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LizardTech Developers Contribute Chapter to Foundational Publication about the Geospatial Web
Chapter Three of New Book Focuses on Uses of JPEG 2000
SEATTLE, Wash. – June 4, 2007 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today that two of its developers and JPEG 2000 experts, Michael P. Gerlek and Matthew Fleagle, wrote Chapter Three of a book titled “The Geospatial Web,” where they share knowledge stemming from research conducted at LizardTech to equip JPEG 2000, an ISO Standard, for geospatial network applications by means of geography mark-up language (GML) and to make support for JPEG 2000 available in LizardTech’s line of geospatial products, GeoExpress, Express Server and Spatial Express.
“We were thrilled to contribute the chapter on JPEG 2000 to this collaborative effort,” said Michael P. Gerlek, LizardTech software architect. “Having the insight on the topic from working at LizardTech for the past 10 years, it was a natural fit for us to share our findings.”
“As the editors of the book, we were extremely lucky to have LizardTech’s imaging experts contributing a chapter on JPEG 2000 as an increasingly popular and ‘spatially aware’ standard for storing and delivering imagery for the Geospatial Web,” said professor Arno Scharl of the Know-Center and Graz University of Technology in Austria, co-editor of the book.
“The Geospatial Web,” published in London by Springer and edited by Scharl and professor Klaus Tochtermann, summarizes the latest research on the Geospatial Web’s technical foundations, describes information services and collaborative tools built on top of three-dimensional platforms, known as geobrowsers, and investigates the environmental, social and economic impacts of geospatial applications. The book is available for sale now. More information is available atwww.geospatialweb.com.
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.
