New Plug-in Enables Use of Spatial Express Imagery in ArcMap

SEATTLE, Wash. – November 14, 2006 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced the release of the ArcMap Plug-in for Spatial Express, an add-on to ESRI’s ArcMap application. LizardTech’s Spatial Express enables storage of MrSID and JPEG 2000 images natively in Oracle^®Spatial 10g, an option to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.

Until now, LizardTech’s customers, who widely used ArcMap, were not able to add raster imagery stored with Spatial Express in an Oracle Spatial database to ArcMap projects because ArcMap did not support Oracle’s GeoRaster methodology. However, with the release of the ArcMap Plug-in for Spatial Express, customers can now use their non-GeoRaster applications with Spatial Express.

Since Spatial Express adds the capability to store MrSID and JPEG 2000 imagery natively in Oracle Spatial, customers can use the applications with which they are most familiar while saving 95 percent of the storage space required for their imagery on their database and preserving the ability to easily query by coordinates and other spatial criteria.

“LizardTech’s goal is to build tools that allow customers to use their applications of choice with Spatial Express,” said Jon Skiffington, LizardTech product manager. “Many of our customers use ArcMap, but were not able to use it with Spatial Express. Now our customers can easily work with imagery stored using Spatial Express in their ArcMap projects.”

Spatial Express customers can download the free ArcMap Plug-in for Spatial Express now from LizardTech’s new Spatial Express web page. This page also provides access to the latest updates and other key product information.

LizardTech is exhibiting this week at the GEOINT 2006 Symposium in Orlando, FL. Stop by booth #941 where information will be available about LizardTech’s complete line of geospatial products.

About Spatial Express

LizardTech Spatial Express enables storage of MrSID^® and JPEG 2000 images natively in Oracle Spatial. Spatial Express helps organizations maximize their investment in Oracle Spatial 10g by enabling dramatic reductions of up to 95 percent for raster image storage. Spatial Express also enables organizations to lower costs and keep all raster, vector, and business information in a common Oracle Database. Further, because LizardTech’s Spatial Express uses Oracle GeoRaster interface, MrSID^® and JPEG 2000 images can be viewed in any GeoRaster-enabled application, easing training, deployment, and support costs.

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. – Oct. 19, 2006 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced that the company has signed a reseller agreement with GIS Dynamics, a Cincinnati-based geospatial information technology company, to serve as the distributor of GeoExpress, Express Server and Spatial Express.

“Over the last few years we have seen an increase in demand for the quick delivery of imagery. LizardTech easily satisfies this demand not only for our internal staff but our clients as well. We are very excited about working with LizardTech for many years to come,” said Grant Gibson, President, GIS Dynamics.

“In addition to LizardTech’s technology for storing and serving massive geospatial imagery, our customers have requested services such as integration and customization,” said Kelly Downs, Sales Manager, LizardTech. “We’re confident that GIS Dynamics will be able to provide services that empower LizardTech’s technology and add value to the customer’s imagery assets.”

LizardTech’s line of geospatial software products enables an efficient workflow for high-volume, high-resolution image management. LizardTech products include: GeoExpress for compression and manipulation; Spatial Express for storage; and Express Server for high-performance delivery and publication.

• GeoExpress preserves pixel-for-pixel image fidelity through 2:1 lossless and 20:1 visually lossless compression to either MrSID^® or ISO standard JPEG 2000 format. Massive geospatial imagery is more manageable and network friendly, making it possible to distribute enormous image files on any platform, over any connection speed in a lossless format. GeoExpress also provides valuable image manipulation tools such as reprojection, color balancing and area of interest encoding.
• Express Server enables instant online viewing of massive geospatial imagery over any device by optimizing output from existing hardware. Express Server ensures interoperability through features such as support for JPEG 2000 and OpenGIS^® WMS publishing and the ArcIMS integration toolkit.
• Spatial Express helps organizations maximize return on their investment in Oracle Database by enabling storage of MrSID and JPEG 2000 images natively in Oracle Spatial 10g. Spatial Express reduces storage space requirements for raster images by as much as 95 percent, enabling organizations to lower costs and keep all raster, vector and business information in a common Oracle Database. Additionally, Spatial Express uses the Oracle GeoRaster interface. This allows MrSID and JPEG 2000 images to be viewed in any GeoRaster-enabled application, reducing training, deployment and support costs.

