As LiDAR becomes faster and cheaper, the resulting deluge of data has outpaced the industry’s ability to use them. The complexity and sheer volume of LiDAR data makes exploiting them tremendously challenging. This article overviews the principal causes of those challenges and notes the direction of the industry’s response. View the entire article here.

This article talks about two issues: the quantity of data that users work with and the distribution of that data. It also looks at the kinds of things that can be done to address both issues. View the entire article here.

Writer Matteo Luccio discusses LiDAR’s increasing acceptance in the geospatial industry and how innovations in hardware pose increasing challenges for end users dealing with massive amounts of raw data. In particular, he interviews Jon Skiffington, Director of Marketing, about LiDAR Compressor and how the LizardTech software is tackling this challenge through file compression. View the entire article here.

Directions Magazine Editor Joe Francica wrote a product overview about LiDAR Compressor in which he talks about what the product does and why there is a need for it. He ends his post by saying “The product is considered so revolutionary that the company has applied for a patent for the technology behind the product.” Read more here.

Editor Matt Ball talks about LiDAR Compressor following the launch of the product at the ESRI International User Conference in July 2009. Read to learn about Matt’s take on the product, including what the product does and its many benefits. Read more here.

GIS User editor Glenn Letham in a bullet-point structured article talks about why LiDAR is important and “The solution – LizardTech LiDAR Compressor.” You can read the complete piece here.

Todd Danielson, editor of GeoWorld Magazine and geoplace.com, featured LiDAR Compressor in the “Product of the Week” spotlight section of his weekly newsletter. In this piece, Danielson outlines features and benefits of LiDAR Compressor. You can read it here.

An article about our LiDAR Compressor was featured in the July issue of the magazine as well as appearing online. Editor Marc Cheves talked about LiDAR Compressor by listing bullet points of top features and benefits. You can see it here.

At the ESRI 2009 International User Conference, Sanjay Gangal from GISCafe interviewed Jon about the latest happenings at LizardTech. Jon gave a three-minute overview of LiDAR Compressor that you can view here.

Susan Smith of GISCafe.com included LizardTech LiDAR Compressor in her ESRI post show recap report. You can read the complete article here.

Find out how Chevron overcomes file size limitations by using LizardTech’s software to deploy satellite images in mobile field mapping projects.

Find out how Enbridge saves time and improves efficiency by using LizardTech’s software in this article titled “Enbridge Keeps Field Assets and Map Database Updated with Geospatial Technology,” featured in the July issue of Pipeline & Gas Journal. Read the article here.

The July/August 2008 issue of Geo:Connexion features a review of GeoExpress 7. Chris Hanson from 3D Nature and AlphaPixel wrote the review, a follow-up to a GeoExpress 6 piece he wrote last time around. He says that “GeoExpress 7 offers some great improvements in workflow and features which will be welcomed by nearly every current GeoExpress user, and we can wholeheartedly recommend the upgrade on that basis.” Chris concludes with the following: “64-bit operating systems and applications are the future, and GeoExpress is on the way.” Read more here.

Learn how Chevron and Enbridge are benefiting from LizardTech products in this article written by written by LizardTech’s Matt Fleagle and Kevin Corbley from Corbley Communications. Read more here.

LizardTech’s senior product manager, Jon Skiffington, was interviewed about our Express Suite line of geospatial products in the July issue. In particular he talks about how the new features in Express Server 6.1benefit our Department of Defense and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency customers. Read more here.

Alistair Maclenan, LizardTech’s representative in Europe, wrote an article in the September issue with Southampton City Council about how GeoExpress came to their rescue in the U.K. Open a PDF of the article here.

“With the release of GeoExpress 7, the company gets all its imagery tools to work with each other — for the first time.” Geospatial Solutions Editor, Cyrena Respini-Irwin, has written an article about LizardTech’s newest release, GeoExpress 7 and the entire LizardTech Express Suite line of geospatial products. In her online article, “LizardTech Makes Leap to Interoperability,” Respini-Irwin touts the many benefits of integrating all of LizardTech’s standalone tools, GeoExpress, Spatial Express, and Express Server – together in an “Express Suite”.Read more here.

Directions Magazine Editor Nora Parker has written a product overview about LizardTech’s GeoExpress 7, listing many of GeoExpress 7′s new features by demonstrating a typical imagery management workflow. In her article, Parker explains how quickly and easily LizardTech’s Express Server “seamlessly” complements GeoExpress 7 when serving out massive geospatial imagery. Read more here.

On Wednesday, November 14 LizardTech participated in GIS Day by visiting fifth graders at Brighton School for a presentation about geography and geographic information systems (GIS). The focus of the presentation was geography and the role it plays in everybody’s daily lives. Additionally, the evolution of technology and its impact on geographic information systems was examined in light of the students’ current study of the American Revolutionary War. John Ruffing, Genie Hays and David Calabro were the representatives who displayed Revolutionary War era maps of the 13 original colonies, while quizzing the students and challenging them to identify the difficulties in map creation during that time period. The students were also presented with maps of Philadelphia created in 1776 alongside with present day maps of Philadelphia which were obtained from The Library of Congress.

