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SEATTLE, Wash. — May 8, 2012 — LizardTech^®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, celebrates its 20^th anniversary this year, and reflects on how it all started with the introduction of MrSID^® two decades ago.

To celebrate LizardTech’s 20^th anniversary, the company is holding a contest asking participants to say a word or two about how MrSID has come to their rescue. Participants are asked to send in their recollection or tribute to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it by July 10^th, 2012. Three winners will be selected at random, with the first winner to receive an iPad and the two runner ups to receive $50 gift cards to Amazon.com. The winners will be announced via Twitter at Esri International User Conference in San Diego on July 24^th.

“This is such a huge milestone for our company,” said Jon Skiffington, director of product management. “20 years ago MrSID revolutionized how imagery could be used in geospatial applications by making it possible to view large datasets right on the desktop. Since then, we’ve continued to improve the MrSID image format with support for lossless compression in MrSID Generation 3 and now support for multi- and hyperspectral imagery and alpha bands in MrSID Generation 4.”

Since the arrival of the file format, LizardTech has introduced other tools to help geospatial professionals in their everyday workflow. LizardTech’s geospatial line of products include GeoExpress^® software, which enables geospatial professionals to compress and manipulate satellite and aerial imagery, Express Server^® software for high-performance delivery and publication, and LiDAR Compressor^™ software, which turns giant point cloud datasets into efficient MrSID files.

For more information about LizardTech’s 20^th anniversary and to get regular updates about this contest and other news, please visit: http://www.lizardtech.com/anniversary/

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. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.

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