About GIS Dynamics

Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, GIS Dynamics is an international geographic information systems company founded to provide clients with cutting edge GIS solutions that produce results. GIS Dynamics provides an array of services that include GIS project consulting and support, mapping, web-based GIS, spatial data modeling, analysis, geodatabases, and GPS solutions.

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.

New Release Comes Equipped with Advanced Color Balancing and GMLJP2 Support

SEATTLE, Wash., – Aug. 7, 2006- LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, today announced the release of GeoExpress 6.1 at the 2006 Annual ESRI International User Conference held at the San Diego Convention Center. This updated version comes equipped with non-uniform color balancing, geography markup language (GML) for JPEG 2000 (JP2) support and enables users to easily load imagery directly into Oracle Spatial via the GeoExpress graphical user interface (GUI).

Known for taking imagery beyond compression with a robust suite of image editing and manipulation tools such as multi-resolution mosaicking and image reprojection, GeoExpress now offers non-uniform color balancing for even quicker and easier distribution of raster imagery. As part of the current workflow, automatic or manual adjustments for color balancing allow customers to control brightness, contrast and histograms for each color band within an image. In mosaics of tiled images, in addition to applying corrections uniformly across a tile, GeoExpress 6.1 adds the option to make non-uniform corrections within tiles such as for tilt and vignetting.

Additionally, GeoExpress 6.1 allows GML metadata to be added to JPEG 2000 imagery in conformity to the new Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GMLJP2 standard. “This is an exciting update for our customers,” said Jon Skiffington, product manager, “because prior to the adoption of GMLJP2, the lack of a geospatial metadata standard meant that applications and viewers may not have been able to read geospatial metadata in a JPEG 2000 file. The expanded use of GMLJP2 will help advance the adoption and interoperability of JPEG 2000 as a geospatial image format.”

Another key feature of GeoExpress 6.1 is its integration with LizardTech’s Spatial Express application. Customers are able to optimize their investment in their Oracle^® Spatial 10g, an option to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, by storing raster imagery natively in MrSID^® and JPEG 2000 formats. Spatial Express allows users to reduce the storage space used for raster imagery by up to 95 percent while retaining visually lossless image quality. In addition, they can now select an Oracle database and table to output to directly from within the GeoExpress GUI, making it easier than ever to load MrSID and JPEG 2000 imagery into Oracle Spatial. Thanks to LizardTech’s industry-standard MrSID geospatial image compression format and the ISO standard JPEG 2000 format, customers can store, manage, and access images that are hundreds of gigabytes in size more efficiently from within their Oracle database.

The GeoExpress 6.1 product family consists of an Unlimited Edition that includes the Tools suite and unlimited image compression functionality; a Standard Edition that includes the Tools suite as well as an allotment for image compression; and a Tools Edition for a low cost, powerful edit-only application where image compression is not required. A license server is also available which permits the management of “floating” GeoExpress licenses for distribution among team members who periodically need access to the software.

Pricing and Availability

GeoExpress 6.1 is available for download and purchase now. The price breakdown is as follows:

• GeoExpress 6.1 Unlimited starts at a suggested retail price of $7,900.
• GeoExpress 6.1 Standard Edition starts at a suggested retail price of $2,900.
• GeoExpress 6.1 Tools starts at a suggested retail price of $1,500.

Visit us at the 2006 Annual ESRI International User Conference in booth number 511 for a demo of GeoExpress 6.1 and learn more about this latest announcement.

For more information about the latest features or to learn where to purchase GeoExpress 6.1 visit the GeoExpress Homepage.

