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LizardTales Newsletter – September 2011
FROM MANAGEMENT
Fresh into our new fiscal year here at LizardTech® and there is quite a lot going on. We had a wonderful time exhibiting at the 2011 Esri User Conference in July. The amount of booth traffic and interest in our new releases was exceptional. We met a lot of new people and got to see many of you that we haven’t seen in a while. And if you missed the LizardTech reception at Jolt’n Joes, it was the best yet. A good time was had by all! A very big Thank You to all who attended.
I would also like to introduce our new Engineering Manager, Rich Estrin. Rich is a guy who’d rather be developing software products than talking about himself and having his picture taken, but we did get some info out of him so that you’ll have some conversational hooks to engage him with when you start seeing him in the LizardTech booth at trade shows. Rich brings over 17 years of commercial software development experience to LizardTech, with the last twelve years increasingly focused on leading software teams and projects. He has worked with a broad range of technologies and domains from enterprise life science research software to desktop business software. Rich earned a BA in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Look for him next at the GEOINT Symposium in San Antonio, TX, October 16-19th in Booth #263.
On another note, I would like to thank all of you who took part in the annual LizardTech Customer Survey. The response was very positive. The highlight is the use of MG4™; we are very pleased to see so many of you using the new format! There were also some very good customer initiated product features that we will be looking at implementing in upcoming versions of our software. Speaking of which, stay tuned, there will be an update to GeoExpress 8 in the coming months.
Thanks again to all of our valued customers for your continued support and patronage.
LizardTech Management
GEOSPATIAL
The past few months have been an exciting time for us at LizardTech as the number of applications supporting the MrSID® Generation 4 (MG4) format continues to grow. As you may recall, MG4 is the latest version of MrSID and adds support for multispectral data, alpha channels, compression of LiDAR data, improved mosaicking, and other advanced features.
At the Esri International User Conference in San Diego, we released a plug-in that adds support for MG4 to all ArcGIS 10 Desktop products, so now you can work with MG4 images and data the same way you would any other file within ArcGIS 10. For users who aren’t yet on the latest version of ArcGIS, we also released a plug-in for 9.3 just last week, so now the vast majority of Esri users have access to MG4 data.
Additionally, we released the latest version of our Express Server® image serving software at the end of June. Express Server 7 adds support for serving MG4™ data via WMS and other methods. Of course, it integrates with all of the other major server and desktop products as well, so distributing your MG4 images is now easier than ever. Additionally, Express Server 7 is a full 64-bit application so you can take advantage of performance improvements.
Stay tuned in the coming months for more developments with MG4!
WHERE IS LIZARDTECH?
INTERGEO Conference
September 27-29, 2011 - NürnbergMesse, Nuremberg, DE – Booth #D05, Hall 7
ESRI Canada 2011 User Conference: Toronto
October 4-5, 2011 - Toronto Congress Centre, Toronto, ON
South Florida GIS Expo
October 6-7, 2011 - Palm Beach County Convention Center, West Palm Beach, FL
GEOINT 2011 Symposium
October 16-19, 2011 - Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX – Booth #263
ESRI Canada 2011 User Conference: Vancouver
November 8, 2011 - Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, BC
26th Annual Northeast Arc Users Group Conference
November 13-16, 2011 - Hilton Hotel, Saratoga Springs, NY
Pecora 18 Symposium
November 14-17, 2011 - Hilton Washington Dulles Hotel, Herndon, VA – Booth #503
Rocket City Geospatial & Alabama GIS Conference
November 15-16, 2011 - Davidson Center for Space Exploration Auditorium, Huntsville, AL
For a complete schedule of LizardTech events, please visit our Events Page.
UPCOMING WEBINARS
Our Fall Webinar Schedule is Here!
| OVERVIEW: | Register today to explore the powerful features in LizardTech’s line of geospatial image products – GeoExpress® software for compression and manipulation, Express Server software for high-performance delivery and publication, and LiDAR Compressor™ software for compressing LiDAR data – focusing on the benefits these products bring to the management and distribution of geospatial imagery and LiDAR data. |
| Title: | Whose Products are Integrated with LizardTech’s Products? |
| Date and Time: | September 23 at 11:00 a.m. PDT |
| Title: | How to Compress LiDAR Files |
| Date and Time: | October 4 at 11:00 a.m. PDT |
| Title: | Quick and Easy Ways to Distribute Raster Imagery |
| Date and Time: | October 12 at 11:00 a.m. PDT |
| Title: | How to Make Express Server and GeoExpress Work for You |
| Date and Time: | October 27 at 11:00 a.m. PDT |
| DURATION: | 30 minutes |
Register now at http://www.lizardtech.com/news/events/?section=webinars
If you have questions about our webinars, please e-mail us at info@lizardtech.com.
You can view the full webinar schedule here.
ON THE ROAD
We’re going on the road again!
On Friday, September 23, 2011, Genie Hays and Jeff Young will be visiting the University of Wyoming at the Wyoming Geographic Information Center to give a presentation titled: “MrSID Imagery: The Next Generation”, as part of the University’s Geospatial Forum Series. The presentation will be from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Room 316 of Agriculture Building C. Pizza will be provided prior to the presentation. For more information about the presentation, visit:http://www.lizardtech.com/landing/wygisc If you have questions or would like to register, send an email to wygisc@uwyo.edu.
Presentation Overview:
LizardTech is the developer of the MrSID software used for compressing large geospatial data files. These compressed files enable us to efficiently store and quickly transfer vast amounts of data within an office or across the World Wide Web. As geospatial data are widely used throughout the world and their demand continues to rise, companies are releasing software with advanced data compression capabilities. Ms. Hays and Mr. Young will introduce MrSID Generation 4 (MG4), the next stage in the evolution of LizardTech’s MrSID image compression format.
RECENT NEWS
In case you’ve missed it, here are links to our recent news announcements:
LizardTech Announces Esri CIS as Authorized Reseller for Geospatial Imaging Productshttp://www.lizardtech.com/news/companynews/item/2011/2011-09-20.php
LizardTech Exhibits at INTERGEO Conferencehttp://www.lizardtech.com/news/companynews/item/2011/2011-09-15.php
LizardTech Releases Plug-in for ArcGIS Desktop 10http://www.lizardtech.com/news/companynews/item/2011/2011-07-11a.php
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Tips and Tricks
Would you like to see your Alpha band?
In GeoExpress:
- Select your image in the Job list.
- Select the Preview tab on the right side.
- Click the Band Selector tool
above the Preview window. The Band Selector dialog appears. - Select the Grayscale radio button, then choose Alpha Band from the drop-down menu.
In GeoViewer:
- Right click on your image name in the Job list, then choose Select bandsfrom the context menu. The Select Bands dialog appears.
- Select the Grayscale radio button.
- Choose Alpha Band from the drop-down menu and click OK.
Transparent areas are black and non-transparent areas are white.
Hot Tips?
Do you have tips that you want to share? Send them to suggestions@lizardtech.com and we might publish your tip in the next issue of LizardTales.
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