Zoom » Jon Skiffington http://www.lizardtech.com/blog A starting point for geospatial insight Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:48:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A thought about storage and compression http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2011/a-thought-about-storage-and-compression/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2011/a-thought-about-storage-and-compression/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:37:29 +0000 Jon Skiffington http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2011/a-thought-about-storage-and-compression/ I saw this post from Gizmodo about a potential hard drive shortage and it got me thinking. Everyone talks about storage being cheap, but when you consider how much storage has to be purchased for imagery, not to mention the associated backup, power, and management cost, it adds up to more money than people think. [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2011/a-thought-about-storage-and-compression/feed/ 0 MrSID Generation 4 gains support http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/mrsid-generation-4-gains-support/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/mrsid-generation-4-gains-support/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:07:28 +0000 Jon Skiffington http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/mrsid-generation-4-gains-support/ We’re pretty excited. Last week we announced that version 11.01 of Global Mapper supports LizardTech™ MrSID™ Generation 4 (MG4) among its many supported elevation formats. Mapmakers who use Global Mapper will now benefit from being able to load point clouds compressed using LizardTech Lidar Compressor™ into Global Mapper. Earlier this week we were able to [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/mrsid-generation-4-gains-support/feed/ 2 Calling all lizard collectors! http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/calling-all-lizard-collectors/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/calling-all-lizard-collectors/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:59:04 +0000 Jon Skiffington http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/calling-all-lizard-collectors/ I’ve been at LizardTech for almost five years now, and one thing that has always been (pleasingly) surprising to me is how much people like the plastic lizards we include with our software and give away at events. These little guys have been all over the world, and are so popular that we order them [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/thanks-for-the-feedback/feed/ 0 Exploring the new features in GeoExpress 7 – Part 2 : Tiling out to GeoTIFF http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/exploring-the-new-features-in-geoexpress-7-part-2-tiling-out-to-geotiff/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/exploring-the-new-features-in-geoexpress-7-part-2-tiling-out-to-geotiff/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:31:50 +0000 Jon Skiffington http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/exploring-the-new-features-in-geoexpress-7-part-2-tiling-out-to-geotiff/ Last time, we talked about despeckling. Another popular workflow with GeoExpress 7 uses two new features: output tiling and decoding. Lots of customers have massive SID images that they need to chop up into smaller tiles and decode out to TIFF. In prior versions of GeoExpress, you could use a series of command line tools [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/exploring-the-new-features-in-geoexpress-7-part-2-tiling-out-to-geotiff/feed/ 0 LizardTech product updates feed goes live http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/lizardtech-product-updates-feed-goes-live/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/lizardtech-product-updates-feed-goes-live/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:58:20 +0000 Jon Skiffington http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/lizardtech-product-updates-feed-goes-live/ Many customers have requested an easy way to be notified when updates to LizardTech products are available. Today we launch a new RSS feed specifically for product updates at http://www.lizardtech.com/files/rss/updates.xml. By subscribing, you’ll know when patches and new versions of LizardTech software are available. You can view all of LizardTech’s RSS feeds at http://www.lizardtech.com/company/rss.php. Also, [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/lizardtech-product-updates-feed-goes-live/feed/ 0 Exploring the new features in GeoExpress 7 – Pt. 1: Despeckling http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/exploring-the-new-features-in-geoexpress-7-pt-1-despeckling/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/exploring-the-new-features-in-geoexpress-7-pt-1-despeckling/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:13:11 +0000 Jon Skiffington http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/exploring-the-new-features-in-geoexpress-7-pt-1-despeckling/ Most of you are probably already using GeoExpress 7. We’ve received some rave reviews from some of you about the new features we added, so we thought this might be a good time to introduce and explain how to use some of the great new tools in GeoExpress 7. If you’ve ever received imagery from [...]

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