SEATTLE, Wash., – Dec. 12, 2005 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today the company’s MrSID Generation 3 image compression format (MG3) is supported in ESRI’s ArcPad 7, making it even easier to view high quality geospatial raster imagery on handheld devices.

“Customers who store their imagery on their local network and use it in the field will benefit significantly from the integration of MG3 with ArcPad,” said Jon Skiffington, product manager at LizardTech. “In the past, customers had their imagery stored in MG3‘s lossless format for easy manipulation later, but in order to use the imagery in ArcPad, the imagery would have to be converted to MG2‘s lossy format. Now these users will be able to use MG3 imagery out in the field without spending valuable time converting back to older lossy formats.”

ArcPad provides field-based personnel with the ability to capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display geographic information. Now with the MG3 implementation, ArcPad users can take advantage of GeoExpress’ image compression functionality to quickly repurpose an image for use on a handheld device. The ability to reproject and compress the images at differing compression ratios within the same mosaic is a significant advantage over any other geospatial image compression format. This feature will enable broader use of the imagery by remote field users and first responders in areas where remote access to geospatial imagery is critical.

“The benefits of the integration of MG3 with ArcPad are significant,” said Tom Patterson, Deputy Fire Management Officer at BLM. “Right away I noticed a substantial performance increase, what used to take 5-7 seconds to refresh an image in MG2 now takes a staggering 2 seconds in MG3! In addition to saving a lot of time, I can now crop and do multi-resolution mosaicking which allows us to easily combine aerial photos from different resolutions into one file.”

Additionally, the integration of MrSID with ArcPad benefits the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) image users. The flexibility and functionality that MG3 provides particularly for those using NAIP imagery are significant. With NAIP’s compressed county image mosaics being delivered in MG3 format, customers no longer have to double up their data by converting to MG2to use it in ArcPad.

Another LizardTech product, Express Server, has also been recently integrated with ESRI’s ArcIMS. With ArcPad supporting MG3, users can keep their imagery in one place and in one format, and access it over the web in ArcIMS, locally via ArcMap, and remotely using ArcPad.

About ESRI

Founded in 1969, ESRI (www.esri.com) is the world leader in the GIS software industry. ESRI offers innovative solutions that help users create, manage, analyze, and display information to make timely decisions and solve problems they encounter every day. ESRI’s comprehensive product line ranges from desktop GIS to GIS for the enterprise.

About GeoExpress with MrSID

GeoExpress offers the benefits of both MrSID technology and ISO standard JPEG 2000 without any compromise in image quality. GeoExpress provides lossless encoding, which preserves images with pixel-for-pixel fidelity in a compressed format easily reusable in downstream applications.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

Exact Digital Replicas of NAPCO’s Magazines Now Available Online Thanks to LizardTech’s DjVu^® Document Format

SEATTLE, Wash. – November 16, 2005 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, teamed up with technology partner Realview to transform NAPCO’s hard copy magazines into digital replicas online thanks to LizardTech’s DjVu document format and Realview’s Online Publishing Solution.

With LizardTech’s groundbreaking DjVu technology, originally developed in AT&T Research Labs, readers of magazines such as Printing Impressions, BookTech, E-Gear and other NAPCO print publications will now be able to receive digital replicas of their favorite magazine, with the same layout as the print edition, featuring all the editorial content, colorful images and advertisements. In addition, the digital edition of the magazines will include hyperlinks to Web sites mentioned throughout the magazine giving readers immediate access to additional advertiser offers and information, the latest news and more.

“The Internet has groomed many people to a standard of immediate access to fresh information-a standard that the long lead times and distribution make it increasingly difficult for print publications to meet. That’s why we’re excited to fulfill NAPCO’s desire to provide digital replicas of their magazines to their readers,” said Carlos Domingo, CEO and president of Celartem, Inc. “As the cost of print production and distribution continue to climb, DjVu stands out as the most efficient and cost effective solution for delivering exact digital replicas of print publications such as newspapers and magazines to readers.”

