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LizardTech Unveils MrSID® Software Developer Kit with JPEG 2000
Read and Write Access for JPEG 2000 enabled for Thousands of Applications Worldwide
Seattle, WA, May 3, 2004 – LizardTech, Inc., a leader in software solutions that make it significantly easier to manage, distribute and access digital content such as aerial photography, satellite imagery and scanned color documents, today announced the availability of the MrSID®Software Development Kit (SDK) 4.0 with JPEG 2000. This new SDK enables thousands of software developers to easily include JPEG 2000, as well as MrSID wavelet imagery, into their applications using a single SDK.
LizardTech’s MrSID wavelet image format has long been the de-facto standard in geospatial applications, and by extending the SDK to enable read and write access to JPEG 2000, LizardTech provides the broadest, most flexible access to high quality imaging tools for geospatial professionals. Industry leaders such as ESRI, Intergraph, Leica Geosystems and Autodesk, through existing partnerships with LizardTech, are now able to provide the most complete geospatial wavelet imaging tools to their customers.
“Leica Geosystems recognizes the power of LizardTech’s wavelet imaging tools for our customers and has partnered with them for several years to deliver their compression and decompression technologies embedded in our ERDAS IMAGINE software,” said Ian Anderson, Senior Product Manager, LGGM. “The introduction of the MrSID SDK 4.0 opens new possibilities for Leica Geosystems to offer its customers in accessing JPEG 2000 via ERDAS IMAGINE.”
LizardTech Extends MrSID Functionality to JPEG 2000
With the release of the new MrSID SDK 4.0 with JPEG 2000, LizardTech builds on its considerable experience to deliver cutting-edge wavelet technology to industry-leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) solution providers.
Endorsed for quality and accuracy by such US Federal Government Agencies as the United States Geological Society (USGS), MrSID is the first and only wavelet image format to be adopted as standard by nearly all Department of Defense agencies. Other wavelet formats on the market, such as ECW, which do not support lossless compression or post-compression manipulation, cannot be used natively in the most widely used GIS systems such as ESRI’s ArcGIS.
“Because the JPEG 2000 format is simply a specification, the quality and flexibility of the JPEG 2000 image depends on the underlying technology in the tools used to create and manipulate it,” said Karen Morley, LizardTech’s VP, Geospatial Imaging. “LizardTech is a pioneer in geospatial wavelet technology and the release of this new MrSID SDK 4.0 with JPEG 2000 delivers on our commitment to develop and deliver a breadth of geospatial wavelet imaging tools that produce the highest quality imagery.”
LizardTech’s release of the MrSID SDK 4.0 with JPEG 2000 comes shortly after LizardTech announced a strategic partnership with Galdos to jointly develop a geospatial metadata specification via the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) consensus process. For more information, visithttp://www.lizardtech.com/news/companynews/item/2004/2004-03-23.php.
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.
