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 Company > Quarterly Newsletter - January 2009
LizardTales Newsletter - January 2009
In This Issue
From The Management Team As we start a new year, it's a great time to look back at the previous one to reflect upon the past. Last January we released GeoExpress 7.0, the latest version of our flagship product which added support for integrating with LizardTech Express Server, a new "despeckling" tool that eliminates unsightly compression artifacts, 64-bit support, cropping by shapefile, and much more. We've been pleased by the reaction from our customers; nearly everyone has found the upgrade to offer some great benefits that make their day-to-day job easier. Further, we released version 6.1 of our Express Server product. This upgrade was specifically targeted towards our Defense and Intelligence customers, and included support for serving NITF files and streaming JPEG 2000 via JPIP. Customers have reported they're very happy with this functionality, as well as with our improved integration with ArcGIS Server. We base our product roadmap on input from customers like you. One of the most effective ways we do this is by our yearly customer satisfaction survey. Be on the lookout for the next survey in February. We've taken your input in past years to add functionality to our products, and this year will be no different. Check back often to see what new products we'll be releasing in the coming year.
Geospatial - From the Product Manager
While LizardTech always focuses on making sure that our products are of the highest quality, occasionally bugs do make it into our released software. Luckily, we have a great Engineering team that hunts these bugs down and fixes them with extreme prejudice. Last December, we released patches for both GeoExpress and Express Server. Our Engineering team really went above and beyond the call of duty this time, however, as not only did they fix some outstanding bugs but also were able to add some new features at the same time! GeoExpress 7.0.2 fixed some issues with image quality when compressing multispectral JPEG 2000 images, but also added support for CADRG files and for some advanced metadata editing via our command line tool. Express Server 6.1.1 improved our ArcGIS integration and added support for Google Earth's projection system and compressed PNGs for images served via WMS. Be sure to subscribe to LizardTech's product updates RSS feed at http://www.lizardtech.com/files/rss/updates.xml and visit our knowledge base and forums at http://www.lizardtech.com/support/kb/ to keep up to date on all of our new releases and fixes. Jon Skiffington
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Fun Discoveries
* If you don't have GeoExpress 7 yet, download a free trial.
Special Promotion Now through March 31, 2009 purchase GeoExpress Level 1 or higher and receive a FREE copy of GeoExpress Tools. (SAVE $1,500!). Please contact our sales representative for more details.
Upcoming Webinars We're offering free informative Webinars covering our line of geospatial products. Register today so you can explore the powerful features in LizardTech's Express Suite™ line of geospatial image products - GeoExpress for compression and manipulation, Spatial Express for storage, and Express Server for high-performance delivery and publication - focusing on the benefits these products bring to the managing, storage and distribution of geospatial imagery. Participants will discover how LizardTech's software tools can individually benefit them in their workflow, as well as how all three Express Suite products work together as a complete package. Following are the details for the upcoming webinars:
If you have questions about this seminar e-mail us at info@lizardtech.com.
Case Studies and Customer Wins The State of New Jersey's 2007 orthoimagery is now available for download from the New Jersey Geographic Information Network's newly designed NJ Information Warehouse, which uses LizardTech's Express Server to serve all compressed orthoimagery layers. The imagery is available in both MrSID format (compressed 8-bit, 3-band, RGB natural color, 5000' by 5000' tiles) and JPEG 2000 format (compressed 8-bit, 4-band RGB plus infrared, 5000' by 5000' tiles). The site looks great and is easy to use, and we're pretty proud of the way Express Server performs on it. You can add the WMS layer of New Jersey's 2007 orthoimagery into any application supporting WMS by entering the following URL: http://njwebmap.state.nj.us/njorthos Here is a partial list of recently added clients to our ever expanding customer base: United States
Canada
Mexico
EMEA
Reseller News LizardTech has recently signed a reseller agreement with CADD Centers of Florida, Inc. to serve as a distributor of the LizardTech Express Suite consisting of GeoExpress, Express Server and Spatial Express. We are very excited to welcome CADD Centers of Florida to our ever expanding network of resellers!
Tips and Tricks
Tip:
You can use the command line utilities to batch process your images. No matter what features you require the command line tool, mrsidgeoencoder, has them all and enables batch processing to go very quickly without much intervention.
Tip:
You can edit the metadata of your MrSID files, including the projection information, coordinates, dynamic range and more without re-encoding the image. To do this, follow these steps:
Hot Tips? Do you have tips that you want to share? Send them to suggestions@lizardtech.com and we might publish your tip in the next issue of LizardTales.
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