STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a collaboration with Wood Mackenzie, a provider of research and consultancy to the energy and metals industries, to combine scientific and commercial information into Geofacets. This enhancement to Geofacets brings together the collection of geological maps and information sourced from Elsevier's peer reviewed earth sciences journals with high level commercial information from Wood Mackenzie, improving the customer experience and benefits of the Geofacets product.
Geofacets is a web-based database of georeferenced geological maps that integrates seamlessly with the workflow of geoscientists who are working in upstream exploration. Its intuitive design lets users search via keyword or map interface, and allows users to refine results via the geo-based search facets: map type, surface area and geological basins. With maps sourced from Elsevier's market-leading earth science journal collection, and map overlays that now include summary commercial information from Wood Mackenzie, Geofacets delivers insights as geoscientists gather information to assess a geological basin's characteristics, as well as its potential prospect or play for oil and gas resources.
Geofacets' maps are georeferenced and indexed according to geological basins, enabling users to quickly find maps associated with specific basins and countries, and letting users easily import maps into GIS software. Wood Mackenzie's commercial information such as success rates and fiscal regime information will be accessible through visual map overlays that users can switch on as they view maps within Geofacets. This further enhances Geofacets' over 125,000 geological maps sourced from more than 40,000 articles in Elsevier's earth sciences journals.
The product offers web-based access to georeferenced maps and the trusted geologic content embedded in Elsevier's journal articles. It allows geoscientists to search and view results geographically via an interactive geological map; search textually for relevant content by keyword, geographic location, author, etc.; use the advanced search to build complex query strings or conduct more target searches; view detailed information about individual maps; refine results according to map type, map surface area coverage, geographic location, keyword, author, etc.; access the full-text journal articles or copy-protected read-only PDF; and download relevant content as georeferenced maps (GeoTIFF and KML) and other image formats (JPEG and TIFF).
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