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LizardTech Joins Forces with Three Canadian Resellers to Serve the Needs of the Growing Canadian Geomatics Market
SEATTLE, Wash., January 26, 2004 – LizardTech, Inc., a worldwide leader in software solutions that make it significantly easier to manage, distribute and access complex digital content such as aerial photography, satellite images and color image documents, today announced three new authorized resellers in Canada. Pacific Alliance Technologies in Vancouver, BC, Global GeoScience in Dundas, ON and Digital Environmental Inc. in Saskatoon, SK have recently joined the LizardTech partner program as authorized resellers.
“We have observed a continual expansion of the Canadian geomatics market and use of our products. The addition of authorized LizardTech resellers in Canada enables us to expand our reach into this market by partnering with organizations that are already providing end users with GIS products and services,” said Brian Soliday, Vice President, Geospatial Sales, Americas for LizardTech. ”LizardTech is dedicated to building a Canadian reseller channel to provide exceptional local service and support to both our current and future joint customers.”
Pacific Alliance Technologies, Inc. is a product and service provider focused on developing and implementing innovative and collaborative solutions for the engineering, architectural, infrastructure and natural resource industries. “The ability to leverage LizardTech’s industry leading products into our customer base is a tremendous advantage for Pacific Alliance Technologies. Our customers want us to provide them with best of breed solutions, so this strategic partnership supports these efforts and meets the customers’ requirements,” said Chris Webber, president of Pacific Alliance Technologies. www.pat.ca
Global GeoScience offers high-resolution satellite imagery to customers in a wide variety of industries, including transportation, municipal planning, forestry, mining and facility management. “Even with a significant decrease in digital data storage costs, end users are still demanding tools to better manage and distribute large complex files, such as satellite imagery,” said Stephen Wallace, president of Global GeoScience. www.gisrs.com
Digital Environmental specializes in the use of earth observation data derived from satellites and airborne sensors to measure, map and monitor the environment and offers a broad range of services from remote sensing, GIS and environment assessment services. “Remote sensing data is a key element in most of the services we provide and Digital Environmental and its customers make extensive use of LandSat, IRS, IKONOS and RadarSat imagery,” said Jim Finnigan, president of Digital Environmental. “The key to effective use of these type of data is to provide end users with the ability to utilize them across the enterprise. Our strategic relationship with LizardTech gives us the ability to deliver leading edge tools to meet these requirements.www.digitalenvironmental.ca
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.
