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LizardTech Announces GIS Dynamics as Authorized Reseller for Geospatial Imaging Products

SEATTLE, Wash. – Oct. 19, 2006 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced that the company has signed a reseller agreement with GIS Dynamics, a Cincinnati-based geospatial information technology company, to serve as the distributor of GeoExpress, Express Server and Spatial Express.

“Over the last few years we have seen an increase in demand for the quick delivery of imagery. LizardTech easily satisfies this demand not only for our internal staff but our clients as well. We are very excited about working with LizardTech for many years to come,” said Grant Gibson, President, GIS Dynamics.

“In addition to LizardTech’s technology for storing and serving massive geospatial imagery, our customers have requested services such as integration and customization,” said Kelly Downs, Sales Manager, LizardTech. “We’re confident that GIS Dynamics will be able to provide services that empower LizardTech’s technology and add value to the customer’s imagery assets.”

LizardTech’s line of geospatial software products enables an efficient workflow for high-volume, high-resolution image management. LizardTech products include: GeoExpress for compression and manipulation; Spatial Express for storage; and Express Server for high-performance delivery and publication.

  • GeoExpress preserves pixel-for-pixel image fidelity through 2:1 lossless and 20:1 visually lossless compression to either MrSID® or ISO standard JPEG 2000 format. Massive geospatial imagery is more manageable and network friendly, making it possible to distribute enormous image files on any platform, over any connection speed in a lossless format. GeoExpress also provides valuable image manipulation tools such as reprojection, color balancing and area of interest encoding.
  • Express Server enables instant online viewing of massive geospatial imagery over any device by optimizing output from existing hardware. Express Server ensures interoperability through features such as support for JPEG 2000 and OpenGIS® WMS publishing and the ArcIMS integration toolkit.
  • Spatial Express helps organizations maximize return on their investment in Oracle Database by enabling storage of MrSID and JPEG 2000 images natively in Oracle Spatial 10g. Spatial Express reduces storage space requirements for raster images by as much as 95 percent, enabling organizations to lower costs and keep all raster, vector and business information in a common Oracle Database. Additionally, Spatial Express uses the Oracle GeoRaster interface. This allows MrSID and JPEG 2000 images to be viewed in any GeoRaster-enabled application, reducing training, deployment and support costs.

About GIS Dynamics

Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, GIS Dynamics is an international geographic information systems company founded to provide clients with cutting edge GIS solutions that produce results. GIS Dynamics provides an array of services that include GIS project consulting and support, mapping, web-based GIS, spatial data modeling, analysis, geodatabases, and GPS solutions.

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.