Customer Comments

Read what reviewers and users have to say about our software and our approach.

Reviews

Read what Dan Fagin wrote about TerraSeer's approach in New York Newsday.

Or see what the Charles Croner, editor of the CDC publication Public Health GIS News and Information wrote in his editorial review of the study (full issue)

    "Geoffrey Jacquez, and his associate Dunrie Greiling, of Michigan-based TerraSeer Inc., use cutting-edge statistical techniques....It is an exciting chapter for all of us in GIS and public health...GIScience is gaining positively in terms of lessons learned. The combination of spatial and space-time analytic methods, especially those employed by Kulldorff and Jacquez to help assess cancer clustering within the privacy constraints of ZIP codes, appear to be notable and scientifically sound in addressing this challenge."

TerraSeer software (skip to reviews of SpaceStat, ClusterSeer, or BoundarySeer)

Dan Brown, Director of the Environmental Spatial Analysis Laboratory, University of Michigan

    "They're rethinking the methods and making them logical to users....They're doing what a software company in analysis ought to be doing" (quote from an Ann Arbor News article 5/17/2001).

Peter Rogerson, Department of Geography, SUNY Buffalo

    "TerraSeer's products are extremely useful as teaching tools. They offer sophisticated demonstrations of important spatial analysis concepts and are easy-to-use as opposed to other complex packages."

SpaceStat

David Stinchcomb, M.A. Geo. 2002 Southwest Texas State University

    "SpaceStat proved to be the real workhorse for my project. I am also grateful for the prompt and helpful responses from Luc Anselin to my beginner's SpaceStat questions. I learned a lot about spatial statistics while using SpaceStat!"

Uwe Deichmann, Ph.D., Senior Environmental Specialist in the Development Research Group, World Bank

    "Almost all the data we analyze has some spatial component. So we use Spacestat extensively for exploratory and explanatory work. The estimation tools are very solid and the ESDA tools integrated in ArcView are extremely useful."

George Tita, University of California Irvine, School of Social Ecology, Dept. of Criminology, Law and Society

    "No other package allows one to perform multivariate spatial analyses with the ease as does SpaceStat. If you are going to include spatial regression in a class, you must use SpaceStat."

Ned Levine, Ned Levine & Associates, Urban Information and Policy Evaluation Associates

    SpaceStat's "spatial regression routines are, to my mind, the best available and a wide variety of model variations can be developed from them. The spatial lag regression model is the standard that other packages should aspire towards."

ClusterSeer

Anika Juhn, University of Oregon, 2002-3 TerraSeer graduate research contest winner

    "ClusterSeer software was the cornerstone of my research project. This software is perfect for demographic analysis, even for multi-state study areas with thousands of census tracts. To my knowledge, there is no other software on the market that is designed for statistical spatial analysis of areal units. ClusterSeer works with geographic shapefiles so it is compatible with industry standard geographic information systems programs, which allows for additional processing and options for data presentation.

    "The reference materials were very helpful, especially the "Cluster Advisor" system available online. Language used is concise and easily understood. I also found the technical support services to be fast and efficient in terms of addressing some initial questions I had while working with very large datasets."

Tonny Oyana, Department of Geography, Southern Illinois University (read full quote)

    "It was about time somebody thought about developing a disease modeling software that can work in data rich environment. I would definitely recommend this software to other users."

From Public Health GIS News and Information (read full issue)

    "No other cluster evaluation software provides a multiple comparisons adjustment, as many cluster detection methods, nor any set of methods as current."

BoundarySeer

Brett Dickson, Colorado State University, 2002-3 TerraSeer graduate research contest winner.

    "TerraSeer's BoundarySeer application has allowed my dissertation research to explore new and robust alternatives in the analysis and representation of ecological data and community interactions. The software has been instrumental in both the development of my analytical approach, as well as the communication of concepts with scientists and land managers."

From Public Health GIS News and Information (read full issue)

    "...no other software offers the advanced boundary detection and analysis features found in BoundarySeer."

Andrew Marcus, University of Oregon

    "It's let me identify some patterns of metal distribution that we haven't seen before....Most software doesn't study the spatial distribution of phenomena. This does, and it gives us a new technique for testing our hypotheses" (read full article).