform, which has advanced, safe and steady technology, powerful functions and high scalability.

A method and system are provided for determining the geographic locations of events in a linear referencing system (LRS), such as a LRS for the Department of Transportation. The method and system utilize similarities between a LRS and the postal addressing system used in the United States. A LRS event geocoding database and schema are created from portions of the postal addressing system schema and geographic information system (GIS) schema. LRS data is encoded as postal address data as defined in the postal addressing system. The LRS data and GIS data are conflated to populate the LRS event geocoding database using similar transformation logic as for current postal address geocoding. The geographic location of a given LRS event is generated using geocoding software that utilizes the linear measure implicit in the LRS event identifier and the LRS event geocoding database.

The invention relates to the field of monitoring systems, in particular to a digital city management system. The system fully utilizes the existing network resources, public security and city management video monitoring resources, and the like to establish a unified digital city management platform, thereby obtaining an integrated management platform capable of integrating geocoding, video monitoring and GPS positioning into a whole and integrating inspection, treatment and supervision into a whole. Thus, hardware, software, geocoding, population information, house information, operating main body information and the like are centrally constructed on the city-level platform, and the street (village and town) secondary control center, relevant leaders and relevant departments are connected to the platform through the government intranet; and the secondary control center mainly constructs large monitoring screens, computer terminals, mobile phones for city management, installation or access of video monitor signals, vehicle-mounted GPS and the like according to the self demands.

The invention provides a geocoding method for spaceborne SAR images based on conversion of satellite topocentric coordinates. A relation of six coordinate systems among the satellite topocentric coordinates is used, and an observation visual angle (an intermediate variable) is skillfully used for finishing the high-precision rapid geocoding of the spaceborne SAR images on the premise of needing no iterative operation. Most of the traditional geocoding methods for the spaceborne SAR images need iterative operation, have low processing efficiency, affected positioning precision due to approximation processing in the operation, in particular has satellite velocity error which is the greatest factor affecting the precision of the traditional geocoding results of the spaceborne SAR images. The method of the invention is not affected by the satellite velocity error, when the ephemeris parameters are not very good, the positioning precision of the method is rather better than that of the traditional positioning method, thus the method is more applicable to the actual engineering application. The method is a brand-new positioning method of the spaceborne SAR images, and has great significance in realizing the rapid and high-precision geocoding of the spaceborne SAR images.

An enhanced disposition monitoring module may be provided in a plurality of computing devices (e.g., a handheld computing device, a remote server, etc.) to receive, transmit, maintain, and / or analyze disposition and related information that may be associated with geocoded information (e.g., a street address). The enhanced disposition monitoring module may generate a report based on the analysis of the information, including for example, reports showing performance of salespeople and sales in particular neighborhoods. Moreover, the collected information may be analyzed and the resulting data models may be licensed to third-party entities.

An enhanced geocoding module may be used to determine various physical addresses located on the same street. The enhanced geocoding module may create a grid around a predetermined location and request the physical addresses of various coordinate points located on the grid. Additional features of the module may include a display that displays the grid with physical addresses located on the same street, various statistics related to a user of the enhanced geocoding module, and a color-coded scheme that indicates the status of individuals / groups located at the physical addresses.

A geocoding method including receiving input location information (212) for a particular location, decomposing (210) and purifying (220) the input information before decomposing (230) the information, and generating (240) multiple candidate locations based on components of the decomposed information, and then normalizing the candidate locations before comparing the candidate locations with information in a location information database.

The invention relates to an organizational management method for a multi-version unstructured model. The method comprises the steps that (1), the unstructured model is preprocessed; (2), whether partition is carried out according to partitioned data is judged; (3), if partition is carried out according to the partitioned data, partition is carried out according to the partitioned data, and if not, partition is carried out according to a grid; (4), an LOD data structure is constructed; (5), geocoding is carried out on keywords, and grid indexing and hybrid indexing of a quadtree are carried out; (6), a feature image is generated; (7), the unstructured model is classified; (8), a multidate data set and a multiscale data set are constructed; (9), data of the unstructured model are updated and managed; (10), multi-version management is carried out on the unstructured model. Compared with the prior art, the unstructured model is rapidly preprocessed, a continuous LOD data structural model is constructed, through organizational management of the multidate data set and the multiscale data set, the unstructured model is rapidly called, a multi-version data set is constructed through a multi-version data set construction dissemination method, the distribution type version management method is adopted to manage data of various versions, and the actual needs of different users are met.

An embodiment of the invention discloses an address correction method and device. A to-be-corrected address is received, geocoding is performed, and if geocoding fails, the following steps are performed: word segmentation is performed on the to-be-corrected address, and address fragments are obtained; the address fragments are matched with POIs (points of internet) in a POI database; if the matching succeeds, candidate POIs with the frequency larger than or equal to a preset frequency threshold value are obtained; a target POI is determined from the selected candidate POIs according to road information of the to-be-corrected address, the frequency of the selected candidate POIs and position information of the candidate POIs; the to-be-corrected address is corrected according to the target POI. Thus, the POIs in the POI database are all obtained through collection in field in advance, the candidate POIs with higher frequency are more common POIs, therefore, the accuracy of correction of the to-be-corrected address according to the determined target POI is higher, and the accuracy of correction to the to-be-corrected address is improved.

A method and system for parsing of input addresses for further automated processing. A relevant locale for an input address is determined. Based on the locale, an applicable parsing tree is provided so that different address formats can be tested against the input address. The parsing tree is generated from a local address format specification that defines permissible formats for the locale. The local address format specification and the local address component rules are provided to a parsing engine to determine one or more potential parsed addresses based on compliance with specifications. The local address component rules specification is applied to the input address to determine one or more branches of the parsing tree for which the input address matches criteria of the component rules specification. Penalties may be assigned to branches of the tree when disfavored matches occur. The various branches can be ranked based on their penalties to determine the best matches to be provided to the geocoding system.