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SAGA GIS
  General Information:
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
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  Technical Information:
OS:Windows, Linux, Other
Code Type:Software application
Language:C++
Dependencies:wxWidgets/wxGTK; optional: GDAL, Proj4, HARU, Vigra, OpenCV
  Other Information:
Citation:SAGA GIS
System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses
http://www.saga-gis.org
Help & Tutorial Information: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 Information:http://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/
Submission Date:3 Apr 2011
Last Updated:3 Apr 2011
Main Contributor:
Full nameRoleEmailOrganization
Olaf ConradAuthorconrad@geowiss.uni-hamburg.deUniversity of Hamburg, Germany
Additional Contributors:
Full nameRoleEmailOrganization
Volker WichmannContributorwichmann@laserdata.atLASERDATA GmbH, alpS GmbH
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