LizardTech and Open Standards
LizardTech sits on OGC's Technical Committee and has been a chief contributor in extending the capabilities of JPEG 2000 to geospatial applications. The lack of a geospatial metadata standard had meant that applications and viewers may or may not be able to read geospatial metadata in JPEG 2000 files. Together with Galdos Systems, also an OGC member, LizardTech developed a geography markup language (GML) implementation of JPEG 2000 that was ratified by the OGC in February 2006. Called GMLJP2, this implementation furthers the interoperability of JPEG 2000 as a geospatial image format and helps customers disseminate and maximize return on investment from geospatial imagery by providing a consistent, vendor-independent image format.
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