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LizardTech Promotion Offers MAPPS Members Special Pricing on LizardTech GeoExpress 4.0 with MrSID
Seattle, WA, July 13, 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 special pricing on its industry standard GeoExpress with MrSID® exclusively for members of the Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS) association. The MAPPS association has more than 150 members based on a reputation of aggressive advocacy of the private photogrammetry, remote sensing, surveying, and GIS community.
“Federal and local governments rely on MAPPS members as experts in delivering significant amounts of high quality, high resolution geospatial imagery each year,” said Brian Soliday, vice president of worldwide sales at LizardTech. “Given the sheer size of such detailed imagery, the files can be cumbersome for end users. GeoExpress with MrSID enables geospatial data providers to deliver imagery in GIS-ready files in the MrSID format that are easier to manage, access and distribute.”
MrSID, an innovative wavelet compression technology that dramatically reduces file size and preserves image quality, has become the image format required by many governments and municipalities. Built on innovative MrSID technology , GeoExpress with MrSID is ideal for GIS data providers who supply federal, regional and local government agencies with aerial and satellite imagery on which they rely for critical decisions involving everything from optimizing agriculture yields to national security.
Sanborn, the first MAPPS member to take advantage of this special promotion and a leading provider of geographic information system (GIS) and photogrammetric imagery in the .sid format, was recently selected by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide aerial photography and imagery acquisition services in accordance with USDA-NAIP-03-04. The imagery Sanborn provides will be used by the USDA to update its GIS orthoimagery base program and by the Financial Services Authority to administer compliance programs. Additionally, the information will be used for agriculture land use analysis, natural resource.
“LizardTech’s GeoExpress with MrSID allows us to easily deliver large, high resolution imagery that our clients can readily manipulate,” said John Copple, CEO of Sanborn. “The robust set of tools in GeoExpress ensures our customers will derive the maximum value of the imagery with the utilities of MrSID.”
The GeoExpress 4.0 with MrSID promotion exclusive for MAPPS members is available only through LizardTech. MAPPS members should contact LizardTech inside sales at 1-866-725-5211 or 206-652-5211 for details. Final deadline for this special MAPPS member promotional pricing is September 30, 2004.
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.
