LizardTech announced today that two of its developers and JPEG 2000 experts, Michael P. Gerlek and Matthew Fleagle, wrote Chapter Three of a book titled “The Geospatial Web,” where they share knowledge stemming from research conducted at LizardTech to equip JPEG 2000, an ISO Standard, for geospatial network applications by means of geography mark-up language (GML) and to make support for JPEG 2000 available in LizardTech’s line of geospatial products, GeoExpress, Express Server and Spatial Express.
“We were thrilled to contribute the chapter on JPEG 2000 to this collaborative effort,” said Michael P. Gerlek, LizardTech software architect. “Having the insight on the topic from working at LizardTech for the past 10 years, it was a natural fit for us to share our findings.”
“As the editors of the book, we were extremely lucky to have LizardTech’s imaging experts contributing a chapter on JPEG 2000 as an increasingly popular and ‘spatially aware’ standard for storing and delivering imagery for the Geospatial Web,” said professor Arno Scharl of the Know-Center and Graz University of Technology in Austria, co-editor of the book.
“The Geospatial Web,” published in London by Springer and edited by Scharl and professor Klaus Tochtermann, summarizes the latest research on the Geospatial Web’s technical foundations, describes information services and collaborative tools built on top of three-dimensional platforms, known as geobrowsers, and investigates the environmental, social and economic impacts of geospatial applications.
The book is available for sale now. More information is available at www.geospatialweb.com
