Tool Type

Software Suite

Description

SAGA GIS is a FOSS which is, besides common GIS tasks, specialized on digital terrain analysis. The software provides a lot of analysis tools which you will not find in any other software package, e.g. for morphometric or hydrologic analysis. SAGA supports various raster and vector (including LAS and SAGA point clouds) formats, DEM generation, analysis and visualization (e.g. 3D point cloud viewer, bare earth extraction). One of SAGA's main objectives is to provide scientists an easy to use API to implement own algorithms (C++) but it is also used in commercial environments. SAGA provides a GUI and can be scripted in various ways (e.g. batch/bash, python). SAGA runs on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, both 32 and 64bit. The software is licensed under the GPL (GUI, most of the modules) and the LGPL (API).

Keywords

GIS, Terrain Analysis, Visualization, Raster, Vector, Pointcloud, LAS

Licensing

GNU General Public License

Cost

Free

Current Version

2.0.6

Download URL

Project URL

Operate System

Windows, Linux, Other

Code Type

Software application

Language

C++

Dependencies

wxWidgets/wxGTK; optional: GDAL, Proj4, HARU, Vigra, OpenCV

Citation

SAGA GIS System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses
http://www.saga-gis.org

Help & Tutorial Info.

http://www.saga-gis.org especially section "References"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/ especially "User Forum"
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/saga-gis/ "Wiki"

Support Contact Info.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/

Additional Information

Submission Date

3 Apr 2011

Last Updated

3 Apr 2011

Full Name

Olaf Conrad

Role

Author

Email

conrad@geowiss.uni-hamburg.de

Organization

University of Hamburg, Germany

Full Name

Volker Wichmann

Role

Contributor

Email

wichmann@laserdata.at

Organization

LASERDATA GmbH, alpS GmbH