“We are delighted to work with LizardTech and Realview and believe that this cutting-edge digital publication solution will further enhance our products and services for our 300,000 subscribers and 20,000 advertisers,” said Ned Borowsky, president of NAPCO. “As NAPCO’s subscriber base continues to achieve rapid growth, we needed a solution that would enable us to reduce our production and distribution costs without compromising the quality of our magazines. The LizardTech and Realview publishing solution allows us to deliver our publications to our subscribers electronically with all the same characteristics as its printed counterpart.”

The benefits of using LizardTech’s DjVu technology are significant. Publishers are able to convert their current print issues to DjVu format from pre-press PDFs as well as by scanning past print issues, resulting in dramatically small file sizes – anywhere from 10 to 100 times smaller than alternative formats like PDF or JPEG. DjVu digital replicas preserve the stunning visual quality of the print edition and are enhanced with multimedia features like ability to search by keyword within the pages (even within scanned documents thanks to OCR support for over 100 languages), hyperlinks, e-mail addresses, page spills and more. In addition, unlike HTML and online content, distribution of most digital editions can be counted as audited circulation, increasing the publication’s ability to expand its reach nationally or internationally, thereby boosting advertising revenue.

All 14 NAPCO-published magazines will become available in digital form by early 2006. Subscribers to NAPCO’s magazines will receive digital magazines via email each month. Learn more about Document Express with DjVu here. Download the free DjVu Browser Plug-in here.

About North American Publishing Company

North American Publishing Company (NAPCO) was established in 1958. NAPCO successfully operates magazines, trade shows, directories and online services for the various markets it serves. Currently, the company operates 14 magazines, five subscription services and two trade shows and employs over 150 people. Corporate headquarters are located in Philadelphia. Sales personnel are located in New York, Chicago and throughout the country.

About Realview Technologies

Realview Technologies is a market leading document and imaging company founded more than seven years ago to develop and sell technology that enables digital distribution of publications and printed assets.

The Realview Online Publishing Solution (ROPS) allows effortless organization and online publishing of paper assets such as comics, newspapers and magazines. A subscription module provides secure, auditable access to digitized paper assets and the publications are fully searchable with Realview’s indexing technologies. Realview Technologies is located in Sydney, Australia and has a growing network of partners around the world.

About Document Express with DjVu

Document Express with DjVu products combine advanced compression algorithms with sophisticated image segmentation technologies, enabling the rapid exchange and efficient archiving of complex color documents and optical character recognition (OCR) in more than a hundred languages, all without compromise to image quality or text legibility. The core technology underlying DjVu, developed in AT&T Research Labs, is in open source. The Document Express Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to integrate DjVu encoding and decoding functionality into their applications and enables organizations to integrate the DjVu technology directly into their document management workflow.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

SEATTLE, Wash. – Nov. 9, 2005 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content today announced that the company has signed a reseller agreement with Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd., Chicago-based geospatial information technology company, to serve as the distributor of GeoExpress with MrSID and Express Server.

“We are long-time users of LizardTech products and are extremely excited about the opportunity to represent LizardTech as a reseller. These are products that we believe in,” said Miki Ferenczy, President, Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd.

“Our customers are looking to work with LizardTech partners that have substantial capabilities in GIS development, imagery services and other geospatial data services,” said Terry Ryan, Channel Manager, LizardTech. “LizardTech is excited to add Pangaea’s experience and reputation to our growing network of authorized resellers.”

GeoExpress offers the benefits of both the industry-standard MrSID image compression format and ISO standard JPEG 2000 format without any compromise in image quality. GeoExpress delivers lossless image encoding, which preserves images with pixel-for-pixel fidelity in a compressed format easily reusable in downstream applications.