About GeoExpress

GeoExpress offers the benefits of both MrSID technology and ISO standard JPEG 2000 without any compromise in image quality. In addition to lossless encoding, which preserves images with pixel-for-pixel fidelity in a compressed format easily reusable in downstream applications, GeoExpress provides valuable image manipulation tools such as reprojection, non-uniform color balancing and area of interest encoding.

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.

Company Presents a Workshop and Two Papers

SEATTLE, Wash., – July 19, 2006 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today that Michael P. Gerlek, manager of LizardTech’s engineering department, and Jon Skiffington, product manager, will conduct presentations in conjunction with GeoWeb 2006, to be held July 24-28, 2006, at the Morris J. Wosk Center in Vancouver, British Columbia.

On Monday, July 24 from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Gerlek will focus on Geography Markup Language (GML) and JPEG 2000 (JP2) by conducting a half-day workshop titled “The GML and JPEG 2000 Connection,” and on Wednesday, July 26 from 2:45-3:15 p.m. in room APH he will present a paper titled “Bringing JPEG 2000 into the GeoWeb.” Gerlek will focus on three areas in which JP2 is being tuned for use in GIS workflows: making the format “spatially aware” by embedding GML in it, extending the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Web Coverage Service (WCS) to support JP2, and storing JP2 data natively and efficiently in a spatial database.

Gerlek will also be on a panel titled “What is the GeoWeb” taking place on Wednesday, July 26 at 11:45 a.m. That same day from 1:35 – 2:05 p.m. in room 420 he will be presenting a paper titled“Introduction to OSGeo, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.” OSGeo is a new non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting open source software and resources for the geospatial community. One of the founding members of OSGeo, Gerlek will describe the foundation’s goals and current activities.

Skiffington’s paper presentation titled “Commercial Uses of GML, JPIP and WFS,” scheduled for Wednesday, July 26 from 2:10-2:40 p.m. in room 420, will cover some practical applications that can be built using many of the current emerging technologies such as GML, JPIP (JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol, or “streaming JPEG 2000″), and WFS (Web Feature Services) to build tools for basic mapping and location based services, and also provide insight into more advanced functionality that may be possible in the future such as advanced geospatial asset management, customization and delivery to a wide variety of wired and wireless devices.

The conference, organized by Galdos Systems Inc. and supported by the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA), is the only event focused exclusively on the convergence of GIS and the Web, which will enable rapid access to accurate and current information through open standards. LizardTech is a coffee break sponsor at the conference.

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.

Extensis and LizardTech announce new general managers while Celartem Inc. names CFO.

PORTLAND, Ore. and SEATTLE, Wash., – July 3, 2006 - Celartem Inc., today announced Carlos Domingo has transitioned from his role as President and CEO to Chairman of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Software brands, LizardTech and Extensis have operated as divisions of Celartem Inc. under Domingo’s direction since 2003 and 2005 respectively. The title and responsibility change for Domingo enables him to return to his native country of Spain while continuing his involvement in the company’s overall direction.

Brian Berson has assumed the role of general manager for Extensis while Jim White has taken over as general manager for LizardTech. Berson has been an executive member of the Extensis team for the past three years. He joined Extensis when the font management software company he founded – DiamondSoft – was acquired by Extensis in 2003. Jim White has been with LizardTech for the past eight years as VP of Product Research and Development. Prior to joining LizardTech, White was a team leader of an image processing group at the Los Alamos Laboratories where MrSID^® technology was invented.

“As I leave my day-to-day position to chair the Board of Directors, I am confident both companies are in good hands. The restructuring of the organization will better suit the needs of each business unit while maintaining the benefits of a collective finance and operations department,” said Carlos Domingo. “I am proud of the work that we’ve done collectively to strengthen the overall business model and establish new business partners during my time as CEO.”

Additionally, Celartem Inc. has hired Nahhe Nomie to serve as Chief Financial Officer. Nomie’s duties include overseeing finance and operations for both Extensis and LizardTech brands. Nomie has more than 12 years of experience in the financial market most recently working for DecisionPoint Software and Price Waterhouse LLC.

