Patent ID: 8572133

Claim:
A system for identifying a selected target in a geographic model comprising: a database configured to electronically store a geographic model, a plurality of different target model types with respective model-type metadata associated therewith, and a plurality of different unique targets with unique target metadata associated therewith; and a processor configured to accept selection of a target in the geographic model and to cooperate with said database to determine a proposed type-match based on image analysis techniques between the selected target in the geographic model, with selected target metadata associated with the selected target, and one of the plurality of different target model types stored in said database based upon the selected target metadata and the model-type metadata, generate updated selected target metadata based upon confirmation of the proposed type-match, and determine a proposed unique target-match based on image analysis techniques between the selected target and one of the plurality of different unique targets based upon confirmation of the proposed type-match and based upon the updated selected target metadata and the unique target metadata.