About Pangaea

Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd. is a leading provider of geo-spatial information system development, modeling and management services to the public and private sectors since 1995. Pangaea’s services include geographic information system design and implementation, geo-spatial modeling, remote sensing, systems integration, strategic planning, biosurveillance, database development, and customized application development. Pangaea brings a global perspective to the coordination and development of a variety of projects ranging from small scale highly specialized local projects to large-scale international multi-disciplinary projects. For additional information about Pangaea, visit www.pangaeatech.com.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

SEATTLE, Wash. – October 26, 2005 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., has signed an agreement with MicroImages Inc. in order for TNTmips users to save images directly to MrSID compression format.

Under the terms of the agreement, existing and new TNTmips customers are able to purchase a software cartridge that will give them compression capability at a reduced price compared to the cost of full licences of GeoExpress. With this arrangement, users can complete complex image processing processes and output to MrSID format all in one program. This is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris.

Using the MrSID image format means that organizations are able to share with those that natively read this format all of their imagery within a vast range of software. The efficient compression of the MrSID image format makes it easier and more cost effective to distribute massive geospatial imagery.

About Microlmages

Microlmages’ geospatial analysis products are in use in almost every nation in all popular operating systems and in 27 languages. Detailed information about the TNT products for individual or enterprise use can be found at www.microimages.com.

About GeoExpress with MrSID

GeoExpress offers the benefits of both MrSID technology and ISO standard JPEG 2000 without any compromise in image quality. GeoExpress provides lossless encoding, which preserves images with pixel-for-pixel fidelity in a compressed format easily reusable in downstream applications.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

Digital Replicas of Seattle Weekly Now Available Online Thanks to LizardTech’s DjVu^®Document Format

SEATTLE, Wash. – September 28, 2005 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content today announced its DjVu technology was chosen by Seattle Weekly for delivering exact digital replicas of its hard copy edition. The digital replica edition will give local readers who prefer to read the newspaper online the opportunity to enjoy Seattle Weekly in a digital form, whether they are visiting relatives in Pasco, WA, or off on a trip in Paris.

Copies of Seattle Weekly will now be available in digital replicas thanks to LizardTech’s groundbreaking DjVu technology, originally developed in AT&T Research Labs. Seattle Weeklyreaders will now be able to receive digital replicas of the weekly news and entertainment paper, with the same layout as the print edition featuring all the editorial content, colorful images, advertisements and classifieds. In addition, the digital edition of the newspaper will feature hyperlinks to other Web sites giving readers immediate access to additional advertiser offers and information, event details and more.

“Seattle Weekly was looking for an alternative to a hard copy version of their newspaper and we are thrilled that they selected our DjVu technology as the best solution for efficiently delivering digital replicas of the magazine to their readers,” said Carlos Domingo, CEO and president of Celartem, Inc.

“This partnership between Seattle Weekly and LizardTech to produce a digital replica electronic edition provides our readers an excellent opportunity to see, touch and feel the regular hard copy edition, even when the hard copy is not available. It’s advantageous for readers and advertisers alike so we are excited to make it available,” said Seattle Weekly Publisher Terry Coe.

Seattle Weekly Digital Edition is now available via a link from Seattle Weekly’s current Web sitehttp://www.seattleweekly.com. Learn more about Document Express with DjVu here. Download the free DjVu Browser Plug-in here.

LizardTech’s DjVu technology was most recently chosen by The New Yorker magazine to capture and compress 80 years of issues on just eight DVDs in a collection titled “The Complete New Yorker.” The project consisted of processing more than half a million color scans, which resulted in highly compressed files that have far better image quality than JPEG.

About Seattle Weekly

Seattle Weekly is the largest weekly newspaper in the Northwest and the predominant alternative to the JOA daily papers in Seattle. Founded in 1976, Seattle Weekly and seattleweekly.com, serve up fiercely independent coverage of Seattle politics, urban issues, and arts and entertainment, with prize-winning reporting and writing, and provocative cultural commentary. Seattle Weekly reaches over 460,000 readers and is distributed locally through 2,600 distribution outlets. Seattle Weekly is part of the Village Voice Media group of alternative newsweeklies including Village Voice (New York), LA Weekly (Los Angeles), City Pages (Minneapolis), OC Weekly (Orange County, CA) and Nashville Scene (Nashville).