The 2,000 word article titled “Gaining From High Resolution Imagery” now appears on the online version of Next Generation Power & Energy magazine. In this article, Jason De Leon, a field designer in Enbridge’s Pampa office outside of Amarillo says that the biggest benefit of having GeoExpress is that it saves his field workers time, “Having all the image and map data they need for a job in the palm of their hand saves field workers hours and hours on the road. And like we always hear, time is money. The faster we can get work done, the better off our company will be.” Read the full story here…

In the October 2007 issue of GeoConnexion, Enric Rodellas, Director of the Map Department at The Port of Barcelona, explains how important GIS is to efficient operation of the port. The Harbour Authority of Barcelona (APB) was the first Spanish port to implement GIS technology in 1991, and has chosen LizardTech’s compression technology to distribute their raster imagery.

In the September 2007 issue of GeoConnexion, Alistair Maclenan, LizardTech’s sales manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, looks at the efforts of the State Archive of Rome (ASRoma) to preserve tens of thousands of historical maps, registries, and other documents using LizardTech software. Using GeoExpress, the Archive successfully converted over 130,000 historical maps and documents into the ISO standard JPEG 2000 format, allowing them to reduce storage requirements by 95% while retaining excellent visual fidelity. These were then catalogued for efficient online publishing using LizardTech’s Express Server software, enabling ASRoma’s five thousand registered users to quickly access Rome’s history online at any time of day.

In the September 2007 issue of GeoConnexion International Magazine, Chris Hanson continues with the second of his two part series investigating image compression performance. In this conclusion, he compares JPEG 2000 compression speed and visual appearance in geospatial imaging products, including LizardTech’s GeoExpress.

In the July / August 2007 issue of GeoConnexion International Magazine, Chris Hanson begins the first in a two part series investigating the pros and cons of geospatial image formats. In this article, Chris compares a number of different formats including GeoTIFF, ECW, JPEG 2000 and MrSID.

The February 2007 issue of GeoConnexion magazine features an article written by Jon Skiffington and Kirk McKelvey titled “Raster in the Database.” It covers the topic of raster image storage inside a database, at a time when the need to maintain and process imagery more efficiently grows.

The September issue of Geo:Connexion magazine features an article by Michael Gerlek titled “New GMLJP2 Standard.” In this piece, Michael offers details about how spatial reference coordinates, geographical features such as road networks and other information vital to the geospatial community can be expressed as GML data embedded in JPEG 2000’s XML-blocks.

The September issue of GeoWorld magazine features an article by Jon Skiffington titled “Compression Preserves Pre-Digital Data.” In this piece Jon discusses how GeoExpress is used to store, manage and distribute large volumes of electronic data.

Learn about all the new features in GeoExpress 6 as presented by editor Jeff Thurston in this review.

Find out the exciting new features the latest version of GeoExpress offers, from powerful image editing and manipulation tools such as color balancing to integration with Oracle’s Spatial 10gR2 Database, and everything else in between!

Find out how valuable MrSID is to the Las Vegas Police Department when time means everything during emergency situations.

The increased amount of imagery available, combined with the increase in distributed network environments and the immediate need for image accessibility (as manifest by the emergency efforts following recent events such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina) have only served to highlight one of the problems in our industry that is yet to be solved: the efficient management and distribution for geospatial imagery.

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Writer Kevin P. Corbley discusses LizardTech’s 20^th Anniversary and the development of MrSID. Jon Skiffington, Development of Product Management, recounts the progression of MrSID and its significance in the geospatial industry. Read more here.

This article talks about two issues: the quantity of data that users work with, and the distribution of that data and looks at the kinds of things that can be done to address both issues. You can view the entire article here.

Read this article to learn how LizardTech’s software helped the Nationwide Environmental Title Research (NETR) improve the performance of their recently launched Web site: www.HistoricAerials.com

In June 2007 Directions Magazine Online editor Nora Parker wrote an article about Express Server 6. In her closing paragraph she says, “Express Server 6 is an upgrade that will bring new tools to its specialized user base which will enhance data distribution and use.“Read the full story here…

In June 2007 GISuser.com editor Glenn Letham wrote an article about Express Server 6 and the Demo site. He says of the Demo site, “The site tailors to the various needs of those wanting or needing to distribute or share imagery. The application answers questions by offering up a dynamic tour, showing off how simple it can be to integrate Express Server into existing workflows.” He also focuses on the speed of Express Server by saying, “One of the cool features of Express Server is speed – that is, the speed of server and distributing imagery to your web apps.“Read the full story here…

In June 2007 Geospatial Solutions Online editor Cyrena Respini-Irwin wrote an article about Express Server 6 and the Demo site. Of the Demo site she says, ”LizardTech’s demo site is a ‘choose your own adventure’ experience, with tours tailored to users with various goals.” Read the full story here…

The summer 2008 issue features an article titled “Data Integration – Software Companies Expand and Consolidate,” for which Jon Skiffington was interviewed. Jon talks about GeoExpress, Express Server and Spatial Express working seamlessly together. Read more here.