STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Geofacets, a search and discovery tool which delivers relevant content from Elsevier's market-leading earth sciences journals. Geofacets will help geoscientists in the oil and gas industry spend less time searching and formatting content and more time on analysis and interpretation to identify and characterise potential sources of hydrocarbon resources.
The tool offers direct desktop access to reliable georeferenced maps and the geologic content embedded in Elsevier's journal articles. It allows geoscientists to search geographically via an interactive map; search textually for relevant content by keyword, geographic location, author, etc.; and view results geographically. The tool helps refine a large number of search results, enabling the user to sort the results according to map type, geographic location, keyword, author, etc. Users can also download relevant content as georeferenced maps (GeoTIFF) and other image formats (JPEG or TIFF), facilitating easy integration with the geoscientist's workflow and software. Additionally, geoscientists can access the full-text article, which provides contextual information that leads to better analysis and interpretation.
Geofacets satisfies the geoscientist's heavy reliance on maps and geographically relevant data in the early stages of exploration by automatically pulling in all of the georeferenced maps and content related to specific geographic areas of interest or subject matter. Nearly half of the maps are georeferenced and indexed according to geologic basins, enabling geoscientists to use the unique geographic search interface to quickly find maps associated with specific basins and countries.
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