Geostatistics for the Environmental Sciences

About GS+

geostatistics software mapping
  • GS+ is a comprehensive geostatistics program that is fast, efficient, and easy to use. GS+ provides all geostatistics components, from semivariance analysis through kriging and mapping, in a single integrated program widely praised for its flexibility and friendly interface. Many users are surprised that geostatistical analysis can be so easy and intuitive.

 

  • What is geostatistics? Geostatistics is a class of statistical techniques developed to analyze and predict values of a variable distributed in space or time. It begins with a type of autocorrelation analysis called variography or semivariance analysis, in which the degree of self-similarity is displayed as a variogram. The variogram model is used to predict unsampled locations by kriging or conditional simulation, which produces estimates of the variable across the entire spatial or temporal domain.

 

  • GS+ was first introduced in 1988. Geostatistics is not an add-on feature of GS+ – it is at the heart of the software. Many of our users have access to other geostatistics tools within their favorite GIS or mapping programs but come to GS+ for their serious geostatistical analyses, especially for exploring geostatistical relationships within data sets. Because GS+ output is compatible with industry standards, GS+ can be used directly with many of these other programs. Or it can be used standalone – GS+ has its own data worksheet (which also accepts Excel®, Access®, and other types of data files) and produces its own maps for those users who are not working with other mapping programs.

 

  • About Gamma Design Software, LLC Gamma Design Software was started in 1988 to bring geostatistical analysis to desktop computers. Before 1988 geostatistical software was available mainly for mainframes and supercomputers, and was largely unavailable to those unwilling or unable to compile source code on their own. Since then, Gamma Design has been a world leader in providing accessible, powerful, and easy-to-learn geostatistical software for the evolving Windows environment.