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"IDRISI continues to build on its unparalleled selection of image classification modules...
IDRISI Andes’ competitive pricing, versatility and accessibility keep it among the top choices for image processing."
--Jason T. Herrmann, IDRISI Andes Edition Enhances Modules, Adds Land Change Modeler, Earth Imaging Journal, November/December 2006.
Download a PDF of the IDRISI Andes software review in Earth Imaging Journal.
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“The basic tools necessary for assessing land-cover change are standard in most remote-sensing packages, but IDRISI Andes has incorporated them into a streamlined, almost “wizard-like” workflow, and it introduces a range of new and innovative tools. In one easy step, land-cover change can be mapped and graphed in a variety of ways. In addition, the implications of past and potential changes on biodiversity and the effectiveness of plans for ecological interventions can be assessed.”
--Eileen G. Ernenwein, IDRISI Andes Software Review, GeoWorld, October 2006.
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"IDRISI's academic origins are evident in the many sophisticated and innovative algorithms it includes. To take just one example, the range of classification modules in IDRISI is amongst the best of any remote sensing package: 8 hard classifiers, including a neural network classifier, 5 soft classifiers and related hardeners, and a suite of hard and soft hyperspectral classifiers..."
--Tim Warner and David Campagna, IDRISI Kilimanjaro Software Review, PE&RS, June 2004.
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"Strengths? IDRISI has many but the 32-bit versions sport a delightfully intuitive and easy to use GUI, an impressive range of GIS and image processing functionality, comprehensive help, tutorials for new users, a small system 'footprint' of 128Mb, and entry-level system requirements that run the full package on the lowest specification machines. All this for a very modest sum makes IDRISI a very attractive package....
With Kilimanjaro, it is all change, with a slick, controllable interface plus other welcome features such as enhanced cartographic symbolisation, layer blending, background transparency, interactive RGB compositing, scale-dependent visibility, viewing of 3D stereo images (glasses provided) and 3D interactive fly-through".
--Steve Carver, IDRISI Kilimanjaro: Scaling New Heights, Geo:connexion, July/August 2003.
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"For many users, Kilimanjaro's most exciting new feature is the 3-D Interactive Fly-Through module. The setup is similar to the ORTHO module, in which users choose a surface image such as a digital elevation model (DEM) and an optional drape image. The flight controls are easy to use and can be set to slow, medium or fast, and the results are spectacular."
--Eileen G. Ernenwein, IDRISI Kilimanjaro Software Review, GeoWorld, August 2003.
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"There are several reasons why IDRISI has become one of the most widely distributed raster GIS softwares. The clarity of the training exercises (with provided datasets) and explanation of GIS principles is exceptional. The wide range of analysis and modelling operations provide users with a powerful set of tools that highlight the potentials of the core of GIS while also retaining effective map display creation. The combination of raster GIS and digital image processing modules in an integrated package is likely unsurpassed in the GIS market. Attention to areas of increasing demand, such as Change Analysis, reflects a flexible response to users' needs."
--Roger Wheate, Idrisi32 Release 2 Software Review, PE&RS, August 2002.
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"With all its enhancements related to data importing and exporting, image processing, and modeling and analysis, Idrisi32 Release 2 builds well on the strengths of previous Idrisi developments in the area of spatial decision support. Impressive analytical functionality and ease-of-use would prompt me to recommend this package to anyone with serious interest in spatial data analysis... As developers forge ahead on important paths for the future of GIS applications, IDRISI will surely maintain a very strong position in the marketplace."
--Slobodan P. Simonovic, The Decision is Clear with Clark Labs' Idrisi32 Release 2, First Impressions Review, Geospatial Solutions, May 2002.
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"The new release provides a wide range of analytical GIS, remote sensing, decision support and statistical capabilities at an exceptional price."
--Debbie Harmon, Idrisi32 Release 2 Software Review, GEOWorld, March 2002.
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"Given its affordable cost and the level of support, [Idrisi32] offers a very attractive GIS/DIP software package for many people, but goes beyond many [other software packages] in terms of its analytical functionality and ease of use."
--David Green and Stephen King, Idrisi32 Software Review, PE&RS, November 2000.
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"The IDRISI software provides a wealth of analytical capabilities at an exceptional price.... This is an exciting product. It is showing the maturity of a decade or more of development. It is reflecting advances in GIS analytical techniques. It displays a thoughtful, coherent approach to spatial modeling."
--Bill Huber, A Review of Idrisi32, Directions Magazine, October 2000.
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"IDRISI provides a powerful suite of geostatistics and decision support modules...has the most extensive suite of statistical and geostatistical operations...[and] the most complete suite of buffering and cost-surface capabilities..."
--W. Frederick Limp, RESPECT! Raster GIS Packages Finally Receive Well-Deserved Recognition, software review, GEOWorld, May 2000.
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"...no better software exists for scientists wishing to analyze and model the real world."
--Michael Binford, First Impressions Review, Geo Info Systems, April 2000.
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