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ESRI’S ARCGIS Now Supports LizardTech’s Lossless MrSID
July 7th, 2003 – San Diego ( LizardTech, Booth#1943 ) – Expanding on the market acceptance of LizardTech’s lossless MrSID® technology, LizardTech has announced today viewing support for MrSID Generation 3 (MG3) into ESRI’s ArcGIS product line. ESRI ArcGIS users now can take advantage of MrSID lossless and advanced lossy images in their ArcGIS applications for feature classification, military applications or other mission critical imaging uses.
Incorporated into the recently released GeoExpress with MrSID version 3.0, lossless MrSID technology preserves images with pixel-for-pixel fidelity in a greatly compressed format, easily reusable in future applications. Once in lossless format, MrSID imagery can be repurposed for fast and easy distribution at any compression ratio.
“We are pleased to extend our long-term relationship with LizardTech,” said Rich Turner, senior product manager – ArcGIS, ESRI. ”This integration ensures ESRI ArcGIS users now have access to view their existing MrSID imagery and also take advantage of the great improvements in LizardTech’s MrSID Generation 3 technology.”
“ESRI users from ArcView 3 to ArcGIS can now dramatically improve their imaging capabilities with our next-generation MrSID technology in GeoExpress,” said Karen Morley, Vice President of geospatial imaging at LizardTech. ’GeoExpress will not only allow users to encode into advanced lossless and lossy MrSID formats, but they can also use other recent workflow enhancements in ArcGIS such as the ability to mosaic individual MrSID tiles or create localized updates on existing MrSID mosaics. We look forward to working closely with ESRI to further extend the value their customers obtain from their high resolution raster imagery.”
ESRI Product Support
ESRI’s ArcGIS 8.3 platform supports the latest lossless format and all previous versions of MrSID and is immediately available via a downloadable file from the ESRI Website. ESRI ArcGIS releases will incorporate native viewing for both MrSID Generation 2 and Generation 3 image formats. The MrSID download for ArcView 3.x may be obtained at LizardTech’s Download section.
Lossless Encoding Increases Image Accuracy
Lossless MrSID is wavelet-based imaging technology that dramatically increases the value of geospatial data by making it more accessible and useful while maintaining the highest level of quality and accuracy.Lossless technology maintains numeric pixel fidelity between original and encoded imagery, enabling geospatial imagery to be used in new applications, on more devices and across more networks.In addition, it provides significant reductions in the cost of storing, sharing and using geospatial information.
Automatic Mosaicking Saves Image Creation Time
In addition to the lossless data capability, advanced mosaicking features included in GeoExpress allow users to easily create a single mosaic automatically from multiple sources. In an industry-first, organizations that update imagery, such as governments, data providers and civil engineering firms, will be able to update existing MrSID mosaics without re-encoding. They will also be able to mosaic existing tiled MrSID images into a seamless MrSID mosaic, automatically.Together, these benefits will save time and reduce storage needs.
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.
