GeoExpress 7 comes equipped with an exciting set of new features.

1. Interoperability/Product Integration - Streamline your workflow to save time and effort by encoding and publishing imagery directly to LizardTech Express Server.
   
   
2. 64-bit support - Take advantage of more memory to create mosaics of imagery multiple terabytes in size. Encode your MrSID imagery faster than ever before.
   
   
3. Flexible licensing - Share image compression capability and editing tools across your entire organization. Maximize value from your application licensing budget while increasing your organization's productivity both on the desktop and in the field.
   
   
4. Demosaic and export images - Use new export tools to demosaic or "tile out" your imagery for better fitting onto CDs or DVDs. You no longer need to learn command line tools - simply draw a rectangle to decode all or part of your MrSID or JPEG 2000 imagery and then export to GeoTIFF directly from the GeoExpress graphical user interface.
   
   
5. Image Manipulation - Add value to your existing imagery with the powerful suite of editing and manipulation tools such as the new despeckling option, which enables you to clean up compression artifacts left over from previous versions, making your mosaics look better than ever before.

GeoExpress 7 is ideal for defense and intelligence agencies, GIS data providers, government municipalities, or any other organizations that rely on aerial and satellite imagery for critical decisions.

 Encode Directly to Express Server
GeoExpress 7 enables you to export imagery directly to your LizardTech Express Server. You can select Express Server as the output destination for newly encoded imagery, or publish your existing MrSID and JPEG 2000 images to Express Server without having to reencode them. A few clicks moves your imagery from editing in GeoExpress to distribution via Express Server to WMS, ArcIMS or Web applications.

 Administer Express Server from GeoExpress
The Express Server Management Console in GeoExpress 7 enables you to create, index and update catalogs in multiple Express Servers from a single location. You no longer have to leave GeoExpress to prepare catalogs for the imagery you're working with. Accessible from the GeoExpress toolbar, the Express Server Management Console enables you to create and update indexes, overviews and WMS layers in all your image catalogs. Managing the distribution of your imagery just got a lot easier.

 Put 64-Bit Support to Work for You
With access to more memory than ever before - 16 gigabytes or more! - you can create mosaics of imagery multiple terabytes in size. With GeoExpress 7, you can encode your MrSID imagery faster than ever before by leveraging today's advanced 64-bit systems.

 Add and Edit Custom Metadata
GeoExpress 7 offers you improved metadata editing tools so you can add and edit custom metadata tags in MrSID and JPEG 2000 imagery. Assign coordinate reference system information to your imagery without having to reencode, and use custom metadata tags to build flexible and robust Web applications that can be served with LizardTech Express Server.

 Demosaic and Export Imagery
Use the new export tools to demosaic or "tile out" your imagery for better fitting onto CDs or DVDs. You no longer need to learn command line tools - simply draw a grid to decode all or part of your MrSID or JPEG 2000 imagery and then export to GeoTIFF directly from the GeoExpress graphical user interface.

 Reproject Imagery
Reproject your imagery from one coordinate system to another and output directly into MrSID or JPEG 2000 format - all using the familiar GeoExpress workflow. You don't need to revert to TIFF or other raw formats in order to reproject, so you can save time and storage space by keeping your imagery compressed. Define, save and share custom coordinate systems. GeoExpress' new "recently used" functionality makes it easier to select the coordinate systems you use most often. And with GeoExpress 7's new metadata tools, you can automatically generate AUX files to ensure your image metadata can be read in ESRI applications.

 Turn Unwieldy Geospatial Datasets into Network-Friendly Imagery
Compress your imagery to industry standard MrSID or ISO standard JPEG 2000 format at 5% of its original size without sacrificing visual quality. You can also encode imagery losslessly and save 30% or more on disk space while retaining pixel-for-pixel fidelity to the originals. Your imagery encoded with GeoExpress will travel faster over networks and can be used in almost every major geospatial application. And GeoExpress' new "speckle busting" technology removes compression artifacts from the edges of images, making your imagery look better than ever before. Along with other components of LizardTech Express Suite, GeoExpress enables you to distribute enormous image files - on any platform, at any connection speed - in a lossless format that simplifies your workflow.

 Put Flexible Licensing to Work for Your Team
Share image compression capability and editing tools across your organization with GeoExpress 7. Floating licenses combine with powerful wavelet-based image compression and a robust suite of image manipulation tools, enabling you to maximize value from your application licensing budget while increasing your organization's productivity both on the desktop and in the field. Your users can keep working when they're on the road with new "commuter" licenses. Use one common licensing standard on your network, simplifying your administration tasks, while giving your users the image tools they need, no matter where in the world they are located.

 Tailor Your Imagery to Every Need
Make existing imagery more useful with the powerful suite of editing and manipulation tools found in GeoExpress 7. You can take advantage of mosaicking, cropping, color-balancing, reprojection and the new despeckling option, which allows you to clean up compression artifacts left over from previous versions, making your mosaics look better than ever before. With GeoExpress 7's new support for ECW files for input, you can be assured of future flexibility with your image formats. If you don't need image compression or if you already have compression capability but want to improve your image processing workflow, these image editing tools are available separately in GeoExpress Tools.

Color-Balance Images and Mosaics
Make your imagery more eye-pleasing and easier to use by color balancing single images or mosaics. Manually or automatically adjust brightness, contrast and gamma to correct uniform imbalances and make one image more like its neighbors. For non-uniform imbalances like tilt, seam lines and vignetting, GeoExpress can also correct automatically.

Take Full Advantage of Your Oracle Database
Load imagery directly into Oracle Spatial 10gR2 from GeoExpress and reduce your database storage requirements by 95%. With LizardTech Spatial Express and the integration of native support for MrSID and JPEG 2000 into Oracle Spatial, analysts across your organization can retrieve imagery from a common location and IT administrators can plan for cost-effective, failsafe disaster recovery.

Encode with Confidence
GeoExpress helps you take the guesswork out of generating compressed imagery conforming to government requirements for ISO and other standards, including Department of Defense and NGA JPEG 2000 encoding specifications (such as NPJE and EPJE) and long-time industry-standard MrSID. Predefined and user-defined encoding profiles ensure that your organization delivers the same high-quality imagery, every time.

Ensure Interoperability with Geospatial Applications
GeoExpress 7 is designed for interoperability with the widest range of leading geospatial applications, including native support in applications from ESRI, Leica Geosystems, Autodesk and Intergraph, MapInfo, Bentley, and GE/Smallworld, to name a few, enabling your users to view MrSID and JPEG 2000 imagery using their existing software.

Include GMLJP2 Metadata in JPEG 2000 Imagery
In addition to such widely used methods as GeoTIFF and world files for including metadata, GeoExpress 7 supports the GMLJP2 standard adopted by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in 2005, enabling you to natively integrate geospatial metadata into your JPEG 2000 imagery, resulting in greater interoperability among GIS applications. GML (geography markup language) is an XML-based grammar for delivering and displaying geographic data across networks.