SEATTLE, Wash. — March 14, 2011 — LizardTech^®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting in Booth #19 at the 2011 GIS Workshops and Exhibitions for Esri Users this week. GISWORX ’11 is taking place at the Convention Center of Al Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai, UAE.

“We look forward to exhibiting at the Middle East’s largest event for Esri users where we will showcase LizardTech’s groundbreaking innovation in GIS technology,” said Jon Skiffington, director of product management. “Attendees at this week’s event will be able to see firsthand LizardTech’s tools for compressing and manipulating raster and LiDAR files as well as storing and distributing raster data.”

At their booth, LizardTech will be conducting demonstrations of LiDAR Compressor^™ software, which turns giant point cloud datasets into efficient MrSID^® files, along with recently launched GeoExpress^® 8, which enables geospatial professionals to compress and manipulate satellite and aerial imagery. With the launch, LizardTech introduced the MrSID^® Generation 4 ( MG4™) format for compression of raster data, adding support for multispectral data, alpha channels and improved mosaicking. With MG4’s support for compressing hyperspectral data users can use GeoExpress to compress up to 255 bands of geospatial data to the MrSID format.

In addition, demonstrations of Spatial Express^® software for storage, and Express Server^® software for high-performance delivery and publication will also be available.            

For more information about all of LizardTech’s products, please visit 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 the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo and is a division of Celartem Technology Inc. (JASDAQ: 4330). For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com. 

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com/ 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, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. with headquarters in Portland, OR.

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