UC Notes - GeoExpress 9.5 Now Supports Native Compression of LiDAR

Lizardtech has continued with their tradition of annual software releases with the announced release of GeoExpress 9.5. The product was announced at esriuc and justifiably so, particularly given the attention that has been paid to LiDAR and the use of imagery at this year’s UC.

At release 9.5 LiDAR compress is now built into MrSID, and this comes at no extra cost to the user. LiDAR is supported by the MrSID MG4 data format and support is also provided for LAS and txt and output to LAS is also provided. GeoExpress enables the user to to compress raster imagery to the much compressed MrSID and JPEG 2000 data formats, additionally, LiDAR data conversion to MrSID and LAZ formats is now provided.

Other notable benefits of using GeoExpress 9.5 include:

Reduction in storage costs provided by crunching data to less than 5% or original size
More visually appealing data
Compression I of LiDAR point clouds
Creation of seamless mosaics
Imagery color balancing
Cropping and export
Imagery re projection
Flexible licensing that supports sharing of tools throughout your organization

See more info at Lizardtech.com/products/GeoExpress