22 April 2008, 10:47am
SEATTLE, Wash. — April 22, 2008 — LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced that the company has signed a reseller agreement with New Light Technologies, Inc., a Washington D.C-based information solutions company, to serve as a distributor of the LizardTech Express Suite line of geospatial products consisting of GeoExpress, Express Server and Spatial Express.
“We anticipate a productive working relationship with LizardTech as we incorporate LizardTech’s powerful software solutions to better serve our client's imagery needs.” said Ghermay Araya, CEO, New Light Technologies.
“Our partnership with New Light Technologies will provide value to our customers on the East Coast who seek tools for storing and serving massive geospatial data. We look forward to adding New Light Technologies’ experience to our growing network of authorized resellers knowing they will provide services using LizardTech's products that will add value to the customer's imagery assets.” said Kelly Downs, director of sales, LizardTech.
LizardTech's line of geospatial software products enables an efficient workflow for high-volume, high-resolution image management. LizardTech products include GeoExpress for compression and manipulation, Spatial Express for storage, and Express Server for high-performance delivery and publication.
GeoExpress provides image manipulation tools such as reprojection, lossless encoding, color balancing and compression to improve workflows, ensure interoperability and aid standards compliance. GeoExpress encodes geospatial image data to the industry standard MrSID and ISO standard JPEG 2000 multiresolution image formats, both easily reusable in downstream applications, without any compromise in image quality.
Spatial Express is a toolset for moving massive raster imagery in and out of an Oracle Spatial database for use in geospatial applications. Using industry and ISO standard multiresolution formats, Spatial Express enables organizations to centralize storage of their geospatial data, reduce load and memory usage on database servers, and lower storage space requirements by 95 percent or more.
Express Server is a server application for rapidly distributing large datasets of raster imagery. With Express Server, users on any device over any connection access imagery faster. Express Server enables organizations to serve more users in less time using widely adopted standards and familiar tools – without adding hardware or bandwidth.
Visit LizardTech this week at the Mid America GIS Consortium (MAGIC) show in booth #4 held in Kansas City, MO on April 22-23 and at the California GIS

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