What is "lizardtech"

LizardTech is a geospatial software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, notable for transferring the wavelet-based MrSID image encoding and viewing technology from initial development by the U.S. government to the geospatial market.

LizardTech's products enable users to compress, manipulate, and distribute high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial, satellite imagery and LiDAR data. The company is a division of Celartem Inc. (Hercules: 4330), and has offices in Tokyo and London. Its sister company, Extensis, is based in Portland, Oregon.

LizardTech was founded in 1992 to commercialize the MrSID technology and file format originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico. The name of the company is an homage to the lizards of the New Mexican desert.