LERC 
Copyright 2015 Esri

This software embodiment is an implementation of 

United States Patent 9,002,126, Limited Error Raster Compression (LERC). 
Assignee: Esri. 
Assignors/Inventors: Maurer, Thomas (Redlands, CA); Gao, Peng (Redlands, CA); Becker, Peter (Redlands, CA). 

The right to practice this patent is hereby granted under the Apache V2.0 License Agreement, Clause 3 - Grant of Patent License for the following fields of use: 
GIS, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial mapping, and other related earth sciences applications. 

The license is available at 
http://github.com/Esri/lerc/

For additional information, contact:

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
Attn: Contracts and Legal Department
380 New York Street
Redlands, CA 92373
E-mail: contracts@esri.com