LizardTech to release GeoExpress 7

21 January 2008, 12:11pm

At the end of January, LizardTech plans to release GeoExpress 7, the latest version of their flagship application. GeoExpress has become much more than imagined when they originally built the MrSID GeoEncoder as a simple compression utility. Over the past few years, LizardTech have been providing more image manipulation functionality such as tools for reprojecting existing MrSID or JPEG 2000 images and color balancing options to make it easier than ever to create eye-pleasing mosaics.

Now, GeoExpress is ready to evolve once again. Most LizardTech customers need to put their imagery on the Web. For this, LizardTech offers their Express Server application to make it easy to serve high quality imagery to a variety of applications at any bandwidth speed. But deploying imagery to an Express Server has always been a manual process, and required some specialized technical skills that most customers don't want to learn.

With GeoExpress 7, deploying imagery to the Express Server can be done in just a couple of clicks, with no networking knowledge required. Now it's easier than ever before to create WMS layers and custom Web applications directly within GeoExpress. Now you can receive your imagery, mosaic it, color balance, reproject, compress, and deploy it to the Web in one quick step. We hope that this makes your day-to-day job easier than ever before, allowing the infrastructure of your image delivery systems to stay out of your way so you can get your own work done. This integration between GeoExpress and Express Server is just a first step in a new direction for GeoExpress.

There are many other new features as well, including some enhancements to eliminate "speckling" on the edges of images, an updated user interface, new decoding tools and much more. Stay tuned throughout January as we rollout GeoExpress 7!

Source: LizardTech Quarterly Newsletter, 19 Jan 08

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