In This Issue

1. From the CEO
2. GeoExpress 5.0 with MrSID®
3. Express Server 5.0
4. Document Express 5.1 with DjVu®
5. Genuine Fractals
6. Where is LizardTech?

From the CEO Carlos Domingo, LizardTech's CEO, discusses strategy and results of the recent merger of LizardTech with Extensis into Celartem US, the sale of Genuine Fractals to independent software developer, onOne Software, and a notable Document Express implementation with Washington State Digital Archives.

GeoExpress 5.0 with MrSID®

SANZ, manufacturer of EarthWhere™, software for the provisioning and output of geospatial imagery, has incorporated MrSID technology into EarthWhere version 4.0. Now, EarthWhere customers can read and write to MrSID®, further maximizing their geospatial datasets while having one tool for the provisioning and output of imagery.

Meanwhile, GeoExpress 5.0 with MrSID has been in the limelight recently as key industry press take note:

• Earth Imaging Journal, "Spain's Cartographic Institute of Catalonia Now Delivers Digital Imagery Online" July/August issue
  
  
• GeoConnexion, "Wavelet Space: the New GIS Workshop" May/June issue
  
  
• Earth Imaging Journal, "GeoExpress 5.0 Extends the Utility of MrSID Generation 3 and JPEG 2000 Images" May/June issue
  
  
• GeoWorld Magazine, reviews of "Express Server," "GeoExpress" and "Oracle GeoRaster and LizardTech Technology." May issue

LizardTech is now offering a powerful toolset especially for working with .SID imagery. This low cost toolset is called GeoExpress Tools. GeoExpress Tools has all the capabilities of the regular GeoExpress product, with the exception of raw image compression.

With GeoExpress Tools you can take existing .SID files, CCMs, and optimize them for your specific needs. This includes:

• Further compression
• Area of interest compression
• Single tile mosaic updates
• Coordinate reprojection
• Image cropping
• Mosaic MrSID tiles

All this capability in one easy to use software package. Contact your LizardTech sales representative to learn how you can get GeoExpress Tools.

LizardTech welcomes four new resellers for GeoExpress:

1. PAR Government Systems - Rome, NY
2. U.S. Aerial Photography - Portsmouth, NH
3. Pangaea Information Technologies - Chicago, IL
4. Lynx Information Systems - Houston, TX

We invite end-users of GeoExpress or MrSID imagery to work with these resellers for all of their .SID or JPEG200 imagery needs.

Express Server 5.0

Whether you need to share images and electronic documents with employees inside your local organization or distribute them to customers around the world, learn how other companies are using Express Server for fast, efficient delivery while preserving the visual quality of original images.

Looking for a way to quickly and efficiently distribute large geospatial images to U. S. Embassies worldwide in a JPEG 2000 format, the U. S. Department of State selected LizardTech's Express Server as the solution to deliver images quickly. The State department has been a long time MrSID customer and wanted to adopt the JPEG2000 format moving forward. They were excited to learn that GeoExpress 5.0 also encodes geospatial imagery to the JPEG 2000 format and, when combined with Express Server, they are able to stream JPEG 2000 images quickly no matter the connection speed.

Seeking a solution to make their image archives available to their customer base, the Army National Guard chose Express Server. After testing multiple products, The Army National Guard selected GeoExpress 5.0 with MrSID for compressing geospatial imagery and Express Server for quickly distributing those images. No other product matched Express Server in speed for delivering large file sized images.

Document Express 5.1 with DjVu®

Coming soon a better way to use your DjVu files!

In late August, look for the release of the new version of Professional Editor and the FREE DjVu Plug-in. The new version of Professional Editor will allow you to add annotations like text box, notes, indicator lines, multiple color highlights more efficient hyper links. The new FREE plug-in for viewing DjVu documents enables you to view double-page spreads such as magazines and newspapers quickly and easily. An enhanced Graphical User Interface means navigating through DjVu documents is easy and intuitive.

Download the FREE DjVu browser plug-in for viewing DjVu documents.

Genuine Fractals

LizardTech recently announced the sale of its popular Photoshop Plug-in, Genuine Fractals, to independent software developer, onOne Software.

Read the press release to find out more.

Where is LizardTech?

Upcoming events in Americas:

• 14th Annual GIS for Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition
• September 19-21, 2005, Houston, Texas
  
  
• GIS in the Rockies
• September 21-23, 2005, Denver, Colorado
  
  
• XII - Conferencia Latino Americana ESRI LEICA GIS
• September 21-23, 2005, Brazil
  
  
• SWUG 2005 Conference
• September 24-28, 2005, Park City Marriott, Utah
  
  
• MAUG 2005 - Midwest ArcGIS Users Conference
• October 5-7, 2005, Bloomington, IN
  
  
• 21st Annual New York State GIS Conference
• October 17-18, 2005, Rochester
  
  
• 16th William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium
• October 23-27, 2005, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
  
  
• GEOINT Symposium 2005
• October 30-November 2, 2005, San Antonio, TX
  
  
• 2005 ESRI Wisconsin User Group Conference
• November 10 - 11 in Green Bay at the Best Western Midway Hotel

Upcoming events in Europe:

• 20th European Conference for ESRI Users
• October 26-28, 2005, Warsaw, Poland

Complete schedule of LizardTech events