NG911 & Public-Safety GIS Data QA
Address-point and street-centerline validation, deduplication, and data-readiness audits aligned to TIPS and NENA standards — the unglamorous work that determines whether NG911 data routes calls correctly.
Novel methods for the geospatial work government runs on.
GIS data quality, NG911 readiness, geospatial analytics, and automation for state, county, and municipal agencies — and the prime contractors who serve them. Founder-led, research-grade, and built to be audited.
What we do
Services
Six practice areas, each deliverable as a fixed-scope engagement or as subconsultant support on a larger program. Every engagement is scoped in writing, with reproducible methods and documented deliverables.
Utility GIS & Asset Management
Esri platform migrations, asset-management-plan (AMP) support, field data-collection apps, and standard operating procedures that leave utility staff able to run their own GIS after we leave.
Geospatial Data Engineering & Database Management
Enterprise geodatabases, schema design and revision, ETL pipelines, and Python automation that turn fragile, hand-maintained datasets into documented, repeatable systems.
Statistical Modeling, Forecasting & Analytics
Spatial statistics, demand, energy, and tourism forecasting, and decision-support analytics — production-grade models with stated uncertainty, not black boxes.
Remote Sensing & UAS
Aerial imagery and LiDAR processing — photogrammetry, feature extraction, and change analysis from drone and aircraft data. FAA Part 107 certified; flight operations are quoted per engagement with aviation liability coverage in place.
Training & Curriculum
GIS and Python workshops, NG911 data training, and SOP-based staff enablement, designed and taught by the firm's principal, with seven years of teaching experience.
See the work
Live Sandbox
Live demonstrations — simulated data, real methods. Three of our core workflows, running entirely in your browser: the same validation checks, record-matching logic, and forecast discipline we apply on engagements, exercised on synthetic data so you can watch them work.
NG911 Data QA, Live
Address points validate against street centerlines in a continuous cycle — duplicates merge, outliers snap to the road, names align, and boundary-seam cases are queued for review.
0Points checked
0Issues found
0Resolved
0.0%Error rate
Valid
Duplicate
Spatial outlier
Name mismatch
Boundary seam
Live demonstration — simulated data, real methods.
Database Resolution
Messy records arrive from disconnected systems — typos, abbreviations, missing fields — and are matched, merged, and promoted to a single golden record per entity.
0Records in
0Unique entities
0Duplicates resolved
—Avg. match confidence
Incoming records
Golden records
Live demonstration — simulated data, real methods.
Forecasting Horizons
A synthetic daily series, re-issued live: as each new observation lands, the forecast recomputes — and the uncertainty band widens honestly with horizon.
Actual
Forecast
Uncertainty
—MAE
—MAPE
Live demonstration — simulated data, real methods.
Track record
Past Performance
NovelGeo is a new firm built on its founder's established record. The work below is the founder's own — performed in production, consulting, and research roles — and it is the basis of every capability we propose.
NG911 Spatial QA Program
A full-county audit of NG911 addressing data — address points and street centerlines checked for name, range, duplicate, and boundary-seam errors — with findings and methods accepted for presentation at a state GIS conference (October 2026). The audit's honest, reproducible methodology is the template for NovelGeo's readiness engagements.
Statewide Electricity Load Forecasting
Production forecasting operations for a state grid operator, supporting statewide electricity load forecasts used in real grid operations — forecasting as an operational discipline, with verification against outcomes.
Energy Forecasting Consulting
Senior consulting engagement in energy forecasting (2023), applying statistical modeling to utility and market planning questions.
Research-Platform Database Management
Database management for a multi-institution research platform (2022), including schema design and revision — the hands-on foundation of NovelGeo's data-engineering practice.
Geospatial Platform — 300+ Customers
Founder-built geospatial software platform serving more than 300 agricultural customers — end-to-end product design, data pipelines, and delivery, run as a business rather than a prototype.
The difference
Why NovelGeo
Small by design. The firm you evaluate is the firm that does the work.
Founder-led delivery
Every engagement is led by the principal — a PhD geographer and atmospheric scientist with seven years of teaching experience. No handoffs to junior staff, no account-manager layer between you and the work.
Reproducible methods
Every analysis we deliver can be rerun end-to-end from declared inputs — fixed seeds, documented dependencies, one-command reproduction. If a number is in our report, you can regenerate it.
Auditable honesty
Our flagship NG911 work is known for disclosing what its own methods could and could not prove. We report the figure the data supports — including when that figure is less flattering than the easy one.
Certified field capability
FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot, with photogrammetry and LiDAR consulting experience — data collection and processing under one accountable specialist.
Small-business responsiveness
Direct communication with the principal, fast scoping, and fixed-scope pricing in writing. Decisions are made in days, not committee cycles.
Tennessee-based, nationwide reach
Headquartered in the Knoxville metropolitan area (Blount County), Tennessee — inside the region whose agencies we know best — with remote delivery available anywhere in the United States.
For procurement officers
NAICS & Product Service Codes
NovelGeo Technologies, LLC is a Tennessee small business. Core classifications:
NAICS Codes
- 541370Surveying & Mapping (except Geophysical) Services — Primary
- 541512Computer Systems Design Services
- 541511Custom Computer Programming Services
- 541611Administrative & General Management Consulting
- 541690Other Scientific & Technical Consulting Services
- 518210Computing Infrastructure & Data Processing Services
- 611430Professional & Management Development Training
Product Service Codes (PSC)
- D302IT & Telecom — Systems Development
- D307IT & Telecom — IT Strategy & Architecture
- D311IT & Telecom — Data Conversion
- B506Special Study / Analysis — Data (Other than Scientific)
- R405Support — Professional: Operations Research / Quantitative Analysis
- U008Education / Training — Training / Curriculum Development
- U012Education / Training — Information Technology
Federal and Tennessee vendor registrations are in preparation; W-9 and capability statement are available on request. NovelGeo carries — or will bind prior to award — general liability and professional liability (E&O) coverage appropriate to each engagement's requirements. NovelGeo does not perform licensed land surveying or professional-engineering-stamped work; where a project requires them, we team with licensed firms.
For prime contractors
Teaming & Subconsulting
NovelGeo is built to plug into larger teams: NG911 and public-safety GIS quality assurance, geospatial data engineering, database work, and remote-sensing task orders are our natural slices of statewide and multi-year programs. We bring a named specialist, a documented methodology, and past performance that strengthens a proposal's technical volume — without competing for your prime seat. If you hold or are chasing on-call geospatial, NG911, or data-services work in Tennessee or nationally, we would like to be in your subconsultant file.
Federal and Tennessee vendor registrations in preparation; W-9 and capability statement available on request.
Get in touch
Contact
Nicholas J. Sokol, PhD
Principal
Email: nickjsokol@gmail.com
Location: Knoxville metropolitan area (Blount County), Tennessee
Capability statement: Download (PDF)
Agencies, emergency communications districts, utilities, and prime contractors: the fastest route is email or the form — every inquiry is answered by the principal personally.