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Subject: FW: ESRI Adds Support for JPEG2000 Compression to ArcGIS
   Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:52:25 -0400
   From: Patrick McGlamery <[log in to unmask]>
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Collegues;This represents a move away from the very scary situation of
having our image data in strict proprietary formats (SID and/or ECW).  I
let out a big sigh of relief when I saw this!  I've been anticipating it
for over a year and am glad to see the JP2 Open Architecture Standard
finally embraced by ESRI.Patrick
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From: Walt Wiley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:55 PM
To: Walt Wiley
Subject: ESRI Adds Support for JPEG2000 Compression to ArcGIS

Dear Colleague: I've important news to share with developers and end
users of raster data: ESRI has recently posted an update for the ArcGIS
8.3 product which adds support for the display of georeferenced JPEG2000
imagery. Expected to be native in ArcGIS r.9, the patch for version 8.3
may be downloaded
from: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=43&MetaID=579 Since
the release of our GeoJP2 Encoder, the ISO/IEC JPEG2000 Standard
Specification for Still Image Compression (15444) has gained rapid
acceptance throughout the mapping community as an open standard-based
alternative to proprietary image compression products.  This most recent
addition to the growing list of supported applications is verification
that the .jp2 file format and our GeoJP2 approach to georeferencing and
metadata are legitimate -- and -- powerful tools for the storage,
display and management of high resolution imagery.  It was through our
partnership with Leica and ESRI that support for .jp2 data was
developed. GeoJP2(tm) is the first standards-based image compression
solution built specifically for the needs of the remote sensing and
mapping community.  GeoJP2 offers features including: - internal
metadata and georeferencing tags (GeoTIFF)- optional internal user
metadata- support for hyperspectral and multiband imagery (e.g., store
all bands in a single file)- fully lossless and/or visually lossless
compression- mosaicing- no per-MB charges- tremendous performance
(15-20GB/hr) Additional information about Mapping Science, GeoJP2 and
JPEG2000-based image encoding may be found
at: http://www.mappingscience.com.   Be sure to check out our new GeoJP2
Image Server(tm) scheduled for release in
September: http://www.gcs-research.net/jp2imageviewer  Best regards,
Walt Wiley, President
Mapping Science, Inc.
2525 221st Ave NE
Sammamish, WA 98074
Tel. 425-868-8959
Fax 425-868-0509
www.mappingscience.com
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