Founded in 1996 by four members of the Digital Mapping Laboratory from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, TerraSim employees have a variety of experience in simulation database construction, photogrammetry, image understanding, and cartographic feature extraction. This expertise is used to support customers requiring robust and timely solutions to complex problems.

TerraSim's products have been competitively adopted worldwide for advanced modeling and simulation programs and projects. Based on TerraSim's sustained corporate growth and technology development, TerraSim was named a finalist in Military Training Technology's 2010 Top Simulation and Training Companies competition.

TerraSim develops and markets TerraTools^®, The Complete Synthetic Environment Toolkit and TerraSim Xtract™. Various plug-ins and extensions for TerraSim products are constantly being researched, developed, and released.

TerraTools automatically transforms raw cartographic and GIS data into complex 3D visualizations suitable for real-time driving or flight simulation. TerraTools provides an easy-to-use interface for its powerful terrain and feature generation tools, enabling users to rapidly construct complex geospecific virtual worlds without tedious manual modeling. In many cases, GIS source data can be freely downloaded from the internet and converted to a realistic 3D environment in a matter of hours. TerraTools supports the integration of custom GIS source data, CAD models, and design and architectural models, producing highly accurate environments for urban, suburban, and natural environments. TerraTools is supported on Windows XP/Vista /7 workstations.

In addition to marketing TerraTools and producing integrated software tools and systems, TerraSim provides a wide variety of database construction services.

TerraSim holds a GSA sales schedule, GS-35F-0143N, covering the purchase of TerraSim software, maintenance, and training. Pricing and GSA Catalog is available on the GSA website. Qualified government agencies and contractors acquiring TerraSim products are encouraged to use our GSA Schedule to simplify procurement and to achieve significant sales discounts.