About Document Express with DjVu

Document Express with DjVu products combine advanced compression algorithms with sophisticated image segmentation technologies, enabling the rapid exchange and efficient archiving of complex color documents and optical character recognition (OCR) in more than a hundred languages, all without compromise to image quality or text legibility. The core technology underlying DjVu, developed in AT&T Research Labs, is in open source. The Document Express Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to integrate DjVu encoding and decoding functionality into their applications and enables organizations to integrate the DjVu technology directly into their document management workflow.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

LizardTech’s DjVu^® Document Format Provides Technology Solution for Converting More than 4,000 Issues into Electronic Format.

SEATTLE, Wash. – September 20, 2005 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content today announced DjVu technology was chosen by The New Yorker magazine to capture and compress 80 years of issues on just eight DVDs. The project consisted of processing more than half a million color scans, which resulted in highly compressed files that have far better image quality than JPEG.

Thanks to LizardTech’s groundbreaking DjVu technology, which was developed in AT&T Research Labs, more than 4,000 New Yorker Magazine issues are available in a collection of eight DVDs titled “The Complete New Yorker.” The issues, which had been electronically scanned, were processed into LizardTech’s DjVu file format, resulting in dramatically smaller electronic page images. DjVu digital replicas preserve the stunning visual quality of the print edition. The pages are read in The New Yorker’s custom-made page viewer, which incorporates LizardTech’s patented decoder software.

“We’re thrilled that The New Yorker magazine saw our DjVu technology as the best solution for efficiently delivering more than 80 years of captivating stories, cartoons, and stunning images to those who are so fond of the magazine,” said Carlos Domingo, CEO and president of Celartem, Inc. “Articles by the finest writers of the 20th century and the countless unforgettable cartoons in their original visual context of the printed version will be treasured by lovers of literature around the world.”

“After extensive research, the only compression software we found that retained the beauty of The New Yorker’s illustrations, cartoons, and covers without distortion was the DjVu technology. In particular, the DjVu technology brilliantly compresses text without any loss of quality at greatly reduced file sizes. We could not have had even close to the product we have without LizardTech’s technology,” said The New Yorker’s Edward Klaris.

The “Complete New Yorker” is immediately available for a suggested retail price of $100 in stores nationwide. Learn more about Document Express with DjVu here. Download the free DjVu Browser Plug-in here.

About The New Yorker

The New Yorker’s blend of reporting, commentary, fiction, and cartoons has garnered 36 National Magazine Awards, more than any other publication. Founded in 1925, The New Yorker has a paid circulation of 1,054,167 and, at 84.3 per cent, the highest renewal rate in the industry. The magazine is edited by Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick, and its companion website iswww.newyorker.com. The New Yorker celebrates its 80th year in 2005 with the publication of “The Complete New Yorker,” a compendium of every issue in the magazine’s history collected on eight DVD’s, available in September.

About Document Express with DjVu

Document Express with DjVu products combine advanced compression algorithms with sophisticated image segmentation technologies, enabling the rapid exchange and efficient archiving of complex color documents and optical character recognition (OCR) in more than a hundred languages, all without compromise to image quality or text legibility. The core technology underlying DjVu, developed in AT&T Research Labs, is in open source. The Document Express Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to integrate DjVu encoding and decoding functionality into their applications and enables organizations to integrate the DjVu technology directly into their document management workflow.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

onOne Software purchases popular line of productivity enhancement products for Photoshop and QuarkXPress.