About Extensis

Extensis is a software developer that allows creative workgroups and professionals to streamline their workflow and secure their brand by efficiently and effectively managing their creative assets and fonts. Extensis’ award-winning client/server and desktop products are used by hundreds of Fortune 5000 companies and include Suitcase, Suitcase Fusion, and Font Reserve for font management and Portfolio for creative assets management. Extensis was founded in 1993 and is based in Portland, Oregon, and the United Kingdom. Extensis is a division of Celartem Inc., which is wholly owned by Celartem Technology Inc., (Hercules: 4330). For additional information, visithttp://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.

London, UK – June 15, 2006 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced that it will be one of the sponsors at the forthcoming Laser-Scan User and Partner Conference 2006.

Held at the Robinson Center in Cambridge, UK, from June 27th to June 29th 2006, the conference will examine the best ways of maximizing the return on investment made by organizations that purchase and use or reuse spatial data. Therefore the theme of the conference is ‘Spatial Data Supply Chain: Delivering ROI’. Presenting at the conference will be speakers from some of the geospatial industry’s biggest users and suppliers.

LizardTech’s compression and image manipulation tools are key software in spatial workflows within organizations around the world. With the recent release of Spatial Express, MrSID and JPEG 2000 files can be stored natively within an Oracle Spatial database. LizardTech increases the value of large images and image data sets by making them more accessible to more people within and outside these organizations.

“Laser-Scan is expert in providing operational solutions to organizations with large or complex spatial databases. There is a great fit between what they and their partners do for companies and LizardTech’s compression and storage capabilities.” said Alistair Maclenan, manager of LizardTech EMEA.

Steven Ramage, product and marketing director at Laser-Scan added, “We are very pleased to add LizardTech as a sponsor for our 17th annual User and Partner Conference. Both organizations have invested in respective product capabilities for supporting de facto industry standard technologies such as Oracle Spatial. We are also both supporters of standards-based solutions developed collaboratively through the Open Geospatial Consortium. LizardTech’s participation complements a powerful line-up of industry sponsors for our event.”

About Laser-Scan

Laser-Scan delivers world-class, innovative business solutions for geographic information. Our technology is the result of over 35 years of experience in the development of market-leading database products. Laser-Scan offers a new approach to exploiting location data in enterprise information architectures.

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.

Department Realizes Increased Productivity as the Top Benefit

SEATTLE, Wash., – June 8, 2006 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced that the City of Rockville, Maryland, took advantage of the cutting-edge floating license option introduced with GeoExpress 6 to streamline license management and provide more flexible agency-wide access to GeoExpress’ powerful image processing and compression tools.

Initially, the City of Rockville purchased GeoExpress in order to reduce the file size of the city’s engineering drawings without sacrificing color or detail in a file that would transfer quickly and render properly in their legacy viewers. GeoExpress’ networked data cartridge made it possible for anyone in the organization to share the image processing workload; however, having a single license associated with a computer dedicated to processing tasks meant that employees had to move away from their own workspace, which proved inconvenient and time consuming.

The floating license option enables the city to install GeoExpress on the local workstation (client) of all employees who needed to perform image processing or compression, no matter how infrequently. The License Manager, installed optionally on any networked computer as part of the GeoExpress installation, acts as a server, distributing temporary licenses to other clients at the time of use, allowing multiple simultaneous users up to the number of workstation licenses purchased. When a user is finished using the software, the license associated with that client is “returned” to the License Manager and becomes available for the next client. The result is efficient license management and increased productivity through a streamlined image processing workflow.

“GeoExpress not only met our needs in terms of image quality, optimizing the use of our storage space, and compatibility with the tools we’re using,” said Marc Weinshenker, Rockville’s GIS manager. “It also allows us to run GeoExpress on a number of workstations throughout the agency using the new floating license. That represents a big improvement in flexibility and productivity for us.”

