MG4 Whitepaper published

My white paper on LizardTech's MrSID/MG4 has now been posted. (It's an uncredited piece, alas.)

Another Zoom blog post today

This one is from the ImTech file.

JP2 on Ice

I was listening to a BBC technology podcast on the flight down to Atlanta for the OGC TC meeting, and there was a piece about tracking icebergs in the Antarctic. I was half-asleep as they said something about needing to compress data since they have poor bandwidth down there, when suddenly I was wide-awake as they said they were using JPEG 2000 -- and with geospatial extensions!

Subsequent investigation showed they're not using GMLJP2, but still...

Text version of story here.

"Bluffer's Guide" published

The September issue of GeoWorld magazine contains another piece by me and my favorite coauthor. I've not yet seen the actual copy, so I'm not sure what they finally titled it, but our internal working title was "A Bluffer's Guide to Image Compression".

Will provide link if/when available.

NGA endorsement of JPIP

NGA's latest missive on GEOINT standards specifically calls out "A Promising Standards Application -- JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol (JPIP)" (see page 15).

[note they seemed to have inadvertently chopped the last paragraph right as they were getting into the good OGC bits, oh well]