PORTLAND, Ore. – July 28, 2005 - Celartem, Inc. and its company brands – Extensis and LizardTech – today announced the sale of its popular Photoshop Plug-ins and QuarkXPress XTensions to independent software developer, onOne Software. Products included in this purchase are pxl SmartScale, PhotoFrame, Intellihance Pro, Mask Pro, PhotoTools, and QX-Tools Pro from Extensis and the Genuine Fractals product from LizardTech. Extensis and LizardTech will continue to support these products until July 31, 2005 when onOne Software will take control of all aforementioned titles.

Celartem, Inc. is selling these products to refine its existing product lines focusing on digital content management and distribution – GeoExpress, Document Express, Portfolio, Font Reserve and Suitcase.

“In an effort to focus on better servicing our millions of individual and corporate customers who rely on our font and digital content management products to drive their mission critical workflows, we have determined our add-on products are a better fit for a company committed to this market,” said Carlos Domingo, Celartem, Inc. CEO. “As onOne is comprised of several former Extensis employees, we cannot think of a better home for this product line.”

“onOne Software is excited to acquire these products and we are committed to continue to serve the loyal customer base of professional photographers and creative professionals,” said Craig Keudell, President of onOne Software. “We see these tools as an invaluable solution in the creative process to make our customers’ lives easier and offer additional functionality in the parent applications.”

For more information on onOne Software go to http://www.ononesoftware.com/

About onOne Software

onOne Software provides valuable solutions to professionals and enthusiasts in the professional photography and graphic design industries. Solutions include a wide range of plug-in enhancements for Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress. Founded in 2005, onOne Software is a privately held company located in Portland, Oregon. For additional information, visithttp://www.ononesoftware.com/ or call 1-800-968-1468.

About Extensis

Extensis, a brand of Celartem, Inc., is the world’s leading provider of software solutions that empower digital asset creators and users. Extensis’ award-winning products are used by hundreds of Fortune 5000 companies and include Suitcase and Font Reserve for font management, and Portfolio for asset management. Extensis was founded in 1993 and is based in Portland, Oregon, and the United Kingdom. Celartem, Inc. is wholly owned by Celartem Technology Inc., (Hercules: 4330). For additional information, visit http://www.extensis.com or call 1-800-796-9798.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.

GeoExpress SDK Offers Unlimited Encoding Capabilities to Both MrSID^® and JPEG 2000

SEATTLE, Wash. – June 14, 2005 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions that make it significantly easier to manage and distribute digital content such as aerial photography, satellite imagery and scanned color documents, today announced the release of GeoExpress 5.0 SDK. This latest release of the SDK offers unlimited encoding capabilities to both MrSID and JPEG 2000 and exposes functionality contained in the GeoExpress 5.0 standalone product including JPEG 2000 encoding, NPJE/EPJE profiles, support for WKT-based spatial reference system metadata, and area of interest encoding of imagery to MrSID Generation 3 (MG3) as well as JPEG 2000.

With direct access to both JPEG 2000 and MrSID unlimited encoding, users will realize a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for storage and delivery of massive imagery, as well as have the opportunity to create complimentary GIS imagery products by leveraging functionality previously limited to the GeoExpress standalone product.

“We feel that providing programmatic access to unlimited encoding and associated image management tools is a natural extension of LizardTech’s already robust GeoExpress platform of products,” said Dan Sarlitto, LizardTech’s senior product manager for Geospatial products. Sarlitto added, “There are thousands of LizardTech customers who have benefited from our innovation in efficient wavelet-based image compression over the years, now there will be thousands more in the developer community who can benefit from GeoExpress 5.0 SDK.”

GeoExpress SDK is the industry’s only encoding solution that offers the benefits of both MrSID technology and ISO standard JPEG 2000 without any compromise in the quality of imagery and without requiring developers to change their applications, production processes or hardware configurations. Furthermore, LizardTech’s SDK and associated plug-in viewers are available in a variety of options and can be downloaded directly from LizardTech’s Web site here.

About LizardTech

Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.