SEATTLE, Wash. — February 16, 2010 — LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, is exhibiting in Booth #208 at the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, D.C., this week. 

“At this year’s ESRI Federal User Conference we will showcase to the intelligence community the continued benefits of using LizardTech products for compressing and distributing raster imagery, as well as our tools for compressing LiDAR data to our latest version of the MrSID format,” said Jon Skiffington, director of marketing. “We’ll be conducting demonstrations of our products, but we’re particularly excited to show our customers LiDAR Compressor, designed to turn giant point cloud data into efficient MrSID files which are viewable in numerous applications, including ArcGIS 3D Analyst.”

LizardTech’s Express Suite™ line of geospatial products combines the industry’s best image manipulation and compression tools with the best solutions for image storage and distribution in standard formats. The Express Suite products – GeoExpress™, Spatial Express™ and Express Server™ – work together seamlessly and interoperate with virtually all geospatial applications and protocols. In addition, LizardTech’s latest product, LiDAR Compressor™, enables users to turn point cloud data into efficient MrSID files that retain 100 percent of the quantized raw data at just 25 percent of the original file size (lossless compression). Unlike raw LAS or ASCII data, LiDAR files compressed to MrSID are easily managed resources from which derivatives can be extracted over and over again.

Information about LizardTech’s line of geospatial software products can be obtained here: http://www.lizardtech.com/products/ 

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 MrSID^® (Multiresolution Seamless Image Database), a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format, and sits on the Technical Committee of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for the purpose of extending the capabilities of JPEG 2000 to geospatial applications, driving cross-platform interoperability and rapid Internet distribution for geospatial imagery. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, London and Tokyo and is a division of Celartem Technology Inc., (Hercules: 4330). For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com or call 206-652-5211 or toll free 1-866-725-5211.

About Celartem
Celartem Technology Inc. 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, Hercules:4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc., with headquarters in Seattle.

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Jaime Garrand, LizardTech, (206) 902-2839, Email Contact