“Our goal with GeoExpress 6 was to make it easier for GIS professionals to utilize the software right from their workstation by introducing floating licenses that are shared throughout an organization,” said Jon Skiffington, LizardTech product manager. “The floating license option in GeoExpress 6 puts powerful image manipulation and compression tools at the fingertips of those who rely on them to efficiently perform their job.”

About City of Rockville, MD

Rockville, MD, located about 12 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., is the third largest city in Maryland, according to 2004 state population estimates. Rockville’s population increased by about 20 percent since the 2000 official U.S. Census (from the official total of 47,388 to the most recent estimate of 57,000). It is a suburban community that has gradually become more urban–while still proudly retaining its character as ‘big small town.’ The city’s newest planned communities are considered national models, and the first phase of its revitalized Town Center promises to be one of the most exciting mixes of residential and retail uses in the Maryland when it opens in 2007. Rockville is home to some of the world’s most influential technological and biological research companies, including the one that was the first to map the human genome.

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.

Spatial Express Supports JPEG 2000 and MrSID

SEATTLE, Wash., – April 24, 2006- LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, today announced the company’s further support of JPEG 2000 within its Spatial Express application which enables storage of MrSID and JPEG 2000 images natively in Oracle^® Spatial 10g, an option to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Oracle Spatial 10g provides a robust foundation for storing and retrieving geospatial data from Oracle Database 10g.

With Spatial Express, organizations can now maximize investment in Oracle Spatial 10g by storing geospatial raster imagery natively in both JPEG 2000 and MrSID formats dramatically reducing the storage space used for their raster imagery by up to 95 percent while retaining visually lossless image quality. Spatial Express also decreases the load on database servers by using the selective decoding of JPEG 2000 and MrSID, eliminating the need to decompress the entire image to view only a portion of it.

“The combination of LizardTech’s Spatial Express and Oracle Spatial 10g delivers a powerful foundation for customers with spatial data management needs,” said Steven Hagan, vice president, Oracle Server Technologies. “Through this partnership with Oracle, LizardTech’s customers will be able to leverage the benefits of a highly available, secure, and reliable database that can efficiently store and manage their massive raster imagery datasets.” Oracle Spatial 10g supports vector, raster and gridded geospatial data.

In addition, because Spatial Express uses the Oracle Spatial GeoRaster API, applications will be able to retrieve and view JPEG 2000 and MrSID imagery from Oracle Spatial 10g. Organizations no longer have to wonder whether their application will support various file formats becauseSpatial Express allows users to choose their image format and begin work.

“As a member of the geospatial community, LizardTech strives to continually improve our customer’s experience with our software through open standards,” said Carlos Domingo, CEO and president of Celartem, Inc. “With the addition of JPEG 2000 support in Spatial Express, all of LizardTech’s geospatial products now fully support the ISO standard for JPEG 2000. With the addition of other technologies and open standards such as GMLJP2 and WMS, LizardTech is continuing to embrace open geospatial standards and tools.” LizardTech is a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.

To see a full demo of LizardTech’s geospatial products, including Spatial Express, please visit us in Tampa, FL at GITA, booth #107 and in Reno, NV at ASPRS booth #423. We will also have a booth at the Oracle Spatial Users Conference in Tampa, FL.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of 16000 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle’s premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today’s global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle’s position as the world’s largest enterprise software company. http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com

About Spatial Express

LizardTech Spatial Express enables storage of MrSID^® and JPEG 2000 images natively in Oracle Spatial. Spatial Express helps organizations maximize their investment in Oracle Spatial 10g by enabling dramatic reductions of up to 95 percent for raster image storage. Spatial Express also enables organizations to lower costs and keep all raster, vector, and business information in a common Oracle Database. Further, because LizardTech’s Spatial Express uses Oracle GeoRaster interface, MrSID^® and JPEG 2000 images can be viewed in any GeoRaster-enabled application, easing training, deployment, and support costs. Learn more about LizardTech Spatial Express for Oracle 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.