Flaxen Geo (www.flaxen.com) is the independent geospatial consulting business started by Michael P. Gerlek (mpg) in 2010. We offer technology advice, software development, and customized training in several technically complex areas including processing and compression of imagery and point cloud (lidar) data sets. Flaxen Geo is a strong proponent of open source software and regularly collaborates on projects with other open source consultants around the globe.
Our keywords include:
- JPEG 2000, GMLJP2, MrSID, NITF, image compression, raster imagery, GDAL
- LAS, LAZ, E57, libLAS, libPC, PDAL, lidar, point cloud
- web services, OGC standards, WMS, WCS, GML
- C#, .NET, SlimDXControl, DotSpatial
- technical management, project management
- open source, OSGeo, CUGOS
About mpg: Michael P. Gerlek (mpg@flaxen.com) is an independent consultant at Flaxen Geo. Prior to starting Flaxen Geo in 2010, Michael spent over a decade working at LizardTech in various capacities, including Director of Engineering, working on image processing, image compression (MrSID, JPEG 2000), and OGC standards. Michael is very active in the open source geospatial community; he was a founding member of the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), serves on the Foundation’s Board, and helps to run its Seattle chapter. Prior his geospatial career, he worked in the high performance computing and compiler industry, including jobs at both Tera and Intel and an MS degree at the Oregon Graduate Institute. Michael and his family live on a minor US outlying island in the Puget Sound.
You can follow mpg on Twitter at @mpgerlek or on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpgerlek.